gender-free

en-adj

gender-free (comparative more gender-free, superlative most gender-free)

more gender-free (comparative)
most gender-free (superlative)

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When we rendezvous shortly thereafter, I learn that the box office is being manned, if that's the right word, by an odd-looking grizzled entity unknown to my wife but whom I infer from her description (and soon after confirm) to be the genderfree or ambigendered "Ditsy" from Maintenance, [...]

2002, John Barth, Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative, page 294:

Individuals holding these views challenge the existing Western binary and categorical sex-gender system, increasingly identifying as bigender, gender blender, or gender-free.

2008, Sara Schwarzbaum, Anita Jones Thomas, Dimensions of multicultural counseling: a life story approach, page 369:

I began thinking of myself as a gender-free person.

2011, Genny Beemyn, Susan Rankin, The Lives of Transgender People:

(of people) Agender, being neither male nor female nor any third gender; free of gender.


fagface

"We are a sharing house of fully independent adults: three dykes, one bisexual, and you —" "Full-fledged fagface," I assured her.

1991, Darryl Pilcher, Certain voices: short stories about gay men, link:

(slang, derogatory) A gay man with a stereotypically effeminate countenance.


toe-tapper

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Associated Press
FOX News
Larry Craig
Larry Craig scandal
The New York Times
The New York Times Company

From toe + tapper.
Sense 2 (“joke”) derives from the practice of tapping one’s toes to indicate pleasure; compare toe-tappingly. Sense 3 (“closeted homosexual, especially one who solicits gay sex”) derives from the 2007 Larry Craig scandal in which then-Senator Larry Craig (born 1945) of Idaho, USA, was arrested after tapping his right foot in a men’s restroom, an action seen as covert solicitation of sex.

The US Department of Justice has a handy guide for police to focus on when attempting to bust the next toe tapper or washroom wanker.

2007 September 18, Jody May-Chang, “Justice Dept. has guidebook to public sex”, in Pridedepot.com:

Any bets he is an accomplished toe-tapper in the synagogue bathrooms?

2007 December 12, David, “No fucking way”, in Joelderfner.com:

It was nice to use the public restroom at the Hillary event. I didn't have to worry about a republican toe-tapper being in the next stall.

2008 February 14, g1r8c7c6#702696, “Hola, Hillary”, in Caller.com:

Yeah, just like George "Mr. Macaca" Allen destroyed Jim Webb in '06. This race is still quite a way aways, and nothing gets Northern Virginia liberals out to the polls in full force faster than GOP nutjobs still peddling phony "cultural" issues and supposed "family values". This guy McDonnel, in fact, sounds like a bonafide bathroom stall toe-tapper.

2009 September 7, xavierob82, “VA GOP GOV Candidate Caught by his Family Values”, in City-data.com:

Look, if you got a toe-tapper in the stall next to yourself, just run.

2010 April 18, aristotle, “Sneaking a lesbian onto the Supreme Court”, in Expeditersonline.com:

Letting him have a hand in gay politics right now is a little akin to letting the fox too near the henhouse. Or in terms that Republicans can understand, it's a little like letting the toe-tapper too near the airport bathroom stall.

2010 August 26, hill b. nut, “The Devil Made Me Do It”, in Blogspot.com:

(possibly derogatory) A homosexual who is closeted regarding sexual orientation, especially one who solicits gay sex.


slashfic

en-noun

slashfic (countable and uncountable, plural slashfics)

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(uncountable) Short for slash fiction, a genre of fan fiction.


slash fiction

slash fiction (countable and uncountable, plural slash fictions)

From slash + fiction, from the use of the slash symbol (/) to separate the names or initials of the characters or persons involved.

But Buffy has also generated enormous amounts of slash fiction. The cult television text and the rise of the Internet have both had an important aspect on the development of slash fiction.

2005, Milly Williamson, The lure of the vampire: gender, fiction and fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy, Wallflower Press, page 169:

They analyze slash fiction (stories about romantic and sexual relationships between two male characters, some of which involve graphic descriptions of sex), and argue that the similarities between romance novels and slash fiction prove gender differences exist.

2009, Mark Bould, The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Routledge, page 208:

Over the years, slash writers have started dismissing as homophobic this trope of men having sex with men without identifying as homosexual or bisexual; nevertheless, much slash fiction retains the trope's underlying sentiment of true love and devotion transcending all external rules.

2009, Robin Anne Reid, Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 282:

(uncountable) A genre of fan fiction focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between characters of the same sex (typically men).


faer

Ewan emphasized that thinking about how faer ancestors would have lived gave faer a sense of appreciation for the ease and comfort of modern life.

2019, Barbara Jane Davy, "Wyrd Ecology", thesis submitted to the University of Waterloo, page 134

Fae had decked faerself in a modest amount of cheap jewelry, faer makeup inexpertly applied.

2022, Novae Caelum, The Truthspoken Heir: The Stars and Green Magics - Season One, unnumbered page:

Soul describes and shares part of the "I AM" poem which fae wrote for faer college application.

2022, Sherry Paris, You Can Make a Difference!: A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young Activists, page 24:


antilesbian

en-adj

antilesbian (comparative more antilesbian, superlative most antilesbian)

more antilesbian (comparative)
most antilesbian (superlative)

Val Glaser, the board member behind the 10-3 vote (with three abstentions) to quash the poster, told Windy City Times: "Playboy is antiwomen and thus antilesbian.

1991 October 25, Michael Miner, “Burn This Poster?/Local News”, in Chicago Reader:

Opposed to lesbians (female homosexuals).


homocon

(US politics, often derogatory) A gay conservative.


xir

in the recent past, there was an impeachment trial of a judge where every juror was told to secretly choose xir own standard.

1999 January 3, Matthew Daly, soc.singles.moderated (Usenet):

This causes Cici to hide parts of xir identity to protect from these stereotypes.

2019 October 30, Debbie Luxon, “Myth-busting asexuality: Being asexual in Cambridgeshire”, in Cambridgeshire Live:

The soft blue sky had the feel of a good omen. In Xir old age, the god moved slower every year; lingering in the shallows long after the last fish had been swallowed up by nets. Sometimes Xe stood still for days, in sight of the shore, as if Xe had not quite decided whether to beach Xemself for good. Let Xem only survive long enough to spawn a new god! Else Xir helpless people would be godless ans stranded in the haunted dryland where the dead cities slept. Where less kindly deities roamed.

2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202

(nonstandard, possessive) Belonging to xe, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.


zir

head

zir (third-person singular, gender-neutral, objective case, reflexive hirself)

en-pron

Blend of z (“gender-neutral (as in ze)”) + i (“him/his”) + r (“her”).

blend

gender-neutral (as in <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">ze</i>)

However, it soon became very lonely as none of Alice’s school friends could see zir anymore and they soon forgot all about zir.

2002, Lynsey Calderwood, Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 155:

(rare, nonstandard) Gender-neutral third-person singular accusative (object) pronoun, equivalent to singular them and coordinate with him and her.


fagboy

“You give the term eat me a whole new meaning, don't you, fagboy? Just sucking his cock wasn't enough for you, was it?

“Big ol' fagboy, that's all y'are, jus' love a big ol' cock up your asshole. Makes ya drool, gives you a boner jus' thinkin' 'bout that cock.

2006, Michael J. Vaughn, Double Blind, page 37:

As soon as the door thunks shut and the bolts clank, he says, “What the fuck you looking at, fagboy?”

2010, David S. Schow, Internecine, page 135:

(derogatory, LGBTQ, potentially offensive) A contemptible young gay man, sometimes partially a term of endearment for a submissive bottom or sex partner.


gayby

2005, No. 685, The Advocate - Jul 11, 1995, link
Much to my surprise I find out that I am part of the "gayby boom."

Hollywood's gayby boom As my partner and I watch our friends dive into child rearing with the abandon previously held only for screenplay writing...

2002, The Advocate - No. 864, Hollywood's Gayby Boom - May 28, 2002, page 55:

The “gayby boom” children have two moms, two dads, or one of a combination of numerous queer parents.

2009, Abigail Garner, Families Like Mine, link:

“I was born a gayby.” “Aww, you were a gayby?” Lucy gushed. “I seriously was,” Marshall said. “I was allergic to breast milk.” Everyone laughed.

(LGBTQ) The baby of a gay person or couple.


gayboy

A virgin fecking gayboy, is it?

1999, Martin McDonagh, The Lonesome West, New York, N.Y: Dramatists Play Service, page 22:

Raoul, 24, is a cute gayboy filmmaker

2007, Barbara Ann Kipfer, Robert L. Chapman, Dictionary of American Slang, page 198:

“First, though, I think you need to visit the gayboy ducking stool.

2009, Stephen King, Just After Sunset: Stories, page 522

“Two pretty gayboys,” Pete said, looking Luke in the eye. “We don't serve your kind.” “What century are we in? ... “I saw you with your ass in the air so your boyfriend here could poke you, gayboy.”

2011, Douglas Clegg, The Abandoned, link:

(LGBTQ, often derogatory in UK) A gay man, especially a younger man or a boy.


chick with a dick

en-noun

chick with a dick (plural chicks with dicks)

She's intersex; you know, a chick with a dick.

(colloquial, informal, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) A trans woman or intersex person who presents as female and has a penis.


inch tracker

(slang, LGBTQ, sometimes derogatory) A size queen.


switchy

en-adj

switchy (comparative more switchy or switchier, superlative most switchy or switchiest)

more switchy (comparative)
switchier (comparative)
most switchy (superlative)
switchiest (superlative)

I'm switchier than my boyfriend; I'm fine with either topping or bottoming, whereas he's only comfortable with bottoming.

(sex, slang, BDSM, LGBTQ) Versatile; not exclusively a top or a bottom, or inclined to switch between sadistic and masochistic roles.


cissexism

From cis- + sexism or cissex(ual) + -ism.

In that context where cissexism and cissupremacy are the oppressions in question, a cisgender woman would not count as a marginalized person.

2016, Nora Berenstain, “Epistemic Exploitation”, in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, volume 3, number 22, page 570:

Bias or prejudice favouring cisgender people; transphobia.


suck-boy

“Is he a suck-boy too?” “Let's find out,” Kurt said. He moved in front of Buddy and pressed the tip of his dripping cock to Buddy's nose.

2006, John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big, page 123:

(slang, chiefly LGBTQ) Someone who has a particular enjoyment of or skill for fellatio.


pinkwashing

From pink + -wash + -ing. The LGBT-related sense derives from the fact that the colour pink is often associated with homosexuality and LGBT culture. The breast cancer-related sense refers to the pink ribbon, an international symbol of breast cancer awareness.

