lesbophobe

Lesbophobes disown all interest not only in lesbians themselves but also in lesbian films, plays, and novels.

1972, Natalie Gittelson, The Erotic Life of the American Wife, Delacorte Press, published 1972, page 222:

[…] and because most men, being to some degree misogynists or lesbophobes or both, dislike me and other wimmin.

1994, Joyce Trebilcot, Dyke Ideas: Process, Politics, Daily Life, State University of New York Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 129:

Much as I hate to admit it, that notorious theoretical lesbophobe, Julia Kristeva, may have been right when she asserted in her 1980 article, […]

1997, Kathleen Martindale, Un/Popular Culture: Lesbian Writing After the Sex Wars, State University of New York Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 76:

One who hates or has a negative perception of lesbians.


cissexist

From cis- + sexist or cissex(ual) + -ist.


pro-gay

en-adj

pro-gay (comparative more pro-gay, superlative most pro-gay)

more pro-gay (comparative)
most pro-gay (superlative)

Supporting gay people, or rights for gay people.


top surgery

en-noun

top surgery (countable and uncountable, plural top surgeries)

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Sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery#English

Breast augmentation
breast augmentation#English

(LGBTQ, surgery) Sex reassignment surgery performed on the chest.


bottom surgery

bottom surgery (countable and uncountable, plural bottom surgeries)

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I am a 37-yr-old female-to-male living full-time as a man since 1980, when I had my mastectomy. Recently completed my bottom surgery ("genitoplasty").

1998 December 13, Lou Sullivan, [Correspondence from Lou Sullivan to Paul Johnson (December 13, 1988)]:

Again, there is not a good bottom surgery option for an FTM. I can see why they skip that step. And it is very easy for an FTM to be stealth.

2005 February 13, Jennifer Usher <jennisuzan@earthlink.net>, “Re: A Rationale for SRS”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2022-10-17:

According to Henry Benjamin, for example, most trans folx were thought to "have no overt sex life at all," at least prior to medical interventions, and particularly bottom surgeries.

2021, Lucie Fielding, “Unimaginable Bodies”, in Lucie Fielding, Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, e-book edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page [unumbered]:

(LGBTQ, surgery) Sex reassignment surgery performed on the reproductive organs, particularly the genitals.


she-he

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 male; a male person who is assigned female at birth.


polyfidelity

A form of polyamory where all members are considered equal partners and agree to be sexually active only with other members of the group.


fag mag

What people usually mean by that is 'my career has gone so far down the dumper I only have gay fans', or 'my career is at such a low ebb no one else can be bothered to interview me so my press officer officer fixed up this interview with some crummy fag mag.')

1995, Richard Smith, Seduced and Abandoned: Essays on Gay Men and Popular Music, Cassell, →ISBN, page 118:

“You probably want some fag mag. Tight butts with chest hair and trim mustaches.”

1999, Steve Vivan, A Self-Made Monster, Boson Books, →ISBN:

Todd's secret is uncovered when his friends Alan (Evan Handler) and Kirk (Manfred Melcher) find a “fag mag” in Todd's desk.

2002, Stephen Tropiano, The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV, Applause Theatre & Cinema, →ISBN:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) A magazine which focuses on gay issues and interests.


fagazine

At the other extreme, the most distinctive of all the gay publications of the day were a pair of home-made 'fagazines' of slightly old-fashioned psychedelic design, printed on heavy stock in a rainbow of bright colours.

1995, Ian Young, The Stonewall Experiment: A Gay Psychohistory, Cassell, →ISBN, page 64:

REM lead singer Michael Stipe, for example, is queer, not gay. “For me, queer describes something that’s more inclusive of the gray areas,” he told Butt, a pocket-sized Dutch “fagazine.” “It’s really about identity I think. The identity I’m comfortable with is queer because I just think it’s more inclusive.”

2007 February 21, Joel Bleifuss, “A Politically Correct Lexicon”, in In These Times:

He was reading one of those little fagazines, those little gay rags, that there were white gay men in California dying because they were gay.

2013, Sonja Mackenzie, Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 45:


fag rag

For those of you out-of-the-know, Blueboy is a fag rag on the nice end of the spectrum (opposite Manmeat.)

1992, Louise Rafkin, Queer and Pleasant Danger: Writing Out My Life, Cleis Press, →ISBN, page 148:

He handed her the magazine, and she recognized it as one of her brother Herb's gay publications which he kept hidden in a box under his bed, thinking no one knew about his stash of fag rags.

1997, John Patrick, Come Again, STARbooks press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 110:

I ask my readers to send their old “fag rags” to me instead of burning them, since I argue that these magazines are part of our gay cultural heritage.

2011, Karl Andersson, Gay Man's Worst Friend: The Story of Destroyer Magazine, Entartetes Leben (2011; original Swedish book published 2010), page 50


gayola

Every one of the bars that testified against the police department during the gayola inquiry was shut down.

1998, The American Journey: Derived from retrieving the American past, →ISBN:

Policing power over gay bars was thus shifted from the SFPD's beat officers to the mayor and the chief of police. In the wake of the gayola scandal Mayor Christopher launched an offensive against homosexual drinking establishments.

2006, Journal of the History of Sexuality:

One reporter asked the attorneys involved in one of the gayola prosecutions whether “gay bars” were acceptable.

2008, William N. Eskridge Jr., Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003, Penguin, →ISBN:

(chiefly historical) The practice of American police departments extorting bribes from gay bars, especially in the 1950s and 60s, in return for not raiding them; such a bribe.


homonormativity

homonormativity (countable and uncountable, plural homonormativities)

Homonormativity is largely a product of tolerance and, as Brown tells us, tolerance, among other things, exists in the social realm to cover over inequitable particularities in the legal sphere.

2009, Environment and Planning, page 755:

Duggan is careful to acknowledge that her identification of homonormativity does not create a category that parallels and reflects heteronormativity, as there are no gay structures parallel to those supporting and sustaining heterosexuality; [...]

2009, Anne Bottomley, Simone Wong, Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Family and Law: Caring and Sharing, →ISBN:

The Swedish gay date film Patrik 1,5 (2008) would be, arguably, a comparable example of such a homonormative filmic representation. Made in an era of homonormativity, however, but not (my contention will be) necessarily made of the era of homonormativity, Any Day Now should not be so easily dismissed or contained.

2017, Elizabeth Ellcessor, Bill Kirkpatrick, Disability Media Studies, →ISBN:

(LGBTQ) The assumption that sexual and romantic attraction and activity between people of the same sex is normal, either as the only normal, or in a culture which also treats opposite-sex activity as normal (and typically assumes all people are either male or female).

I'm an activist, but in Kelowna I felt like my safety is predicated on silence and white middle-class homonormativity.

2009, Rachel Epstein, Who's Your Daddy?: And Other Writings on Queer Parenting, page 255:

Indeed, queer thinkers have pointed out how heteronormativity and homonormativity are belied by the diversity of desires and relationships that already characterise many people's lives, and that transcend the ideological identities and proprieties that heteronormative and homonormative institutions attempt to enforce.

2012, Dr Gavin Brown, Dr Jason Lim, Professor Kath Browne, Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics, →ISBN, page 58:

Homonormativity results in reiterating the gender roles that anchor heteronormativity to power (even though the connections to bodies may seem to be more lax) and regularly punishes "those who fail to do their gender right" (Butler, 1990, p. 140)

2014, Julia M. O'Brien, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies, →ISBN, page 324:

Homonormativity is antiqueer in the ways that it reifies heteronormativity, and it is further understood as providing cultrual norms for the right way to be gay and lesbian. In this capacity, homonormativity perpetuates gender, sexuality, and racial stereotypes for gays and lesbians.

2016, Abbie E. Goldberg, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, →ISBN, page 542:

(LGBTQ) The adoption of heterosexist values, beliefs and norms into the gay or queer community.


metoidioplasty

From meta- (“change”) + Ancient Greek αἰδοῖον (aidoîon, “genitals”) + -plasty.

der

sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery

A form of female-to-male sex reassignment surgery in which the clitoris, enlarged by testosterone therapy, is enhanced in size and appearance to provide a penis.


berdachism

English settlers, in turn, solidly repressed berdachism in North America, although a score of nineteenth-century texts reveal a lack of sexual assimilation.

2000, John W. M. Hallock, The American Byron, page 19:

(anthropology, now offensive) The state or practice of being transgender or third gender in a Native American society.


sapiosexuality

From Latin sapiens (“wise, judicious”) + sexuality or sapiosexual + -ity. Purportedly coined in 1998.

So a self-confessed culture vulture is a member of communities on authors, sudoku, films, chocolates and sapiosexuality (sapiosexuals are people who are apparently turned on by intelligence).

2008 August 17, Mohua Das, Malini Banerjee, “Virtual Vanities”, in The Telegraph, Calcutta:

I went to friend and psychologist Alejandro Spicker — who's both attractive and smart — and asked him what he thought of sapiosexuality.

2012 May, Carolina Montejo, “Sapiosexuality: The intelligent foreplay”, in Vangardist, page 129:

Sapiosexuality is getting aroused not by the physical appearance of a person, but through his or her intelligence.

2013 May 28, Sunayana Suresh, “Are women attracted to the sapiosexual men?”, in The Times of India:

The state of being sexually attracted to intelligence or the human mind.


transdar

From trans + -dar, after the pattern of gaydar.

I found out about 20 minutes into the workshop that at least six of the men in attendance had been born women. Not one of them had twigged my "transdar."

1996 July 24, Janet W. Hardy, “Re: Independence Day - The movie”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet):

My hearing isn't that great, but my transdar immediately zoned in on him.

2000 July 26, Cheryl, “Re: everyone flame me, I deserve it.”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

Other respondents offered similar descriptions of transdar as a keen understanding of the most important sex cues.

2013, Asia Friedman, Blind to Sameness: Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 59:

(slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is transgender by observing that person.


pangender

Born as a physical male, she now identifies as transfeminine, or pangender.

2012, Alessandra Robertson, "Trans Stories", Sex and the Steel City (The Silhouette special edition), page 14

Just don't be surprised if you meet someone who identifies as a "non-binary neutrois pangender genderpunk autistic aspiequeer queer lithsexual punk anti-kyriarchist anarchist."

2012, Harrison Vaporciyan, "Tumbling into Trouble", The Oracle (Stratford High School, Houston, Texas), Volume 41, Issue 4, 16 November 2012, page 8

Ranging from pangender to genderqueer and even intersex, the choices Facebook has included accurately reflects the diversity and differences of this day and age.

