TF

TF (countable and uncountable, plural TFs)

Coordinate term: TM


TW

Coordinate term: TM


gay

en-adj

gay (comparative gayer, superlative gayest)

gayer (comparative)
gayest (superlative)

→ Cantonese: 基 (gei¹)

→ Mandarin: 基 (jī)

→ Catalan: gai

→ Esperanto: geja

→ French: gay

→ German: gay

→ Greek: γκέι (gkéi)

→ Irish: aerach (calque)

→ Italian: gay

→ Japanese: ゲイ (gei)

→ Mandarin: gay (gèi)

desc

→ Portuguese: gay, guei (adapted spelling)

→ Romanian: gay

→ Spanish: gay

→ Telugu: గే (gē)

→ Thai: เกย์ (gee)

→ Turkish: gey

Brill Publishers
Gertrude Stein
gay (term)

From Middle English gay, from Old French gai (“joyful, laughing, merry”), usually thought to be a borrowing of Old Occitan gai (“impetuous, lively”), from Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (*gaheis, “impetuous”), merging with earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), from Frankish *gāhi; both from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden”). This is possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“to stride, step”), from *ǵʰēy- (“to go”), but Kroonen rejects this derivation and treats the Germanic word as having no known etymology.
cognates and sense derivation
Cognate with Dutch gauw (“fast, quickly”), Westphalian Low German gau, gai (“fast, quick”), German jäh (“abrupt, sudden”).
Anatoly Liberman, following Frank Chance and Harri Meier, believes Old French gai was instead a native development from Latin vagus (“wandering, inconstant, flighty”), with *[w] > [g] as in French gaine.
The sense of homosexual (first recorded no later than 1937 by Cary Grant in the film Bringing Up Baby, and possibly earlier in 1922 in the poem "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gertrude Stein) was shortened from earlier gay cat ("homosexual boy") in underworld and prison slang, itself first attested about 1935, but used earlier for a young tramp or hobo attached to an older one.
Pejorative usage is probably due to hostility towards homosexuality.
The sense of ‘upright’, used in reference to a dog’s tail, probably derives from the ‘happy’ sense of the word.

gay

homosexual — see also homosexual, lesbian

verwijfd

behaving in a way associated with females

Coordinate term: LGBTQ

(colloquial) Not heterosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.

[…] the pirates, who are obviously totally gay for each other […]

2014 December 6, Ej Dickson, “The 7 worst things about NBC's "Peter Pan Live!"”, in Salon.com:

Being gay for Brad, even a teensy bit, is at the very least being able to imagine the potential for queerness. In a sense, like the recent popular and critical furor over men who are gay-for-pay, being gay for Brad is what Jeffrey Escoffier defines as "situational homosexuality," or other forms of man-on-man behavior […] In other words, rather than worry over whether or not men who are queer for Brad can easily be labeled as straight or gay, […]

2014, Christopher Schaberg, Robert Bennett, Deconstructing Brad Pitt, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 211:

[…] it’s now pretty popular among progressives to paint the US and Russian presidents as being gay for each other.

2017 May 2, German Lopez, “Stephen Colbert tried to insult Donald Trump. He made a homophobic comment instead.”, in Vox:

(slang, with for) Homosexually in love with someone.

Homosexual:
Homosexually in love with someone.


GCS

Costs for GCS can vary depending on regional factors, surgeon competence, and competition.

2017, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 704:

gender confirmation surgery
gender confirmation surgery#English

(medicine) Initialism of gender confirmation surgery.


PIV

en-noun

PIV (countable and uncountable, plural PIVs)

(pathology) Abbreviation of parainfluenza virus.

(optics) Initialism of particle image velocimetry.

(electronics) Initialism of peak inverse voltage.

(LGBTQ) Initialism of penile inversion vaginoplasty.


man cave

man + cave, suggesting the caves in which prehistoric people sometimes lived.

(LGBTQ) The vulva or vagina of a trans man.


pseudohermaphrodite

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An individual that has the external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.


pseudohermaphrodite

In the case described by Recasens himself of a pseudohermaphrodite woman there was a formation of testicular appearance on the labia majora; but its histological examination demonstrated that this was not a gonad, but a glandular mass of a nature which defied diagnosis.

1932, Gregorio Marañón, translated by Warre Bradley Wells, The Evolution of Sex and Intersexual Conditions, page 106:

The chief psychologic and psychiatric problems encountered in the adrenogenital syndrome are those associated with the sex orientation of untreated and undiagnosed pseudohermaphrodite women (33).

1966, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, Endocrines and the Central Nervous System, page 431:

However, prostate cancer does not appear to occur in a cohort of pseudohermaphrodite men in whom 5-alpha reductase is absent.

1996, Roger S. Kirby, Timothy J. Christmas, Michael K. Brawer, Prostate Cancer, Mosby, →ISBN, page 27:

They form one group of the pseudohermaphrodite men mentioned above: their prostate glands remain in the pre-pubertal state, and never become cancerous.

2010, Tom Smith, Coping Successfully with Prostate Cancer, 2nd edition, Sheldon Press, →ISBN:

Having external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.


gaymer

You're a gaymer aintcha? :)

2003, Gorf, “FA:Fzero Jap”, in uk.games.video.gamecube (Usenet):

> Are you a gaymer then?
No, I'm just a gay man that enjoys computer games in exactly the same way that non-gay men enjoy computer games.

2003, Nick, “Gaymers”, in uk.games.video.gamecube (Usenet):

How is this self-ostracism? Is anyone who would choose to post there thus prevented from posting here, or to any of the planet* websites Gamespy owns? Or to any of the publisher/developer forums available for discussion? I post to a mailing list for gay gaymers, and yet I post here. How am I ostracized?

2003, Julie d'Aubigny, “Gaymers”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet):

(slang, video games) A homosexual gamer.


homophile

en:reacting only with homologous antigens

(biology, medicine, of an antibody) Reacting only with homologous antigens.

It seems that many homophile Bostonians don't patronize Provincetown for various reasons. Wake-up you homophile brothers and sisters. You have a great resort in your own backyard.

1978 August 19, R. Kirk, “Pro P'town”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 4:

(dated) Homosexual, gay or lesbian, having a sexual or romantic preference for persons of one's own gender; used to emphasize love over sex.


homophile

en:antibody that reacts only with homologous antigens

(biology, medicine) An antibody that reacts only with homologous antigens.

(dated) A homosexual, a gay man or lesbian, one who has a sexual or romantic preference for persons of the same gender; used to emphasize love over sex.

homofiili

one who has a sexual or romantic preference for persons of one's own gender — see also homosexual


masc

Then there's trans men and non-binary mascs, who can change their birth certificates to MALE after breast removal surgery. […]

2018, Quinn Eades, Son Vivienne, Going Postal: More than 'Yes' or 'No': One year on: writings from the marriage equality postal survey, Brow Books, →ISBN:

In other words, it's a queer space for all men, and women who are trans. Anyone who is read as a cis woman (e.g., lots of trans men and trans mascs) is not welcomed. Grindr has popularized the terms “discreet,” “straight-passing,” and “convincing” within gay culture.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 140:

(LGBTQ) A person whose gender (identity) is masculine (but who is not necessarily a man).


intersex

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From German Intersexe; corresponding to inter- + sex. Doublet of intersect

His confidentiality was broken, and soon the entire staff and residential population were aware that Jim was intersex. […] we faced the fact that most programs were gender segregated and would not be a safe place for Jim to be known as intersex.

2006, Dean Spade, “Compliance Is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy”, in Paisley Currah et al., editors, Transgender Rights, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 225:

When I had learned that I was intersex, I brought this issue to my mother.

2010, Sean Saifa Wall, “I am the ‘I’”, in Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman, editors, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 109:

A survey of 1100 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people by Griffith and Bond University researchers found that the overwhelming majority had been victims of targeted harassment as well as physical and sexual abuse.

Of an individual, having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes.


GG

(LGBTQ slang, offensive) Initialism of genetic girl or genuine girl.


birl

Affirmation of the desirability of birls is a key element throughout this online site even when complex issues of gender and sexual positioning are being worked through.

2007, Susan Driver, Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media:

The birls forum describes itself as "a community dedicated to boyish/androgynous girls" with open borders such that "all people who don't define themselves as birls are welcome as well, including femmes, bioboys, androgynes, and transguys ... or you could just make up your own label for who you are" (Birls Live Journal, 2004).

2013, David Buckingham, Rebekah Willett, Digital Generations: Children, Young People, and the New Media:

(Internet slang, LGBTQ) A girl of boyish appearance.


acault

A mistranslation of Burmese အခြောက် (a.hkrauk /ăhcauʔ/, “dry article; homosexual man”), from အ (a. /ă/, noun-forming prefix) + ခြောက် (hkrauk /hcauʔ/, “dry”). Apparently introduced before 1987 by Coleman et al. (see quotation below) who had an "inability to speak the local languages" and a "lack of training in anthropology".

bor

According to a recent travelers' report (Coleman, Celgon, and Gooren, 1987), the hijra community of India (see this chapter) has a counterpart in Burma, where men who live as women are called acault (pronounced a·chow').

[1988, John Money, Gay, Straight, and In-Between, →ISBN, page 100:

Because Manguedon is the spirit who controls success and good fortune, acault become an important intermediary between those seeking good fortune and success and the -^([sic]) spirit god.

1990, Eli Coleman, “Paradigatic Changes in Our Understanding of Homosexuality”, in Sexology: An Independent Field, page 117:

A Burmese acault tells an ethnographer he is a woman only by his sexual role; otherwise, he expresses himself through his penis and its orgasms.

2000, Richard Grossinger, Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity, →ISBN, page 664:

Recall in any event that is not unusual, as Coleman et al. (1992:317) reported, for a male to have sexual relations with an acault or, presumably with someone in one of the other lexically marked subject positions, […]

2009, Michael G. Peletz, Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times, →ISBN, page 156:

A male who has special role in Myanmar folk religion and behaves in a way usually associated with women.


SRS

en-noun

SRS (countable and uncountable, plural SRSes)

sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery#English

(medicine) Initialism of sex reassignment surgery.


queerdom

queerdom (usually uncountable, plural queerdoms)

Never once, for instance, did he mention homosexuality by name. He called it ' 'queerdom.' '

1994, Christopher Street, numbers 215-220, page 12:

"The on-line world is the biggest thing to happen to queerdom in a very long time and it's the best thing that has happened to queerdom in my lifetime," he observed in an article that appeared in a 1997 issue of the gay publication San Francisco Frontiers News Magazine [...]

