transmisogynist

en-adj

transmisogynist (comparative more transmisogynist, superlative most transmisogynist)

more transmisogynist (comparative)
most transmisogynist (superlative)

Ropchan's assessment of the situation displays transmisogynist bias in the intentional misuse of the pronoun 'he,' […]

2012 April 4, Jil Jorgensen, Alexa DeGagne, “University must do more for transgendered people”, in The Gateway, volume 102, number 28, University of Alberta, page 10:

Well, speaking for myself as a trans woman: Certainly it's hard to argue that it doesn't repeat and reinforce all sorts of tired transmisogynist tropes, or that the song doesn't have a nasty hetero-cis sneer underneath it.

2012, Rachel Zall, quoted in Andrew Hickey, Preservation: The Kinks' Music 1964-1974, Lulu.com (2012), page 137, published 2 September 2012

Transwomen grow up in an incredibly transmisogynist culture, where we receive relentlessly negative messages about our identities, […]

2013, Leela Ginelle, "Parker Marie Molloy Elaborates on 'Gay Dudes, Can You Just Not?'", PQ Monthly, Volume 2, Number 12, December 2013/January 2014, page 12

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.


transmisogynist

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) One who exhibits transmisogyny.


transmisogynistic

transmisogynistic (comparative more transmisogynistic, superlative most transmisogynistic)

more transmisogynistic (comparative)
most transmisogynistic (superlative)

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

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

But I am asking us to examine a comedic device that not only degrades women but also reinforces the absolutely incorrect and harmfully transmisogynistic idea that trans women are really just "men in dresses."

2014 November 4, Morgan Philley, “Dressing down the gender binary”, in The Daily Mississippian, volume 103, number 49, University of Mississippi, page 2:

As far as I'm concerned, Leelah's death wasn't suicide – it was murder at the hands of a transmisogynistic society.

2015, Casey Aldridge, "To the Charlotte Christian community after Chapel Hill", Niner Times (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Volume 27, Issue 19, 17 February 2015 - 23 February 2015, page 8

(LGBTQ, neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.


antitransgender

antitransgender (comparative more antitransgender, superlative most antitransgender)

more antitransgender (comparative)
most antitransgender (superlative)

Following the lead of the courts, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission then ruled that antitransgender bias was a form of sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

2015 August 29, Deborah Sontag, The New York Times:


gaytastic

gaytastic (comparative more gaytastic, superlative most gaytastic)

more gaytastic (comparative)
most gaytastic (superlative)

"Yooo-hooo. Excuse me, dear."
Had someone called security?
Vanessa turned oh-so-casually to come face-to-face with Bailey Winter himself, the gaytastic designer […] and the host of the party she just happened to be crashing.

2006, Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl 10: Would I Lie to You, Bloomsbury, published 2008, →ISBN, page 98:

“I always thought Playa del Inglés was a horrible kip,” Susan said.
“Oh it is, but it's a gaytastic horrible kip—besides if you spend a few quid it's not so bad.”

2008, Anna McPartin, As Sure As the Sun, Downtown Press, →ISBN, page 312:

This episode marks the beginning of the end of the gaytastic relationship between Mr. Slave and Mr. Garrison.

2010, Sam Stall, James Siciliano, The South Park Episode Guide: Volume 2, Seasons 6-10, Running Press, →ISBN, page 117:

(slang) Extremely gay or appealing to gay people.


jocker

The jocker's sexual behavior can therefore be viewed as situational homosexuality.
2012, "Men Behind Bars: Sexual Exploitation in Prison" By Wayne S. Wooden

More common than the reciprocal and mutually constituted homosexual associations between hoboes were the predatory relationships between older hoboes, or “jockers,” and young initiates, or “punks.”
2010, Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America By Todd DePastino

As the "masculine" or "active" partner in prison sexual exchanges, jockers maintained a sexual identity as heterosexual
2008, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality by Regina P. Kunzler

(slang) A man who perceives himself as straight and is the aggressive top in a relationship between two men, especially in prison.


straight trade

From straight (“heterosexual”) + trade (“man available for casual sex with men”).

af

In general with respect to sexual experiences in prison the homosexuals indicated a clear preference for more masculine men—the blacks and chicanos clearly preferred “straight trade”—and all three ethnic groups preferred more masculine than feminine homosexuals as sexual partners.