2014 February 25, Aysha Mahmood, “Media companies take a more progressive stance on gender”, in The Daily Campus, volume 120, number 92, University of Connecticut, page 4:

(LGBTQ, of a person) Identifying with all genders.


poofery

He wore a black, embroidered smoking jacket, over his shirt which was all ruffles and poofery, particularly the flaring, foppish cuffs, which looked like doily sweatbands, or garter belts for the wrist.

2003, Larry Keveson, Before We Croak!, page 85:

(slang, derogatory) Behaviour characteristic of homosexuals.


monosexuality

en-noun

monosexuality (usually uncountable, plural monosexualities)


monosexual

From mono- + sexual. In the second sense, by analogy with bisexual.

Letitia, I fear, is a monosexual. Only men arouse her.

1968, Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, Panther Books, →OCLC, page 106:

There are several other reasons for underestimating the number of lesbians. One, an effeminate male is usually associated with homosexuality, whether or not he is a monosexual. But masculine women are not usually defined as homosexual. Therefore, the defining of visual characteristics varies for men and women.

1976, Robert R. Bell, “Female Homosexuality”, in Social deviance: A substantive analysis (The Dorsey Series in Sociology), Revised edition, Dorsey Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 313:

While monosexuals (gay men, heterosexuals, and lesbians) tend to describe being attracted to people of only one gender, bisexuals tend to disregard gender when assessing attractions to others.

2014 December 16, Chuck Stewart, Proud Heritage: People, Issues, and Documents of the LGBT Experience, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 87:


bidar

From bi + -dar, after the pattern of gaydar.

Though I _think_ he's straight: but then my bidar isn't always running at 100%.

1999 October 22, Kay Dekker, “Re: crush server redux”, in soc.bi (Usenet):

Bi people hang in straight places a lot, and given that you are also bi, they will probably stand out to you in an indescribable, nonverbal way. And that, my friend, is bidar.

2006, Nicole Krista, Mike Szymanski, The Bisexual's Guide to the Universe: Quips, Tips, and Lists for Those Who Go Both Ways, Alyson Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 131:

Of course, not all bisexuals are recognizable, and many will easily defy the bidar, whereas others will appear to be bisexuals without actually identifying as bi.

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

(slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is bisexual by observing that person.


cishet

Even in death, the way we are spoken about by the mainstream cishet world is traumatizing and violent. Even in death, trans women of color cannot escape the trauma of colonialism and genocide.

2013, "Witchymorgan", "On the Labor Movement and Transmisogyny", Black & Pink, May 2013, page 4

While children can be born to any kind of parent and situation, unless drastic measures are taken, they will be raised in an overwhelmingly cisgendered and heterosexual (cishet) world. Cishet children and adults’ identities are affirmed by media, legal documents, population majority, history and other depictions of assumed cis-ness and heterosexuality.

2013, Ariel Estrella, "Hegemony, heteronormativity and amoeba", The Mac Weekly (Macalester College), 18 October 2013

[…] it reinforces the problematic notion that 'true' feminism belongs to cishet white abled feminists; […]

2014, Bec Eames, "In defence of unattractive feminism", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Semester 1, Week 12, page 17

(informal) Cissexual/cisgender and heterosexual.


cishet

People who identify as cisgender and heterosexual, or cishets, are certainly more privileged in today’s society than the LGBTQIA+ community — which includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer-identified, intersex, and asexual people, as well as others who do not identify as cishet people.

2014 July 5, Anthony Speciyogic, “Burger King Pride Campaign Claims ‘We’re All The Same Inside’”, in Inquisitr:

(informal) A cissexual/cisgender and heterosexual person.


cotton ceiling

Coined by Canadian activist Drew Deveaux. Modelled on glass ceiling. Underwear is typically made from cotton.

A social barrier to consideration (by cisgender women) of transgender women as viable sexual partners.


gaysploitation

Are we merely in the era of gaysploitation in film?

1980, Christopher Street, volume 5, page 25:

That was still more airtime than was received by the ill-fated gaysploitation special Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay, which Fox touted as “a heterosexual male's worst nightmare: turning gay overnight.”

2010, Jennifer Pozner, Reality Bites Back, page 51:

The exploitation of gay people in the media (especially film and television).


graysexual

/ˌɡɹeɪˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/

Blend of gray + asexual, coined by user asexualityrocks in 2008 on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network about two years after the advent of gray-A and gray asexual.

But then I remember: the whole ethos of sex-positivity is predicated on a belief that everyone—sexual, asexual, or gray-sexual; monogamous, polyamorous, or something in-between; LGBTQ or as hetero as the Romneys—is entitled to pleasurable and safe sex.

2013, M. M, "sex-pos", Post- (Brown University), Volume 14, Issue 13, 21 February 2013, page 7

Some aces are gray-sexual (or gray-A), meaning that they fall somewhere on a spectrum between asexual and sexual.

2014 February 19, Tess Banta, “The 'A' Stands for Asexual”, in The Amherst Student, volume 143, number 16, Amherst College, page 7:

Do you feel sexual attraction sometimes, but only rarely? You may be graysexual,* and you’ll have a lot in common with asexual people if you are.

2014 June 18, Julie Sondra Decker, “How to Tell If You Are Asexual”, in Time:

(neologism) Intermediate between sexual and asexual; sometimes, but not usually, experiencing sexual attraction and desire.


gray-A

Coined in 2006 by the user KSpaz on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network for those in the "fuzzy" area that is the distinction between asexuality and sexuality.

The gray-A type of attraction discussed in asexuality communities addresses this issue of a variable like sex drive.

2012, Evelyn Deshane, "Asexuality: Media Depictions and Lived Realities", Absynthe (Trent University), February 2012, page 34

People who find themselves “somewhere in the middle,” or people who don’t feel that they’re the cut-and-dry definition of aromantic asexual, tend to identify themselves as gray-A. And demisexuality is but one shade of gray-A.

2013, Adrienne Smith, “Cultural Fascination”, in Elesia Askenazy, Melanie Yergeau, editors, Relationships & Sexuality, page 96:

"Sexuality is so fluid, and Gray-A presents more of a possibility to be unsure. I don't understand all the intricacies of myself yet, so this is the closest approximation I've come up with," said Chris Maleney, an 18-year-old Pennsylvania high school student who identifies as Gray-A.

2013, Dominque Mosbergen, "Asexual in a Sexual World", Huffington, Issue #63, 25 August 2013, page 47 (approx.)


flexisexuality

Dr D’Felice admitted flexisexuality had become fashionable as a result of its recent celebrity endorsement, but said it had always existed.

2010 November 27, Louise Eccles, “Dawn of the flexisexual: The new word for the women who refuse to play it straight”, in Daily Mail:

Often, it begins in the enlightened college cocoon, where women can explore their sexuality, though a recent ABC report from San Antonio, Texas, said flexisexuality is also part of the high school culture.

2011 February 23, Susan Donaldson James, “Flexisexual: Girls Who Kiss Girls, But Like Boys”, in ABC News:

In fact, a growing proportion of Londoners are overturning the yoke of old-school monogamy and instead investigating the worlds of flexisexuality, of open or group relationships, of Living Apart Together (LAT), mono/non-mono and mono-gamish.

2014 March 14, Rebecca Newman, “Sex? Love? Commitment? The changing face of modern relationships”, in London Evening Standard:

(neologism) The state of having a flexible sexual orientation or pattern of sexual expression.


flexisexual

He resembles a Maine logger, full beard and all, but inside he feels like he's a lesbian. His love IS a lesbian. What is he? What is she? Bisexual? Ambisexual? Flexisexual?

1998, Linda Handel, Now That You're Out of the Closet, What About the Rest of the House?, Pilgrim Press, →ISBN, page 147:

Personally, I identify as “flexisexual,” a word I invented because I'm attracted to more than just men and women, and because my patterns of attraction have changed over time.

2011, Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety, Seal Press, →ISBN:

Sixty percent of our user base identifies as lesbian and the other 40 percent identifies as other, which includes bisexual, curious, pansexual, flexisexual … anyone who doesn’t identify as fully gay.

2014 April 8, Andrea Park, “Hit lesbian dating app Dattch launches in the U.S.”, in Metro:

(of a person) Having a fluid sexual orientation or pattern of sexual expression.


TERF

Acronym of trans-exclusionary radical feminist. The earliest recorded use is from 2008 by trans-inclusive cisgender radical feminist Viv Smythe.

acronym

Dear “A Lesbian Democrat”
Your TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) agenda and what it represents is no better than the bigoted regressive agenda of the religious right.

2013, Toni Browning-Early, letter to the editor, QNotes, Volume 28, Number 6, 19 July - 1 August 2013, page 4

At the further extreme TERF’s^([sic]) actively promote the message that banning trans women from feminist gathering implies—that trans women are not really women at all.

2013 December, Rachel Eliason, “Wired This Way”, in ACCESSline, volume 27, number 12, page 13:

Perhaps the sheer nastiness of TERFs comes from the fact that they don’t just know they’ve lost; they know they were on the wrong side from the beginning.

2014, Roz Kaveney, "Woman Enough, The Advocate, 16 July 2014

Although some TERFs attend the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, none of my interviewees or other land-women have identified as a TERF, nor have any TERFs, to my knowledge, ever lived on women's land.

2018, Keridwen N. Luis, Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States:

The point here isn't that some TERFs aren’t XX and some Nazis aren’t “purely” white (an imaginary category); it’s that their bigotry rests on assumptions about biology and genetics which are scientifically lazy, as if you can “see” race and gender in a meaningful yet simplistic and binary way.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A–Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 252:

That Rowling used terms like “gender critical” (the preferred descriptor of TERFs rather than, well, TERF); that she believes laws that enable trans people to use the bathrooms and changing rooms that match their gender identity will “open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside,” which she says is the “simple truth” but is not backed up by any evidence whatsoever; and that she paints the movement for trans rights as one that is “doing demonstrable harm” to women and girls and is “offering cover to predators like few before it” is proof enough of what her views are and who she aligns herself with, for all of her protestations that she has trans friends and cares about the safety of trans women.

2020 June 10, Esther Wang, “For the Love of God, Please Make J.K. Rowling Stop”, in Jezebel, archived from the original on 2022-11-10:

(see usage notes) A trans-exclusionary radical feminist; a radical feminist who does not consider trans women to be women, or thinks they should not be included in female spaces or organisations, and who considers trans men to be women.


lavender scare

Lavender is considered a feminine colour, and some male homosexuals act in a feminine manner.