2004, Ron Eglash, Appropriating Technology:

On another occasion, he felt compelled to address his girlfriend/mentor Lowney Handey's jealousy by quelling any suspicions of “queerdom”: [...]

2010, Anna G. Creadick, Perfectly Average: The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America:

2018 WTF QUEER Wednesday - For Zak / Zackie Dutch Art Institute
This is the reason that the queerdom gathers, energy and strength, to not be standing on its ground like a true man, but in its fucking heels like a queen.

The world of queer (non-heterosexual) people; queer people collectively; queerness, queerhood.


bica

(pharmacology, informal) Clipping of bicalutamide.


TMA

[…] transmisogyny-affected (TMA) people, are in the greatest danger of TERF violence, and thus their critiques take priority in the fight against TERFs. With TMA people routinely excluded from the bounds of academia, […] impacted by transmisogyny; […]

2020, S. L. Cavar, Enacting Transbutch: Queer Narratives Beyond Essentialism:

(LGBTQ) Abbreviation of transmisogyny-affected (“affected by transmisogyny”).


gurl

(LGBTQ slang) Term of address between cis gay men or transgender women.

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

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


gurl

en-verb

gurl (third-person singular simple present gurls, present participle gurling, simple past and past participle gurled)

gurls (present singular third-person)
gurling (participle present)
gurled (participle past)
gurled (past)

From Middle English gurlen (“to growl, rumble”).

inh

The poor little doctor, thus rudely and suddenly aroused from his tipsy sleep, looked excessively bewildered when he opened his eyes, and met the glare of ferocious delight that Darby Kelleher cast upon him, and he gurled out, “What's the matter?” as well as the grip of Darby's hand upon his throat would permit him.

1834, Samuel Lover, Legends and Stories of Ireland:

“Weel may ye mind, yon night sae black, Whan fearfu' winds loud gurled, And mony a lum dang down—and stack, Heigh i' the air up swirled, Alangst yon brae, ye clam, and stack,

1845, Alexander Wilson, Poetical Works: With an Extended Memoir of His Life and Writings:


no-op

Coordinate term: no-ho

Both ‘no-op’ interviewees hold relatively stable identities as TG and offer interesting perspectives on trans repudiation from a TG standpoint.

2008, Christopher Shelley, “Introduction: Transpeople and the Problem of Re/Action”, in Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma, Healing, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 12:

sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery

(LGBTQ, of a transgender or transsexual person) Having chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.


no-op

Coordinate term: no-ho

At the time of the interviews, nineteen of the twenty interviewees were taking hormones; five were pre-operative; thirteen were postoperative; and two were ‘no-ops’ (no surgery intended at the time of interview).

(LGBTQ) A transgender or transsexual person who has chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.


sistergirl

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"We are all so proud of you, sistergirl! Couldn't you tell at graduation?"

2003, Shonell Bacon, Draw Me with Your Love:

Dianne, where would I be without my sistergirl support group?

2004, Janette McCarthy Louard, Portrait of Deception:

(African-American Vernacular) Sister, girlfriend (as a familiar term of address between women).

[…] But older sistergirls do feel a real strong sense, a real responsibility, to look after the little sistergirls because they know they've got a hard time ahead.

2004, The Bulletin, volumes 6428-6439, page 32:

Importantly, while Brown does not paint an idealised image of the inclusion of sistergirls within Indigenous cultures, she nonetheless emphasises the negative effects of colonisation upon sistergirls, […]

2012, Damien W. Riggs, “Talking About 'Diverse Genders and Sexualities' Means Talking About More Than White Middle-Class Queers”, in Y. Taylor, editor, Educational Diversity: The Subject of Difference and Different Subjects, page 230:

Senator McCarthy's plea to 'stay strong' resonates because all too often sistergirls and brotherboys suffer, not only from verbal harassment and ostracism, but also violence and sexual abuse.

2017, Stephen Kerry, Trans Dilemmas: Living in Australia’s Remote Areas and in Aboriginal Communities, unnumbered page:

Australian Aboriginal
Australian Aboriginal

(Australian Aboriginal) A member of a traditional gender role in Australian Aboriginal cultures, resembling trans women.


polysexual

en-adj

polysexual (comparative more polysexual, superlative most polysexual)

more polysexual (comparative)
most polysexual (superlative)

Of or pertaining to multiple types of sexuality.

(LGBTQ) Sexually attracted to many (sometimes specifically multiple but not all) genders.

Some queer relationships are monogamous (married/committed couple), some agree to polyfidelity (married/committed group), some are polysexual (open sexually), and others are polyamorous (open romantically).

2020, Alex Stitt, ACT for Gender Identity: The Comprehensive Guide, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 359:

Sexually polyamorous; that is, having multiple sexual relationships.


polysexuality

(LGBTQ) A sexual orientation characterized by an attraction to people of many, but not all, genders.


transphobic

transphobic (comparative more transphobic, superlative most transphobic)

more transphobic (comparative)
most transphobic (superlative)

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And it too closely parallels transphobic attacks that charge: "Once a man, always a man; once a woman, always a woman."

1999, Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue:

When 64% of trans pupils say they are bullied for being LGBTQ+ at school, almost half of those bullied never tell anyone about it, and 46% say they hear transphobic language “frequently” at school, it’s fair to say there is a crisis in our education system around tackling bullying, violence, harassment and social exclusion.

August 24 2021, Shon Faye, “‘I feel like it’s quite shaky acceptance’: trans kids and the fight for inclusion”, in The Guardian:

transfobia

relating to or characteristic of transphobia


transphobia

en-noun

transphobia (usually uncountable, plural transphobias)

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From trans- + -phobia or trans + -phobia.

It is not really a debate about privacy and personal safety versus politics, so much as an impulse towards pride and a rejection of internalized transphobia.

1998, Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook:

In this case, transphobia is represented in Pollock's terms as both the "condition and the effect" of Cameron's social existence.

2006, Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle, The Transgender Studies Reader:

Hatred or fear of transgender and transsexual people.

رهاب التحول الجندري

fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness


gussy

Blend of girl + pussy, by analogy with bussy.

(Internet slang, vulgar, humorous, LGBTQ) The anus of a woman, especially but not exclusively a trans woman.


friend of Dorothy

friend of Dorothy (plural friends of Dorothy)

Commonly thought to refer to Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939), portrayed by gay icon Judy Garland; alternatively (or additionally) it could be a reference to writer Dorothy Parker, who was friends with many gay men.

He's a disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand ticket-holding friend of Dorothy, know what I'm saying?

1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Murray (Donald Faison):

(slang, dated, euphemistic) A homosexual man.

Dorothy Parker
Judy Garland
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)


tea dance

palm court orchestra
palm court orchestra

(dated) A late afternoon or early evening dance, typically with a live orchestra (often referred to as a palm court orchestra) playing light classical music.


antiqueer

On the connection between antiqueer and anticommunist hysteria...

2005, Thomas Vernon Reed, The Art of Protest:

The antiqueer brigade of the Muslim Students Association fell apart before my eyes.

2005, Irshad Manji, The Trouble with Islam Today:

While arguments that claim to identify the singular cause of antiqueer oppression can be exhilarating and compelling, they are also dangerous...

2006, Paisley Currah, Richard M Juang, Shannon Minter, Transgender Rights:

Opposed to queer (non-heterosexual) people.


partier

Almost one third of lesbians and gay men are addicted to drugs. […] I don't ascribe bad intent, but as I walk through the last stumbling, mumbling partiers at the end of gay prides, I think […]

2007, The Advocate, numbers 985-991, page 51:

Gay circuit partiers, rave kids, and people in rural areas didn't identify themselves with the crack-using population.

2009, Steven J. Lee, Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction:

(LGBTQ) One who takes part in "party and play" activity, combining sex and recreational drugs.


bicentric

en-adj

bicentric (comparative more bicentric, superlative most bicentric)

more bicentric (comparative)
most bicentric (superlative)

Everybody that came over here and then left had essentially the same reaction: YUCK. A large part of that "yuck" was the highly evolved bisexuals who were quick at the gun with anything that didn't fit their bicentric notion of the universe. That a great deal of that bicentrism was thinly veiled homophobia didn't bother them in the least.

1996 October 7, Michael Thomas, “Re: The Curious Blinkers of Michael Thomas”, in soc.bi (Usenet):

(comparable, LGBTQ) Having a bisexual bias or basis.


homoeroticism

en-noun

homoeroticism (countable and uncountable, plural homoeroticisms)

Masculine images in the ballet tend toward one of two poles: the homoeroticism of contemporary European choreographers […], and the men-drained-of-maleness we often see in Cunningham's dances.

1988 September 30, Cerinda Survant, “Truly New”, in Chicago Reader:

The state or quality of being homoerotic

homoérotisme

the state or quality of being homoerotic


GRID

The cause of the disorder is unknown. Researchers call it A.I.D., for acquired immunodeficiency disease, or GRID, for gay-related immunodeficiency. It has been reported in 20 states and seven countries.

1982 May 11, Lawrence K. Altman, “New Homosexual Disorder Worries Health Officials”, in The New York Times:

gay-related immunodeficiency
gay-related immunodeficiency#English

(pathology, dated) Acronym of gay-related immunodeficiency (“AIDS”).


antihomosexual

en-adj

antihomosexual (comparative more antihomosexual, superlative most antihomosexual)

more antihomosexual (comparative)
most antihomosexual (superlative)

Even at the height of antihomosexual hysteria during the most overwrought day of the Cold War, a number of paperbacks appeared that dealt with male homosexuality.

2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 11:


waria

From Indonesian waria, a blend of wanita (“woman”) + pria (“man”).

A member of Indonesia's traditional transfeminine third gender category.


gayborhood

We held the Gay Shame Awards in Harvey Milk Plaza, at the center of the white-washed gayborhood of the Castro, and bestowed awards in eight categories[…]

2005, Chris Carlsson, The Political Edge:

Each full-color city map features the latest updates on roads, public transit, airports, tourist sights and the city's most happening gayborhood.

[…]who learned a lot from their time in the city — but who have decided in the end that they "fit in" better away from the gayborhood.