2012, Wayne S. Wooden, Men Behind Bars: Sexual Exploitation in Prison:

A lovely thought when cruising straight trade, but just remember—it works both ways.

1997, Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel, PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality:

The Embarcadero YMCA, George Mendenhall recalled, was where people went if they were looking for "straight trade."

1998, John Donald Gustav-Wrathall, Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA:

The practice of same-sex sexual behavior involving at least one man who perceives himself as heterosexual.


andromimetophilia

(paraphilia) An attraction to trans men or to females who look and act like men (andromimetics).


andromimesis

From andro- + mimesis. Literally “male imitation”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.

Gynemimesis is a subtype of gender transposition or gender dysphoria in which a person with male anatomy and morphology lives in society as a woman without genital sex-reassignment surgery, and with or without taking female sex-hormonal therapy. The lover of such a person is a gynemimetophile. The corresponding terms that apply to the female are andromimesis and andromimetophile.

1984, John Money, Margaret Lamaczab, “Gynemimesis and gynemimetophilia: Individual and cross-cultural manifestations of a gender-coping strategy hitherto unnamed”, in Comprehensive Psychiatry, volume 25, number 4, pages 392–403:

(dated, nonstandard, rare) The state of being transmasculine or a trans man.


gynemimesis

From gyne- + mimesis. Literally “female imitation”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.

(dated, nonstandard, rare) The state of being a transfeminine individual, or trans woman, who has not had sex reassignment surgery.


gynemimetic

From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “female”) + μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”); equivalent to gyne- + mimetic. Literally “female mimic”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.

In most large cities of the West there exists an unnamed gynemimetic community that corresponds to the social institution of hijras in India and xanith in Oman.

(dated, nonstandard, rare) Transfeminine.


deadname

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From dead + name, because the old name is dead (“no longer used”). Attested since at least 2010 as a noun and 2013 as a verb by the OED.

And when people constantly refer to you as your deadname [a name that you previously went by], or use the incorrect pronouns, it really is like getting slapped with a wet fish.

2014, Natalia Moorin, “My Illness Is Not Your Inspiration”, in Damsel, University of Western Australia, page 21:

One of the articles in our last issue contained a major error: we referred to a transgender student by their deadname.

2018 February 27, Amy O'Kruk, “Apology to readers”, in Western Gazette, Western University, page 2:

“My deadname is everywhere because of my ID card, and not only do I have to look at it but lots of other people get to see. […]

2018, Alex McFadden, quoted in Noni Cole & Ruby Perryman, "The Unfair University ID Card", Farrago (University of Melbourne), Edition Three (2018), page 7

(neologism, especially LGBTQ) A previous name of a person (especially a transgender person) who has since changed their name.


deadname

en-verb

deadname (third-person singular simple present deadnames, present participle deadnaming, simple past and past participle deadnamed)

deadnames (present singular third-person)
deadnaming (participle present)
deadnamed (participle past)
deadnamed (past)

Using trans peoples' dead names – names that they were born with which are either wrong through either legal or preferential means – has been and always will be an act of aggression, not just to the person you're deadnaming but to all trans people.

2015 June 17, Luca Kuchinka, “Caitlyn's story inspiring, spotlight should be shared”, in Estevan Mercury, page A7:

"Right now, it's unclear whether they are choosing to deadname me maliciously, or just can't be bothered to accommodate trans students in the way we require them to," he said.

2018, Alex, quoted in Sylvie Woods, "Students pay the price for 'tired' administration", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Volume 90, Week 9 (2018), page 12

Felix's dad deadnames him despite supporting his top surgery and hormone therapy, and he hates his mom for leaving when he was 10.

(transitive) To refer to someone (especially a transgender person) who has changed names by a previous name.

棄名錯稱

to refer to someone by their previous name

dead-naming

act or instance of naming as the target of a death-curse


lesbianise

lesbianise (third-person singular simple present lesbianises, present participle lesbianising, simple past and past participle lesbianised)

lesbianises (present singular third-person)
lesbianising (participle present)
lesbianised (participle past)
lesbianised (past)

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of lesbianize.


lesbianisation

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of lesbianization.


lesbianly

Stacey's project at once disavows lesbian identities and opens up possibilities for self-identified heterosexual women spectators to identify lesbianly.