Several protesters, many of whom said they were Jewish, invoked what they called pinkwashing, Israel's alleged touting of its progressive stance on gay rights as a way of deflecting global attention away from its treatment of Palestinians.

2012 March 6, Tim Murphy, “A Gay Community Center's Middle-East Problem”, in New York Magazine:

(LGBTQ) The practice of a state or company presenting itself as gay-friendly and progressive to downplay its negative behavior.

פינקוושינג

practice of presenting something as gay-friendly to downplay negative aspects


pinkwash

en-verb

pinkwash (third-person singular simple present pinkwashes, present participle pinkwashing, simple past and past participle pinkwashed)

pinkwashes (present singular third-person)
pinkwashing (participle present)
pinkwashed (participle past)
pinkwashed (past)

Pinkwashing not only manipulates the hard-won gains of Israel’s gay community, but it also ignores the existence of Palestinian gay-rights organizations.

2011 November 22, Sarah Schulman, “Israel and ‘Pinkwashing’”, in New York Times:

Critics say Israel is 'pinkwashing' its practices vis-a-vis the Palestinians by emphasizing its good record on gay rights.

2012, "Seattle LGBT commission cancels meeting with Israeli gays over treatment of Palestinians", The Times of Israel, 21 March 2012 (article tagline)

(LGBTQ, transitive) To tout the gay-friendliness of something in an attempt to downplay or soften aspects of it considered negative.

to tout the gay-friendliness of something in an attempt to downplay or soften aspects of it considered negative

(dezinformációval) melegbarátnak állít be

melegbarát látszatot kelt (ve dezinformál)


homoflexible

Another student, who identified himself as “homoflexible,” said,“I live with straight guys now,and I definitely see the sexual tensions, which have made me very uncomfortable"

2003, The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today, page 97:

opposite sex, it is said, but are not averse to exploring their 'gay side'. 'Homoflexible' suggests the reverse. Some men and women enjoy an even more fluid set of desires and see themselves as 'flexi-sexual'. 'pansexual', 'omnisexual'

2008, Mates and lovers: a history of gay New Zealand, page 370:

Many adolescents and young adults prefer terms such as: bi-curi- ous, fluid, hetero- or homo-flexible, open, omni- or pan-sexual, polyamorous, questioning, or queer (Driver, 2007, pp. 42-A3; Meyer, 2008).

2009, Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader, page 179:

I have many gay friends whom are homoflexible and many of them have had adventures with members of the opposite sex solely because they wanted kids.

2012, Jed La Lumiere, Patience: A Gay Man's Virtue, FriesenPress, published 2012, →ISBN, page 80:

Hunter was a man who was bi-curious about women, rather than a man who was bi-curious about other men. Hunter was homoflexible.

In my experience, some heteroflexible men do not test bisexual. (I should note that I have also met a few homoflexible men.)

2014, Joe Kort, Is My Husband Gay, Straight, or Bi?: A Guide for Women Concerned about Their Men, Rowman & Littlefield, published 2014, →ISBN, page 187:

Primarily homosexual, but with a limited amount of attraction to other genders, or willingness to take part in a heterosexual activity.


heteroflexible

From hetero- + flexible, probably for the near-rhyme with heterosexual.

We are living at a time when youthful attitudes toward casual sexual encounters and pliable sexual boundaries have spawned a whole new vocabulary of sexuality ("pansexual," "ambisexual," "polysexual," and "heteroflexible," according to a

2000, United Synagogue Review, Volumes 53-59, page 17:

It is a rejection of bisexuality since the inevitable question that comes up in bisexuality is one of preference, and the preference of the heteroflexible is quite clear. Here postmodern heterosexuals can envision indulging in homosexual sex.

2002, Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up, page 232:

A “boi” describes a boyish gay guy or abiological female with a male presentation; and “heteroflexible” refers to a straight person with a queer mindset

2003, The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today, page 31:

Dery describes Bowie as "a reverse-drag queen: a heteroflexible straight man playing an exquisitely androgynous gay."

2013 June 5, Richard Metzger, “Growing Up Bowie: Mark Dery's "All The Young Dudes: Why Glam Rock Matters”, in Boing Boing:

Let me start by saying that yes, people can be heteroflexible, homoflexible and bisexual.

2014 August 1, Joe Kort, “Are "heteroflexible" and "homoflexible" shades of bisexual?”, in San Diego Gay & Lesbian News:

If you know me, you might know I've bounced around a lot with my sexual orientation — from straight to heteroflexible to queer to "I'm not going to label myself as anything, and I’ll just take things as they come" — pun intended.

2014 September 25, Robyn Smith, “Bisexuality is real, not just indecision”, in The Independent Florida Alligator:

Primarily heterosexual, but open to taking part in a limited amount of homosexual activity.


troid

Games I look forward to next year:
[...]
Metroid Prime 4 (I’ve never played one of the 3D troids but I wanna)

2018 April 15, Andrew! (@Drewiker_), Twitter:

It kinda ruined parts of Metroid 2 and it's definitely one of the weaker 2D troids, but it has solid moment to moment gameplay and Samus "feels" great to control.

2020 May 3, D3 (@Professor_D3), Twitter:

really hope MercurySteam gets to keep cranking out some more 2D troids

2021 October 27, Brandon Classic Movies (@Thatoneguy64), Twitter:

(fandom slang) Any of the video games in the Metroid franchise.

The much derided linearity is merely a reappearance of the linearity of Metroid 2, with it's coincidental earthquakes when you killed troids

2016 May 29, Horrible Checkers Lad Appreciator (@clockwork353), Twitter:

the metroid fights, meanwhile, their counter tells are SO LONG i always miss them by hitting the button early. like, it can't possibly be that long. except it is. i have no success trying to do it on reaction either..
also, the troids spend too long being invuln for w/e reason

2020 April 30, Antiquity Row (@vorpalll), Twitter:

I love to draw samus and metroids... metroids are cute... I want to draw more of the other critters too (space pirates? ridley? non-larval troids????)

2021 July 15, Lorian (@grackling), Twitter:

(fandom slang) An individual member of the fictional alien Metroid species in this franchise.


troid

at least we both concede that troids are hard on the eyes

2020 July 10, MKULTRA (@mkultraism), Twitter:

Ever wonder why the majority of troids are trans "woman"?

2020 November 30, CoolAndGood (@HowDareYouSir_), Twitter:

thats an awful lot of words to say you dont like troids

2022 January 6, Evan (@EvanPlatinum), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) A transgender person.


transexion

en-noun

transexion (countable and uncountable, plural transexions)

/tɹɑːnˈsɛkʃən/

From trans- + Latin sexus (“sex”) + -ion.

But surely it much impeacheth this iterated transexion of hares, if that be true which Cardan and other physicians affirm, that transmutation of sex is only so in opinion; and that these transfeminated persons were really men at first […]

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

[…] transexion or change from female to male, and hence "from imperfection to perfection"; the transmutation of species in closely allied animals and plants, as horses and asses, dogs and foxes, pheasants and cocks, barley and oats[…]

Albert Engleman, 'Un cas de transposition de sexes', Revue Métapsychique, no. 27 (January-February 1954): 126-128; Albert Engleman, 'A Case of Transexion upon Viewing a Painting', American Imago: A Psychoanalytic Journal for the Arts and Sciences 9, no. 3/4

2019 February 21, Jake Poller, Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century, Routledge, →ISBN:


gynemimetophilia

(dated, nonstandard, rare, sexology) A sexual attraction to transfeminine individual, or trans woman, who has not had sex reassignment surgery.


QUILTBAG

Coined by Sadie Lee as an inclusive self-designation for minority sexual and gender identities.

There’s a reason that people supporting marriage and fighting hardest for it are primarily middle class white gays and lesbians, because, for them, marriage may be the ‘final frontier,’ while other members of the QUILTBAG community are fighting with issues like ‘how to stay alive when your parents have kicked you out of the house for being gay’ and ‘how to get hormone treatments when you are an undocumented immigrant making less than minimum wage.’

2010 September 17, S. E. Smith, “Separate but equal is still unequal”, in This Ain’t Livin’, archived from the original on 2010-09-23:

And so not all queer writing is quiltbag, and neither is all quiltbag writing queer.

2011 February 15, Wendy Gay Pearson with Hollinger, Veronica and Gordon, Joan, Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 47:

I doubt that there's a lack of QUILTBAG gamers who want an inclusive experience, and who are still feeling the sting of other oversights BioWare has made to their personhood.

2011 March 28, Ouyang Dan, “The Games We Play: The Straight Male Gamer's Privilege”, in Bitch Magazine, retrieved 2012-05-22:

Over the past few decades, stories have slowly changed from being the kind where the author first explains how QUILTBAG people might come to exist and be acceptable (see Joanna Russ’s The Female Man, in which a group of women become lesbians because they’re stuck for centuries on a planet without men) to the kinds where we take it for granted that QUILTBAG people need no speculative explanation (see Elizabeth Bear’s Carnival, in which there’s a planet run by lesbians because some radical lesbian separatists—people who already exist in present day Earth culture—decided to start their own colony).

2012 March 6, Julia Rios, “Reaching into the QUILTBAG: the Evolving World of Queer Speculative Fiction”, in Apex Magazine, retrieved 2012-05-22:

Acronym of Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans (Transgender/Transsexual), Bisexual, Asexual, and/or Gay/Genderqueer.


Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve

From the Abrahamic Adam and Eve narrative. Popularized by televangelist Jerry Falwell in the late 1970s United States.

(derogatory, offensive) A phrase indicating the notion that only heterosexual relations are valid.


lavender marriage

lavender marriage (plural lavender marriages)

A male-female marriage entered into in the hope of concealing the non-heterosexual sexual orientation of one or both of the spouses.

mariage de lavande

male-female marriage intended to conceal non-heterosexuality


faglet

We encourage each GCN reader to sit in a comfortable place, close his/her eyes and dream of a NOLAG as nationally recognized recognized as the ACLU, NAACP, or NOW. Dream of little faglets and dykelings coming to you and asking what it was like to live in a time when people could hate you or kill you because of who loved.

1981 December 12, Pranab Coomar, “Kathy MacDonald;Jay Darnell;Anne Simon;Maryanne Kirkbride”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 4:

"Look, boys, a young faglet. What do we do with 'im?"

1988, Paul Hofrichter, Death Ride, Leisure Books, published 1988, →ISBN, page 165:

Are you feeling a little frustrated because the gay porn industry has passed at the chance to have a pimply-faced faglet like you in their movies??

1999 January 18, Escamillo Thunderbunny [username], “Re: WOW”, in alt.fan.rosieodonnell (Usenet):

As a tender young faglet, I had sense enough to cache my musty copies of International Male and Penthouse beneath the false bottom of my chest of drawers.