(historical, US, politics, sexuality, LGBTQ, slang) The fear and persecution of homosexuals in the 1950s in the United States.


drag show

(entertainment) A type of performance involving men wearing women's clothing or, less often, the other way round.


lezdom

en-noun

lezdom (countable and uncountable, plural lezdoms)

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Similar scenes exist on the Menstruation Sluts.com website which advertises “60 menstruation lezdom photos” and which exploits this same idea, that the forced smelling and tasting of menstrual blood is something particularly abhorrent […]

2012, Lauren Rosewarne, Periods in Pop Culture: Menstruation in Film and Television, page 143:

(BDSM, uncountable) Lesbian domination; a sexual practice in which a lesbian dominates the other woman or women.


cisphobic

en-adj

cisphobic (comparative more cisphobic, superlative most cisphobic)

more cisphobic (comparative)
most cisphobic (superlative)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cisphobic.

Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting cisphobia.


Mx

Coined based on Mr and Ms, with x chosen as a "wildcard" character. First proposed jokingly in print in 1977.

Mx. Mirage. I am a radically queer trannyboi with a big mouth.

2010, Sassafras Lowrey, editor, Kicked Out, page 216:

It has been proposed that in addition to the honorific Mr. for male and Ms. for female, that the honorific Mx. be used for intersexuals […]

2013, Heinz Duthel, Kathoey Ladyboy: Thailand’s Got Talent, Books on Demand, published 2013, →ISBN, page 84:

One of the most well-known gender nonconforming cabaret artists (who now works primarily in full length cabaret shows) is Mx Justin Vivian Bond.

2014, Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 559:

“I think the thing that was most surprising was how supportive and gung-ho a lot older alums were,” said Mx. LoSchiavo, who graduated this year (and would have been admitted under the new policy, having identified as a female at the time of application).

2015 June 4, Elizabeth A. Harris, “Barnard College, After Much Discussion, Decides to Accept Transgender Women”, in The New York Times:

In the new Notice, the Court is asking people to state their name, title (sometimes called "salutation"), and pronouns to be used in the proceeding, and for lawyers to provide this information for their clients. For example: "My name is Ms. Jane Lee, spelled L-E-E. I use she/her pronouns. I am the lawyer for Mx. Joe Carter who uses they/them pronouns." ("Mx." is pronounced like the word "mix" and is a gender-neutral title/salutation.)

2020, Provincial Court of British Columbia, "A change in how parties and lawyers should introduce themselves in court," 16 December 2020

(LGBTQ) A gender-neutral title used instead of Mr (Mister), Mrs (Mistress), etc.


rump ranger

Referencing anal intercourse practiced by homosexual men. Compare arse bandit.

In general, Scott figured, what folks did with their peckers and rectums was their own business. Rump rangers were not a concern to him. Still, as a homicide cop he'd come across his share of gay killings, […]

1993, Bob Leuci, Double Edge, Signet, →ISBN, page 246:

“I said, the faggot bar's down the street, rump ranger. Hit the fucking road.”

1998, Dale Brown, The Tin Man, Bantam Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 170:

“Before you told me, you know, that you're a rump ranger, I probably woulda said the same thing all the guys say. 'I don't want some faggot starin' at my ass in the shower.' […]

2008, Rich Merritt, Code of Conduct, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 301:


uphill gardener

en-noun

uphill gardener (plural uphill gardeners)

From a likening of the mechanics of anal sex – which may involve pushing "dirt" (i.e., fecal matter) back up the rectum – to a gardener moving soil uphill.

I notice he is quite muscular and very hairy – not at all like your typical uphill gardener.

2000, Martin Knight, Common People, Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN:

At least that's when the lovely uphill gardeners who live above me are the friskiest.

2012, Eric Jerome Dickey, An Accidental Affair, Dutton, →ISBN:

'Oh yeah, he's a fully-paid-up member of the uphill gardeners club, huge fan of musical theatre and interior design'

2013, B. T. Gorman, Underclass, Roundfire Books, →ISBN:

(UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.


fartknocker

"That little fartknocker didn't leave us any money, and he said it was going to be on him."
"That's all right, I've got money," Elaine said. "He's so funny; I love him. He's always chasing some man."

1995, Krandall Krauss, The President's Son, Alyson Publications, →ISBN, page 92:

You want more Beavis, closet fartknocker?

1998 July 26, ojokay [username], “Re: Welcome back psycho!”, in alt.fan.oj-simpson (Usenet):

You smelly degenerate American fag, you seem to have a carnal knowledge of fudgepacking that belies just knowledge, you seem very well up on the subject, however crap at knowing what us brits are like. Well being a fartknocker, i suppose you get ignored regularly.

2003 July 24, Gordon Tomlinson, “Re: Gordon Creighton, editor of Flying Saucer Review, dies...”, in alt.alien.visitors (Usenet):


chutney ferret

From chutney (as a euphemism for excrement) + ferret (“diligent searcher”), a reference to anal sex.

'They warned me off you and Lawrence because they reckoned you were a couple of chutney ferrets after my arse. […]

1997, Minette Walters, The Echo, Pan Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 163:

"A chutney ferret. No one likes one of those and you shouldn't either. You ever find yourself with an arse-bandit like that you get your back to the wall and if he gives you any trouble you break his nose."

2000, Patrick Gale, Rough Music, Ballantine Book, published 2002, →ISBN, page 138:

“Jeremy? Hardly my friend. As you said yourself, an overbearing lackey, not to mention a flaming chutney ferret.”

2010, Joseph Alexander, Faded Acts of Love, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 140:

(derogatory, UK, slang) A homosexual man.


gynandromorphophilia

(rare) Sexual attraction to transsexual or transgender women.


autoandrophilia

/ˌɔː.təʊˌæn.dɹəʊˈfɪ.li.ə/

Coordinate term: autogynephilia

In Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the proposed paraphilic tendency of a female person to be sexually aroused by the thought of becoming a male.


transfan

[…] saying that she did not want to live if I wanted to throw her over for a man, especially a “transfan” type of man.

2008, Rusty Mae Moore, “Satan and Lady Babalon: Polymory Again at 64”, in Tracie O'Keefe, Katrina Fox, editors, Trans People in Love, Routledge, →ISBN, page 154:

"Just make sure he's not a transfan. You know about them, right? Make sure if he's interested, that he's interested in who you are, not what you are."

2013, Linda Vista, Siva's Arrow, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 40:

"I'm...." he pauses, glancing over to Frank, then to me again, "I'm what they call a transgender admirer, or transfan. I'm attracted to transgender people," he concedes.

2015, Amy Daws, London Bound, Star Hollows Publishing, →ISBN:

(informal) One who is attracted to transsexual or transgender people.


aromanticism

From aromantic + -ism or a- + romanticism.

But do orientations like aromanticism deserve to be discussed to the same extent as other, more common non-heteronormative ones?

2012 November, anonymous author, “Pandora's box: The stigmas surrounding aromanticism”, in The Scripps Voice, volume 16, number 4,1, Scripps College, page 5:

In other words, the percentage Bogaert identified is not likely very reliable, accurate, or representative and it certainly does not account for the diversity of lived styles of asexuality, ranging from a preference for hugging and kissing to aromanticism […]

2013 May, Ela Przybylo, “Producing facts: Empirical asexuality and the scientific study of sex”, in Feminism & Psychology, volume 23, number 2:

Finally, asexuality is not the same as aromanticism; aromantics have little or no romantic attachment or attraction toward others while asexuals may experience romantic attraction and seek out romantic relationships.

2014, Joan McDonough, "Asexuality", Reporter (Rochester Institute of Technology), May 2014, page 14

The state of experiencing little or no romantic attraction to others and/or desire.


scrotoplasty

scrotoplasty (countable and uncountable, plural scrotoplasties)

(surgery) Plastic surgery to construct or repair the scrotum.


khanith

A person in Oman who was assigned male at birth and who has a feminine gender identity or gender expression, such as a trans woman or a gay man.


gaytheist

Once a high-profile religious leader, Fernando wants to use this book to come out as both Humanist and gay—“gaytheist”—to help strengthen a national narrative of understanding, tolerance, and acceptance.

2015, Fernando Alcántar, To the Cross and Back: An Immigrant's Journey from Faith to Reason:

(LGBTQ, slang) Someone who is both gay and atheist.


monosexism

Oppression of bisexual people is based in part on heterosexism and in part on monosexism, the belief that people can or should be attracted to only one sex/gender and that there is something wrong with those who cannot or will not choose.

1995, Liz A. Highleyman, “Identity and Ideas: Strategies for Bisexuals”, in Naomi Tucker, Liz Highleyman, Rebecca Kaplan, editors, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN, page 87:

Considering the fact that the overwhelming majority of biphobia and monosexism originates not from gay and lesbian communities but from heterosexual structures, […]

2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 61:

[…] The L Word seemed to harbor its own reservations about Alice's bisexuality from the start. But that the show ultimately chose to project its own monosexism through the voice of the one character who initially defied such limitations set a new record for implausible character noncontinuity, at the same time as it closed down one of American television's most prominent discourses on bisexuality.

2013, Maria San Filippo, The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 206:

The assumption that everyone is monosexual (i.e., attracted to only one sex); the belief or assertion that bisexuality and pansexuality do not exist.


trans-erasure

While all minority voices are silenced to varying extents—usually by being denied access to media and economic and political power—there are several aspects of trans-erasure that make it particularly extensive.

2007, Julie Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 189:

Even on the right, trans-erasure in legislation had been happening for a while. The re-purposing of DOMA, or Defense of Marriage Act, first proposed in 1996, specifically denied legislation recognizing the nuance in transsexual marriage, where one partner had their gender reassigned after the couple had wed.

2013, Ely Grinfeld, "Gay marriage fails to make all feel 'gay'", The Current (Eckerd Collage, St. Petersburg, Florida), Volume 4, Issue 11, 19 April 2013, page 9

By not reporting the actual issues related to the trans community, you are actively contributing to trans-erasure.

2014, Tina W., comment published in "Furor Erupts Over Cathy Brennan and Gender Identity Watch", South Florida Gay News, Volume 5, Issue 8, 19 February 2014, page 15

(LGBTQ) The tendency to ignore, deny, or minimize the existence of transgender people or transness.


bi-erasure

Bi-erasure can also be pretty stressful – why are bisexual people never mentioned in media debates about same-sex marriage?

2013, Anonymous, "Getting out of the closet and into the frying pan", Exeposé (University of Exeter), Issue 605, 19 February 2013, page 18

Some might argue that it leads to bi-erasure, as bisexuality is never discussed, but I'd give it time.

2013, Suryatapa Mukherjee, "In the Media: Orange Is the New Black", Quench (Cardiff University), Issue 139, November 2013, page 13

According to several students interviewed, “bi-erasure” provides a case in point. “If people see a dude making out with a dude, everyone presumes to know he’s gay,” Cienfuegos explained. “He might say he’s bi, but people will actively not believe him.”