2002, Stacy Ellen Wolf, A Problem Like Maria, →ISBN:


genderist

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The Feminist Movement, […] is split between two types of feminists: the equality feminists and the gender feminists. Those who demand equal rights, […] are the equality feminists, […] The others are the NOW type, […] the gender feminists, or genderists. This radical element attempts to remodel women into something other than what nature has determined women to be. […] The genderists address particular vitriol toward non-conforming women still "enslaved" to men, like those who get married and have babies, […] And for her apostasy, Sommers says, the genderists “wish to excommunicate me from my sex.” The genderists tend to position themselves among the far left politically, to reject all advances of women as inadequate, and to hate America.

2010, William Davis Eaton, Liberal Betrayal of America and the Tea Party Firestorm, ELDERBERRY PRESS, INC., →ISBN, page 47:

(uncommon, in right-wing usage, derogatory) One who believes in gender ideology or does not support traditional gender roles.


metamour

From meta- + amour (probably influenced by paramour).

I get it less with women who are bi and poly than with women who are monosexual and monogamous/monoamorous, but I can't put my finger on why, and there are exceptions in both directions. I get it less with metamours than with women who are unrelated, but maybe that's just because if my metamours were alien to me, there's a fair chance they'd be alien to my partners too, or conversely that I'd have been alien to the partners when they were still just potential partners, and hence we'd never become metamours in the first place.

2000 August 11, Liz W, “When your wife loves to be at the center...!”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):

[…] — and in considering how jealous I would feel if Anna (or honestly any of this polycule, because yes, reader, they are all hot) were my metamour, I imagine what it would be like, how destabilizing to watch your partner grow closer and more intimate and happier with another person;[…]

2024 January 16, Allison P. Davis, “What Does a Polycule Actually Look Like?”, in New York Magazine:

(uncommon) In a polyamorous relationship, one's partner's partner, with whom one is not directly involved.

metamuru

partner's partner in a polyamorous relationship


Sheriarty

The Empty Hearse club member goth girl who came up with the romantic Sheriarty solution to Sherlock’s fake suicide is played by Scottish actress Sharon Rooney, star of the British dramedy “My Mad Fat Diary.”

2014 January 19, Lori Rackl, “Answers to your ‘Sherlock’ questions — because you know you’ve got ‘em”, in Chicago Sun-Times:

The Sheriarty and Jimlock fans believe the two men are struggling in a love-hate relationship, while WH is a gay “couple” beloved by most fans.

2014 January 25, Qu Zhi, “Sherlock China’s new sex god”, in Shanghai Daily:

Having exhausted what meager supply of Sheriarty fic there was, I ended up reading a Mormor (Moriarty/Moran) story – and ended up loving it.

2015, Kee Lundqvist, "Stories of Significance: The Process and Practices of Sense-Making in the Sherlock Fan Community", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 77

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


FTM

Initialism of female-to-male (transgender or transsexual).


FTM

Abbreviation of first-time mom/mother/mum.

At the end of the 1960s doctors at UCLA's Gender Identity Research Clinic debated privately whether FTMs even qualified as transsexuals.

2013, Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle, The Transgender Studies Reader, page 373:


polyphobic

en-adj

polyphobic (comparative more polyphobic, superlative most polyphobic)

more polyphobic (comparative)
most polyphobic (superlative)

Relating to or characteristic of polyphobia.


dykeling

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

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

They will gather their own gaylings and dykelings and Miss Things at the hem of their own caftans. They'll wheel the old queen out.

2002, Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, page 253:

(LGBTQ slang, rare) A young or immature lesbian.


lesbic

lesbic (comparative more lesbic, superlative most lesbic)

more lesbic (comparative)
most lesbic (superlative)

Pertaining to love between women; lesbian; sapphic.


(historical) A homosexual in Germany in the era when homosexuality was illegal (1871 to 1994).


homonegativity

The findings indicate that both forms of homonegativity are prevalent in Europe.

2015 August 7, “Relationships between Religion and Two Forms of Homonegativity in Europe—A Multilevel Analysis of Effects of Believing, Belonging and Religious Practice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Negative attitudes toward homosexuality.


stone butch

However, as Feinberg's novel dramatizes, the dominance of lesbian feminist models of sexual mutuality, reciprocity, and exchange turns stone butches into pariahs.

1998, Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity, page 138:

(LGBTQ, slang) A butch lesbian who does not want to be sexually touched by her partner.


soft butch

(LGBTQ) A lesbian who exhibits some butch traits (short hair, men's clothing, etc.) without wholly fitting the masculine butch stereotype.


pillow princess

en-noun

pillow princess (plural pillow princesses)

These roles extended into the bedroom, where the butch would initiate and give sexual pleasure and the femme would play “pillow princess” and receive — never the other way around [...]