2006, D. Travers Scott, “Growing Up in Horror”, in Ted Gideonse, Robert Williams, editors, From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up, Carol & Graf Publishers, →ISBN:

(vulgar, offensive, sometimes derogatory) A young or short male homosexual.


biphobe

Specifically, those of us who are bisexual do not want to take over lesbian/gay environments or use bisexual concerns to shut down lesbian/gay concerns, regardless of what some biphobes may say.

1990, Thomas Geller, editor, Bisexuality: A Reader and Sourcebook, Times Change Press, →ISBN, page 63:

A person who has a negative perception of bisexuals and/or bisexuality.


biphobic

en-adj

biphobic (comparative more biphobic, superlative most biphobic)

more biphobic (comparative)
most biphobic (superlative)

If counselors are homophobic or biphobic, they should refer clients facing those issues to a counselor who could be objective.

1985, Fritz Klein, Timothy J. Wolf, editors, Two Lives to Lead: Bisexuality in Men and Women, Harrington Park Press, →ISBN, page 52:

One such article appeared in the April 3rd issue of the New York Times: "AIDS Specter for Women: The Bisexual Man," a nasty, biphobic piece of journalism.

1987 August 15, Lucy Friedland, “Representation Of Bis In The Media”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 5:

Exhibiting or characteristic of biphobia.

bifobia

relating to or characteristic of biphobia


transphobe

The object of scorn in the films are not transpersons, but the bigoted transphobes who are made to look like fools.

1999, Gordene O. Mackenzie, "50 Billion Galaxies of Gender: Transgendering the Millennium", in Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siècle (ed. Kate More & Stephen Whittle), Cassell (1999), page 214

A person who fears, hates or is prejudiced against transgender or transsexual people.


cissexuality

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From cis- + sexuality or cissexual + -ity.

The state, condition, or property of being cissexual.


ambigender

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Instead of just listing names (yawn), each name selected for A is for Atticus is profiled for its uniqueness, image, and whether or not it is up-and-coming or more stale than last week's doughnuts. Some listings include other pertinent, real-world info, such as ambigender options, cultural spins, and nicknames.

2008, Lorilee Craker, A Is for Atticus: Baby Names from Great Books:

Androgyny—the presence of male and female characteristics in one individual. Androgynous individuals describe themselves as ambigender, polygender, or genderless.

2014, Manivong J. Ratts, Paul B. Pedersen, Counseling for Multiculturalism and Social Justice:


aphobia

a- + (from asexual or aromantic) + -phobia

Where aphobia goes wrong is that it assumes that some ace people 'pass' as straight, and therefore experience no discrimination.

2017, Ariel Scott, “Stop Saying It's Asexual Because That's Not What It Means”, in ShOUT Zine, page 12:

Pathologizing non-conformity to sexual norms and medicalizing the distress caused by aphobia are harmful and oppressive practices.

2017, Eléa, "Anything but lacking: How asexuality can disrupt sex-normativity", The McGill Daily (McGill University), 20 November 2017, page 14

Amatonormativity—or the assumption and expectation that everyone seeks romantic love (which is generally, incorrectly, assumed to involve sexual desire by default) and prioritizes romance over other forms of intimacy—fuels aphobia.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 30:

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of asexual and/or aromantic people.


marriage equality

Portions of the ruling reflected the court’s culturally conservative roots, stating that because marriage is only for reproduction, LGBTQ relationships are unnatural because they cannot produce children. “Marriage equality would not only overturn the natural order, but it would also shake the very foundation of society and humanity,” read the ruling.

2021 December 3, “LGBTQ couples, families and marriage are ‘against the natural order,’ Thai Constitutional Court rules”, in Coconuts Bangkok, Bangkok: Coconuts Media Limited, retrieved 2021-12-03:

[…] said that he would vote for a federal marriage amendment if laws already banning marriage equality were to be struck down by federal courts.

2010, Tracy Baim, Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage, page 139:

Equality and equal acceptance (particularly legal acceptance, but also social acceptance) of same-sex in addition to heterosexual marriages.

edzeca egaleco

acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as heterosexual marriage


Gaysoc

Assuming that there are places of higher education there will usually be a polytechnic or university gaysoc. The potential size of a gaysoc in terms of numbers of students is probably hundreds, but this will not be reflected in the actual attendance at meetings. It may still be more difficult to come out in a hall of residence or on a course, but probably less so than if you are an apprentice electrician.

1981, John Hart, Diane Richardson, The theory and practice of homosexuality:

In 1969 the Stonewall riot in New York saw the birth of a new gay cultural movement that quickly affected England: the Gay Rights lobbies, the GaySoc in the universities, the flood of pro-gay literature.

2006, Terry Brown, Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality:

I also joined Gaysoc, partly out of respect for a close friend (and former boyfriend) who had come out as gay, partly because we had a gay president.

2010, Kirsten Hears, Oi! What about us?, as quoted in Bob Cant and Susan Hemmings (editors), Radical Records: Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History, 1957-1987

(LGBTQ) A club or society, especially in a university, that promotes and supports the needs of homosexuals.


transfolk

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Transfolk are not covered in any applicable laws like Title VII or the ADA - in fact, transsexualism is explicitly excluded from the ADA. Therefore, you have no causes of action against an employer based on federal law.

1997, A. Spencer Bergstedt, Transition and Beyond, page 28:

This highlights the awkwardly linked histories of transfolk and the gay and lesbian community due to historical and geographical coincidences.

2010, Kath Browne, Catherine J. Nash, Queer Methods and Methodologies, →OCLC, page 140:


homonormative

homonormative (comparative more homonormative, superlative most homonormative)

more homonormative (comparative)
most homonormative (superlative)

The dominance of a homonormative culture in Parades subordinates male heterosexuality to male homosexuality.

2010, David Orzechowitz, “Gender, Sexuality, Culture and the Closet in Theme Park Parades”, in Christine L. Williams, Kirsten Dellinger, editors, Gender and Sexuality in the Workplace, Emerald Group, →ISBN, page 241:

[…] make a homonormative, anthropomorphic attempt to legitimate same-sex desire by locating it in nature

2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 249:

(LGBTQ) Of, pertaining to or exhibiting homonormativity.


genderfuck

From gender + fuck. See fuck with (“mess with, tweak”).

At a micro-level boi and boy, for example, are slang terms used to describe a type of masculine identity adopted by people on a butch and/or FTM or MTF and/or queer and/or genderfuck spectrum.

2008, Julia Horncastle, “Queer Bisexuality: Perceptions of Bisexual Existence, Distinctions, and Challenges”, in Journal of Bisexuality, volume 8, numbers 1–2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 35:

(vulgar, slang, idiomatic) The conscious effort to subvert traditional notions of gender identity and gender roles.

I have been classified as a drag queen, a gender fuck, and many other stereotypes.

1973 December 8, Anthony, “Reactions”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 25, page 6:


genderfuck

en-verb

genderfuck (third-person singular simple present genderfucks, present participle genderfucking, simple past and past participle genderfucked)

genderfucks (present singular third-person)
genderfucking (participle present)
genderfucked (participle past)
genderfucked (past)

As noted above, ten faggots, including myself, were recently expelled from Sporters Bar for gender fucking on the premises. While the general attitude of the clientele was supportive of us, the management considered our garb to be "disruptive." Indeed, let us hope that we were more than disruptive with respect to the straight-identified management.

1976 August 21, John Cummings, “Speaking Out!”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 5:

(vulgar, slang, idiomatic) To subvert traditional notions of gender identity and gender roles.


straightsplain

straightsplain (third-person singular simple present straightsplains, present participle straightsplaining, simple past and past participle straightsplained)

straightsplains (present singular third-person)
straightsplaining (participle present)
straightsplained (participle past)
straightsplained (past)

From straight + -splain, after mansplain.

There are several different degrees of straightsplaining. That word, inspired by the increasingly common "mansplaining," describes the practice of straight people explaining how gay people are, or what gay people do, or how gay people do what they do, or why.

2014 July 2, Rich Juzwiak, “A Field Guide to Straightsplaining”, in Gawker, retrieved 2016-10-19:

What both Longhurst and Hartley-Brewer failed to notice was that, by trying to universalise the incident as an attack on, as they said, “the freedom of all people”, they were attempting to both whitewash and "straight-splain" Orlando.

2016 June 23, Alim Kheraj, “"Let LGBT People Of Colour Speak For Themselves"”, in Refinery29, retrieved 2016-10-19:

2016 October 18, Ben Winsor, “Comment: Thank you for straight-splaining the plebiscite to us 'naive' LGBT Australians”, in SBS Sexuality, archived from the original on 2016-10-20:

And now, the plebiscite is dead. And hopefully so is the straightsplaining.

2016 November 9, Rebecca Shaw, “The plebiscite is dead, hopefully it takes all the straightsplaining with it”, in SBS Comedy, retrieved 2017-04-21:

(colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain LGBT issues, people or behavior to someone who is not of a heterosexual orientation (i.e. an LGBT individual) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener's inferior understanding.


gaytopia

In less than a decade, Nepal, a poor and devout Hindu kingdom, had become what the Indian writer and gay activist C.K. Meena calls "a gaytopia."

2009 August 24, Jyoti Thottam, “Why Asia's Gays are Starting to Win Acceptance”, in Time:

(informal) A very gay-friendly place or environment.


homonationalism

en-noun

homonationalism (countable and uncountable, plural homonationalisms)

Coined by Jasbir Puar. From homo- + nationalism.

(neologism) The favourable association of LGBTI people and/or LGBTI rights with a nationalist ideology.


sapiosexual

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From Latin sapiens + -sexual. Coined by Darren Stalder in 1998 to describe his own sexuality.

You see, for a true geek there's often little difference, because when you engage our brains, which are connected to our genitals, it often turns on our lust response (we're quite often sapiosexuals - people who lust after intellect first), but it's the *brain* you aim for, the intellect, to turn us on, not our genitals.

2005 October 20, CatDeville [username], “Re: Struggling with the details”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):

In Study 2 we tapped attitudes toward a largely unknown sexual orientation group, sapiosexuals (those sexually attracted to the human mind).
[…]
Participants indicated their familiarity with heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, asexuals, and sapiosexuals […]

2012 April 24, Cara C. MacInnis, Gordon Hodson, “Intergroup bias toward 'Group X': Evidence of prejudice, dehumanization, avoidance, and discrimination against asexuals”, in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations:

So, what attracts you? What turns you on? If you decided on abstract thought, clever humour and insight. You're a sapiosexual.