2014 February 14, Andrew Koenig, “A Queer Reputation”, in Yale Daily News, Yale University, page B3:

(LGBTQ) The tendency to ignore, deny, or minimize the existence of bisexual people or of bisexuality.


GCF

Now imagine that, as is the case with many British GCF philosophers, the instructor believes that trans women in women’s prisons pose an unacceptable threat to the safety of inmates in those prisons.

2019 August 6, Shannon Dea, “Academic freedom, scholarly responsibility and the new gender wars”, in University Affairs:

A GCF might claim that transwomen should not be included in the category ‘women’.

2019 August 12, Taryn Knox, Lynley Anderson, Alison Heather, “Transwomen in elite women’s sport – clarifying the nuances of our approach”, in Journal of Medical Ethics:

GCFs talk of my body and flesh and find it to be mutilated.

2019, Saoirse Caitlin O'Shea, “Cutting my dick off”, in Culture and Organization, volume 25, number 4, page 281:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

(chiefly used by adherents) Gender-critical (trans-exclusionary) feminist; an adherent of gender-critical feminism.


ciscentric

en-adj

ciscentric (comparative more ciscentric, superlative most ciscentric)

more ciscentric (comparative)
most ciscentric (superlative)

Such a universalizing presumption of cissexuality is ciscentric and cissexist because it assumes that the authenticity of femininity is rooted in the female body, that cissexuality is the correct or superior gender identity, and that all 'female' bodies hence yield and are inhabited by female-identified 'women.'

2012, Einar Ragnar Jónsson, "Why Feminism Needs to be Trans-Inclusive, or: The Bodily Consequences of Cisnormativity", Bluestockings, Fall 2012, page 39

I know too much to think any one person responsible for the frightful way these inherently classist, sexist, racist, ciscentric, and appallingly heteronormative systems interact in the world.

2013, Michael Smith, "Religion Exhausts Worldly Tolerance", The Bachelor (Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana), Volume 105, Issue 24, 19 April 2013, page 5

Obviously, this sentiment is ignoring the fact that the other 51 weeks of the year is essentially just a barrage of heteronormativity and ciscentric "pride" being plastered across society.

2014, Jesse Woods, "Pride doesn't mean we dominate society for a week", Arthur (Peterborough & Trent University), Volume 49, Issue 3, 23 September 2014, page 10

(LGBTQ) Centering on or overemphasizing cissexuality and/or cissexual people.


homonationalist

(LGBTQ) Of, pertaining to, or supporting homonationalism.


queerbaiting

Queerbaiting is erasure. It’s telling queer people that they don’t exist, or that our stories aren’t worth telling, and it’s harmful.

2013 October 7, Matthew Ellison, “Queerbaiting”, in Salient, volume 76, number 23, Victoria University of Wellington, page 39:

Some feel that fan pressure to emphasize Buffy and Spike’s relationship spoiled the last few seasons of Joss Whedon’s show, and many fans were alienated by Teen Wolf’s recent queer-baiting.

2013 November 20, Mollie Forman, “Eat the executive”, in Post, Brown University:

Criticism of queerbaiting also does not imply that creators need to be dictated to by fans on how to run their show; […]

2014 June 29, Maneesha Dullewe, “A brief guide to queerbaiting”, in Ceylon Today:

And as a much better NYT comment piece on queerbaiting put it last year: “As self-serving as some celebrity caginess can be, you can’t build a world in which everyone feels free to self-identify by ordering everyone to self-identify.”

2024 January 10, Laura Snapes, “Taylor Swift’s people shut down speculation about her sexuality – but risked rebuking her LGBTQ fans”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(LGBTQ, fandom slang) The practice of creating homoerotic tension between two characters in a narrative work (particularly a television series) without the intention of ever developing it into an actual same-sex relationship or explicitly addressing the question of either character's sexuality.


lesdar

en-noun

lesdar (countable and uncountable, plural lesdars)

That's because you don't have highly-developed lesdar.

1997 May 2, Melinda Shore, “Re: ER (was Re: The Episode)”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

Lizz Winstead sets off my lesdar, incidentally; anybody know if she is lesbian, or bi?

2001 January 31, Michael S Pettersen, “Re: Queer as NYTimes beefcake (was Re: Lily Tomlin)”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

I was surprised how as some my gaydar and lesdar were pulsating as I walked the streets.

2014, Daniel Witthaus, Beyond Priscilla: One Gay Man, One Gay Truck, One Big Idea, Port Campbell Press, published 2014, →ISBN:

The supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is lesbian by observing that person.


queerdar

maybe she's bi? she sure tingles my queerdar in a big way.

1993 October 6, Peggy Boucher Murphy, “Re: Paula Poundstone?”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

During that march, my queerdar was on full throttle. I saw HRC equality and rainbow stickers all over the place.

2004, Rick Hoffman, account of the March for Women's Lives, Memorandum from the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, Number 46, Summer 2004, page 3

Are there such things as 'gaydar' or 'queerdar'? That is to say, do some individuals possess an uncanny ability to recognise someone or something as gay or queer and to acknowledge it publicly, […]

2009, Jason Edwards, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Routledge, →ISBN, page 46:

The supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is queer by observing that person.

bidar

ability to detect if someone is bisexual

dykedar

ability to detect if a woman is a lesbian


allosexual

From allo- (“other”) + sexual. "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual. The sense "non-heterosexual" was influenced by (and had influence on) Canadian French allosexuel.

Gray-asexual [denotes] a person who is somewhere between 100% asexual and allosexual; they might only experience sexual attraction on very rare occasions, […]

2014, Nicole Wiesenthal, “What it means to be asexual”, in The Mirror, number Fall, page 19:

Sexual assault is alarmingly common, yet most victims still identify as heterosexual, cisgender and allosexual (the opposite of asexual) after the trauma. Being sexual assaulted did not make me asexual, […]

2014 March 20, a letter to the editor of The Record, volume 116, number 20, page 6

(LGBTQ, of a person) Experiencing sexual attraction; not asexual.

Yet we later learn that Diana Baring already knew the secret — whether being “half—caste" references being lower-caste with “black blood” (more than a racial marker) or being transsexual, homosexual, or allosexual.

2005, Tom Cohen, Hitchcock's Cryptonymies, volume 2, →ISBN, page 58:

Diane Bourgeois (Terrebonne—Blainville, BQ): Mr. Speaker, last month in my riding, Gaétan Lord won the jury prize at the Allostars Gala for his contribution as founding president of Canada's first centre for “allosexual” or queer youth, which offers support to gays, lesbians and young people who are unsure about their sexual orientation.

2006, House of Commons Debates, numbers 27-40, page 1595:

Throughout this time, I have been struck by the absence of racialized, ethnicized, and colonized (REC) voices in historical accounts of the local gay and lesbian community at large, and likewise the lack of allosexual representation in the narratives of the city's various ethnocultural communities.

2013, Alan Wong, “Listen and Learn”, in Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice, →ISBN:

(LGBTQ, uncommon, chiefly Canada) LGB; queer; non-heterosexual.

Dr. Conigliaro contended that the sharing of the same bedroom by a single parent and child of the opposite sex "could contribute to, or cause, an excessive degree of ‘allosexual identifications’, [where a child identifies with the parent of the opposite sex] […]"

1980, Federal supplement, series 1, volume 476, page 1330:

[…] We performed 45 experimental confrontations with heterospecific pairs. Confrontations (C. talarum vs C. australis) included allosexual and isosexual encounters.

1992 February, Aldo I Vassallo, Christina Busch, “Interspecific agonism between two sympatric species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Octodontidae) in captivity”, in Behaviour, volume 120, number 1/2, pages 40-50:

(chiefly biology, sociology, psychology) Involving or directed at the other biological sex; heterosexual; not isosexual.


allosexual

[…] that is par for the course of being any form of queer-identified. But it also allows allies and allosexuals (persons who experience sexual attraction) to push out asexual and aromantic-identified individuals.

2014 October 15, Z Colburn, “"A" is for annoyed”, in The Easterner, volume 66, number 4, page 8:

A chart of the Ace Spectrum: the different possibilities for asexuals, demisexuals, and allosexuals.

2014 November, Krista Rhoades, “Asexual Awareness Week”, in Collide, number 22, page 5:

(LGBTQ) One who experiences sexual attraction; one who is not asexual.


lesb

Suppress the queers, the fairies, the lesbs, the fags, the queens, the fruits, the abnormal.

2001, Rossella Giangrande, Raymond Federman: la disgregazione del romanzo, page 91:

[…] the fat one with the dimples on her knees... the one that was a bit of a lesb... she was winding and rewinding bandages that were dripping in blood, smiling strangely at her as the plasma spilled from buckets all over the floor.

2012, Paul Kelly, The Surgeon Was a Lady:


bisexualize

en-verb

bisexualize (third-person singular simple present bisexualizes, present participle bisexualizing, simple past and past participle bisexualized)

bisexualizes (present singular third-person)
bisexualizing (participle present)
bisexualized (participle past)
bisexualized (past)


homophobism

... and absences [of materials pertaining to other identities] not as sudden surprises but as predictable products of archival processes and principles rooted in colonialism, anti-black racism, sexism, homophobism, transphobism, and classism?

2019, Meghan Forbes, International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms: Image, Object, Text, Routledge, →ISBN:


en-adj

str8 (comparative str8er, superlative str8est)

Whatever was guiding him took him to the Men-Seeking-Men personal ads: “Any str8 men bi-curious?”

2014, Joe Kort, Is My Husband Gay, Straight or Bi?:

I analyzed all of the 125 ads placed by str8 men “seeking same” from May through July of 2006.

(text messaging) Informal form of straight.

Informal form of straight.
Heterosexual, straight.


homolover

(derogatory, neologism) One who likes or supports homosexual people.


fraternal birth order effect

en-noun

fraternal birth order effect (uncountable)

Thus the fraternal birth order effect is specific to male sexual orientation, and does not affect female sexual orientation.

2008, Glenn Wilson, Qazi Rahman, Born Gay: The Psychobiology of Sex Orientation, Peter Owen, →ISBN, page 98:

The influence of the fraternal birth order effect is not mediated by a male growing up with older stepbrothers but is influenced by them having biological brothers (who share the same mother) regardless of whether they are raised together or apart (Bogaert, 2006).