1992, Deneuve, volume 2, FRS Enterprises, page 64:

Similarly, whereas pillow princesses and other femmes appear to fall in line with heterosexual conceptualizations of sexual roles for women, where the woman’s role is the passive and non-assertive partner, they represent radical departures in other respects. In particular, participants indicated that ultra femmes and pillow princesses fully expected that the sexual act ended with their sexual climax.

2009, Bianca D. M. Wilson, “Black Lesbian Gender and Sexual Culture: Celebration and Resistance”, in Culture, Health & Sexuality, volume 11, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 309:

Also, just because a respondent identified as femme did not mean she was not involved in or interested in a reciprocal sexual relationship. Many femmes made sure to point out they were not “pillow princesses,” meaning they are not just receivers. “My current girlfriend is very masculine looking, but I am far more aggressive than her in the bedroom, I don’t know if I can say this …but, well, I am no “pillow princess” (Sara).

2014, Joey Cooter, Butch, Femme, or Neither? What Owning These Identities Means, Johnson City, Tennessee: East Tennessee State University, retrieved 2022-01-17, page 31:

A soft fem may also be referred to as a “pillow princess”. The pillow princess expects to be catered to in bed and while she may demand oral sex, does not feel compelled to perform it on her partner.

2017, Karen Carpenter, “Women Who Have Sex with Women in Jamaica”, in Karen Carpenter, editor, Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality in the Caribbean, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, page 79:

(slang, originally LGBTQ) A person (typically a lesbian) who wants to receive sexual pleasure but is not interested in giving it.


stoneness

(LGBTQ) Willingness to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.


homoflexibility

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

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

Or what about hetero- and homoflexibility (the primarily heterosexual or homosexual orientation with occasional forays into things not typical of those sexualities)?

2011, "Ribbons", "Queeriosities: 'Adding to the ABCs of LGBs'", The Catalyst (Colorado College), Volume 42, Number 8, 11 November 2011, page 7

In other words, there is no place for homoflexibility in this cultural analysis of sexuality.

2015, B. C. Roberts, “Not Gay”: Another Way of (Not) Being Bi?, in the Journal of Bisexuality, volume 15, issue 4

(rare) The quality or state of being homoflexible.


bottomhood

[...] of Brandon Lee as a desirable West Hollywood twink in contradistinction to his less-than-appealing Asian costars with their working-class status, Chinatown address, bad accent, bad hair, flat face, small dick, and propensity for bottomhood.

(LGBTQ) The state, quality, or condition of a bottom (non-penetrative sexual role)


hutch up

en-verb

hutch up (third-person singular simple present hutches up, present participle hutching up, simple past and past participle hutched up)

hutches up (present singular third-person)
hutching up (participle present)
hutched up (participle past)
hutched up (past)

(idiomatic, LGBTQ) To put on a more heterosexual manner, in order to be integrated or accepted; compare ‘butch’.


cowboy up

cowboy up (third-person singular simple present cowboys up, present participle cowboying up, simple past and past participle cowboyed up)

cowboys up (present singular third-person)
cowboying up (participle present)
cowboyed up (participle past)
cowboyed up (past)

(idiomatic, LGBTQ) To put on a more heterosexual manner, in order to fit in.


transactivist

The transactivists who are trying to eliminate Gender Identity Disorder from the DSM-IV have not come up with any credible replacement for the diagnosis, which is the prerequisite for sex reassignment.

1997, Pat Califia, Sex changes: the politics of transgenderism, page 268:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transactivist.


genderphobia

Genderphobia is a more surreptitious form of discrimination than transphobia because it quietly adheres to hegemonic notions of gender behaviour.

2005 January, Vincent Stephens, “Pop goes the rapper: a close reading of Eminem's genderphobia”, in Popular Music, volume 24, number 1, page 23:

She characterized women's reactions to a masculine person in a public rest room as “an example of genderphobia” (1996, 117), viewing such women as policing gender boundaries rather than believing that there really is a man in the women's rest room.

2008, Joan Z. Spade, Catherine G. Valentine, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, Pine Forge Press, →ISBN, page 29:

Genderphobia was no hindrance to her [Margaret Thatcher's] ambitions; her husband took a back seat.