2012 May, Carolina Montejo, “Sapiosexuality: The intelligent foreplay”, in Vangardist, page 126:


scissor sister

From the slang name of the sex position of tribadism, scissoring.


hefemale

(rare, usually derogatory) A female-to-male transsexual or transgender person.


lesbophobia

Fear, dislike, or hatred of lesbians (female homosexuals).


equal marriage

equal marriage (countable and uncountable, plural equal marriages)

The Court heard from civil liberties associations, a group of seven people interested in civil unions, human rights commissions, faith groups supporting and opposed to equal marriage, gay and lesbian equality rights groups, and […]

2010, Malcolm C. Kronby, Canadian Family Law, →ISBN:

Marriage equality; the acceptance of same-sex as well as heterosexual marriages.


genderqueerness

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One outcome of the idea of fluid masculinity and femininity is the notion of genderqueerness.

2012, Jo Reger, Everywhere and Nowhere, page 160:

The quality or state of being genderqueer.


hermaphroditically

For nature hates that any principle should breed, so to speak, hermaphroditically, but will give to each an help meet for it which shall cross it and be the undoing of it; as in the case of descent with modification, of which the essence would appear to be that every offspring should resemble its parents, and yet, at the same time, that no offspring should resemble its parents.

1878, Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., pages 28–29:

In normal sexual reproduction, whether performed by separate sexes or hermaphroditically, the two functions are generally combined in a pair.

1979, Adriano Zanetti, The World of Insects, Abbeville Press (1979), page 86

This cleft sentence in turn cleaves narrative genre: Baré's story, formerly an account of loyal masculine servitude, now proceeds as a feminine sentimental narrative, yet one in which she figures, hermaphroditically, as both distressed female and the masculine hero who rescues her.

2004, Vanessa Smith, “Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach”, in Bernhard Klein, Gesa Mackenthun, editors, Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean, Routledge, →ISBN, page 40:


CDer

I live in the Birmingham, AL area and just started CDing three months ago and I know absolutly^([sic]) no other CDers or even anyplace to go in town. Can anyone tell me of any T friendly places in the area or tell me how I might find some other CDers in the area to talk to?

1995 March 27, DanielleSA (username), “T* friendly places in B'ham?”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet):

1996 September 16, Julie (username), “Toronto: CDers”, in alt.sex.trans (Usenet):

Hi, my name is Chrissy and I'm still a closet CDer. But I'm looking for other L.I.(Suffolk Co) CDers to help me come out of the closet, […]

1998 April 25, Chris Binsack (username), “Long Island CDer looking for other CDers”, in alt.fashion.crossdressing (Usenet):

1998 October 9, Lenora (username), “Manchester CDers”, in uk.adverts.personals.gay-lesbian-bi (Usenet):

2002 July 13, Jack (username), “Male (occasional CDer) seeks e-mail pen pals with other CDers.”, in uk.people.crossdressing (Usenet):


SGM

Such realities are indeed problematic for SGM youth, whose age and sexual and gender differences render them ...

2015, André P. Grace, Growing into Resilience: Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Canada, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 18:

Importantly, SGM youth also demonstrate a great deal of resilience in the face of hostile environments, finding a sense of empowerment from their identities, seeking out or creating safe spaces such as GSAs or LGBTQ resource centers, ...

2018, Barbara Schneider, Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century, Springer, →ISBN, page 210:

[...] since some SGM are forced by stigma to socialize or date in secret, in unfamiliar settings, [...]

2018, Lindsay M. Orchowski, Christine Gidycz, Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance: Theory, Research, and Practice, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 338:

Sexual and gender minority/minorities, i.e. non-heterosexual and/or non-cisgender person(s). (Also used attributively.)


he-she

Everybody was staring at the jewelry department. There's this couple—a he-she and a femme.

1993, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Los Angeles: Alyson Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 69:

The year is 1973, and work is hard to come by for he-shes.

1998, Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity, page 129:

Mother was stopped in the supermarket under the guise of asking about my leg, but more often than not they asked if it was true that I was a he-she.

2007, Katherine D. Bennett, Forever One, page 138:

They are the ugliest assortment of hes, shes, he-shes, and she-hes in the world.

2009, Tom Walker, Fort Apache: New York's Most Violent Precinct, page 98:

(informal, derogatory, offensive) A transsexual or transgender female; a woman who was assigned male at birth.


heterocentric

en-adj

heterocentric (comparative more heterocentric, superlative most heterocentric)

more heterocentric (comparative)
most heterocentric (superlative)

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(LGBTQ) Having a heterosexual bias or basis.


metafemale

(biology) A female with triple X syndrome.


triple X syndrome

learning disabilities
learning disability

A form of chromosomal variation characterized by the presence of an extra X chromosome in each cell of a human female, sometimes leading to tall stature, learning disabilities, and/or epicanthic folds.


boydyke

But I don't think boydykes have dibs on playing with gender: I too like the sexiness of a floating signifier.

1998, Rosamund Else-Mitchell, Naomi Flutter, Talking Up: Young Women's Take on Feminism, page 97:

Thus, research designs that operationalize sexual identity in a unidimensional, fixed, limited, forced-choice manner omit most of the homoerotic youth who assume unspecified sexual identities (e.g., two-spirit, boydyke, omnisexual, trans-boi), […]

2007, Ilan H. Meyer, Mary E. Northridge, The Health of Sexual Minorities, page 40:

In 2000, several 'trannie boys, boydykes, FTMs, Lesbian Avengers and young gender-variant women' - who were not transsexual women - were evicted from the festival for their refusal to identify as 'womyn-born womyn'[…]

2011, Mimi Marinucci, Feminism is queer, page 55:

(slang) A biological female with a male presentation and identification.


transfeminism

en-noun

transfeminism (countable and uncountable, plural transfeminisms)

A branch of feminism concerned with transgender issues.


genderfluid

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Another way that one can be "transgressively gendered" is by identifying as genderqueer or genderfluid—i.e., refusing to identify fully as either woman or man.

2009, Julia Serano, Whipping Girl, page 346:

A slightly newer term, genderqueer […] is also often used by people who believe they are genderfluid, who feel like both genders, who will sometimes feel male, sometimes female, or who may not believe that there are only two genders.

2011, Ellen Greenblatt, Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users, page 29:

For example, "queer" would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the "opposite sex," sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people.

2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies:

"I'm genderfluid! Sometimes a guy, sometimes a girl. Sometimes, I guess, confused shrug? Anyway, I have a spell that lets me change my default form, so my feminine form is not an enchantment."

2020 October 28, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Oct 28, 2020:

(LGBTQ) Not having a fixed gender; having a gender which changes from time to time.


lavender linguistics

The study of language as it is used by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer speakers.


LGBTQ

Coordinate term: LGBTQ+

This confirms the claim that the internet is not an entirely safe space, and while blogs offer LGBTQs the opportunity to express their views freely and anonymously, they grant this possibility to haters and homophobes, too […]

2016, Alexander Dhoest, Lukasz Szulc, Bart Eeckhout, LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe, page 166:

Now, for example, he is moving forward with his intention to remove all LGBTQs from the military and to ban any further recruiting of LGBTQs.

2021, Rolland “Moose” Amos, Junk Poetry III (page 56)

A person who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.


transmasculinity

transmasculinity (countable and uncountable, plural transmasculinities)

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[…] Transmasculinity is not a special—or single—type of masculinity. It is more aptly described as a context: masculinity as enacted by people with transgender identities.

2014, Tommaso M. Milani, Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197:

For 70 respondents (40 per cent), transmasculinity is unequivocally and qualitatively different from cismasculinity.

2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered page


cisgenderism

Confronting cisgenderism means asking our colleagues aloud why intersex babies' genitals are still being surgically altered at birth far below the age of informed consent, while women like Charlotte are routinely denied these surgeries.

2016, Lyndsey Moon, Counselling Ideologies: Queer Challenges to Heteronormativity:

Such assumptions can motivate expressions of cisgenderism such as retroactive misgendering (in which a person's past is described using language that disregards or contrasts with their current designation of their gender) […]

2016, Abbie E. Goldberg, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, page 232:

While cisgenderism may manifest as individual instances of prejudice and discrimination, it is rooted in systemic practices and ideology.

2021, Abbie E. Goldberg, Genny Beemyn, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, SAGE Publications, Incorporated, →ISBN, page 118:

Attitudes or beliefs that privilege cisgender people or perspectives over transgender ones.


genderland

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From gender + land, perhaps modelled on wonderland.

1996, Niela Miller, Counseling in genderland: a guide for you and your transgendered client:

2003, Cathryn Platine, Cathy's adventure in genderland: cautionary tales for anyone thinking about getting involved in trans-politics or support groups:

In the western hemisphere there is a need to date all descriptions concerning diversities in genderland.

2003, Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, page 226:

2005, Richard J. Novic, Alice in Genderland: A Crossdresser Comes Of Age, →ISBN:

(literary) An imagined land which is a corporealization of gender stereotypes, transgender issues, etc.


male-assigned

[…] a world much more complex than one divided into female-assigned women and male-assigned men.

2009, Eli Clare, Dean Spade, Exile & Pride: disability, queerness & liberation, →ISBN, page 148:


female-assigned

White believes that female-assigned trans people can support the work of her organization […]

2007, Z magazine, volume 20, numbers 1-6, page 20:


transfemale

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transfemale.


cis female

(of a person) Being biologically female and identifying as female; being a cisgender female.


cis male

(of a person) Being biologically male and identifying as male; being a cisgender male.


heteroromantic

en-adj

heteroromantic (comparative more heteroromantic, superlative most heteroromantic)

more heteroromantic (comparative)
most heteroromantic (superlative)

Often, however, asexual people will also identify with a particular sexual orientation, minus the sexual aspect, and may define themselves as heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic, transromantic or panromantic.

2009, Jennifer Byrne, "He's Just Not That Into Anyone, Pop Matters, 31 August 2009

It does not address other kinds of sexuality such as demisexual (sexual attraction is experienced only when accompanied by a strong emotional attraction), pansexual (attraction across all gender identities and biological sexes. Think “gender blind”), and the romantics (Homoromantic/heteroromantic/aromantic making attraction experienced romantically rather than sexually) among others.

2012 October 5, Kristen Hammond, “Gettin’ down with the sexuality spectrum and where we fit”, in The Elm:

Thus, you can be asexual and biromantic (romantically attracted to men and women), panromantic (romantically attracted to any gender identity), homoromantic (romantically attracted to members of the same sex), or heteroromantic (romantically attracted to members of the opposite sex). Some aces are asexual and aromantic, meaning they enjoy platonic friendships, but don’t experience romantic attraction.