2007, Richard LaBonte, Where the Boys Are: Urban Gay Erotica:

[…]a queer youth homeless shelter in San Francisco's gayborhood, the Castro[…]

2007, George E Haggerty, Molly McGarry, A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies:

From the Warhol museum, walk north through the quaint, red-brick Mexican War Streets (Pittsburgh's gayborhood) and head for the Q Mattress Factory[…]

2009, Jeff Campbell, Adam Karlin, Virginia Otis, New York, Washington DC and the Mid-Atlantic Trips:

“Gayborhoods are going away,” Mr. Jones said. “People need to pay attention to this. When people are dispersed, when they no longer live in geographic concentrations, when they no longer inhabit specific precincts, we lose a lot.[…]”

2022 July 3, Adam Nagourney, quoting Cleve Jones, “Once a Crucial Refuge, ‘Gayborhoods’ Lose L.G.B.T.Q. Residents in Major Cities”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A part of a city that is largely populated by gay people.


homosexualize

en-verb

homosexualize (third-person singular simple present homosexualizes, present participle homosexualizing, simple past and past participle homosexualized)

homosexualizes (present singular third-person)
homosexualizing (participle present)
homosexualized (participle past)
homosexualized (past)


cissexual

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From cis- + sexual, by analogy with transsexual, after the slightly earlier (1991) German zissexuell.

That we are working on the grounds of ontology seems clear, since the “actually” begins from a cissexual primal origin birth moment that cannot be changed but only concealed—Angie is “biologically” once-and-forever Justin.

2011, Jes Battis, Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, page 25:

Ungendering is the process by which cissexual people start to look for details or evidence that the trans person is no longer living in his/her birth gender.

2013, Kelby Harrison, Sexual Deceit: The Ethics of Passing, page 13:

Comfort is a cissexual privilege, ascribed to those who identify with and are socially and institutionally recognizable as the sex they were assigned at birth, thus conforming to a certain kind of gender norm.

2016, Em McAvan, “3: Rhetorics of Disgust and Indeterminacy in Transphobic Acts of Violence”, in Tobias Raun, editor, Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube, page 54:

(of a person, uncommon) Having a gender identity which matches one's birth sex; for example, identifying as male and having (been born with) male genitalia.


transgenderism

en-noun

transgenderism (usually uncountable, plural transgenderisms)

/ˌtɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndəɹɪsm/

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the International Journal of Transgenderism

Transexualism. Where the compulsive urge reaches beyond female vestments, and becomes an urge for gender ("sex") change, transvestism becomes "transexualism." The term is misleading; actually, "transgenderism" is meant, because sexuality is not a major factor in primary transvestism. Psychologically, the transexual often differs from the simple cross-dresser; he is conscious at all times of a strong desire to be a woman, and the urge can be truly consuming.

1965, John F. Oliven, “Sexual Deviations”, in Sexual Hygiene and Pathology: A Manual for the Physician and the Professions, 2nd edition, →OCLC, page 514:

To the same end, I steer clear from any "far out" explanation of the transgender phenomenon. I have seen a speaker have an audience fairly well with her and then, in the space of a few minutes, alienate a substantial number of them by trying to tie transgenderism to the concept of reincarnation.

1981, Linda Lee, “Public Speaking”, in Female Mimics International, volume 11, number 8, Studio City, CA: Eros Publishing Company, page 47, column 2:

Instead of searching for physiological causes of transgenderism, the early psychoanalysts proposed possible psychological origins for cross-dressing and transgenderism.

1994, Gordene Olga MacKenzie, Transgender Nation, page 37:

We will briefly discuss the interaction of gender orientation and sexuality, including transgenderism.

2012, Richard D. McAnulty, Sex in College: The Things They Don't Write Home About, page 169:

In this wider sense, transgenderism is on a continuum line with the condition of anyone who may seek to live a life that is authentic to themselves as individuals.

2013, Simona Giordano, Children with Gender Identity Disorder, page 9:

Transgender people, who identify as the opposite gender to the one they were born with, should no longer be considered mentally ill, according to a new UN categorisation. The World Health Organization issued a new catalogue Monday covering 55,000 diseases, injuries and causes of death, in which it discreetly recategorised transgenderism.[…] Several countries have already taken steps to reclassify transgenderism and take it off the list of mental disorders, including France and Denmark. Say said she thought the text, which is the result of years of discussion among experts, would easily win approval, despite widespread lack of acceptance of transgender people in many parts of the world.

2018 June 19, “Transgenderism no longer a mental illness: WHO”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2018-06-19:

(dated, see usage notes) The state of being transgender.


gender identity

gender identity (countable and uncountable, plural gender identities)

/ˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ aɪˈdɛɾ̃.ə.ɾi/

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Coined by American professor of psychiatry and researcher Robert J. Stoller in 1964.

coin

"Um... is there a better way to put it than 'female forms'? I mean, Justin's gender identity isn't getting morphed, is it?"

2020 May 4, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, May 4, 2020:

(psychology) An individual's internal sense of self as belonging to a particular gender or genders, or to no gender.

identiteti gjinor

person's sense of self as a member of a particular gender

sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts


gender dysphoria

en-noun

gender dysphoria (usually uncountable, plural gender dysphorias)

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The Saturday workshops focused mainly on the situations that the professionals may encounter in their work. Since these people would be dealing most often with those feeling gender disforia ^([sic]) (a discomfort about their gender or their need to cross-dress), the discussion centered around people in the subculture with problems.

1977 April 9, Lyn Rosen, “'Helping Professions' Meet a Sexual Minority”, in Gay Community News, page 6:

In the latest version of the DSM (the DSM-5) released in May 2013, the association changed the name from GID to “gender dysphoria.” According to the American Psychiatric Association, they changed the name “to better characterize the experiences of affected children, adolescents, and adults” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).

[2014, Nancy J. Mezey, LGBT Families, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

A profound and persistent unhappiness caused by having characteristics (body parts, clothing, etc) of, or being perceived as, a gender different from one's gender identity, experienced especially by transgender people.

genderdisforie

profound unhappiness related to characteristics associated with one's birth-assigned sex, experienced by some transgender people


FtM

Alternative form of FTM (“female-to-male (transgender)”)


drag king

From drag (“men's clothing worn by women”) + king, by analogy with drag queen. First use appears c. 1954 in the newspaper National City News (California).

compound

Part of an ongoing ethnography of an imperial sovereign court I am undertaking, this chapter explores the world of the lesbian drag king and the gendered performance she undertakes in this realm.

1973, Abstracts in Anthropology, volume 4, Google Books

(colloquial, LGBTQ) A person, usually female, who dresses up in men's clothing, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance.


MtF

Alternative form of MTF (“male-to-female (transgender)”)


MtF

Alternative form of MTF (“male-to-female (transgender person)”)


intersexed

(now uncommon and often offensive and proscribed) Intersex.


maricon

An effeminate homosexual male in a Spanish-speaking region, especially Central America.


homoerotica

Pet Shop Boys are actually the late-'80s equivalent of Soft Cell, a synth-pop duo from England with a penchant for dance beats and homoerotica-infused lyrics.

1988 December 18, Christopher Wittke, “Why I Loved Marc Almond From The Minute I First Read About Him”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 23, page 11:

His most radical legacy is having seduced a heterosexual public with soft-core homoerotica.

2007 March 11, Horacio Silva, “Muscle Man”, in New York Times:


gender identity disorder

en-noun

gender identity disorder (countable and uncountable, plural gender identity disorders)

A condition in which the patient experiences significant gender dysphoria: the diagnostic classification most commonly applied to transgender/transsexual people.

性同一性障害

せいどういつせいしょうがい


non-binary

I'm expected to live in a world where […] forms have no or few options for non-binary people, where finding a GP who understands my non-binary needs and identity is a challenge.

2013, Kim Cook, “This thing called gender”, in Up Close and Personal, page 85:

[T]he most commonly used non-binary pronouns are the singular “they/their/theirs”.

2017, Jo Green, The Trans Partner Handbook: A Guide for When Your Partner Transitions, →ISBN:

Having or pertaining to a gender identity not represented by the gender binary; not exclusively male or female; genderqueer.

niebinêr

of a digit, number system, etc: not binary

niebinêr

outside the gender binary — see also genderqueer


non-binary

For quotations using this term, see Citations:non-binary.

(informal) A non-binary (genderqueer) person.


reparative therapy

reparative therapy (countable and uncountable, plural reparative therapies)

Reparative therapy is not a cure in the sense of erasing all homosexual feelings. It is however, a successful treatment strengthening masculine identification.

1991, Joseph Nicolosi, “Reparative therapy of male homosexuality: A new clinical approach”, in Jason Aronson:

conversion therapy
conversion therapy#English

(LGBTQ, pseudoscience) Synonym of conversion therapy


conversion therapy

conversion therapy (countable and uncountable, plural conversion therapies)

(LGBTQ, pseudoscience) The practice of psychiatric or psychological treatment to attempt to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of an LGBT person; used especially as an attempt to turn gay people heterosexual.


open and affirming

en-adj

open and affirming (comparative more open and affirming, superlative most open and affirming)

more open and affirming (comparative)
most open and affirming (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Christian congregations and other Christian groups that accept gay men and women, bisexuals, and transgender people.


ex-gay

Ex-gay ministries began as redoubts for men and women trying to reconcile their faith and sexuality.

2003 January 1, Casey Sanchez, “Memphis Area Love In Action Offers Residential Program to "Cure" Homosexuality”, in Southern Poverty Law Center:

Instead of fire-and-brimstone denunciations from the pulpit, the ex-gay movement allowed the Christian right to couch its condemnation of homosexuality in a way that seemed compassionate.

2012 April 11, Gabriel Arana, “My So-Called Ex-Gay Life”, in The American Prospect:

For two decades, McKrae Game was a top-tier figure among ex-gay Christians and a leading advocate for conversion therapy, a counseling practice with the goal of helping LGBTQ people suppress their homosexuality and become "straight."

2019 September 6, Jonathan Merritt, “The ex-gay Christianity movement is making a quiet comeback. The effects on LGBTQ youth could be devastating.”, in The Washington Post:

(pseudoscience) Of or pertaining to the movement that considers homosexuality a disease and claims it can be cured by conversion therapy.


ex-gay

(pseudoscience, especially in the plural) A person who considers themselves or is considered by others to be no longer homosexual, usually due to conversion therapy.


AIS

en-noun

AIS (countable and uncountable, plural AISs or AISes or AIS's)

AISs (plural)
AISes (plural)
AIS's (plural)

/ˈeɪ ˈaɪ ˈɛs/

Australian Illawarra Shorthorn
w:en:Australian Illawarra Shorthorn

Initialism of Australian Illawarra Shorthorn (cattle breed).


Klinefelter syndrome

Named after Harry Klinefelter, who identified the condition in the 1940s.