2010, Mark J. T. Sargeant, “Brain and Behaviour: Sex Differences”, in Philip Banyard, Mark N. O. Davies, Christine Norman, Belinda Winder, editors, Essential Psychology: A Concise Introduction, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 183:

The fraternal birth order effect is one of the most replicated and robust findings in sexual orientation research. Each son increases the odds of homosexuality in the next son by 33% relative to the base population rate […]

2014, Tuck C. Ngun, Eric Vilain, “The Biological Basis of Human Sexual Orientation: Is There a Role for Epigenetics?”, in Daisuke Yamamota, editor, Epigenetic Shaping of Sociosexual Interactions: From Plants to Humans, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 172:

The scientific observation that a man's statistical probability of being homosexual increases with the number of older brothers he has.


gynesexual

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From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + -sexual.


androsexual

en-adj

androsexual (comparative more androsexual, superlative most androsexual)

more androsexual (comparative)
most androsexual (superlative)

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Sexually attracted to men, males, or masculinity.


Janto

At end of the 3 min 50 sec clip, as his rage cools, Hitler says: "Maybe if Jack and Ianto have lots of man-on-man action next season I might still watch it… at least I’ll have my 'Janto' fix."

2008 May 23, Matthew Moore, “Torchwood attacked by Hitler in YouTube spoof”, in The Telegraph:

‘Janto’ fans will be delighted to finally see them on a date, complete with hand-holding and one good kiss.

2009 March, Naomi Westerman, book review, Whotopia, number 16, page 42:

Whether these stories revisit Janto or provide Jack with other (sexual) adventures, sexuality will remain a key element in the further development of (at least British-based) Captain Jack.

2010, Lynnette Porter, Tarnished Heroes, Charming Villains and Modern Monsters: Science Fiction in Shades of Gray on 21st Century, McFarland, →ISBN, page 70:

(fandom slang) The romantic pairing of the characters Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones from the television series Torchwood.


acephobia

It’s important to talk about asexuality because it’s often an overlooked sexual identity, and acephobia – discrimination against asexual people – is experienced by many asexual people.

2013, Lee Thomas, "LGBTQrazy: A is for…", The Brunswickan (University of New Brunswick), Volume 147, Issue 7, 17 October 2013, page 10

I now give asexual workshops, screen the film (A)sexual with a postfilm discussion, and try to have conversations with my friends and colleagues about asexual identity and acephobia.

2014, Joelle Ruby Ryan, “On Being Asexual and Transgender: Notes on Identity, Visibility, and Empowerment”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 367:

Closely linked to homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and acephobia.

2014, Nicole Wiesenthal, "Glossary of Asexual Terms", The Mirror, Volume 3, Issue 3, Fall 2014, page 19

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


rainbow ceiling

rainbow (a reference to the rainbow flag, an international symbol of gay pride) + ceiling (suggesting a barrier to upward advancement); modeled after glass ceiling.

Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz isn’t just Israel’s only openly gay parliamentarian, he’s the Middle East’s only openly gay parliamentarian (though he was preceded in that role by Uzi Even, who broke that particular rainbow ceiling in 2002).

2013 June 27, Niv Elis, “The Middle East’s first openly gay mayor?”, in The Jerusalem Post:

I am an out gay man in my late 20s. […] I consider myself a successfully "launched" millennial and I've made it my mission to break the rainbow ceiling wherever I work.

2014, Chris, quoted in Conor Friedersdorf, "28 Distinct Takes on Gay Marriage and Stigma," The Atlantic, 15 April 2014

Michael Sam has made history on May 10 by breaking the rainbow ceiling to become the first openly gay football player to be drafted into the NFL.

2014 May 12, Craig Takeuchi, “Michael Sam makes history: First openly gay football player drafted into NFL”, in The Georgia Straight:


pink ceiling

pink (“relating to homosexuals as a group within society”) + ceiling (“suggesting a barrier to upward advancement”), modeled after glass ceiling.

That was nearly twenty years ago, and the Rev. David Norgard, who now serves as rector of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in San Francisco, has spent much of those two decades quietly cracking the pink ceiling in the Episcopal Church.

1996 June 29, Don Lattin, “Gay Priest Is Cracking Through the Bias Ceiling”, in The San Francisco Chronicle:

On September 21, 1998, the American TV channel NBC broadcast the first episode of their new sitcom Will And Grace. There was some advance interest among gay viewers and city sophisticates as it marked the shattering of the "pink ceiling" - there were now homosexual lead characters on a major network prime-time show, and their lifestyle wasn't an issue.

2004 August 29, Stephan Phelan, “Where There's A Will there's a Grace”, in The Sunday Herald:

Tomorrow Susman, 43, now executive vice president of global communications for the Este Lauder Cos. Inc. in New York, will moderate a panel of five homosexual business executives about the pink ceiling and what corporate executives can do to break it.

2006 May 5, Joseph A. Slobodzian, “Breaking through the 'pink ceiling': Many gays and lesbians face career hurdles in corporate workplace”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:

An informal (and often unacknowledged) barrier to promotion or advancement, in employment and elsewhere, for gay and lesbian people.


rainbow flag

A rainbow-striped flag, typically consisting of six horizontal bars (from top to bottom: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet), used as a symbol of LGBT pride and LGBT social movements.

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rainbow-striped flag used as a symbol of LGBT pride and social movements

The extraordinary Josia Thugwane kept the best for last and made the rainbow flag fly over the closing ceremony of the Games. […] Today we honour all our athletes who ensured that the rainbow flag never touched the ground in Atlanta.

1996, Nelson Mandela, “Address […] at the Parade of Champions from Atlanta Olympics”, in Speeches by Nelson Mandela:

In 1994 South Africa held its first fully democratic elections which were overwhelmingly won by the ANC and Mandela became the first black president. At midnight on April 26th the new rainbow flag was raised and the new national anthem, Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika (God Bless Africa), was sung across the nation.

2008, Lizzie Williams, South Africa (Spiral Guides), Heathrow, FL: American Automobile Association, →ISBN, page 10:

We are pleased to be sending off our hard working teams to go and represent the nation abroad, and fly the rainbow flag high.

2012, Jacob Zuma, “Statement by His Excellency […] on the occasion of the send off ceremony for the Olympic and Paralympics Teams”, in The Presidency (Republic of South Africa):

Mandela is a Xhosa, an eastern Bantu tribe with some admixture of Bushman genes and language. He is also the integrator of the highly diverse South African nation, with a half Portuguese wife […] thus Mandela is a 'painted', ordained figure, incidental with attributes of the type, and the South African rainbow flag.

2014, Edmond Furter, Mindprint, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 134:

That is how the invitation to President Mandela's inauguration fell to me. As I watched the ceremonies, and observed the rainbow flag of a newly freed nation unfold, I reflected on the growth of the international scrutiny of contested laws in every country, including my own.

2015 May 15, Michael Kirby, “Foreword”, in Mark Trowell, The Prosecution of Anwar Ibrahim, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN:

Just as the rainbow in the blue skies, after a rainstorm, testifies to the existence of imperishable sunshine in the higher firmament, so this rainbow flag of China, born in the throes of the Chinese Revolution, is a standing proof of our abiding faith in democratic government […]

1919, Arthur Richmond Marsh, The Economic World, page 548:

[…] but each Chinese patriot following me will bear, as I bear before you my beloved Chinese rainbow flag, which has come to its life because of the Stars and Stripes. (Displaying the two flags.)

1924, Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, page 601:

Officially, however, the five 'strips' or stripes on the Chinese rainbow flag represented – in addition to all five colours of the rainbow as traditionally conceived there – the country's[…]

2018 April 15, Daniel MacCannell, Rainbows: Nature and Culture, Reaktion Books, →ISBN:

(historical, now rare) The flag of the First Republic of China, used between 1912 and 1928, consisting of red, yellow, blue, white, and black stripes.


altfic

Another rumor I heard: Seven kisses Janeway, Janeway tells Seven it's inappropriate. Why? Cuz it's on the bridge? Seven's nekkid? Why would it be inappropriate? What a spate of altfic coming out of that....Interaction seems to be what's missing from a lot of the season lately, not just J/7.

2000 February 11, kaboom [username], “Re: [OT] Re: Sisters are doing it for themselves indeed! (SPOILERS for "Lyre, Lyre")”, in alt.tv.xena-subtext (Usenet):

One of my favorite Xena altfic bards in Katelin B., who's fine Xena/Gabrielle stories, ranging from short stories to longer novella-length works, can be found at [URL redacted]

2000 May 26, fluffsterbrian [username], “Re: Best fanfic”, in alt.tv.xena-subtext (Usenet):

Snarky, who gave in to hir lust for fanfic late last year (I resisted for so long because I knew it would take time away from reading the newsgroup devoted to my first love, Doctor Who (radw), which it has), starting small, with the alt.callahans epic tale of "Action, Adventure, Excitement!", before moving on to XWP altfic in March

2001 October 4, Demon Lord of Confusion Snarky [username], “Re: FIN II & VS7-1 (was: Lucy was asked]”, in alt.tv.xena-subtext (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.


retransition

en-verb

retransition (third-person singular simple present retransitions, present participle retransitioning, simple past and past participle retransitioned)

retransitions (present singular third-person)
retransitioning (participle present)
retransitioned (participle past)
retransitioned (past)

With apologies to my friends who have detransitioned or retransitioned if I get this wrong, this is what I've learned.

2018, CN Lester, Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us, unnumbered page:

One reason for encouraging detransitioners to go through counselling and avoid rushing into further surgery is that many go on to retransition again in the future.

2019, Jennie Kermode, Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary People with Disabilities or Illnesses: A Good Practice Guide for Health and Care Provision, page 72:

She also observes that within the number of those who detransition, a significant proportion do so due to how intense their experiences of rejection and transphobia are – and so then actually retransition further on in life.

2019, Rosie Swayne, “Unqualified, middle-age lesbian swerves abruptly out of her lane to talk about trans issues”, in Lesbian Feminism: Essays Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies, unnumbered page:

Included in this group were 4 individuals (1.3% of the total sample) who retransitioned twice (to nonbinary then back to binary transgender). Some youth (3.5%) were currently living as nonbinary, including one who had retransitioned first to cisgender then to nonbinary. Finally, 2.5% were using pronouns associated with their sex at birth and could be categorized as cisgender at the time of data collection, including one who first retransitioned to live as nonbinary.

2022, Kristina R. Olson, Lily Durwood; Rachel Horton, Natalie M. Gallagher, Aaron Devor, "Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition", in the Pediatrics

(LGBTQ) To undergo another transition, for example to transition back to one's earlier (trans) gender after having temporarily detransitioned to one's birth-assigned gender, or to transition to a binary trans gender after an earlier transition to non-binary.

Finally, some who embrace the psychological paradigm critique transition-affirmative approaches by pointing to studies showing that a statistically significant number of people who have undergone transition – one 2009 study suggests up to 8 percent – have later expressed regrets, with some even deciding to retransition back to their birth sex.