2013 October 21, Helena Horton, “What is Asexuality?”, in York Vision:

There are different types of ‘aces’, with asexuals being heteroromantic (romantically attracted to the opposite sex); homoromantic (to the same sex); biromantic (to both sexes); panromantic (to both sexes and transsexuals); or aromantic (experiencing little or no romantic attraction to anyone).

2015 February 23, Alix O'Neill, “What It Feels Like To Be Asexual In A Sex-Obsessed World”, in Marie Claire:

Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.


homoromantic

homoromantic (comparative more homoromantic, superlative most homoromantic)

more homoromantic (comparative)
most homoromantic (superlative)

Romantically attracted to those of the same gender.


homoromantic

One who is romantically attracted to people of the same gender.


heteroflexibility

Essig divides society into the categories of heteroflexibility and heterorigidity and homoflexibility and homorigidity.

2002, Robert Goss, Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up, Pilgrim Press, →ISBN, page 232:

The L Word banks on heteroflexibility as well as queer equivocation, through its cultivation of the touristic gaze, a gaze which immersed, identifies with, and distanced, desires.

2007, Candace Moore, “Getting Wet: The Heteroflexibility of Showtime's The L Word”, in Merri Lisa Johnson, editor, Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts It in a Box, I. B. Tauris & Co., →ISBN, page 142:

It was unclear if the blatant display of her body was meant as a sexual advance or some other expression of heteroflexibility or homosociality.

2013, Heidi Hoefinger, Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia: Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships, Routledge, →ISBN:


glitter bomb

en-verb

glitter bomb (third-person singular simple present glitter bombs, present participle glitter bombing, simple past and past participle glitter bombed)

glitter bombs (present singular third-person)
glitter bombing (participle present)
glitter bombed (participle past)
glitter bombed (past)

(transitive) To throw or shower glitter on a person at a public event as a form of protest, generally over gay rights.


gayphobia

A major problem LGBTQ people face is gayphobia or homophobia, the irrational “fear and hatred” of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people (Morrow, 2008, p. 79).

2013, Karen K. Kirst-Ashman, Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series: Human Behavior in the Macro Social Environment, page 59:

(rare) Fear, dislike, or hatred of gay people in general.


xenic

(LGBTQ) Of or pertaining to xenogenders.


pridewear

Clothing that advertises its wearer's pride in being LGBT (gay pride, trans pride, etc).


asexy

en-adj

asexy (comparative more asexy, superlative most asexy)

more asexy (comparative)
most asexy (superlative)

One of the first rumored-to-be-asexy relationships can be seen in Henry James's The Bostonians, an 1886 novel that deals with the devotion between two women, Olive and Verena — the work even gave rise to the term "Boston marriages" to describe women who lived together in love with one another without having sex.

2007, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, numbers 34-37, page 363:

And in June, while wearing an "Asexy Dyke" T-shirt, she marched with two dozen other self-described asexuals in San Francisco's Gay Pride Parade.

2009 August 24, Demian Bulwa, “Asexuals leave the closet, find community”, in San Francisco Chronicle:

Asexual and Proud! is a MySpace community whose goal is to help “asexy” people connect with one another (Bogaert, 2004).

2011, Robert Crooks, Karla Baur, Our Sexuality, Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 250:

(slang) Asexual (not experiencing sexual attraction).


aromantic

(2005) From a- + romantic. Compare asexual. First coined in 2005 in Asexual Visibility and Education Network forums.

Ours is a generation of aromantics, jaded about matters of the heart — often before gaining firsthand experience.

1986, Wanda Urbanska, The Singular Generation, Doubleday & Company, published 1986, →ISBN, page 86:

Anna is an asexual, aromantic. Before discovering those terms, she assumed herself to merely be unusually disinterested in sex or relationships.

2012, Marina Hale, "The Drop-Down Menu Identity Crisis", Glass Buffalo (University of Alberta), Spring 2012, page 51

'I let it slip one time at work that I’m an asexual aromantic [an asexual who is also not interested in making romantic attachments], and they think it’s absolutely hysterical,’ says Jean Wilson, a sales assistant and 63-year-old grandmother from Banbury. 'One of the women I work with said, “I don’t think you’ve met the right man yet.” I said: “Trish, I’m 63. If I haven’t met him by now I don’t think I’m going to.”’

2012 November 12, Olivia Gordon, “'The moment I realised I was asexual'”, in The Telegraph:

One who does not experience romantic attraction to others.


non-cisgender

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Parsons found the biggest issue to be that “there was no space that said that it was welcoming specifically to non-cisgender people. Just having Penn Non-cis existing is already a space that I can be more comfortable in.”

2013 January 13, Rebecca Borison, “Penn Non-Cis fights underrepresentation on campus”, in The Daily Pennsylvanian, University of Pennsylvania:

The majority of the world would declare themselves cisgender; however those of non-cisgender identity are, of course, an important and ever growing presence in society.

2013, Rachel Sacks, "We've come so far, but we still have a long way to go in struggle for equal rights for everyone", The Miami Student (Miami University), Volume 140, Number 29, 15 January 2013, page 7

However, she also said that it is a matter of accessibility and safety for non-cisgender students at the university (cisgender is a term denoting a person whose biological sex and gender identity match).

2013, Richard Kent, "Gender-neutral washrooms at Mt. A", The Argosy (Mount Allison University), Volume 142, Issue 17, 21 February 2013, page 2


pseudohermaphroditic

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A pseudohermaphroditic infant female rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) showing masculinization of the external genitalia as a result of exposure to testosterone propionate during foetal development.

2012, Alan F. Dixson, Primate Sexuality:

Relating to, or exhibiting, pseudohermaphroditism.


transgenderist

After having lived much of our lives according to a socially accepted prescription, many of us come to realize that we have not been true to ourselves. As full-time or part-time transgenderists, we feel the need to improve the quality of life for ourselves by creating an environment around us which is compatible with the kind of life style we wish to achieve.

1979, Nancy, “Feather Your Own Nest”, in Transvestia, volume XVII, number 98, Chevalier Publications, →LCCN, archived from the original on 2023-06-19, page 36:

Perhaps the most surprising and controversial issue to emerge was that of “transpeople." Transpeople, as defined by the highly articulate Houston based Transpeople Caucus are “transexuals, transgenderists, transvestites, drag queens, and female impersonators." Phyllis Frye, a transgenderist from Houston, in fact opened the welcoming Friday night session. The original motion made by this caucus called for, “the term Gay Transpeople to be included in all statements...The demands as well as policy and media coverage.” They also called for the changing of the name of the March to read “Lesbians, Gay Males and Gay Transpeople’s March on Washington."

1979 September/October, “The March Is On!”, in The Lesbian Tide, volume 9, number 2, Los Angeles: Tide Publications, page 12, column 3:

Finally, since all of this comes out of my own experience and my own thinking, when one gets to the transgenderist position, which is where I am now, I can set up housekeeping right in the middle, if I want, and look and act womanly until a “fence” gets in my way — and then vault over it and go on my way without any feelings of inappropriateness, or “what will people think,” or, “that wasn’t very feminine” type of thinking. I’m just very satisfied to be ME, a position that incorporates all of me, both left, right and middle.

1981, Virginia Prince, “Relaxation in "DRESSING"”, in Transvestia, volume XVIII, number 104, Chevalier Publications, archived from the original on 2023-06-19, page 26, column 3:

Going further than the one-dimensional femininity of the transvestite and cross-dresser, many transgenderists mix and match, blending as much femininity or masculinity with its opposite into new gender recipes.

2002, Richard Ekins, David King, Blending Genders:

[…] in her cross-dressed transgenderist the assured knowableness of the universal subject is cast into doubt as she exposes the far from secure boundaries of maleness.

2010, Carole Jones, Disappearing Men: Gender Disorientation in Scottish Fiction, 1979-1999:

Being a transsexual is not something that can be ignored or suppressed forever. Unlike the fascinations of the cross dresser or the partially altered transgenderist, the absolute compulsion of classical transsexualism is a matter of life and death.

2012, Patrick Slattery, Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era:

(rare, sometimes derogatory) A transgender person.


LGBTQIA

Anderson-Wiley (2011b) identifies a counselor-in-training who filed suit against the faculty (and university) after she was required to complete a remediation plan specifically related to LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, intersex, and allies) populations prior to completing her clinical experiences.

2016, Teri Ann Sartor, Bill McHenry, Jim McHenry, Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling Children and Adolescents:

Within the past year, Elon added several initiatives and programs for LGBTQ students and employees, including starting a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and ally (LGBTQIA) mentor program […]

2017, Kathleen M. Goodman, Darnell Cole, Using Data-Informed Decision Making to Improve Student Affairs Practice:

Further evidence of diversity on campus might be found in Boise State support programs such as the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP), the Center for Multicultural and Educational Opportunities, the Disability Resource Center, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Ally (LGBTQIA) space and events at the Women's Center.

2017, Management Association, Information Resources, Library Science and Administration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications:

Many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) youth now grow up in a very different religious context than did LGBTQIA people just a few years ago.

2017 September 4, Cody J. Sanders, A Brief Guide to Ministry with LGBTQIA Youth, Presbyterian Publishing Corp, →ISBN, page 1:

LGBTQIA Rights and Restrictions in Sub-Saharan Africa Except for a few countries, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual or allied (LGBTQIA) rights in Africa are minimal in comparison to many other countries[…]

2019 November 15, AnnJanette Alejano-Steele, Women and Health: Global Lives in Focus, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 126:

This chapter focuses on refugees/asylum seekers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual/aromantic (hereafter noted as LGBTQIA).

2022 May 27, Tyler Ross Flockhart, Abigail Reiter, Matthew R. Hassett, The Reproduction and Maintenance of Inequalities in Interpersonal Relationships, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 157:

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) families (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, or allied [LGBTQIA]) may live together with or without children. Usually formed by same-sex couples, they can also consist of single LGBTQIA parents or multiple parenting figures.

2023 March 9, Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, Mary Catherine Cashion, Kathryn Rhodes Alden, Ellen Olshansky, Shannon E. Perry, Maternity and Women's Health Care E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 18:

(LGBTQ) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, queer/questioning, intersex, and allied/allies/asexual/aromantic/agender.

إل جي بي تي كيو آي إيه

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Allied/Asexual/Aromantic/Agender

एलजीबीटीक्यूआईए

eljībīṭīkyūāīe


agender

An agender noun includes both the masculine and feminine forms.

All I understand is that G-d is amorphous, agender, etc. so "image" can't be a physical or gender or sexual thing.

2000 July 28, Miriam Wolfe, “Re: The Genealogy of J---s Question”, in alt.messianic (Usenet):

"He" has been used as the default pronoun, and as I said, unfortunately there is no agender equivalent to he/she, as "it" is usually equated with something without life, or at least of a life form considered to be less intelligent (that in itself is negotiable, but this is for a different topic).