A genetic condition in which a person is born with two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome.


bardash

From French bardache, from Italian bardassa, perhaps from Arabic بَرْدَج (bardaj, “slave”). Doublet of berdache.


Turner syndrome

Named after Henry Turner who first described the condition in 1938.

(medicine, medical genetics) A particular genetic condition, caused by partially or completely missing an X chromosome (monosomy), that leads to sterility and other issues.


postgenderism

A sociopolitical and cultural movement which arose from the eroding of the cultural, biological, psychological and social role of gender, and an argument for why the erosion of binary gender will be liberatory.


xyrself

head

xyrself (the third person singular, gender-neutral, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of xe, feminine herself, masculine himself, neuter itself, plural themselves)

en-pron

xe (reflexive-of)
herself (feminine)
himself (masculine)
itself (neuter)
themselves (plural)

Xe injured xyrself.

Judy said: [...] What I am interested in is how does it feel for the autistic person xyrself to go through this program. I have heard many negative testimonials [...]

1995 May 23, Phil Schwarz, “Re[1]: Giant Steps”, in bit.listserv.autism (Usenet):

(reflexive pronoun, rare, nonstandard) xyr; the gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject


xyr

Telepathy would require that you share the other person's knowledge of xyr own mind, which in turn requires recognizing that xe is actually aware of what xe's thinking, which is incompatible with psychiatry.

1993 September 14, Jim Sinclair, “Re: Jim and Steve's snoring discussion”, in bit.listserv.autism (Usenet), message-ID <AUTISM%93091417074261@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU>:

Now full ownership in the modern sense... implies four rights of the owner: 1. The right to decide what xe does with xyr property; 2. the right to decide what others do with xyr property; […]

1999 April 28, Dagmar Alpen, “Re: Think of a small tribe of people...”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet), message-ID <7g74qb$8sq$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>:

There's no central authority, and each server administrator owns xyr own server sets xyr own policy. Each server administrator sets xyr own policy for honouring cancel messages, too.

2010 November 5, Kevin G. Rhoads, “Re: Spam in the group.”, in openwatcom.users.fortran (Usenet), message-ID <4CD469A3.3985E10C@alum.mit.edu>:

This is xyr book.

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


untuck

en-verb

untuck (third-person singular simple present untucks, present participle untucking, simple past and past participle untucked)

untucks (present singular third-person)
untucking (participle present)
untucked (participle past)
untucked (past)

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(LGBTQ, of a drag queen, trans woman, etc.) To remove that which is concealing one’s penis and testicles such as gaff or adhesive tape.


ovotestis

(biology) A gonad with characteristics of both ovaries and testicles. Considered an intersex condition in humans and some other animals.


antitranssexual

en-adj

antitranssexual (comparative more antitranssexual, superlative most antitranssexual)

more antitranssexual (comparative)
most antitranssexual (superlative)

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"The idea that I am part of an antigay, antitranssexual conservative conspiracy is laughable," says Bailey. "

2003 December 12, Dennis Rodkin, “Sex and Transsexuals”, in Chicago Reader:


lezbro

Fag hags, lezbros and fruit flies are all as important to gay culture as homosexuals themselves.

2009 September 22, Daniel Batalla, “An end to 'fag hags'”, in Daily Titan, California State University, Fullerton, page 4:

Fag hags (straight girls who hang out with gay guys) and lezbros (straight guys who befriend lesbians) make great support, and you'll never have to worry about losing those friendships due to romantic complications!

2011, Kathy Belge, Marke Bieschke, Christian Robinson, Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens, page 63:

"As a proud lezbro who has never been scared of women smarter than me, I am happy to be the comic relief in a sea of partying all-girl, music festival fans," he said.

2020, John Waters, quoted in Denny Patterson, "John Waters at The Dinah", Out Point, 18 March 2020, page 28


leather queen

This was a long way from making him a leather queen, I had to admit, but I didn't have any trouble picturing him in those bars, leaning sinuously against something, those long strong fingers curled around a beer bottle, those flat cold eyes staring, measuring, challenging.

1991, Lawrence Block, A Ticket To The Boneyard, →ISBN, page 142:

The macho gay, the leather queen, the denim groupie — these are more than just ironic rejoinders to heterosexual masculinity.

1993, Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies, →ISBN, page 147:

To find the real Michel Foucault is to ask “which one”?
Should we look at the life of the man himself, who as a boy wanted to be a goldfish, but became a philosopher and historian, political activist, leather queen, bestseller, tireless campaigner for dissident causes?

1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN, page 3

(slang, LGBTQ) A gay man with a fetish for leather.


wasbian

On the island she will meet up with her pal Mary Sharon (a slightly subdued, slightly aging radical-feminist-lesbian attorney), Teddie (ex-love of Rachel and only slightly less-true-believer), Rachel (who’s hosting the reunion on her tiny island), Grace (enigma extraordinaire), and Julie (ex of Tyler’s, now a ‘wasbian’).

1999 October 31, Beren deMotier, “Mystery Forum,” The Lesbian Review of Books

(LGBTQ, slang, derogatory, sometimes offensive) A former lesbian who is now heterosexual.


glam lesbian

"No Day Like Sunday" is becoming a chic weekly institution among the snooty and glam lesbian set.

Nevertheless, there have been some notable exceptions, from the lesbian mom in Ellen to the glam lesbian couple in If These Walls Could Talk.

2003, Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 221:

A lesbian with a very feminine appearance.


isiGqumo

A cant (argot) jargon used by Bantu African mine workers in small townships in South Africa, in same-sex circumstances.


nonbisexual

Often the nonbisexual spouse who is struggling to live with the loss of monogamy does not want to be exposed to some of the explorations and struggles in which the bisexual partner is engaged.

2013, Jon Carlson, Len Sperry, Intimate Couple, page 450:


confirmed bachelor

en-noun

confirmed bachelor (plural confirmed bachelors)

To Sebastian's pleasure, he had remained a confirmed bachelor, for many years with no one other than a few now deceased sexual partners, the now deceased detective, Arek Mannheim and the elusive Gustav Barnas knowing his true sexual preference.

2003, Alan M. Bickel, The Fall of Stara Ves, page 439:


spironolactone

(pharmacology) A steroid drug which acts as an antimineralocorticoid (for which purpose it is used in the treatment of certain types of edema and hypertension) and an antiandrogen (for which purpose it is used as part of some types of hormone therapy, especially for transgender women).


same-gender-loving

Coined for African American use by activist Cleo Manago because he felt the terms gay and lesbian were not affirmative of black values, perspectives, and experiences.

(chiefly African-American Vernacular) homosexual (particularly in the African-American community)


bigender

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Having a tendency to move between feminine and masculine gender-typed behaviour depending on context.


omnisexual

This omnisexual libertine who shuttles between his whore and his catamite (with equally regular visits to his tailor) has no classical prototype since aggressive bisexuality was completely acceptable as ‘masculine’ behaviour in ancient Greek society.

1988 August, Susan C. Shapiro, “‘Yon Plumed Dandebrat’: Male ‘Effeminacy’ in English Satire and Criticism”, in The Review of English Studies, volume 39, number 155, →JSTOR, page 411:

There was something in this that made our relationship more than homosexual, and more than heterosexual. Perhaps it could be called an omnisexual relationship.

1996 July 24, Ferdinando Camon with John Shepley, The Sickness Called Man, Marlboro Press, →ISBN, page 9:

In short, all readers can share, consciously and/or unconsciously, Whitman’s omnisexual vision—omnisexual in the all-encompassing sense of embracing auto-, homo-, and heteroerotic impulses.

1998 August 1, James E. Miller, Jr., “Sex and Sexuality”, in J. R. LeMaster, Donald D. Kummings, editors, Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, →ISBN, →OL, page 631:

These Oedipal tensions are mirrored by a structural conflict between the [new Doctor Who] series’ tacit multiculturalism—captured by omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness, who exemplifies an exogamous future humankind that goes to the stars to “dance” with every species they meet—and the drive to reunite the nuclear family […]

2008 May 2, Mark Bould, “Science Fiction Television in the United Kingdom”, in J. P. Telotte, editor, The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 225:

Being attracted to all genders (sometimes distinguished from pansexual by saying omnisexual attraction may still take account of gender or prefer particular genders).

Psyche’s participation in the archetypical patterns of heroic action logically implies that heroism itself is an asexual or omnisexual archetype.

1979 Autumn, Lee R. Edwards, “The Labors of Psyche: Toward a Theory of Female Heroism”, in Critical Inquiry, volume 6, number 1, →JSTOR, page 44:

Historically, sameness sexism marks the disappearance of conditions in which goddess religions flourished: prepatriarchal conditions in which men imagined women as awesome, omnipotent birth-givers, omnisexual creatures with both big breasts and penises.

1998, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, The Anatomy of Prejudices, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OL:

Androgynous, exhibiting traits of all sexes.

Both Queen Victoria and Sigmund Freud have, however, become common adjectives in our time, one describing the Dark Ages of sexual repression, the other an omnisexual world in which everything has sexual significance.

1982 April, Sterling Fishman, “The History of Childhood Sexuality”, in Journal of Contemporary History, volume 17, number 2, →JSTOR, page 279:

To be a virgin in high school wasn't, even in the omnisexual milieu of the Pioneer Valley, such a social black spot.

2009, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Admission, New York: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, →OL:

Having or exhibiting sexuality everywhere.


pink dollar

(US) The business generated by providing goods and services to the homosexual community.


Dorothy dollar

From Dorothy Gale, a character in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, whose actress Judy Garland in the 1939 film adaptation is a symbol among the LGBT community.


lez out

en-verb

lez out (third-person singular simple present lezzes out, present participle lezzing out, simple past and past participle lezzed out)

lezzes out (present singular third-person)
lezzing out (participle present)
lezzed out (participle past)
lezzed out (past)

Jeez, Rae, don't lez out on me.

2006, Sarah Bird, The Flamenco Academy, page 104:

I just figured, a two-girl call and you'd have to lez out for them.

2004, Michelle Tea, Laurenn McCubbin, Rent Girl, page 85:

(intransitive, colloquial) Chiefly of a heterosexual woman, to engage in lesbian activity.

lesbeln

chiefly of a heterosexual woman, to engage in lesbian activity


DSD

Defence Signals Directorate
w:Defence Signals Directorate

Initialism of Defence Signals Directorate: an Australian government intelligence agency responsible for signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information security (INFOSEC).


nontranssexual

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lesbianization

She uses the work of Cherrie Moraga, Ester Hernandez, and Marcia Ochoa to talk about cultural productions and the lesbianization of the heterosexual icons of popular culture.