2019, Paul Rhodes Eddy, James K. Beilby, “Understanding Transgender Experiences and Identities: An Introduction”, in Understanding Transgender Identities: Four Views, unnumbered page:

If a socially transitioned child desists and later comes to identify with their birth-assigned gender, the child must then retransition to that gender, which could be difficult and pose risks for the child at that older age.

2019, Shervin Shandianloo, Richard R. Pleak, “Mental Health Issues in Caring for the Transgender Population”, in Leonid Poretsky, Wylie C. Hembree, editors, Transgender Medicine: A Multidisciplinary Approach, page 122:

In some cases, individuals may “detransition” (or retransition) to their assigned/biological gender, further complicating identity and family relationships.

2022, Denise Ann Bodman, Bethany Bustamante Van Vleet, Randal D. Day, Introduction to Family Processes: Diverse Families, Common Ties, unnumbered page:

(LGBTQ) To return to one's birth-assigned gender after having undergone gender reassignment; to detransition.


HoYay

From a contraction of "homoeroticism, yay!", after a thread so named on the forum Television Without Pity.

This should really help the HoYay! quotient on BtVS, which was largely lacking in S5, Willow and Tara notwithstanding (it's not as much fun if it's *text*).

2001 June 28, Mike Zeares, “Re: New writer joins BUFFY staff”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Tangentially, speaking of HoYay! movies, the local movie reviewer here said about "The Count of Monte Cristo" that he's seen less homoerotic subtext in a Village People video.

2002 January 26, Shadowy Moon [username], “Re: Religious groups praise "Lord Of The Rings"”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):

Considering fans' previous seemingly blanket endorsement of everything queer, one has to ask why HoYay! fans don't favor the queer Lex/Lana/Clark triangle.

2008, Melanie E. S. Kohnen, “The Adventures of a Repressed Farm Boy and the Billionaire Who Loves Him: Queer Spectatorship in Smallville Fandom”, in Sharon Marie Ross, Louisa Ellen Stein, editors, Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, pages 214–215:

(fandom slang) Homoerotic subtext in a television show, film, book etc.


Clex

Thus Smallville fans use the Clex pairing in fanfiction to explore, therefore, not just what it means to become “queer” in the sense of lived sexual orientation, but also what it means to become a fan.

2005, Brigid Kelly, "The Transformative Power Of 'Hot Gay Sex': Queering Superman, Queering The Fan On The TelevisionWithoutPity 'Smallville' Boards", Spectator, Volume 25, Issue 1, Spring 2005, page 75

Considering how often Smallville has already diverged from Superman canon in the course of the past five seasons, including the transformation of Clark and Lex from instant enemies to friends, this line of reasoning points to an attitude of wanting to defend and reaffirm the validity of "Clex."

2008, Melanie E. S. Kohnen, “The Adventures of a Repressed Farm Boy and the Billionaire Who Loves Him: Queer Spectatorship in Smallville Fandom”, in Sharon Marie Ross, Louisa Ellen Stein, editors, Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 216:

The same thing occurred among Smallvilles shippers who were divided among supporting Clana (Clark/Lana), Clois (Clark/Lois), Chlark (Chloe/Clark), with some slash fans rooting for the same sex pairing Clex' (Clark/Lex).

2008, Jennifer Gillan, Television and New Media: Must-Click TV, Routledge, published 2011, →ISBN, page 46:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Clark Kent and Lex Luthor from the television series Smallville.


transsexualize

transsexualize (third-person singular simple present transsexualizes, present participle transsexualizing, simple past and past participle transsexualized)

transsexualizes (present singular third-person)
transsexualizing (participle present)
transsexualized (participle past)
transsexualized (past)

[…] which he liked to compare to an archduchess's urine, fetishizing it as a kind of elixir of femaleness by which he can transsexualize himself […]

1996, Christine Froula, Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce, →ISBN, page 217:

(transitive, uncommon) To make transsexual.

these embodied female waters are actually present in full flood despite [...] the embrace of the English translation of "Father of Waters" [...]. This is to say that waters that are turbulent and torrential are not always transsexualized as males via the rhetorical strategies of birth (The Columbiad) or metamorphosis (The Johnstown Flood). They are also at times imaged as female.

2009, Cecelia Tichi, Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places, →ISBN, page 204:

(uncommon) To cause (something such as an anthropomorphized natural phenomenon, like a flood) to have the opposite sex or gender.


intersexually

en-adv

intersexually (comparative more intersexually, superlative most intersexually)

more intersexually (comparative)
most intersexually (superlative)


transgenderization

(rare) The act or process of making transgender.


queerization

Process of making queer (homosexual, transgender, etc.).


homoantagonism

Engaging in homoantagonism (taunting and possibly behaving violently toward gays), avoiding public intimacy with men, "acting like a thug/hard criminal," and "butching up," defined by one interviewee as "acting manly" and "cocking your hat back" (kp 36), are macho extreme behaviours.

2002 November, Bianca Della Marie Wilson, Robin Lin Miller, “Strategies for Managing Hetereosexism Used Among African American Gay and Bisexual Men”, in Journal of Black Psychology, volume 28, number 4, page 381:

Both Indian homeland and transoceanic East African and US diasporas are represented in contexts of racism, Orientalism, and homoantagonism, but in ways that cut across intersections of oppression that lean one way and, instead, critique, celebrate, and complicate geographies, ethnicities, patriarchies, religions, and sexualities.

2015, Shamira A. Meghani, “Queer South Asian Muslims: the ethnic closet and its secular limits”, in Claire Chambers, Caroline Herbert, editors, Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representations, Routledge, →ISBN:

Collectively, hip-hop feminist theorists developed new ideas about and approaches to eradicating patriarchy, misogyny, homoantagonism, and transphobia both within hip-hop and in our communities.

2015 January, Treva B. Lindsey, “Let Me Blow Your Mind: Hip Hop Feminist Futures in Theory and Praxis”, in Urban Education, volume 50, number 1, page 57:

Hostile or violent behavior toward gay people.


homoamorous

en-adj

homoamorous (comparative more homoamorous, superlative most homoamorous)

more homoamorous (comparative)
most homoamorous (superlative)

He is bisexual but homoamorous, so while he slept with her, he won't be in a relationship with her.

(rare) Characterized by love with another person of the same sex; homoromantic.


heteroamorous

heteroamorous (comparative more heteroamorous, superlative most heteroamorous)

more heteroamorous (comparative)
most heteroamorous (superlative)

(rare) Characterized by love with another of the opposite sex; heteroromantic.


polyphobia

en-noun

polyphobia (usually uncountable, plural polyphobias)

Just how bad a problem is polyphobia? I'm not willing to live anyplace where I have to be closeted […]

1997 September 13, John R. Snead, “Worrying about polyphobia”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):

Ren noted the following internalization of polyphobia: My date had dated other people, but it's a lot different if it's a family unit living together […]

2015, Jillian Deri, Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 112:

Monopride usually comes together with polyphobia, which has been defined as (conscious or unconscious) fear of or disgust toward nonmonogamy […]

2021, Jorge N. Ferrer, Love and Freedom: Transcending Monogamy and Polyamory, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 41:

(uncountable) Fear, hatred, or dislike of, or prejudice against, polyamory or polyamorous people.


BDE

BDE (countable and uncountable, plural BDEs)

bond dissociation energy
bond dissociation energy#English

(physical chemistry) Initialism of bond dissociation energy.


LGBTA

An initialism, one of several expansions of the earlier initialism LGBT.

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, and asexual/aromantic/agender/allied.


homoromanticism

For example, analysis of Thoreau's poem “Sympathy” (“Lately, alas, I knew a gentle boy") is enriched by considering its homoromanticism.

1993, Arthur Lipkin, "The Case for a Gay and Lesbian Curriculum", The High School Journal, Volume 77, Number 1/2, October/November 1993 - December 1993/January 1994, page 103

In Smallville’s teen fantasy, the themes of alienation and the search for identity easily transmute into homoromanticism and sympathetic queerness.

2005, Louisa Ellen Stein, "'They Cavort, You Decide': Transgenericism, Queerness, and Fan Interpretation in Teen TV", Spectator, Volume 25, Issue 1, Spring 2005, page 21

2006, "The homoromanticism of Sufjan Stevens' little ditties", The Georgia Straight, 2 December 2006 (used in title only)

The state of being being romantically attracted to the same gender.


biromanticism

(neologism) The state of being biromantic.


demiromantic

en-adj

demiromantic (comparative more demiromantic, superlative most demiromantic)

more demiromantic (comparative)
most demiromantic (superlative)

From demi- + romantic. Compare demisexuality.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:demiromantic.

Romantically attracted to people only after forming deep emotional bonds.


heteroromanticism

Heteronormativity describes the tendencies to assume a gender binary, the alignment of gender with sex, and the expectation of heterosexuality and heteroromanticism.

2015 October, Nathan Chan, “Coming out at University”, in Salterrae, page 4:

Could we gradually replace all of love's traditional characterizing features—monogamy, permanence, heteroromanticism, romantic gender roles, and so on—over time? Would there still be romantic love at the end of that process?

2017, Carrie Jenkins, What Love Is: And What It Could Be:

Heteroromantics feel this way [attracted] to someone of the opposite [gender]. [...] Eve Peyser, who identifies as a heteroromantic bisexual woman — she dates only men but is sexually attracted to men and women — wrote a piece on heteroromanticism for Mic in 2015.

2017 May, Christiana Lilly, “A Rainbow of Sexuality: Beyond the LGBT”, in The Mirror, page 24:

The state of being heteroromantic, i.e. romantically attracted to the opposite gender.


polyromantic

polyromantic (comparative more polyromantic, superlative most polyromantic)

more polyromantic (comparative)
most polyromantic (superlative)

From poly- + romantic. Compare polysexuality.

Being polyamorous isn't inherently wrong. Neither is desiring threesomes or kinky sex. […] The other misconceptions, the ones that sexualize us, need to stop too, but in stopping those, we mustn't shame the bisexual folks who do prefer a polyromantic or sexually-explorative lifestyle.

2016 April 3, Zachary Zane, “Where Do "Messy Bisexuals" Fit Into the Bi+ Community?”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2022-06-07:

The American series You Me Her is being promoted as ‘TV’s first polyromantic comedy”, starring Amy Poehler’s brother Greg.

2017, Rosie Wilby, Is Monogamy Dead?: Rethinking Relationships in the 21st Century, Accent Press Ltd, →ISBN:

This is because the internalization of the model of monogamy forecloses a lot of self-discovery and self-knowledge. […] Quinn said, for example, “If you want to get really, really specific, I am a demi-polyromantic, polysexual, gender-queer individual.” Quinn defines themselves as “polyamorous and polysexual and polyromantic”: “but I usually just describe myself as queer because that’s so much easier, in addition to being a demi-romantic, which is on the aromantic spectrum.”