2015, Virginia Nicholson, Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s, Penguin Books, →ISBN:

Genderphobia works to reinforce gendered hierarchies and the heteropatriarchal state, disenfranchising not only women, but also sexual and gender minorities. Genderphobia is also very much used to enforce xenophobic and nationalist policies […]

2023 March 29, Jose Antonio Langarita, Ana Cristina Santos, Marisela Montenegro, Mojca Urek, Child-Friendly Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Diversity: Beyond Adultcentrism, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

Fear, dislike, or hatred of gender-nonconforming individuals or behaviour.


Spander

And lord knows, if you want there's plenty of Spuffy and Spander to last a lifetime.

2004 April 29, Kathryn Burlingham, “Re: You want fries with that?”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

Yeah, the Spander shippers really got off on that one.

2006 September 10, Don Sample, “Re: AOQ Review 7-2: "Beneath You"”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Spander 'shippers prefer long NC-17 rated stories, regardless of genre.

2013, Mary Kirby-Diaz, “Ficcers and 'Shippers: A Love Story”, in Jennifer K. Stuller, editor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 46:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Spike and Xander Harris from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


bussy

Blend of boy + pussy or butt + pussy. See also the suffix -ussy.

(gay slang, LGBTQ, by extension) Any anus, in general.

(gay slang, LGBTQ, sometimes derogatory) The vulva or vagina of a trans man.


LGBTphobia

(rare, informal, LGBTQ) A fear of or a negative attitude towards LGBT people.


transfemininity

en-noun

transfemininity (usually uncountable, plural transfemininities)


detransition

en-verb

detransition (third-person singular simple present detransitions, present participle detransitioning, simple past and past participle detransitioned)

detransitions (present singular third-person)
detransitioning (participle present)
detransitioned (participle past)
detransitioned (past)

People detransition because they may find it difficult to get jobs, or because of social ostracism, not passing in their target gender, family responsibilities, and so on.

2007, Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married, page 303:

I recently had an encounter in which I was asked if I was detransitioning simply because I was wearing a pair of jeans!

2014, Michelle Spicer, The Transgender Handbook:

“I wish there had been more open conversations,” Powell, now 23 and detransitioned, told me. “But I was told there is one cure and one thing to do if this is your problem, and this will help you.”

2024 February 2, Pamela Paul, “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(intransitive, LGBTQ) To revert to one's original gender presentation, role, or identity.


hormone-replacement therapy

en-noun

hormone-replacement therapy (plural hormone-replacement therapies)

hormone replacement therapy
hormone replacement therapy#English

Alternative spelling of hormone replacement therapy


queerhood

It's not that I'm proud of how I found out or that I think that closeted dildoes alone are enough to indict him for closeted queerhood. There's more to it, and that can only be revealed in the telling of the whole story.

1995, John Preston, Michael Lowenthal, Friends and lovers:

I stand naked inside an enormous shell, my long hair cascading modestly over my crack. Like I was saying, it seems to me that most folks must range somewhere between knee-jerk queerhood of Dell and the in-your-face hetero world of Zorn.

2002, Lee Williams, Author of destiny: also known as the Ochoa case - Page 59:

There is something truly dangerous in this global response to queerhood, something that should lead us towards a more global co-operation in our attempts to build a sexual politics and fight back against homophobia.

2005, Krystyna Slany, Beata Kowalska, Marcin Śmietana, Homoseksualizm: perspektywa interdyscyplinarna - Page 130:

There are also Polish branches of other international associations. But it is still, I am afraid, far from 'global queerhood'. What we have here is rather an attempt to adopt organizational forms that proved suitable elsewhere to Polish conditions.

2013, Laszlo Kürti, Peter Skalnik, Postsocialist Europe: Anthropological Perspectives from Home:

The state or condition of being queer; queerness


gayspeak

The style of language used by people who are gay, or homosexual.


queerspeak

We should drop newspeak in favor of queerspeak: the ways different gay men and lesbians really communicate. Stories fashioned after journal entries, letters to friends, conversations.

1986 December 7, Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves, “Just the Facts, Miss Thing”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 11:

The style of language used by people who are queer, or do not conform to norms of gender and sexuality.


femmephobia

Indeed, the existence of what has been labelled homophobia, I argue, may be more correctly analysed as a kind of "femmephobia", where same-sex relationships, particularly those between two men, are viewed as having the power to feminize men.