1999, Alicia Arrizón, Latina performance: traversing the stage:

Such lesbianization is discursively imputed to those flatter organizations which are women-only, and as a result they are routinely constituted as suspect and stigmatized.

1996, Sarah Oerton, Beyond hierarchy: gender, sexuality, and the social economy:

Curiously, this lesbianization of the family is shadowed by a wistful romanticization of the very Chicano patriarch Moraga critiques throughout her book...

2002, Teresa Hubel, Neil Edward Brooks, Literature and racial ambiguity:

The act, process or result of lesbianizing.


lesbianize

lesbianize (third-person singular simple present lesbianizes, present participle lesbianizing, simple past and past participle lesbianized)

lesbianizes (present singular third-person)
lesbianizing (participle present)
lesbianized (participle past)
lesbianized (past)

Thus the poem lesbianises a myth of heterosexual conflict.

1993, Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women, Bello, published 2014, page 128:


cissy

From cis(gender) + -y, on the analogy of tranny and punning on sissy.

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> Cis- is a Latin prefix meaning "on this side" or, less correctly, "near", as opposed to trans-, Latin for "across" or "through".
Gee, I guess that makes most folks cissies! :-)

1998 June 10, Karen Ross, “Re: what does cisgendered stand for anyway ...”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):

"She could be a straight cissy who just had a bunch of plastic surgery done," Tabitha said. A cissy was a 'cisgendered' person, someone who wasn't transsexual, someone happy with being and dressing like whatever gender they were born as.

2003, Brian St.Claire-King, Fates Worse Than Death: Sunrise Hotel, →ISBN, page 104:

If a coalition of queer and trans-rights groups came together and called for a big demonstration outside the Fox News studeios in midtown Manhattan, I would be there along with tons of other gay, lesbian, straight and bi cissies. How about it?

2014 January 8-15, Dan Savage, in Philadelphia Weekly

(slang, rare, often humorous, sometimes derogatory) A cisgender or cissexual person.


gay curious

Curious about one's homosexuality; curious to try homosexuality.


cruisy

en-adj

cruisy (comparative cruisier, superlative cruisiest)

cruisier (comparative)
cruisiest (superlative)


gay marry

en-verb

gay marry (third-person singular simple present gay marries, present participle gay marrying, simple past and past participle gay married)

gay marries (present singular third-person)
gay marrying (participle present)
gay married (participle past)
gay married (past)

Heartache schmartache, I don't want to gay-marry you, oh sizzling Sapphite.

2009, anonymous author, Missed Connection with Every Lesbian Girl I've Ever Swooned Over - m4w:

(transitive, nonstandard) To marry (a person of the same sex).

First, sex doesn't hover cutely over the ceremony, because everyone assumes gay-marrying types are the least-sexual gay people.

2004, Greg Wharton, Ian Philips, I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage, page 219:

(intransitive) To marry a person of the same sex.

Schwarzenegger Basically Admits He's A Democrat
Clearly the governor is angling for an administration job, which he'll accept once he's finished gay marrying the entire state of California.

(transitive) To unite in a gay marriage; to unite in marriage to someone of the same sex.


RLE

en-noun

RLE (countable and uncountable, plural RLEs)

run-length encoding
run-length encoding#English

(computing) Initialism of run-length encoding.

real-life experience
real-life experience#English

(LGBTQ) Initialism of real-life experience.


transie

[…] understand that we need to work on our own issues as transies, and that we need to prepare for the "next transformation" […]

1995, Sandy Stone, in TransSisters: the Journal of Transsexual Feminism (Spring 1995)

[>How interesting it would be to watch and assist her as she grows to fully embrace her womanhood, and how delightful to lend your masculine touch to her life.]
Oh, yes, when I think of the "masculine touch" I immediately envision a transie.

1997 October 11, Mrs Butkus, “Re: Confessions of a Middle-Aged Transfan Wannabe”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A transsexual, transgender, or transvestite person; a tranny.


yas

'Oh! yas, I smokes; but I durned sight d'ruther chaw.'

1862, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862:

"Yas, yas!" they cried, with broader grins and many nods.

1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 175:

It's nice, yas, and it's paid for.

1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass:

(often African-American Vernacular, LGBTQ or valley girl, slang) Nonstandard spelling of yes.

often African-American Vernacular; LGBTQ or valley girl; often African-American Vernacular; LGBTQ or valley girl


nontransgender

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superfemale

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A female with an additional X chromosome in each cell (triple X syndrome).


queerdo

I don't look like Indhira Ghandi yet. / Dummy-heado, stupid queerdo. / Holden, Howard and No Hands.

1985, “[Untitled]”, in Lake Forest College Yearbook, page 143:

A club for queerdos and weirdos featuring electro, indie, R&B, '80s, hip-hop, punk, and more.

2005 October 19, Laurie Koh [complier], “Events Listings”, in The San Francisco Bay Guardian, page 81:

[…] and a burning urge to write something. Anything — it just needed to be queer. Why? Because this l'il queerdo had been a longtime Gay Place reader […]

2020 February 14, Beth Sullivan, “Qmmunity”, in The Austin Chronicle, page 60:

(US, slang) A particularly strange LGBTQ+ person.


gender identity syndrome

gender identity disorder
gender identity disorder


XYY syndrome

An aneuploidy of the sex chromosomes in which a human male receives an extra Y chromosome, giving a total of 47 chromosomes instead of the usual 46; the condition is associated with learning difficulties and above-average height.


supermale

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GLBTI

Initialism of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual and intersex. Alternative form of LGBTI


BL

From Japanese BL(ビーエル) (bīeru), from ボーイズラブ (bōizu rabu), from English boys + love.

Initialism of boys' love (“yaoi media”).


LGBTI

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual and intersex.


knob-gobbler

(vulgar, slang, derogatory) Synonym of cock gobbler.


DADT

don't ask, don't tell
don't ask, don't tell#English

(US, politics, military) Initialism of don't ask, don't tell.


two-spirited

en-adj

two-spirited (comparative more two-spirited, superlative most two-spirited)

more two-spirited (comparative)
most two-spirited (superlative)

An organization established this year in San Diego is one of the few in the country made up of Two Spirited people (a Native term for gay men and lesbians), according to one of its founders, Tom Lidot.

1991 December 22, Dawn Schmitz, “New Two Spirited Group Formed”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 23, page 2:

Of, pertaining to or being a two-spirit.


cuntiness

This one was a ball-cutter; give her an opening and she'd plunge the knife of her cuntiness into the heart of your sensitivity faster than Superman changes costumes.

1969, Myles Eric Ludwig., Golem: A Hero for Our Time, page 192:

In my message, I spewed out all of the anger I had built up over the years – years of her bitchy, instigating and deliberate acts of cuntiness.

2006, Pat Mulligan., The Life and Times of a Hollywood Bad Boy, page 337:

Gen and I began a tradition of slapping each other, based on our own private Fujita scale of cuntiness. If either of us was...an F-5 Bitch Storm, the other would slap her as hard as humanly possible.

2014, Babe Walker., Psychos: A White Girl Problems Book, page 208:

(vulgar, now especially LGBTQ) The state or quality of being cunty.


Gay Games

A sports and cultural event held every four years for LGBT people.


sapphic

Clinton and I became peripherally involved with a pair of Leckford Road girls who, principally sapphic in their interests, would arrange for sessions of group frolic.

[...] and rumor had it that the Margo—Eve relationship was inspired by the bisexual Bankhead and her Skin of Our Teeth understudy [...] (The 1947 film version teamed Humphrey Bogart with sapphic stars Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith.)

2013, Boze Hadleigh, Broadway Babylon: Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way, Back Stage Books, →ISBN, page 194:

Her lyrics are deeply personal and wide reaching and she weaves in indignation at the state of American politics while simultaneously exploring her identity as a black sapphic [pansexual] woman.

2018 December 10, Jess Taylor Weissner, review of Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer, in The Courier, page 18

Perhaps the queer, unnatural, and possibly disturbing conjunctions of the trans and nonbinary sapphic can help to do just that.

2023 July 26, Susan S. Lancer, SAME/DIFFERENCE? TOWARD A SAPPHIC/NONBINARY SEXUALITY OF HISTORY, in https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hith.12319

Lesbian, relating to lesbianism, or (broadly) to women who are attracted (not necessarily exclusively) to women.


light in the loafers

light in the loafers (comparative more light in the loafers, superlative most light in the loafers)

more light in the loafers (comparative)
most light in the loafers (superlative)

Men of my group are either married or, as S.P. would say, ‘light in the loafers.’ Homosexuals, you'd call them.

1980, Helen Van Slyke, No Love Lost, New York: Lippincott & Crowell, page 203:

You'll make a nice living; and maybe when you're sixty you'll marry a nice guy, a little light in the loafers maybe, but you'll still be pure by then; and you'll do the grand-lady bit, and he’ll be your escort.

1981, Heywood Gould, Glitterburn, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 98:

“What about Father Jim and Mr. Gary?” Mary Lane said, passing by me, “They are light in the loafers together.”

2007, Lesley Kagen, Whistling In the Dark, Penguin, →ISBN:

(idiomatic, slang, derogatory, euphemistic) Gay; homosexual.

(no exact equivalent exists) 死基佬 (sǐ jīlǎo, literally “damn gay guy”)


neopenis

Coordinate term: neovagina

The neopenis can only become erect by inserting stiff material into it or by having plastic tubes implanted into the groin, so that pressing a bulb will cause the penis to hydraulically inflate with fluid and erect.

1994, Gordene Olga MacKenzie, Transgender nation:

Although many of the phalloplasty techniques may achieve closely the goals of a neopenis with normal urination, none of them are perfect, and therefore none have achieved universal acceptance.

2015, Vincenzo Mirone, Clinical Uro-Andrology, page 39:

A surgically constructed penis, as of a transgender man who has undergone sex reassignment surgery, or a cisgender man who lacked a penis due to a congenital defect, illness, or injury.


butchy

butchy (comparative butchier, superlative butchiest)

butchier (comparative)
butchiest (superlative)


Phan

Phish "phans" compile set lists, take notes on performances and tape-record everything from a section designated for them at each show.

2000 September 23, “Eclectic crowd catches Phish”, in The Washington Times:

But none were as crazy as this one -- when Phish's tie-dyed "Phans" danced in the aisles, sang along to the music and generally created a scene that recalled the Grateful Dead's glory daze.