2000 November 21, abbycat2 [username], “Re: God and Grammar”, in soc.religion.quaker (Usenet):

But despite this near-universality of gender, cultures can have transgender, agender, and hypergender individuals.

2005 July 20, man_in_black529 [username], “Re: Homosexuality and the Bible”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

"'Agender'? I'm pretty sure that means not identifying as a particular gender? I'm sorry. That's just what it made me think of. I'm not trying to tell you what to--"

[2020 April 6, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Apr 6, 2020:

Without an associated gender (in any sense); not having a particular gender.


kween

Zendaya, Our Kween Who Art in Heaven, just dyed her hair red while on a press tour for Spider-Man: Far From Home, and it’s quite literally breaking the internet right now (so, like, get your Instagram stalking done fast, because the internet might not be here in the morning).

2019 June 17, Chloe Metzger, “Zendaya Dyed Her Hair Red and Fans Are Freaking Out”, in Cosmopolitan:

Kim Kardashian is British royalty - all hail the Kween!

2019 June 1, Jennifer Hyland, “Kim Kardashian revealed as British ROYALTY as her family tree is traced”, in Mirror:

Let's face it: the Los Angeles beauty kween is undeniably talented, and recently, Kim expressed interest in studying for the bar exam to become a lawyer.

2019 June 29, Lizzy Rosenberg, “Kim Kardashian Is Trying to Become a Lawyer — Without Going to Law School”, in Distractify:


K/S

Initialism from the names of James T. Kirk and Spock, separated by a slash (/).

(fandom slang, often attributively) Fan fiction where the characters James T. Kirk and Spock from the science fiction media franchise Star Trek are shown in a homosexual relationship.


panromantic

panromantic (comparative more panromantic, superlative most panromantic)

more panromantic (comparative)
most panromantic (superlative)

As Jessica, a twenty-one year old white woman who self-identifies as a bi- or panromantic asexual describes, […]

2008 October, Kristin S. Scherrer, “Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire”, in Sexualities, volume 11, number 5:

Neth, a 24-year-old from the West Country, describes herself as a "panromantic asexual".

2012 February 26, Rosie Swash, “Among the asexuals”, in The Guardian:

“I feel like it’s really important to say that anyone can be queer,” said Sonja Lund, a sophomore theatre major and panromantic lesbian on panel at the event.

2012, Katie Gossen, "Residence Life defies LGBT stereotypes", The Panther (Chapman University), 22 October 2012

(neologism, sexology) Romantically attracted to people regardless of sex or gender identity.


panromantic

(neologism) A person who is panromantic.


biromantic

biromantic (comparative more biromantic, superlative most biromantic)

more biromantic (comparative)
most biromantic (superlative)

Now that he's thought longer about it, Michael also likes to describe himself as "biromantic". He is keen to have a romantic relationship with either a man or a woman.

2005 April 16, Deborah Smith, “No Sex please, I'm not into it”, in Sydney Morning Herald:

So, for example, it is not unusual for an asexual person to say that he is asexual but bi'''romantic, or that she is asexual but heteroromantic.

2012, Anthony F. Bogaert, Understanding Asexuality, Rowman & Littlefield, published 2012, →ISBN, page 15:

Though some people identify as aromantic, others identify as heteromantic, homoromantic, biromantic and everything in between.

2013 February 14, Tracey Hickey, “Asexuality should be recognized as a legitimate sexual orientation”, in The Pitt News, University of Pittsburgh:

Romantically attracted to both males and females.


biromantic

Within this group of romantic asexuals, orientation varies: heteroromantics only feel romantic attraction to the opposite sex, homoromantics to the same sex, biromantics to both sexes and panromantics without reference to sex or gender.

2011 August, Mark Carrigan, “There’s more to life than sex? Difference and commonality within the asexual community”, in Sexualities, volume 14, number 4, page 469:

For my part, I decided this year not to mention allies in the laundry list of identities represented (I also didn't mention heteroflexible biromantics), underscoring the Sisyphean task of creating an inclusive list of identities.

2014 October 8, Nino Testa, “Language, identity and National Coming Out Day”, in The Tufts Daily, volume 68, number 21, Tufts University, page 9:

Panromantics, unlike biromantics, will tend to feel that their partner's gender does little to define their relationship.

2015 February 10, Erinn Williams, “A Different Sexuality”, in The George-Anne, volume 89, number 46, Georgia Southern University, page 7:

One who is romantically attracted to both males and females.


neovagina

Coordinate term: neopenis

Patients with a neovagina are more likely to engage in sexual activity, and as many as 50 percent of them report a capacity for orgasm.

1994, Richard Lechtenberg, Dana A. Ohl, Sexual Dysfunction: Neurologic, Urologic, and Gynecologic Aspects, Lea & Febiger, →ISBN, page 368:

By means of replacement vaginoplasty techniques, patients can be offered the construction of a functional neovagina.

1996, Fray F. Marshall, Textbook of Operative Urology, Saunders, →ISBN:

sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery

A surgically crafted vagina, as of a trans woman who has undergone sex reassignment surgery, or any woman who lacked a vagina due to a congenital defect, illness, or injury.


homosexual panic defense

en-noun

homosexual panic defense (plural homosexual panic defenses)

gay panic defense
gay panic defense#English


bi-asexual

en-adj

bi-asexual (comparative more bi-asexual, superlative most bi-asexual)

more bi-asexual (comparative)
most bi-asexual (superlative)

Asexual people are often attracted to a specific gender just like sexual people are: you can be hetero-asexual, homo-asexual, or bi-asexual.

2006 April, “Asexuality 101”, in The Guide:

Similarly, Mona, a thirty year old white woman, said that she identifies as, “Bi-asexual. The things I find attractive, I find attractive in both sexes.”

There was a survey held in the English forum of AVEN (Asexual Visibility and Education Network), which is the longest running forum for asexual people and also claims the most members, according to which 23.7% of the users defined themselves as bi-asexual.

2011, Irina, "I am bi-asexual", Bijou, Issue 24, May 2011, page 36

(neologism) Romantically or aesthetically attracted to members of either sex, but not experiencing sexual attraction to others.


antifag

antifag (comparative more antifag, superlative most antifag)

more antifag (comparative)
most antifag (superlative)

"And I used to make antifag jokes all the time!" Chet pushed on both temples, to show his self-disgust.

1981, Daniel Curzon, Human Warmth & Other Stories, page 25:

They have got fairly liberal laws on victimless crimes, but the Los Angeles police are still busy entrapping homosexualists because the police chief in Los Angeles is very antifag.

1983, Michael Denneny, Charles Ortleb, Thomas Steele, The Christopher Street reader, page 297:


antitrans

antitrans (comparative more antitrans, superlative most antitrans)

more antitrans (comparative)
most antitrans (superlative)

Although I wanted to undermine the foundations on which such antitrans screeds were built, there were many alternative strategies I might have used.

2011, Gayle Rubin, Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader, page 216:

This led Lee Brewster of Queens Liberation Front to denounce antitrans lesbian feminists.

2012, Marc Stein, Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement:


relationship anarchy

The practice of forming anti-mononormative and anti-hierarchical relationships.


queerphobic

queerphobic (comparative more queerphobic, superlative most queerphobic)

more queerphobic (comparative)
most queerphobic (superlative)

Many face harassment from a hostile cohort of Swifties known as Hetlors, notorious for a queerphobic insistence that Taylor is straight.

2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan:

Having a fear or hatred of queer people.


kito

This type of blackmail, where an LGBT person is entrapped, is known in Nigeria's gay community as "kito" - the exact origin of the term is unclear. BBC Africa Eye interviewed 21 people in all about their experiences of being "kito'd".

2023 May 15, Ian Wafula, Tamasin Ford, “The Nigerians lured into a trap and blackmailed for being gay”, in BBC News:

One LGBTQ+ advocacy group that works with Nigerians told BBC Africa Eye that, each week, 15 to 20 people reach out to them with similar stories of entrapment and extortion. The scheme is known in Nigeria's gay community as "kito."

2023 May 16, Dylan Reber, “Gay Men in Nigeria Targeted in Dating App Extortion Scheme”, in Advocate:

(Nigeria, LGBTQ) A type of blackmail on LGBT people


homoerotics

homoerotics in Hollywood films

the male homoerotics of Shakespearean drama


gayby boom

A sudden increase in the number of homosexual parents.


ciswash

en-verb

ciswash (third-person singular simple present ciswashes, present participle ciswashing, simple past and past participle ciswashed)

ciswashes (present singular third-person)
ciswashing (participle present)
ciswashed (participle past)
ciswashed (past)

From cis- + wash, by analogy with whitewash.

Numerous media outlets recounted how the noble gays and lesbians fought that night – never mentioning trans folk… carrying on that long and painful tradition of ciswashing queer history – especially Stonewall history.

2013 February 18, Cristan Williams, “Interview With an Actual Stonewall Riot Veteran: The Ciswashing of Stonewall Must End!”, in The Transadvocate:

Throughout the 2-minute trailer, I watched the passionate and diverse history of our movement be whitewashed and ciswashed.

2015, Matt Comer, "'Stonewall' film attracts criticism", QNotes, Volume 30, Number 8, 14 August 2015 - 27 August 2015, page 17

Let's stop ciswashing and whitewashing Stonewall, and use it instead as an example of how we need to fight racism, transmisogyny and poverty in our culture.

2015, Leela Ginelle, "Let's Remember What Stonewall Actually Was", PQ Monthly, August/September 2015, page 15

To ignore, deny, or minimize the gender identity of a trans person or trans people, or the role that a trans person or trans people played in an event.


transwomyn

From transwoman, with woman respelled womyn (see that entry).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transwomyn.

(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of trans womyn


English disease

A calque of phrases from various languages, including the French maladie anglaise, Polish angielska choroba, German englische Krankheit, and the Russian англи́йская боле́знь (anglíjskaja boléznʹ).

calque

англи́йская боле́знь


transmisogyny

From trans- + misogyny. Coined by Julia Serano in her 2007 book Whipping Girl, who defined it as the intersection of traditional sexism (belief in women's inferiority) with oppositional sexism (belief in a rigid gender binary).

Coordinate term: transmisandry

The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . . This is transmisogyny.'

2011, Diane Railton, Paul Watson, Music Video and the Politics of Representation, Edinburgh University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 146:

I talk about “transmisogyny” in my book, which is the intersection of being trans and experiencing misogyny. As a trans woman, I don't just experience how our culture devalues femininity—I'm treated as a fake woman.