2007, Annie Paul, Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, page 368:

Probably the most visible and overt site of global(izing) patterns of femmephobia are male-male dating and sexual networking websites, ranging from Grindr, an Iphone application for sexual networking used primarily in the U.S., and Planetromeo, a dating site with a large following in India. […] A range of sample user profiles documented on the site include injunctions like the following: "Only into 101% masculine: Fems dnt fkin mssg me [sic]. College athlete (not some pansy sport"; "Looking for studs: no fats, fems [sic] or anyone above 30"; "If your only personality is gay, move on"; "Be masculine please! I'm gay don't want a girl!"; […]

2013, Aniruddha Dutta, “Masculinities of Desire, Derision and Defiance: Global Gay Femmephobia and Kothi-Hijra-Trans Heterosexualities”, in Rohit K. Dasgupta, K. Moti Gokulsing, editors, Masculinity and Its Challenges in India: Essays on Changing Perceptions, page 146:

In the sexual minority men's community femmephobia typically appears as an abhorrence to stereotypical "gay" things such as liking musicals, lim wrists, sounding effeminate (i.e. a higher pitched voice or a feminine cadence), dressing in clothing considered to be for women and much more.

2020, Emerson L. R. Barrett, “Sexing the Margins: Homonationalism in Gay Dating Apps”, in D. Nicole Farris, D'Lane R. Compton, Andrea P. Herrera, editors, Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Digital Age, page 126:

Dislike of, or hostility towards, stereotypically effeminate gay men, especially within the gay community.


asslicky

en-adj

asslicky (comparative more asslicky, superlative most asslicky)

more asslicky (comparative)
most asslicky (superlative)

(pornography, LGBTQ) Of, pertaining to, or performing ass licking.


'mones

I've been facing the trans issue "face on" since about 2-3 years ago, having really admitted it to myself about 4 years ago (freshperson in college), [...] So you can see I'm very confused, yet 99% sure I want to take 'mones and see how far I really need to go to be happy. do I live FT?

1996 November 23, so...@triax.com, “not stereotypical”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet):

another bi m2f for a lesbian affair, but isn't on 'mones, looks pretty

1999 September 28, Tracy, quoting another user, “Transfans: you ladies were Right”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):

Whether or not they are or how long they have been on 'mones?

2001 February 25, Loree Thomas, “Respecting Self-Definitions”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

(transgender slang) Hormones used as part of hormone replacement therapy, especially for transgender or gender variant individuals.


transgenderisation

Non-Oxford British English standard form of transgenderization.


gaylicious

gaylicious (comparative more gaylicious, superlative most gaylicious)

more gaylicious (comparative)
most gaylicious (superlative)

But make no mistake about it—when Cher does have her real last show, gay hearts will weep for all eternity. They will miss their gaylicious diva, but keep her in their gay hearts forever.

2010, Freeman Hall, Stuff That Makes a Gay Heart Weep: A Definitive Guide to the Loud & Proud Dislikes of Millions, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 209:

After a decade, Uptown Players, Dallas’ gaylicious theater troupe, finally gets its Pride on with Performing Arts Fest

2011 September 2, Rich Lopez, “Enter, stage left”, in Dallas Voice, volume 28, number 16, page 30:

11 gaylicious new anthems to add to your party playlist

2015 May 8, Chris Azzopardi, “Pimp your Pridemix”, in Dallas Voice, volume 31, number 52, page 19:

(slang) Extremely gay (homosexual) or appealing to gay people.


Crying Game

From the 1992 film The Crying Game, which features a scene in which a man discovers that his lover, implicitly presented up to that point as a cis woman, is in fact a pre-op/non-op trans woman.

Man, what a way to pop a balloon full of promise! It was like waiting to be with the girl of your dreams and you end up in the Crying Game.

2002, David Payton, I Dreamed I Killed Osama Bin Laden, Trafford, →ISBN:

We copped a feel of the technical beta of Microsoft's Windows Media Player 10, and beneath the slick new interface we found a Crying Game-scale surprise that has the potential to lure insatiable music grazers away from iTunes (which has now sold more than 100 million tracks).

2004 September, “Hands on Microsoft's Windows Media Player 10”, in Maximum PC, page 15:

“Fair enough. So you didn't know I was a man?”
“I'd guess you'd call this my personal Crying Game moment.”