2006 July 9, “Wanna try the meaning of life?”, in Oakland Tribune:

It was the type of evening -- an entirely mesmerizing and moving two-set concert filled with superb musicianship and incredible improvisation -- that made the undying devotion of the "phans" seem quite logical.

2012 August 20, Jim Harrington, “Review: Phish closes SF stand on legendary note”, in Contra Costa Times:

(slang) A fan of the American rock band Phish.


Phan

In 2017 Tumblr fandometrics identified that two of the ten most reblogged ships were RPF ships. YouTube vloggers Dan Howell and Phil Lester, whose ship portmanteau is Phan, […]

2018 June, Emily E. Roach, “The homoerotics of the boyband, queerbaiting and RPF in pop music fandoms”, in The Journal of Fandom Studies, volume 6, number 2:

In hindsight, I now regret the errors of my ways (flashback to the time I was embarrassingly obsessed with Phan, the romantic pairing of YouTubers Daniel Howell and Phil Lester) as I find it uncomfortable to see people make the mistakes I once did.

2019 June 24, Jade Tan, “All Aboard The Ship”, in The High, International School of Lausanne, page 10:

Fans were so frenzied by the idea of a romantic relationship between them that Phan has always maintained a spot in the top five of Yearly Top Ships on Tumblr for the past three years.

2020 May, Sherin John Francis, Kavya Purushothaman, “Fanfiction: A Study as An Uprising Genre in LIterature”, in Purakala, volume 31, number 30, page 28:

(fandom slang) The real-person fiction ship of YouTube personalities Daniel Howell and Phil Lester.


bigendered

Once converted, southern white men abandoned many of the male-only public domains for the bigendered and biracial public world of evangelicalism.

2006, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810:


tumtum

bor

Hebrew טומטום

Therefore, if a man died leaving a son and a tumtum or a hermaphrodyte, the son inherits everything, since the heirship of the tumtum or of the hermaphrodyte is doubtful.

1949 (printing), Maimonides, The Code of Maimonides: The Book of Civil Laws, p. 273

As it happens, the baraita in question speaks of the tumtum twice, introducing an apparent redundancy into the text. To be specific, Abbaye's solution, proposing an unusual interpretation of the first tumtum ("his testicles are evident from the outside"), allows for a different reading of tumtum in each of his two usages.

1996, David Charles Kraemer, Reading the Rabbis: the Talmud as Literature, page 122:

A tumtum and a hermaphrodite should not dress like a woman, but neither should they cut the hair on their head like a man.

2001, Ruth N. Sandberg, Development and Discontinuity in Jewish Law, page 100:

A. DEFINITION OF THE TERM The term tumtum, meaning ambiguous genitalia, is not found in Scripture.

2003, Avraham Steinberg, Fred Rosner, Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics, page 50:

(Judaism) One whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.


cismasculine

en-adj

cismasculine (comparative more cismasculine, superlative most cismasculine)

more cismasculine (comparative)
most cismasculine (superlative)

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Of or pertaining to male cisgender people or experiences.


transmasculine

transmasculine (comparative more transmasculine, superlative most transmasculine)

more transmasculine (comparative)
most transmasculine (superlative)

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Bodybuilding as a form of body modification is understood by transmasculine individuals to further enhance a desired masculine presentation.

2011, Anurag Saxena, Biomechanics in Physical Education, →ISBN:

I approach this issue through a focus on the role of the voice in constituting the masculine gender positionalities of trans men and others on the transmasculine identity spectrum. Transmasculine is an umbrella term referring to individuals who were assigned to a female gender role at birth but at some point come to self-identify as men, or with some other masculine identity, rather than seeing themselves as women.

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

[...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:

For transmasculine individuals, it has been commonly assumed that voice and communication training is not warranted, because testosterone administration, which many undergo for gender dysphoria, is often sufficient for masculine voice [development].

2018, Richard K. Adler, Sandy Hirsch, Jack Pickering, Voice and Communication Therapy for the Transgender/Gender Diverse Client: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide, Third Edition, Plural Publishing, →ISBN, page 141:

Pertaining to people who were assigned female but whose gender identities are masculine.


GSA

Initialism of gay-straight alliance: a student-run society for discussion of issues relating to sexual orientation.


down-low

en-noun

down-low (countable and uncountable, plural down-lows)


Hermaphroditus

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἑρμαφρόδιτος (Hermaphróditos, from Ἑρμῆς (Hermês) + Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē)).

bor

Ἑρμαφρόδιτος

A male Aphrodite (Aphroditus), represented as a herm with a phallus, the symbol of fertility.


QT

en-noun

QT (countable and uncountable, plural QTs)

In contrast to structuralist frameworks which seek to filter the "essential" characteristics of a phenomenon from the messiness of lived experience, QT sees all identity as perpetually in contest and, consequently, variable […].

2016, Jason P. Murphy, Catherine A. Lugg, “Scavenging as Queer Methodology”, in Nelson M. Rodriguez, Wayne J. Martino, Jennifer C. Ingrey, Edward Brockenbrough, editors, Critical Concepts in Queer Studies and Education (Queer Studies and Education), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 389:

(LGBTQ, social sciences) Initialism of queer theory.


QT

Furthermore, home insemination should be allowed […] The advantage is that home insemination is less costly and thus accessible for more QT people.

2018, Doris Leibetseder, “Reproductive Technologies for Queer and Trans People”, in Ezio Di Nucci, Ji-Young Lee, Isaac A. Wagner, editors, The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 262:


vaginoplasty

Although a functional vaginoplasty is performed in a single stage, further feminization of the mons pubis can be performed at a second surgical stage.

2016, Loren S. Schechter, Surgical Management of the Transgender Patient, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 25:

(surgery) A surgical procedure used to construct or reconstruct a vaginal canal and mucous membrane.


yestergay

(slang, LGBTQ) A former gay male who is now in a heterosexual relationship.


Jaspis

Blend of jasper and lapis (from lapis lazuli).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Lazuli Jasper and Lapis Lazulifrom the Steven Universe series.


gender reassignment

gender reassignment (countable and uncountable, plural gender reassignments)

The process of changing one's sex, usually by a combination of medicinal and surgical means; sex change.


GID

GID (countable and uncountable, plural GIDs)

gender identity disorder
gender identity disorder#English

(psychology, uncountable) Initialism of gender identity disorder.


gay panic defense

gay panic defense (plural gay panic defenses)

(informal, law) A claim of self-defense against an unwanted homosexual advance.


pomosexual

en-adj

pomosexual (comparative more pomosexual, superlative most pomosexual)

more pomosexual (comparative)
most pomosexual (superlative)

/ˌpəʊməʊˈsɛksjʊəl/

From pomo (“post-modern”) + sexual, playing on homosexual. Attested since the 1990s.

Rejecting, avoiding, or not fitting in any sexual orientation label, such as heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, pansexual, or bisexual.


homowhore

They don’t celebrate the light of the world, they flaunt the objects of perverse lust, catamites and homowhores, brawnhawkers.

1993, Jonathan Meades, Pompey, Vintage, published 1994, page 282:

You're best buddies with a homo-whore and I just saw you in here letting Lightsburg's favorite old fag buy you dinner.

2009, John Barnes, Tales of the Madman Underground, unnumbered page:

Others pay homowhores and prostitutes - infected sex equals higher HIV prevalence

2009, Pinki Virani, Deaf Heaven, page 90:

(slang, derogatory, rare) A promiscuous gay man or male same-sex prostitute.


cis man

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Not only do people harass and attack transwomen for being who they are: transwomen also face scrutiny from both ciswomen and cismen over “what” they are.

2010, Holly Kearl, Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 57:


cis woman

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cis person

en-noun

cis person (plural cis persons or cis people)

cis persons (plural)
cis people (plural)

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A cisgender/cissexual person: one whose gender matches his or her assigned sex.


genetic girl

(dated, LGBTQ slang, now offensive) A cis woman.


hormone replacement therapy

hormone replacement therapy (countable and uncountable, plural hormone replacement therapies)

Trans women often undergo hormone replacement therapy using estrogens and antiandrogens.

Elderly women can use estrogenic hormone replacement therapy to alleviate postmenopausal symptoms.

(medicine, especially serotherapy) Any of several medical regimens that introduce sex hormones to the body to replace lost or unavailable ones.

bio-identical hormone replacement therapy


queer studies

The study, based on critical theory, of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, usually focusing on LGBT.


queer theory

(LGBTQ) A field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of LGBT studies and feminist studies, a kind of interpretation devoted to queer readings of texts.


beardom

beardom (usually uncountable, plural beardoms)

Coordinate term: twinkdom

The state of being a bear (in homosexual subculture).


meido

From Japanese メイド (meido, “maid, maidservant”), from English maid.

uder

Actually, the two times I was there, it was really quite dull in terms of the people wandering around. The most excitement I saw was that one candidate for Prime Minister giving a van-top speech in front of Akihabara station. Oh, and a demonstration of some RC "Tokyo Drift" toy cars out on the street. No dancing in the streets, only a very few meido (some of questionable gender >__< ), and quite a few gaikokujin.

2008 February 9, Captain Nerd [username], “Re: "Alien Jones" - "Boss" coffee ads”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

These meido attract customers by role-playing the part of a maid, complete with French maid-inspired outfits that are long on fantasy elements and typically short on skirt length.

2009, John Graham-Cumming, The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive, O'Reilly Media, published 2009, →ISBN, page 104:

"I like having conversations with different meidos," he explains, "but Haruki is my favourite because she's friendliest to me."
[…]
Utena, a meido with pink hair and red plastic horns, recently celebrated her fourth year at Maidolce.

2012 April 1, Dave Tacon, “Dusting off a geek fetish for all things maid in Japan”, in Sydney Morning Herald:


gay for pay

(informal, of heterosexual entertainers or sex workers) Performing a homosexual role for money.


gaysian

It’s also supported by comments from my gaysian friends, and observing how Asian men are treated in gayville.

2011, Jimmy Nguyen, Why the gay rainbow needs to embrace more colors of beauty, in the San Diego Gay and Lesbian News (link)

(LGBTQ, slang) A gay Asian, especially a male.


Gayville

It’s also supported by comments from my gaysian friends and observing how Asian men are treated in Gayville.