2011, Julia Serano, edited by Jennifer Baumgardner, F 'em!: Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 199:

As to bisexual trans woman, in addition to all of the above, they are also subject to a whole other set of sexual harassment and violence as a result of transphobia and transmisogyny (this goes especially for trans women of color).

2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press, published 2013, →ISBN:

The state is unable to provide equal protection and non-discrimination to those within its borders because the state itself enshrines white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and transmisogyny into its legal codes – a structure that operates through nonconsensual imposition, coercion […]

2017, Elizabeth Whalley, Colleen Hackett, “Carceral feminisms: the abolitionist project and undoing dominant feminisms”, in Contemporary Justice Review: Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice, volume 20, number 4, pages 456–473:

Later in the text, the author speaks directly with a street sex worker, describing her as a “pretty transgender teenager”, giving a counterpoint to the language earlier in the text—however this occurs well after the transmisogyny of the introductory paragraphs (Wane 2011, 69) …

2020, G. L. E. Easterbrook-Smith, “'Not on the Street Where We Live': walking while trans under a model of sex work decriminalisation”, in Feminist Media Studies:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Hatred of or contempt for trans women.

Sexism
Whipping Girl
oppositional sexism
transmisogyny


Waycest

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(fandom slang) The incestuous real-person pairing of the brothers Gerard Way and Mikey Way, of American rock band My Chemical Romance, in slash fan fiction.


Wincest

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From Win(chester) + -cest. Possibly influenced by wincest.

Wincest stories often take their transgressive cues from the text itself; often when Sam and Dean are seducing each other in Wincest stories, the more reluctant of the two is convinced to engage in the relationship when the other reiterates that they are already outsiders in society, already isolated from the “normality” of their world—why should the prohibition of incest stand in their way when they have already broken so many other laws?

2009, Emily Turner, "Scary Just Got Sexy: Transgression in Supernatural and Its Fanfiction", in In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (ed. Supernatural.tv), BenBella Books (2009), page 159

Instead, she suggests, the romanticized, paratextual Wincest slash fiction offers Sam and Dean a redemptive happiness that they are perpetually denied by the show's writers both in a diegetic sense (via Chuck Shurley, the show's writer/prophet who publishes novels based on the boys' adventures) and in a non-diegetic sense (via Eric Kripke, Sera Gamble, and the show's returning writers).

2011, Darren Elliott-Smith, “'Go Be Gay for That Poor, Dead Intern:' Conversion Fantasies and Gay Anxieties in Supernatural”, in Stacey Abbott, David Lavery, editors, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of, Supernatural , ECW Press, →ISBN, page 106:

Supernatural fandom features some of the more controversial iterations of slash, predominantly Wincest (the incestuous coupling of the show's protagonists, the Winchester brothers), […]

2013, Henry Jenkins & Suzanne Scott, "Textual Poachers, Twenty Years Later", in Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Routledge (2013), page xxxiii

(fandom slang) The incestuous slash ship of the fictional brothers Dean and Sam Winchester from the television series Supernatural.


Destiel

His overt revulsion is caused by the Wincest fan fiction — the Sam-slash-Dean pairing that also alarms Dean in the epigraph of this paper — and to a Dean-slash-Castiel (or Destiel) kink meme in which Castiel has a crab claw for a hand.

2011, Brigid Cherry, “Becky Rosen, Fan Identity, and Interactivity in Supernatural”, in Stacey Abbott, David Lavery, editors, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of, Supernatural , ECW Press, →ISBN, page 204:

All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.

2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8

I'm always happy to write some sappy Destiel one shot (a one chapter story, often focused solely on fluff, or pure cuddles) when writer's block is making work on Phoenix difficult.

2013, Evangeline Warren, "Confessions of a Teenage Fangirl", INKredible!, Issue 4, Summer 2013, page 21

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Castiel and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural.


Snarry

Best Excuse for a Wandering Mind: SNARRY!, Jason Isaacs, Alan Rickman

2004 December 31, barbarella [username], “Re: That Was The Year That Was 2004”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet):

"Snarry is part of a subgenre of fan fiction called Slash," she says. "Snarry depicts romantic relationships between Harry Potter and Severus Snape, together - Snarry. […]

2009 July 17, David Templeton, “One geek over the line”, in Pacific Sun:

Snarry slash people (ie people who write fan fiction about Snape and Harry getting it on till the break o’dawn) are super-intense. Seriously that is one rich, rich subculture.

2009 July 22, Lev Grossman, “Notes from Azkatraz, a Harry Potter Convention”, in Time:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Harry Potter and Severus Snape of the Harry Potter series.


lesbophilia

It is his lesbophilia that sets Proust's narrator apart from the author, that marks the novel as a novel rather than a perverse exercise in selective autobiography.

1999, Elisabeth Ladenson, Proust's Lesbianism, Cornell University Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 133:

More broadly, we might ask to what extent French literature, with its twin associations of high culture and lesbophilia, came to be an oblique but acceptable signifier for lesbianism in the popular imagination of the twentieth century.

2001, Gretchen Schultz, “Daughters of Bilitis: Literary Genealogy and Lesbian Authenticity”, in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 7, number 3:

Sweel Charity, like other backstage musicals, finds women in dressing rooms, sharing stockings and make-up, stories and sympathy in a setting that ideologically conveys rampant lesbophilia in the history of sexuality and offers spectatorial pleasures for feminist audiences.

2004, Stacy Wolf, "'Something Better than This': Sweet Charity and the Feminist Utopia of Broadway Musicals", Modern Drama, Volume 47, Number 2, Summer 2004

A fetishistic fascination (typically in non-lesbians) with lesbians and erotic contact between women.


fag marriage

en-noun

fag marriage (countable and uncountable, plural fag marriages)

“There is the push for fag marriage in this country,” she said. “You’re a freak if you’re not fornicating by the time you’re 14.”

2010 September 28, Becky Young, “Community Rejects 'Message of Hate' at Weaver Memorial”, in Williamsburg Yorktown Daily:

He also suggested a “final solution to the problem of fag marriage” that involved replacing rice/birdseed with bullets/hand grenades at gay weddings (this book may not have gotten the details there quite right).

2011, Roland Boyle, Tea Party Guide to Being a Real American: Arming Yourself Against Godless Liberals, Dirty Socialists, and Sexy Ideas, Sourcebooks, →ISBN:

“I hear they are letting queers get married now. They voted yes on that fag marriage idea, so you should be happy Andy!”

2012, Zack W. Van, Inanimate Heroes, →ISBN:

(vulgar, offensive, derogatory) Same-sex marriage.


lesbophile

In a recent interview with Playboy, Chris Rock clinched our attention, though we've been spying since his appearances on Saturday Night Live and in lesbophile Kevin (Chasing Amy) Smith's Dogma.

1999, Girlfriends: The Magazine of Lesbian Enjoyment, volume 6, page 31:

Sean laughed, "It's bizarre, all those holograms of celebrities."
"And you can pair them up however you want so long as it's not a man and a lady."
Pulling his shirt off, Sean said, "Very most lewdest for lesbophiles."

1999 July 17, Matthias, “Hotel Alpha 15 - dinos15.txt [1/1]”, in alt.sex.stories.gay (Usenet):

A note for the lesbophiles among us: that is the only time you're going to see Willow's mouth and Buffy's tit in the same place, so enjoy it.

2002 October 11, David Chapman, “Thoughts on Buffy 7X03 "Same Time, Same Place" - S7 SPOILERS”, in uk.media.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

(rare) A person (typically not a lesbian) with a fondness for lesbians or erotic contact between women.


cisnormativity

The erasure of transpeople's experiences can be understood, at least partially, as a function of the hegemony of cisnormativity.

2012, Matthew Heinz, “Transmen on the Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses”, in Karen Ross, editor, The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 336:

These are the bodily consequences of cisnormativity—the prevalent and presumptuous assumption that cissexuality is the only acceptable and legible form of gender identity—which show us why, when we engage in feminist activism and inquiry, we must be trans-inclusive in our efforts to ensure that every human being deserves decency and justice when wronged.

2012 Fall, Einar Ragnar Jónsson, “Why Feminism Needs to be Trans-Inclusive or: The Bodily Consequences of Cisnormativity”, in Bluestockings, page 41:

(LGBTQ, neologism) The assumption that all human beings are cisgender, i.e. have a gender identity which matches their biological sex.


cisnormative

en-adj

cisnormative (comparative more cisnormative, superlative most cisnormative)

more cisnormative (comparative)
most cisnormative (superlative)

This erasure reflects the priorities, biases, and oversights of writers and publishers who function in a cisnormative system, one in which people are assumed to be cissexual.

2009, Greta R. Bauer, Rebecca Hammond, Robb Travers, Matthias Kaay, Karin M. Hohenadel, & Michelle Boyce, "'I Don't Think This Is Theoretical; This Is Our Lives': How Erasure Impacts Health Care for Transgender People", Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Volume 20, Issue 5, September-October 2009, page 353

Cisnormative assumptions are tied in with discourses surrounding HIV and STIs.

2012 October, Jen Roberton, Emily Milton, “Cisnormative assumptions and queer sex”, in The Strand, volume 55, number 5,29, Victoria University, page 4:

In a cisnormative world, I could not comprehend the humiliation I felt, at eight years old, when I received a “girl” bike for Christmas, because everything around me reflected the experiences of people for whom the color of their bike somehow aligned with their genitalia.

2013 October 11, Bailey Dineen, “My Queer Rage”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, volume 130, number 34, Cornell University, page 7:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Of or pertaining to cisnormativity.


queerphobia

From queer + -phobia, by analogy with transphobia. Attested as queer-phobia since at least 1998, and as queerphobia since at least 2000.

Michael's experiences pointed to a form of heteronormativity/queerphobia, unique to Asian American communities, which supplemented the heteronormativity/queerphobia in mainstream society.

1999, K. K. Kumashiro, “Supplementing normalcy and otherness: Queer Asian American men reflect on stereotypes, identity, and oppression”, in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 12(5), 491-508:

(uncommon) Fear or hatred of queer people. (Compare homophobia.)


multisexual

From multi- + sexual, by analogy with bisexual.

(neologism) Someone who is sexually attracted to more than one sex or gender.


transsex

en-verb

transsex (third-person singular simple present transsexes, present participle transsexing, simple past and past participle transsexed)

transsexes (present singular third-person)
transsexing (participle present)
transsexed (participle past)
transsexed (past)

There is a common misconception that gay men, for instance, are naturally effeminate and may someday wish to transsex their bodies.

2009, Andrea Bloomgarden, Rosemary B. Mennuti, Psychotherapist Revealed, →ISBN, page 184:

Isis transsexes Iphis, female to male (Met. 9.668: Iphide mutata) in the nick of time (unusque dies restabat) on his/her wedding day.