2018, Ann Travers, The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 24:

(neologism) Romantically polyamorous; that is, having multiple romantic relationships.


panromanticism

(neologism) The state of being panromantic, i.e. romantically attracted to people regardless of genders.


cupiosexual

From Latin cupiō (“to desire, long for”) + -sexual.


transromantic

en-adj

transromantic (comparative more transromantic, superlative most transromantic)

more transromantic (comparative)
most transromantic (superlative)

My argument is post- or transromantic, but that very move through romanticism leaves romantic traces everywhere. The most vital impulse in current translation theory that is excluded by these dualisms is a social one — a concern with ...

1991, Douglas Robinson, The Translator's Turn, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 267:

Modernism is literally transromantic: early Modernism emerges from Baudelaire's transformation of French Romanticism, and this transformation continues to influence writers, artists and critics.

2006, Rosemary Lloyd, The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

On the tormented Desire, as if naming the plight of self-blinded love in the album title itself, "Oh Sister" overcomes the broken covenant as the voice calls out for a confederation of male and female in transromantic quest: "We grew up together ..."

2009, Rob Wilson, Be Always Converting, be Always Converted: An American Poetics, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 180:

Moving through or across romanticism (as a movement, etc) or that which is romantic (Romantic).

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

(neologism) Romantically attracted to persons of variant or ambiguous gender, or to transgender persons.


transfeminine

[…] the same masculinity at the heart of the military’s pervasive homophobia, tolerance of sexual assault, and transmisogynistic practice of court-martialing transfeminine soldiers for “cross-dressing.”

2011, "An open letter to the organizers of TEDxMiddlebury", The Middlebury Campus (Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont), Volume 110, Issue 8, 10 November 2011, page 11

Born as a physical male, she now identifies as transfeminine, or pangender.

2012, Alessandra Robertson, "Trans Stories", Sex and the Steel City (The Silhouette special edition), page 14

[...individuals for whom] “man” or “woman” may not accurately reflect identity but are nonetheless on the transmasculine or transfeminine spectrum. We also acknowledge the limitations of language in reflecting agender clients who do not identify as masculine or feminine ...

2017, Michael R. Kauth, Jillian C. Shipherd, Adult Transgender Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Training Mental Health Professionals, Routledge, →ISBN:

Hormonal and surgical options, [...] for transgender women and transfeminine spectrum persons, 99-111

2017, Lynne Carroll, Lauren Mizock, Clinical Issues and Affirmative Treatment with Transgender Clients, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, index:

Pertaining to people who were assigned male but whose gender identities are feminine.


lezploitation

Is Lady Gaga scoring a victory for gay visibility by featuring butch lesbians in a pop video? Or is this "lezploitation", playing up to heterosexual fantasies about gay women?

2010 March 21, Andrew Eaton, “Andrew Eaton: What's all the fuss about acting gay?”, in The Scotsman:

Her big hit, I Kissed a Girl, was a piece of marketing genius: every bloke's fantasy, delivered by a blatantly heterosexual female. It attracted charges of "lezploitation" from the gay community […]

2010 August 28, Kate Mossman, “Katy Perry: Teenage Dream”, in The Times:

These ladies do indeed have sex, with each other, but don't mistake writer/director Peter Strickland's surreal, mischievous love story for mere lezploitation.

2015 March 4, Eric D. Snider, “Sex and Butterflies”, in The Portland Mercury:

The exploitation of women in same-sex relationships and female-female sexual expression in the media, especially for the purpose of titillating heterosexual males.


dykedar

My FedEx driver is of the female persuasion. I don't posess^([sic]) a working dykedar, so I can't say a thing about her; other than she is quite, well, I guess handsome would be the best word for it.

1994 June 15, Keith Shillington, “Re: UPSy-daisy”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

I discovered from this episode that I don't have any dykedar.

1997 February 8, Ken Rudolph, “Re: ER dyke (WAS: A eunichs question)”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

On the other hand for us lesbians unless we are really butch straights don't tend to accept our queerness. Like "You can't be a lesbian, you are too pretty." Well Duh.
Although I must admit even I have better gaydar than dykedar.

1998 March 18, Suzan Cooke, “Re: Do hets know what rainbow means?”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

(LGBTQ slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is lesbian by observing that person.


transploitation

Created by photographer Austin Young and Saskia Wilson-Brown, the series was first screened in 2007 as part of the Silver Lake Film Festival, and last week’s follow-up sought to probe the “transploitation” genre (as the creators have coined it) further, with short films and music videos by and about their favorite gender-blender superstars.

2009 December 9, Lina Lecaro, “Drag-Hagging With The Best Of 'Em”, in LA Weekly:

[…] and finally climaxing in a buckets-of-gore showdown in a suburban kitchen where a sexy bad guy is killed 42 ways to Sunday, this cheesy, way beyond camp "transploitation" snuff film has a truckload of chills and giggles.

2010 July 8, David Lambe, “Queer eye for the gore fest”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume 40, number 27, page 22:

In the same way that the transploitation film Ticked Off Trannies with Knives was so named in order to take ownership of a term that can be used derisively, couldn’t we all agree that “she-mail” was meant in good fun and leave it at that?

2014 April 18, Anna Waugh, “'Drag Race' promises to drop 'transphobic' gags”, in Dallas Voice, volume 30, number 49, page 4:

The exploitation of transgender/transsexual people in the media (especially film and television).


en homme

From the French phrase en homme, as in s’habille en homme.

Coordinate term: en femme

(chiefly of a trans, non-binary or cross-dressing person) Dressed in masculine clothing.


disorder of sex development

en-noun

disorder of sex development (plural disorders of sex development)

Recently, growing patient and parental concerns about the stigma associated with the term intersex, along with advances in treatment and diagnosis, have led to the adoption of the term disorders of sex development (DSD) in its place.

2008, Harvey J. Makadon (Ed.), The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, page 393:

There are also several states of disorders of sex development in males, namely gonadal dysgenesis or defects in androgen biosynthesis which cause insufficient synthesis of androgens and hypoandrogenisation in consequence.

2009, Konrad Janowski, Biopsychosocial Aspects of Health and Disease, volume 1, page 69:

Parents of children with these kinds of conditions — known as intersex conditions, or differences or disorders of sex development (DSDs) — often face difficult decisions about whether to bring up their child as a boy or a girl.

2015, Claire Ainsworth, ‘Sex redefined’, Nature, volume 518, number 7539:

A medical condition whereby the development of chromosomal or anatomical sex is in some way atypical; an intersex condition.


andromimetic

From andro- + mimetic. Literally “male mimic”.

An andromimetic...is the counterpart of a gynemimetic. He lives full-time as a man. If he has access to male hormone and undergoes hormonal masculinization, it is more likely than not that he will seek hysterectomy and breast removal...

1988, John Money, Gay, Straight, and In-between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation, →ISBN, page 98:

(dated, nonstandard, rare, sexology) A transmasculine individual or trans man.


Gaystapo

Probably intimidated into a mandatory round of the Gaystapo's "Homosexuals are People, Too!" re-education programs.

2001 September 25, hgr999 [username], “Re: MORE Facts to Surface”, in alt.true-crime (Usenet):

It looks like the Gaystapo is really up in arms over my recent series of articles on Cisco’s firing of Frank Turek.

2011, Mike Adams, "A Queer and Present Danger", Townhall.com, 13 July 2011 (archived on Usenet)

But the hidden hegemonic ambitions of the Gaystapo have been exposed recently by their plans to annex and redefine ‘marriage’.

2011 October 28, Alan Craig, “Confronting the Gaystapo”, in Church of England Newspaper, number 6098, page 9:

(informal, derogatory) Gay activists viewed as a militant and oppressive force.


heteronazi

There are heteronazis and homonazis. Of the two, homonazis are by far the most vicious.

1998, Wheeler, “In support of prostitutes (was: Scary Cherry, child molester ...)”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

[If one used the term] heteronazi' to describe the people who do things like beat gays and leave them to die, if it would be accepted.

2000, trinkler, “"Defending" marriage?”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):


antibisexual

en-adj

antibisexual (comparative more antibisexual, superlative most antibisexual)

more antibisexual (comparative)
most antibisexual (superlative)


antistraight

antistraight (comparative more antistraight, superlative most antistraight)

more antistraight (comparative)
most antistraight (superlative)

The laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation apply to all people, gay and straight alike. If an antistraight boss starts firing heterosexuals, they're protected.

2001, John K. Wilson, How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People:

So you think Gregg is antistraight, but he is best friends with a straight guy. Russell and he have a very close relationship.

2013, Steven Zeeland, Sailors and Sexual Identity, page 140:

One of the key points of this paper is to create legitimacy for a set of representations of antistraight discourses. […] In a world where any antistraight manifestation, either sexual or nonsexual, is a reason for exclusion, ridicule, and persecution […]

2014, David W. Foster, Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities, page 233:


Kinsey scale

A scale devised by Alfred Kinsey, used to measure a person's sexuality, ranging from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual), passing through different stages of bisexuality, including the 3 in the middle (bisexual, attracted to men and women equally). There is also an X option, for those exhibiting no sexual attraction (asexual).


woman-born-woman

Coined by second-wave feminists to distinguish cisgender women from transgender women.

To the extent that she can pull it off, her gender is babe. But at Stayfree her babe outfit (long hair, big shirt, leggings, flats) makes her feel like an interloper—like some rude woman-born-woman intent on boycotting femininity because she can take it for granted.

(feminism) A cisgender woman; a cis woman.


womyn-born-womyn

For the spelling, see womyn; for information about the phrase itself, see woman-born-woman.

Lesbians for Justice therefore appeals to the organizers of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival to nullify its "womyn-born-womyn only" policy, and to allow the attendance of post-operative male-to-female transsexuals at all future festivals.

1992 May 8, Tamara Severns, “Open Letter To Michigan Festival Organizers”, in Gay Community News, page 4:


WBW

When WBWs claim they are women because of their girlhood's^([sic]) the WBT can point to her trannie childhood and say […]

2001 March 6, Suzan Cooke, “Woman Born Transsexual: A Post Transsexual Manifesto”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):

Over the past years, we have ignored death threats as we choose to stand for sacred space for WBW and girls.

2008, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, →ISBN, page 54:

This pub is only open to WBW and their companion animals.