2015, Harlan Coben, Missing You, Dutton, published 2014, →ISBN:

(informal, often used attributively) A situation in which something or someone is revealed to be other than assumed/expected to be, particularly with regard to gender identity.


limp-wrist

en-verb

limp-wrist (third-person singular simple present limp-wrists, present participle limp-wristing, simple past and past participle limp-wristed)

limp-wrists (present singular third-person)
limp-wristing (participle present)
limp-wristed (participle past)
limp-wristed (past)

(firearms) To hold a handgun with an insufficiently-firm-and-stiff grip while firing, allowing recoil to move the frame of the gun too far rearwards and causing the recoil spring to absorb too little energy from the slide for the action to cycle properly.


queen up

queen up (third-person singular simple present queens up, present participle queening up, simple past and past participle queened up)

queens up (present singular third-person)
queening up (participle present)
queened up (participle past)
queened up (past)

To get in drag; to get ready to perform as a drag queen.


Hannigram

"I know there's a lot of Hannigram shipping out there," Gamier said, referring to the Lecter-Graham pairing. "That's not my bag, but I get it and respect them. I am more of a Hannigail or Hannibloom shipper."

2014 February 21, Dana Hayes, “Hannibal's Hungry Tumblr Fandom”, in Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting:

Aja Romano, writing for The Daily Dot during the series' first season in 2013, observed that “slashers,” fans who “ship” (imagine or write relationships) between same-sex characters, “are already coming out in droves for Hannibal/Graham, or 'Hannigram,' as fans have dubbed the obligatory ship portmanteau.”

2015, Jeff Casey, “Queer Cannibals and Deviant Detectives: Subversion and Homosocial Desire in NBC's Hannibal”, in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, volume 32, number 6:

Perhaps this is part of the reason why Hannibal, though it has an extremely devoted, practically religious fanbase (including a sizeable contingent of “Hannigram” shippers), has failed to achieve quite the level of widespread success attained by similarly lurid series like American Horror Story or The Walking Dead.

2015 June 3, Eric Thurm, “Hannibal showrunner: 'We are not making television. We are making a pretentious art film from the 80s'”, in The Guardian:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham from the television series Hannibal.


woofter

From poofter. Compare also woof (“noise made by a dog”).


fagling

You're behaving like a young fagling who has discovered gay sex, and therefore thinks he has nothing more to discover about his gayness.

1996 December 24, Michael Thomas, “Re: The Christmas Bell”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

Compelled? I like this idea. Like those re-education camps in Vietnam. We line all the young faglings up and force them to watch The Harvey Girls over and over and over again. And The Pirate! And Meet Me in St. Louis! And Judy singing "Liza, Liza Minelli" on national television to her seemingly less than thrilled but always professional daughter.

1997 July 5, You Rang? [username], “Re: Judy”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

I was a tender young fagling of sixteen when I saw it on a double-bill with _The Gay Deceivers_ in 1970.

2005 February 25, Mike McKinley, “Re: The Boys in the Band (the movie)”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

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


bisexualism

You further stated that homosexuality, gender reassignment, and bisexualism are only symptomatic of a deeper problem, and that predicament is regarded as your preconceived notion of sin.

2020, Naimbai Njerakey, An Atheist's Letters to Heaven, page 66:


tran

Shortening of transgender, or (jocularly or seriously) a back-formation from trans mistaking it for a plural noun.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tran.

(informal, sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person.


bendy-boy

[…] an equally complicated schedule caters for pretty well all-comers who are meticulously sub-categorised by the marketing department. For example one of Heaven's club nights welcome^([sic]) “gays, strays, straights, bendy boys and girlie girls” to a plethora of “bubblegum pop, disco, trash and house”.

2010, Graham Vickers, Rock Music Landmarks of London:

And then it hit me that I was tricked, and he was saying, “'Course I knew you, bendy-boy. Good luck! Kick their asses and maybe the slut'll let you hold her hand.”

2010, M. T. Anderson, Burger Wuss, page 42:

"Are you saying he might be a bendy-boy?" I asked, and Gloria's mam said, "I'm not saying anything of the sort, William" […]

2015, John Boyne, Beneath the Earth, page 185:

(UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.


intersexualized

Made (or being) intersexual; intersexed.


trans-curious

(LGBTQ) Interested in one's potential transness.


dyke out

dyke out (third-person singular simple present dykes out, present participle dyking out, simple past and past participle dyked out)

dykes out (present singular third-person)
dyking out (participle present)
dyked out (participle past)
dyked out (past)

“[…]So I guess it's either the Upper East Side or I dyke out.” She looked at me deadpan. “Don't get your hopes up, I'm not a lesbian. I haven't even thought about being a lesbian. Not seriously anyway. What about you?”