2009, Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, →ISBN, page 136:

(transitive) To transgender; to (cause something to) change from being sexed/gendered in one way to being sexed/gendered in another way.


transsex

New York, Ohio, and Texas ruled that transsex persons could marry only in the gender role that they had been assigned at birth.

2006, Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Minter, Transgender Rights, →ISBN, page 65:


transsex

Before we can answer this question, we need to consider two other phenomena – transsex and transgender – which also expose the muddle within conventional categories of sex.

2007, Alison Stone, An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy, →ISBN, page 41:

(rare) Transsexuality, transsexualism; the state of being transsexual. (Compare transgender.)


genderism

en-noun

genderism (countable and uncountable, plural genderisms)

[pages 108-109:] Virtually all networks and platforms mobilizing against more pluralistic and non-heteronormative (and less biologistic), sexual education at schools systematically equal gender with "genderism", that is with "gender ideology".
[page 183:] [...] in Poland examples of women made famous by their opposition to "genderism" include [...]

2017, Roman Kuhar, David Paternotte, Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:

The letter reads: 'Gender ideology results from many decades of ideological and cultural changes rooted in Marxism and neomarxism promoted by some feminist movements and from sexual revolution. Genderism [...] claims that biological sex does not have any social significance and what matters is gender, cultural sex, […] According to this ideology, one can freely choose whether to be a man or a woman; one may also select their own sexual orientation' (List Pasterski 2013).

2020, Suzanne Clisby, Mark Johnson, Jimmy Turner, Theorising Cultures of Equality, Routledge, →ISBN:

(in right-wing usage, derogatory) Opposition to traditional gender roles; belief that gender exists separate from sex; "gender ideology"; a variously-defined catch-all for things like transgender rights and feminism to which antigenderism is opposed.


muxe

At the back of the file, walking proudly, wearing a new pantsuit and a fresh in his hair, was a mushe. Though I was surprised to see him, no one else batted an eye. He was clearly just another part of the women's procession.

1985 August 10, Kate Raisz, “The Gay Mushes”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 5, page 10:

In Zapotec cultures of Oaxaca, a male-assigned person who dresses and acts in a feminine manner, and may be regarded as a third gender.


trans*

trans + * (a wildcard in programming), indicating that it could stand for transgender or transsexual.

gender identities
gender identity#English

Non-cisgender; an umbrella term encompassing transgender, transsexual, and often also genderqueer/nonbinary, genderfluid, third-gender, etc. — all gender identities other than cisgender.


transgirl

Blend of transgender + girl, equivalent to trans- + girl or trans + girl.

But it seemed there was never a flinch or second thought on his part about being with a transgirl, even when they started having sex, some few months into the relationship.

2007, Cris Beam, Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 199:

Sitting on my stomach, a few inches from my face, was a miniature French version of the transgirl I should have been—a girl too brave, too honest, too strong, too much of a person not to be herself.

2012, Joy Ladin, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders, →ISBN, page 72:

Parent of a 6-year-old transgirl

2013, Stephanie Brill, Rachel Pepper, The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals, →ISBN:


misgender

en-verb

misgender (third-person singular simple present misgenders, present participle misgendering, simple past and past participle misgendered)

misgenders (present singular third-person)
misgendering (participle present)
misgendered (participle past)
misgendered (past)

Coordinate term: misnumber

Leonie was always, in fact, the first to point out a misconjugated verb, a misgendered noun, […]

2017, Rebecca Schuman, Schadenfreude, A Love Story:

Our first demonstration at the Canadian border—where we’d planned to test rumors about PWAs being denied entry into Canada by announcing we all had AIDS—fizzled when our bus entered the country without incident, save the late realization that our bilingual T-shirts had misgendered the virus—it's “le SIDA,” not “la SIDA”—causing a frantic scramble for sharpies and eyebrow pencils to correct the offending vowel.

2022, Ron Goldberg, “Storming the Ivory Tower”, in Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York, Fordham University Press, →ISBN:

Next is a list of misgendered words between the two languages:
Similar words with different genders […]

2022, John Whitlam, Agripino S. Silveira, Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar: A Practical Guide:

(transitive, grammar) To use the wrong grammatical gender with a word.


Johnlock

All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.

2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8

For Karen the most exciting thing about the comeback is the reunion between Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman: “I ship Johnlock!” Karen enthused.

2013, Gerrit van de Riet, "November for Fandoms: Sneak Peek", The Window (New College, Toronto), November 2013, page 20

Across the pond, writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss often place characters Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in situations that suggest a relationship between them, even though the series establishes Watson as heterosexual, to placate the fans that “ship Johnlock” in the BBC series “Sherlock.”

2013, Pragya Parmita, "Fandoms: Too Powerful?", The Bottom Line (Associated Students, UC Santa Barbara), Volume 8, Issue 5, 6 November - 12 November 2013, page 8

(fandom slang) The ship of characters John Watson and Sherlock Holmes from the television series Sherlock.


hetero-fascism

Attempting (and failing) to Expose Homosexuality In The Nazi Party and in the process, exposing Heterofascism in America.

1996 January 12, DAnder9829 [username], “Re: The Pink Friend of the German Jews: Ernst Roehm the Homosexual”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):

The two eventually fall out, violently and publicly, over Aids, which Willie comes to see as "a moral argument that's trying to police our sexuality", just as Doumé and Leibo fall out over the latter's alleged "heterofascism".

2011 February 17, Leo Robson, “Hate: a Romance by Tristan Garcia”, in New Statesman:

Glenn Beck: Do you know what happened last week in Russia? One of their biggest stars on television said that homosexuals should be put into the ovens alive. I didn't think you could make the Holocaust worse, but he's like, "Why the gas chamber? That seems a little too humane. Let's put them alive in the ovens." I said on the air this week, I will stand with GLAAD. I will stand with anybody who will stand up and say that's crazy. That's dangerous. That's hetero-fascism. That's what that is.

2013 December 20 (airdate), Pierce Morgan Live, CNN

(derogatory) Authoritarian or aggressive support for heteronormativity.


heterofascist

en-adj

heterofascist (comparative more heterofascist, superlative most heterofascist)

more heterofascist (comparative)
most heterofascist (superlative)

[…] and support for each other in fighting the oppression forced on us by the larger heterofascist society and against those gay men who identify with it.

1976, Faggots and Class Struggle: A Conference Report, page 66:

Also, some time ago, when I first discovered soc.motss, I found out that I was WRONG to advocate monogamy (I was merely part of some crypto-Christian heterofascist breeding ideal).

1991 February 27, John Passaniti, “WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

After Louie describes with horror the father's forcing Virgil (arguably Louie's long unrequited love) to shoot some puppies to make a man out of him, we begin to see how Louie further denaturalizes heterosexualized spaces, here demonstrating the heterofascist fear of dissolution into a female subject constructed as the dark abyss […]

2000, Frederick Luis Aldama, “Ethnoqueer Rearchitexturing of Metropolitan Space”, in Nepantla: Views from South, volume 1, number 3:

Exhibiting or relating to hetero-fascism.


crack snacker

Pun on snack cracker, a food, and crack (“female genitalia”), in reference to oral sex.

“Whatchoo want?”
“I'm looking for 251 Durham Avenue,” Rosie said. “It's a place called Daughters and Sisters. I had directions, but I guess—”
“What, the welfare lesbians? You ast the wrong chicken, baby girl. I got no use for crack-snackers. […]

A lesbian is a crack snacker.

1997, Mike King, “Re: Lesbian Jokes”, in alt.tasteless.jokes (Usenet):

What is the difference between a Ritz cracker and a lesbian? One is a snack cracker and the other is a crack snacker.

2000, anonymous author, “Ha Ha Testing can be fun....”, in alt.test (Usenet):

"She thinks I'm a lesbo!" my sister shrieked. For weeks, we called her the crack snacker.

2009, Antonya Nelson, Nothing Right, page 261:


todger dodger

From todger + dodger, chosen for the rhyme.

Todger Dodger

2001, Batfink, “Re: some gooduns...”, in alt.drugs.pot (Usenet):

[…] don't tell me that frigid little todger-dodger has got to you too […]

2011, Simon Packham, The Opposite Bastard, page 223:

As far as she was concerned, you were just that weird girl from school who never spoke to anyone –' 'The fat todger-dodger with no friends?' Mel smiles.


vagitarian

She's a vagitarian She's a member of the club

1990, Julia Penelope, Finding the lesbians: personal accounts from around the world:

We used to call her the Vagitarian, remember?

2000, Anne Harris, Accidental Creatures, page 104:

You know, the politically correct word for lesbian is 'vagitarian,' because you are what you eat!

2003, Leila J. Rupp, Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret, page 136:


Sterek

Some shows have released official promos that play up the fans' favorite slash couples to court fans, most recently Hawaii Five-O and Teen Wolf, whose showrunner began to write the show itself in a slashy direction when he became aware of the popularity of “Sterek,” the slash pairing of sidekick Stiles and alpha wolf Derek.

2013, Katherine Larsen, Lynn S. Zubernis, Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 101:

"Teen Wolf 'Sterek' fans, we've read your (hundreds and hundreds of) comments and admire your passion," EW.com responded. "The reason Sterek didn't make the category is because it's not an acknowledged will-they-or-won't-they storyline."
This controversy led the gay entertainment news site AfterElton.com to start an annual "slash madness" tournament. Sterek won the first.

2013 October 31, Zachary Pincus-Roth, “Slash Fiction: A Fantasy World in Which Male TV Characters Find Romance — With Each Other”, in LA Weekly:

Even a nascent fandom will begin to develop its own tropes. You could see it, for instance, in the popular Sterek pairing in the Teen Wolf fandom as it took off.

2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Stiles Stilinski and Derek Hale from the television series Teen Wolf.


Drarry

It occurs because in canon Harry and Draco feel no emotion for each other warmer than intense dislike. […] Harry is willing to save Draco's life out of recognition of their shared humanity, but with apologies to all the Drarry shippers out there, that's as far as it goes.

2011, Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, Ashgate, →ISBN, pages 69–79:

2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:draco malfoy is a beautiful creation and he should be protected by harry potter who is his second cousin and who cares if you think its gross they are adorable together let the gayness happen
Dramione shippers apparently feel the same way when too much attention is paid to Drarry.

Fanfics that depict relationships between Draco and Harry have been particularly popular, spawning a cult of ‘Drarry’ shippers – with Facebook pages, fan art and many stories all dedicated to the pairing.

2013, Sarah Dear, "Fanfiction - A Hobby for Generations of Teenagers", Impact (University of Nottingham), 26 April 2013

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter of the Harry Potter series.