2012, Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet, page 122:

Abbreviation of womyn-born-womyn: woman-born-woman.


transgenderize

en-verb

transgenderize (third-person singular simple present transgenderizes, present participle transgenderizing, simple past and past participle transgenderized)

transgenderizes (present singular third-person)
transgenderizing (participle present)
transgenderized (participle past)
transgenderized (past)


guncle

It could have been worse. Vince had been debating whether to have Buddy call her Guncle (Gay-Uncle) Lisa.

2012, Mari SanGiovanni, Camptown Ladies, →ISBN, page 264:

The major upside of all this, for me anyway, was that these Broadway guys became my guncles, or gay uncles, and had a strong hand in teaching me lots of adult lessons—particularly one guncle named Chris.

2013, Melissa Joan Hart, Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life, →ISBN:

"If we killed him, the Dev would be the next king and your baby would be a prince. Power. I like it. He'll need his guncle to advise him.” Zack and I laughed, but Lee looked a bit lost. “Gay uncle,” Zack provided.


bisexualist

Six homosexualists (males?) thus far examined yielded from anatomically perfect testes an ovarian reaction in four instances and in the other two subjects (bisexualists), an ovario-testicular reaction (ovarian by measurement predominating).


transgay

Justin Tanis, a transgay male, reads the story of Jesus turning the Canaanite woman away.

2000, Robert Goss, Mona West, Take Back the Word: A Queer Reading of the Bible, →ISBN, page 6:

Simon, who is 64 and the only self-identified transgay man of the interviewees, explained that growing up, "I hated girly clothes all along. I never wanted to show my body or wear a dress. I never dated at all ... it does make you feel different. When I came out as a lesbian, I was already divorced ... my sexual sensation had already increased ... what I discovered is that I was gay."

2008, Brian Reed Singer, "On the gender continuum: the stories of transmen", thesis submitted to San Jose State University, pages 73-74

Many issues like transphobia, homosexual transsexuality (of both translesbians and transgay individuals), the transfeminist project, […]

2009, Izzo Mirella, AzioneTrans Manifesto, →ISBN, page 7:

Being, or pertaining to being, both a trans man and attracted to men (gay).


trans lesbian

A trans woman who is a lesbian, i.e. attracted to women.


transbian

Our trans meeting at the clinic breaks up, after a discussion about transbians.

2010, Red Jordan Arobateau, Autumn Changes: Part III, page 930:

To give an opinionated answer, I'd say no, I do not think that there is a trend toward all transsexuals becoming transbians.

2011, Shannon Leigh O'Shea, Blue Life, Pink Hair: What It's Like Being The Pink Sheep Of The Family, page 186:

“So, I'm a butch transbian, so by most standards I'm literally just a cis-het dude-”

2018 March, Valerie Pleasant, “Women Problems”, in Montréal Writes, page 16:


translesbian

There are many femisexuals who never consider taking a male lover after their treatments, immediately becoming translesbians.

1997, Tracie O'Keefe, Katrina Fox, Trans-X-U-All: The Naked Difference, Extraordinary People Press, →ISBN, page 155:

It is both irresponsible and disingenuous to talk about safe space as if translesbians make space unsafe.

1999, Deke Law, “Evolution”, in Kris Kleindienst, editor, This is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century, Firebrand Books, →ISBN, page 139:

2009, Izzo Mirella (translated from the Italian by Simona Continente), AzioneTrans Manifesto, Lulu.com (2009), page 7


-sexual

Forms a noun or adjective describing a state or style of sexuality


trans female

For quotations using this term, see Citations:trans female.

Female and trans, that is, being a female who was assigned male at birth.


transperson

en-noun

transperson (plural transpersons or transpeople)

transpersons (plural)
transpeople (plural)

As a group of men, the "Sisters" trivialize a group of women (nuns). Likewise, by the particular form of their "drag" they trivialize those transpersons (transsexuals and transvestites) who cross-dress out of a genuine need of their self-identity.

1982 April 10, Mikhael Iktin, “Over-indulgence”, in Gay Community News, page 4:


lesbian bed death

Coined by University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz in her 1983 book American Couples.

(LGBTQ, sexology) A supposed phenomenon by which lesbian couples in committed relationships have less sex than any other type of couple, and generally experience less sexual intimacy the longer the relationship lasts.


shounen ai

(slang, anime, manga) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more males.


shoujo ai

Two connected etymologies. Either interpreted as a loan translation of Japanese 少女愛 (shōjo ai), or a specialized neologism created in analogy to shounen ai (少年愛; shōnen ai) using Japanese vocabulary.


transgenderise

en-verb

transgenderise (third-person singular simple present transgenderises, present participle transgenderising, simple past and past participle transgenderised)

transgenderises (present singular third-person)
transgenderising (participle present)
transgenderised (participle past)
transgenderised (past)

Non-Oxford British English standard form of transgenderize.


queerize

queerize (third-person singular simple present queerizes, present participle queerizing, simple past and past participle queerized)

queerizes (present singular third-person)
queerizing (participle present)
queerized (participle past)
queerized (past)

... seems to have combined (and queerized) a dozen Harlequin novels.

1998, Raymond Murray, Images in the Dark, page 491:

The decriminalization of homosexuality which gradually took place in Australia from the 1970s onwards helped queerize the 1990s.

2002, David Coad, Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities, page 124:

[…] to queerize spaces, disciplines, heterocentrist structures of power and knowledge while still recalling the politico-sexual basis of the term.

2009, Darren Waldron, Queering Contemporary French Popular Cinema, page 29:

As he perhaps justly ridicules Soviet “vulgar sociologizing” approaches to Gogol, Karlinsky's own approach may thus better be labeled as vulgar queerizing.

2011, Alexei Lalo, Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature, page 67:

(transitive) To make queer (homosexual, transgender, etc.); to queer.


Mixter

Blend of mix + Mister or Mister + -x-, probably influenced by the earlier abbreviation Mx.

(uncommon) A gender-neutral title (coordinate with Mr. and Ms.), used especially for genderqueer/non-binary people.


Klaine

With the recent death of Glee's Cory Monteith, there wasn't much creators could do to make viewers feel better. Yet they found it: a reunion of gay couple "Klaine."

2013, "Tragedy Brings People Together After All, Doesn't It?", Watermark, 29 August 2013 - 11 September 2013, page 29

However Ryan Murphy gives fans a few rewards in Series 5 for sticking with the show (happy news for Klaine supporters), […]

2013, Heather Boyles, "The final curtain draws near", Seren (Bangor University), Issue 235, October 2013, page 25

Klaine fans and writers have lived in a culture where homosexuality has been mainstreamed, if not always accepted.

2014, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, “Glee Literally Means Glee: The Queer Art of Community's Parody”, in Michelle Parke, editor, Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 267:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson from the television series Glee.


Brittana

Never mind Finn and Rachel – I'm on Team Brittana now.

2009, Dorothy Snarker of AfterEllen.com, quoted in Amy Rickman, Gleeful!: A Totally Unofficial Guide to the Hit TV Series GLEE, Villard (2010), page 136

[…] there'd been such a fuss over the original Brittana kiss, & with Kurt kissing Blaine, […]

2012, Bruce Wagner, Dead Stars, Penguin, →ISBN:

However, the taste of happiness many viewers felt at Brittana's queer relationship quickly turned bitter when the label of homosexual continued to be thrust upon Santana by many of the show's straight characters as well as her own girlfriend.

2014, Taylor Cole Miller, “Forced out of the 'flannel closet': The Coming-Out-Gay Imperative”, in Michelle Parke, editor, Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 34:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Brittany Pierce and Santana Lopez from the television series Glee.


XXY

Having an aneuploidy in the configuration of chromosomes by having an extra Y chromosome.


truscum

The term 'truscum', meant to be an epithet directed at the medicalization supporters, came into usage through an often-referenced post by tumblr user transstingray [... in 2012] a 'truscum' individual believes that all trans people should identify as transsexual, identify within the binary, use only male or female pronouns […] . The term is derived from 'true transsexual' and 'scum' […] . Although 'truscum' was originally meant to be a derogatory term, it has since been reclaimed and redefined to mean an individual who believes that one needs to experience sex-based dysphoria in order to be trans, and that transsexualism is a medical condition. It has now transcended its original purpose and has become a term with which the supporters of medicalization identify themselves.

2013, Alexander Wijnants, "Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People", Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures, ISSN 1883-5953, Volume 1, Number 4, Spring 2013, page 131

The truscum, or medical supporters, use basic, non-radical goals and a reliance on empirical evidence to develop and support a self-concept of being the more rational and realistic group within the debate.

2013, Alexander Wijnants, "Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People", Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures, ISSN 1883-5953, Volume 1, Number 4, Spring 2013, page 134

That, in summary, is the tone taken by the very recently developed factions of quote unquote social justice warriors, trans and trans* activists, truscum, radfems; […]

2014, Zoe Kilbourn, "PSA, UWU: Tumblr, Gender, and Gaga", Pelican (University of Western Australia), Volume 85, Edition 6, circa September 2014, page 9

Even among wonderful and truscum-battling friends I still avoid the label trans, instead occasionally asking for 'they' pronouns to be used and trying to talk of men as an outsider.

2015, Henrx Holmes, "Unmanned", No HeterOx (Oxford, UK), page 7 (approx.)

(slang, usually derogatory) A person who believes that gender dysphoria is an essential trait to being transgender.


transness

Green recognized that there are “little beehives of transness” in a few major US cities and abroad and F2M individuals who take upon themselves the role of educator and activist

1996, R. Scott Gerdes, “Extraordinary Lives—A Personal History of the F2M Movement (Part Ⅱ): Where have we been? Where are we going?”, in Jean Marie Stine, editor, Transgender Tapestry, volume 1, number 77, Waltham, Massachusetts: International Foundation for Gender Education, →ISSN, →OCLC, UPC 07447074121377, page 42, column 2:

Clearly, these were folks who chose to view my transness as an “affliction” (despite the fact that I did not portray it that way myself).

2013, Julia Serano, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, Seal Press, published 2013, →ISBN:

Now though, I've been thinking more about the idea that one can be attracted to transgender men (or women) in part because of their transness, not (as mainstream culture seems to think) in spite of it.

2014, Diane Anderson-Minshall, Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders, Bold Strokes Books, published 2014, →ISBN:

My transness felt irrelevant to most of my informal, passing relationships. It was not something I discussed upon meeting someone.

2014, Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, Atria, published 2014, →ISBN, page 248:

The condition or quality of being transgender or transsexual.


gay-straight alliance

en-noun

gay-straight alliance (plural gay-straight alliances)

A school- or community-based organization intended to provide a safe and supportive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth, as well as their straight supporters.

同志與非同志聯盟

school or community based organization that provides an environment for LGBTQ youth