2011 March 3, Jimmy Nguyen, “Gaysians Are Beautiful”, in Advocate.com

(LGBTQ slang, rare) The gay community; gays, taken collectively.


robosexual

A person who is sexually attracted to robots.


gay bash

en-verb

gay bash (third-person singular simple present gay bashes, present participle gay bashing, simple past and past participle gay bashed)

gay bashes (present singular third-person)
gay bashing (participle present)
gay bashed (participle past)
gay bashed (past)

Josh had to go to hospital last night after being gay bashed outside a pub.

(transitive, slang) To physically or verbally assault someone believed to be homosexual.

攻擊同性戀

physically assault someone believed to be homosexual


homophobiaphobia

Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce "homophobiaphobia" — the fear not of homosexuals but of homophobes.

2001 July 3, Bruce Vilanch, “That's Myth Tom to you”, in The Advocate, page 40:

Williams's gay critics seem caught in this circular homophobiaphobia, in which the closet is obsessively opened and closed, its limits marked and remarked, its positive and negative charged and recharged.

2010, Jim Elledge, Queers in American Popular Culture, Volume 1, page 197:

uh huh. people sure know how to be annoyed about no matter what these days. problem here seems to be homophobiaphobia rather than homophobia. :)

2015, Korhonen, quoted in Susanna Paasonen, "A Midsummer's Bonfire: Affective Intensities of Online Debate", in Networked Affect (eds. Ken Hillis, Susanna Paasonen, & Michael Petit), page 38

(rare, often sarcastic) Antipathy towards homophobia and/or homophobes.


en femme

From the French phrase en femme, as in s’habille en femme. Compare the (English) femme.

Most of them also “love to shop”—especially en femme[.]

2002 July, Jane E. Hegland, Nancy J. Nelson, Cross-Dressers in Cyber-Space: Exploring the Internet as a Tool for Expressing Gendered Identity, in the International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, volume 7, issues 2–3, pages 139–161

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


no homo

You look like you have been working out — no homo.

I love you bro, you're awesome; no homo.

July 7 2011 by Kai Greene
Squeeze your lats. Does that make sense? Take your hands, I want you to grab here on me. Grab my lats. Grab em, grab em, grab em. No homo.

(informal, often sarcastic, often offensive) Used immediately before or after a statement to indicate that there was no homosexual meaning intended, especially when such a meaning is a reasonable interpretation.


trans male

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


nancyboy

With Mum out of earshot, he continued: "I don't believe you did six girls. I think you're a liar. I think you're either a virgin or a nancyboy."

2003, Alan Grayson, Mile End, Ragged Sky Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 84:

This was Marcus, this effeminate, mincing nancyboy, picking his way fastidiously across the grass?

2009, Andrew Chapman, Pagan, →ISBN, page 303:

Always having to look over your shoulder for some prissy little nancyboy from the ACLU trying to get you bounced from the force.

2009, Peter S. Fischer, The Blood of Tyrants, The Grove Point Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 60:

(slang, derogatory, Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) Synonym of nancy: an effeminate man, especially an effeminate homosexual.


ambigendered

Mr. Cumming’s Dionysus in “The Bacchae” is conceived as a rock star, the rhythm-and-blues Maenads as his backup singers and groupies, and his feud with his cousin Pentheus, king of Thebes, as an encounter of the hedonistic, ambigendered, exotic Other, with “the fear of letting that into your culture,” Mr. Tiffany said.

2008 June 29, Celia Mcgee, “The Greeks Hoist the Dramatic Flag of Scotland”, in New York Times:


go both ways

go both ways (third-person singular simple present goes both ways, present participle going both ways, simple past went both ways, past participle gone both ways)

goes both ways (present singular third-person)
going both ways (participle present)
went both ways (past)
gone both ways (participle past)

When Mark sought my supervision, I taught him the terms top and bottom and explained that gay men usually self-identify as either one or the other. Some men go both ways—calling themselves "versatile"—[…]

2011, Joe Kort, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 180:

(informal, especially of a gay man) To be versatile, able to act as either a top or a bottom.


same-sex marriage

en-noun

same-sex marriage (countable and uncountable, plural same-sex marriages)

Thailand’s Constitutional Court yesterday conceded that its objections to same-sex marriage are ideological rather than legal in a statement declaring it “against the natural order.” The comments, included in the court’s full 12-page ruling against a challenge to the charter’s prohibition of same-sex marriage, angered proponents and supporters of marriage equality and has sent #ConstitutionalCourtisSexist trending atop Thai Twitter since last night.

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

Marriage between two people of the same sex.


pozzie

In fact, any sexual encounter with a pozzie always contains some risk of transmission — however small.

(informal, LGBTQ) An HIV positive person.


party and play

Consider Steve, a 32-year-old Latino, someone interviewed as part of a larger study in Long Beach, CA, as he discusses his predilection toward identifying himself as HIV positive in party and play (drug and sex) situations (situations he sees as the essential core of gay cultural life in Long Beach).

2009, Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., “Living with and Experiencing Disease”, in Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, Graham Moon, editors, A Companion to Health and Medical Geography, →DOI, →ISBN, page 198:

(sexuality) Uninhibited, high-risk sexual activity accompanied by the use of recreational drugs.


zirself

head

zirself (the third person singular, gender-neutral, personal pronoun)

2002, Louise, “Anyone want to introduce zirself before APC9?”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):

I'm trying to point out that his 'help' would be seriously damaging to a person who lacks the ability to fix zirself through a sheer act of will.

2002, Lorremiddy, “Today is a great day.”, in soc.singles.moderated (Usenet):

This is the pronoun that Carter uses to describe zirself.

2007, Sherryl Vint, Bodies of tomorrow: technology, subjectivity, science fiction, page 213:

"End," zie said to zirself. Recalling the dream's authors, zie thought, At least they can still have them... Zie couldn't imagine a single thing.

2007, Colette Phair, Nightmare in Silicon: A Novel:

(reflexive pronoun) zir; the gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject


sissyphobia

Although a cultural reaction has begun to set in, sissyphobia still dominates present societal thinking which regards with diffidence most sensitivity, creativity, tender demeanor and confidingly close same-sex friendships in males.

1974, John F. Oliven, Clinical sexuality: a manual for the physician and the professions:

I have built my model from feminist tenets because, although as Doyle (1983), Herek (1987) and others have noted, sissyphobia is derived via projection from both misogyny and from homophobia[…]

1993, Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger, Heterosexuality: a feminism and psychology reader, page 164:

Rather than merely producing a simulacrum of past decades, however, this synthetic utopia rewrites the Israeli masculinity and effeminates the cultural national agenda in regard to the politics of effeminacy, sissyness, and sissyphobia […]

2009, Temple University. School of Communications and Theater, Communication abstracts (volume 32, issue 1)

A prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.

plomafòbia

negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way


t-girl

Some of them are unaware that t-girls are often heterosexual, and the idea that a genetic woman would enjoy being with a t-girl usually tickles them pink.

2003, Helen Boyd, My husband Betty: love, sex, and life with a crossdresser, page 211:

Sex play with a t-girl is fun. It's like sex play with a sexy girl, except for that extra penis and a tendency to be more uninhibited than it usually is with your average non-t-girl.

2008, Lannie Rose, How To Change Your Sex, page 42:


trans person

en-noun

trans person (plural trans persons or trans people)

trans persons (plural)
trans people (plural)

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

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


TG girl

/ˈtiːˈdʒiːˌɡɜːl/

(LGBTQ, slang) A trans woman, a male-to-female transsexual or transgender person.


trans guy

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


trans man

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A transgender or transsexual man, i.e., a man who was assigned female at birth.

体は女 心は男

からだはおんな こころはおとこ


kathoey

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A transgender person or person of a third gender assigned male at birth.

泰國人妖

in Thailand, a transgender person or person of a third gender assigned male at birth, or a feminine gay man — see also ladyboy


trans woman

In “Femininity," Freud describes the limits of psychoanalytic knowledge of the female as follows: “psychoanalysis does not try to describe what a woman is — that would be a task it could scarcely perform — but sets about enquiring how she comes into being.” I was born “male" (whatever the contingencies of that term may be), and I lived my childhood largely (at least visibly) as a boy. But I grew up to be a trans woman.[…]
At one point, she spoke of "boys who played the flute in school bands," and I suddenly realized that to have been a boy who played the flute in school bands was a mark of distinction: that to have been that kind of boy included me in a very special and wonderful "sisterhood." I will never again give in to shame about being a flute-playing sissy. I'm proud of the sissy I was, and the trans woman that sissy became. (And I will try, as well, not to be ashamed of the adolescent with hir collar turned up trying so hard to be tough. S/he was struggling hard to survive, and s/he used whatever tools s/he could find.)

1999, Jody Norton, “The Boy Who Grew Up to Be a Woman”, in Matthew Rottnek, editor, Sissies and Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood, New York University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 263, 268:

A transgender or transsexual woman; i.e., a woman who was assigned male at birth; i.e., a person who was assigned male at birth but who has a female or primarily-female gender identity.

wrgrn

person assigned male at birth who lives as a woman

trans womyn

transfeminist spelling, especially of the plural


boy cunt

(vulgar, transgender slang) The vagina and/or vulva of a trans man.


TS girl

...and the sixteen year-old French TS girl I saw on TV probably twenty-five years ago, whose peasant parents treated her like just another one of their daughters.

2003, Erica Zander, TransActions, Periskop, published 2003, →ISBN, page 203:

There was a pause. For a moment I thought she had left the computer. But then she started typing again. She wanted to know if I knew she was a TS girl. A TS girl? What on earth was a TS girl?

2007, Stuart Cooke, "One Night with Chinta", Meanjin, Volume 66 (No.1), March 2007

I've also known TS girls that lacked the adequate training or job skills needed to perform as a woman, or to attain the degree or status of transition they seek merely because they can't pass or find meaningful employment in their chosen gender.

2009, Shannon Leigh O'Shea, Blue Life…Pink Heart: What It's Like Being the Pink Sheep of the Family, The Mystery Girls Publishing, published 2009, →ISBN, page 260:

(LGBTQ, slang) A trans girl, a trans woman; a male-to-female transsexual person.

(medicine) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see TS, girl. (A girl who has a medical condition, such as Turner syndrome or Tourette syndrome, which is initialized "TS".)


power bottom

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In one phrase, power bottom means, "Shut up and lie down. I'll take care of the rest."

2003 April, Steven Gregory Underwood, Gay Men and Anal Eroticism: Tops, Bottoms, and Versatiles, Harrington Park Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 27:

Dennis: I'm sure there's a great deal of switching back and forth, but I think more often than not, bears are tops. Unless they happen to be power bottoms.

2007 October 4, “The Gang Sells Out”, in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 3, episode 7, spoken by Dennis, Frank, and Mac (Glenn Howerton, Danny DeVito, and Rob McElhenney):

I know a power bottom when I fuck one.

2008, Sean Wolfe, Taboo, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 70:

"I love that you're a power bottom", Michael said between thrusts.

2010 October 6, John Simpson, Wolf's Head Inn, →ISBN, →OL:

(LGBTQ slang) An especially aggressive or energetic receiving partner during sex.


gaydom

Elsewhere, "gaydom" was rapidly becoming "lesbian and gaydom.

1996, Brett Beemyn, Mickey Elianon, Queer studies: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology, page 56

2000, Larry Kramer, Reynolds Price, Faggots
Tonight was an opening that would be covered by Women's Wear and filled with slummers and celebrities and socialites, now that gaydom in this city is so chic.

I was supposed to come out on a white horse in the name of gaydom.

“I thought I'd video your journey into gaydom,” Vanessa told him with a smirk. “

2007, Cecily von Ziegesar, Don't You Forget About Me:

The collective gay experience, community, and culture.


power top

He was one power top that who was giving my ass a complete and thorough pummeling

2010, Neil Plakcy, Skater Boys: Gay Erotic Stories:

(slang, LGBTQ) An especially aggressive or energetic active partner in sex.


gayface

gayface (usually uncountable, plural gayfaces)

Not just because of his famously homoerotic sonnets but because Shakespeare seems to have had-let's be blunt here-a serious case of gayface.

(rare, slang) An obvious, apparent, or stereotypical appearance of homosexuality based on a person's countenance, often characterized by effeminacy in males and masculinity in females.


sexual minority

sexual minority (countable and uncountable, plural sexual minorities)

(uncountable) The state of being a minor in sexual matters.


LGB

"[…]The congressman who had an alleged affair with a Chinese spy for several years and inexplicably still sits on the House Intelligence and Homeland Security Committees jumped to Twitter on Christmas Day to attack the Oregon father who delivered the LGB joke during the White House holiday call."

[2021 December 27, Proud Progressive, “Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell Blasts Pathetic Dad Who Said Lets Go Brandon to Biden”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

Got gas the other day and there were two LGB stickers on the gas pump.

2021 December 27, Frank, “Do you suppose anyone told the venal, senile what LGB means?”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):

Unfortunately for Brown, the reaction was negative. Despite being a rising NASCAR star, he said it became “extremely difficult” to attract sponsors because major corporations saw his unintentional association with the LGB meme to be divisive.

2022 January 5, “NASCAR rejects ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sponsorship”, in RT:

That represents a 99.5 percent decline over the last 30 days, leaving a singular LGB coin effectively worthless.

2022 February 13, Technobarbarian, “‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Crypto Coin Turns Into Total Dumpster Fire”, in rec.outdoors.rv-travel (Usenet):

The gift shop is rammed. [...] I'm slightly surprised to see an "LGB" clutch above the till, until I realise it stands for "Let’s Go Brandon", code for "Fuck Joe Biden"[.]

2024 March 15, Jemima Kelly, “How the least divided place in America feels about Trump's return”, in Financial Review, archived from the original on 2024-04-09:

let's go, Brandon
let's go, Brandon#English

(Internet slang, US politics) Initialism of let's go, Brandon.


queerbait

en-verb

queerbait (third-person singular simple present queerbaits, present participle queerbaiting, simple past and past participle queerbaited)

queerbaits (present singular third-person)
queerbaiting (participle present)
queerbaited (participle past)
queerbaited (past)

From queer + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response).

af

(LGBTQ, fandom slang) To engage in queerbaiting (creating homoerotic tension, but not developing it, in a narrative work to reel in an LGBT audience).


post-op

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(LGBTQ) A postoperative trans man or trans woman.


Alternative form of MTF (“male-to-female (transgender person)”)


Alternative form of MTF (“male-to-female (transgender)”)


Alternative form of FTM (“female-to-male (transgender person)”)


Alternative form of FTM (“female-to-male (transgender)”)


postgender

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Contributors to Posthuman Bodies, edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, offer futuristic looks at "queers," trans-genders, postgenders, and automated teller machines,

2001, Joseph Slade, Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide, volume 2, page 373:

Similarly, there will be all sorts of individuals among trans-people too: we are not represented by transsexuals only, there are transvestites, transgenders, genderblenders, postgenders etc. in our midst.

2001, Jan Wickman, Transgender politics: the construction and deconstruction of binary gender in the Finnish transgender community, page 204:

(rare) A person who is postgender, who is not (any longer) gendered, or who does not (any longer) identify as gendered.


pussyboy

(slang, vulgar, offensive) A trans man with a vulva.


bitchboy

2004, Best gay erotica, snippet
...set of anal beads in a twelve-mile radius of Christopher Street and shove them all up your ass while you whine and whine and whine like the beefy blond bitchboy of my dreams, but then I think about actually having to do that.

I love being a bitchboy bottom when a top can seduce me properly.

(gay slang) A bottom, usually a younger, submissive male.


prison bitch

What kind of life can a prison bitch expect to lead once he is released?

2004, Alexander Cockburn, Serpents in the garden: liaisons with culture & sex, page 273:

What's the tattoo for a prison bitch? A rabbit? A pansy? Maybe,” she added scornfully, “a nice big bull's eye tattooed right on your ass

2007, Gil Snider, Brain Warp: A Medical Thriller, page 255:

“More like the big house,” Tyree snapped. “Mama, I don't wanna end up a prison bitch,” Cecile cried.

2009, R.A. Melos, The Adventures of Homosexual Man and Lesbian Ladd, page 79:

(prison slang) A male prisoner used as a sex slave by another man in the absence of available women.


dickgirl

(colloquial, vulgar) A person with a female body plus a penis; usually either a futanari, or a non-op or pre-op trans woman.


femslash

The demographics of femslash are a little more complicated than regular slash; stories are written by straight and lesbian women and sometimes straight men.

2005, Phyllis M. Japp, Mark Meister, Debra K. Japp, Communication Ethics, Media & Popular Culture, page 178:

One of the driving forces behind slash and femslash is the pervading heterosexism of commercial media – if television will not give us the due proportion of same-sex eroticism we are entitled to expect, then we will make it for ourselves.

2010, Stacey Abbott, The Cult TV Book, page 245:

The point of slash is that the orientation of one or more canonical characters is changed, which is why slashing is strongest in fandoms where the source parades heteronormativity or machismo. Kirk/Spock, Bodie/Doyle, Aragorn/Boromir, Darcy/Bingley and Harry/Snape stories all slash their canons, but a story featuring, say, Sebastian Flyte and Anthony Blanche in bed would not be slash, nor would a relationship between two lesbian characters in The L Word qualify as femslash.

2013, John Lennard, London Review of Books, letter, vol. 35, no. 6:

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


transgenderedness

I have also stressed Jess's role as a “mother” to Kim—by which I mean her role in offering the daughter not only transgenderedness but also empowered femaleness.

2003, Susan Fraiman, Cool Men and the Second Sex, page 155:

My husband's transgenderedness is not a present, or if it is, it's a present I'd return if I had the receipt. So would he. Not because we don't like it — we both do, to an extent — but because there's nowhere to put it. We can't put it in the closet because that makes him unhappy, and we can't put it out in public because that makes everyone else unhappy.

2006, J. Ari Kane-Demaios, Vern L. Bullough, Crossing Sexual Boundaries: Transgender Journeys, Uncharted Paths:

To her surprise Deirdre will find that the inevitable challenge to her transgenderedness she anticipates does not come from her profession.

2007, Dana Anderson, Identity's Strategy: Rhetorical Selves in Conversion, page 131:

(sometimes offensive) The condition of being transgendered.


straight as an arrow

(simile, by extension) Having no homosexual desires or thoughts; completely heterosexual.


gayelle

From Spanish gallera (“cockfight arena”).

And that time Bolo is coming through the village to the gayelle...

1975, Quincy Troupe, Rainer Schulte, Giant talk: an anthology of Third World writings, link:

I who have the best gamecocks from here to Maraval, and win twenty-nine battles with Hawk alone before they poison him near the gayelle in Valencia when we went to fight.

1997, Earl Lovelace, The Schoolmaster, page 21:

Stickfighters usually frequent a particular gayelle, which may have a recognized champion.

2004, Milla Cozart Riggio, Carnival: culture in action : the Trinidad experience, page 293:

(Caribbean, chiefly Trinidad and Tobago) An informal stage or arena, as for cockfighting or stickfighting.


guppie

(sometimes derogatory) A foolish, easily surprised, or naive person.

(climbing) A climbing hold, refers to the way the climber's hand is turned sideways and grips a hold by cupping it with the little-finger side of the hand.


guppie

It's where I work, okay? Not in some dinky little magazine office with a bunch of guppies!

1987 [1987 August 29], Alan Moore, “Chapter XI: Look on My Works, Ye Mighty...”, in Watchmen, DC Comics, page 349:

The guppie (gay urban professional) with a partner and a Porsche was replacing the free love advocate with a placard and a toke.

2004, Michale Mello, Legalizing Gay Marriage: Vermont And The National Debate, Temple University Press, published 2008, page 29:

(dated) A high-earning gay person living in a major urban area, especially a male.


newhalf

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Calque of Japanese ニューハーフ (nyūhāfu, “new half”). ニューハーフ is wasei eigo, from English.


-x-

(neologism) Used to replace a gendered element or reduce perceived genderedness, such as in Mixter, mxn, womxn, etc.


third gender

en-noun

third gender (countable and uncountable, plural third genders)

Coordinate term: third sex

(anthropology) A category (a gender), present in societies which recognize three or more genders, which is neither male nor female; in some societies, the category may contain individuals who are intersex or androgynous, while other societies may categorize transgender people into it. (Compare fourth gender.)


non-op

From non- + op (“operation; operator; operational; operative; operating”).

af

"Just so you know, Vincent, I was a pre-op transsexual. But after my breasts grew and my hips got wider, I was happy with what I had and decided to go non-op."

2010, Steven A. Buckhalter, Murder in Protective Custody: Transgenders in Peril Behind Bars, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 145:

(LGBTQ, of a transgender or transsexual person) Having chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.


non-op

It is interesting that Galatea makes reference to some encouragement from "post-op" transsexuals, though other "non-ops" advise surgical candidates to reconsider their decision.

1998, Claudine Griggs, S/He: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes, Berg, published 2003, →ISBN, pages 84–85:

(LGBTQ) A transsexual or transgender person who has chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.