(intransitive, vulgar, of a woman) To engage in homoerotic activity with another woman.


kiss-in

A group of lesbians from Siberia staged an impromptu kiss-in in Moscow, to which traffic police responded by calling in 800 back-ups.

1991 August 24, Dawn Schmitz, “USSR Pride Draws 20,000—To Organizers' Surprise”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 2:

A peaceful form of protest in which people kiss in a public place; especially, a protest with same-gender kissing by LGBTQ people to demonstrate their sexual orientation, protest homophobia, etc.


transgenderness

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transgenderness.


read someone to filth

read someone to filth (third-person singular simple present reads someone to filth, present participle reading someone to filth, simple past and past participle read someone to filth)

reads someone to filth (present singular third-person)
reading someone to filth (participle present)
read someone to filth (participle past)
read someone to filth (past)

From the black gay slang term read (“call attention to someone's flaws”).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:read someone to filth.

(idiomatic, informal, at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To thoroughly insult, to comprehensively call attention to the flaws or shortcomings of (someone).


intersexphobia

Although there is overlap in ways that binary gender norms are imposed on trans* and intersex students, athletes, and staff, we feel it is important to understand how transphobia and intersexphobia work as different forms of discrimination.

2016, Heather Sykes, Christopher Smith, “Trans*, Intersex, and Cisgender Issues in Physical Education and Sport”, in Daniel B. Robinson, Lynn Randall, editors, Social Justice in Physical Education: Critical Reflections and Pedagogies for Change, page 275:

However, Turner said the bear community still has a way to go when it comes to greater diversity and acceptance, as he's faced both intersexphobia and biphobia from within its ranks.

2016 September, Matthew Wade, “Something To Growl About”, in Star Observer Magazine, page 13:

In fact, I believe that it is this fear of bodily difference, akin to homophobia, intersexphobia if you will, that drives some doctors to recommend, and parents to agree to, medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children and infants.

2020, Kimberly M. Zieselman, XOXY: A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist), page 205:

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.


futch

A moment's thought tells us that a futch, femme, or butch can't be spotted by behaviour alone […]

2011, Ivan Coyote, Zena Sharman, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, arsenal pulp press, →ISBN, page 241:

A person who exhibits traits of both a femme and a butch.


transgal

(LGBTQ, rare, informal) A young transwoman.


mujerado

From Spanish mujerado, see mujer (“woman”), -ado (“-ated, -ified”).

(historical) Among Puebloan peoples, a man who was notionally transformed into a woman and took the passive role in the sexual relations.


gold star gay

From gold star + gay, from gold star awards for being outstanding.

Visualize [Alfred] Kinsey's famous het-homo continuum. Bisexuality begins the minute we step off the zero, heterosexual end. We don't hit unambiguous dry land again until we get to Six,^([sic]) at the other side of the ocean where gold-star gays and lesbians dwell.

1991 February 28, Carol A. Queen, “The Queer in Me”, in Loraine Hutchins, Lani Kaahumanu, editors, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, 1st edition, Boston: Alyson Publications, →ISBN, pages 19–20:

While I'm totally comfortable being a "Gold Star Gay" I do find it emasculating that most bottoms I've been with have been all the way with those of the fairer sex.

2012 January 25, Tristan Timothy, “Never Gonna Get It: Gay Dating in the City”, in Maximillian Corwell, editor, David Magazine, number 680, Atlanta, page 12:

“She's trying to challenge my status as a gold star gay,” Beau said. “I swear, she thinks if she flashes her tits at me enough, I'll actually want to do something with them.”

2019, Lynn Townsend, Got the Blues, JMS Books, →ISBN:

(slang) A gay man who has never had sex with a woman.


DFAB

Coordinate term: DMAB

(LGBTQ) Initialism of designated female at birth.


DMAB

But my two-year anniversary on hormones seems like the perfect time to begin the next chapter of my life, a chapter that focuses less on my gender and the fact that I was DMAB.

2013, Annika Penelope, “10 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started My Transition”, in Huffington Post:

(LGBTQ) Initialism of designated male at birth.


GSRM

(neologism) Initialism of gender, sexual, or romantic minority.


homopositivity

Positive attitudes toward homosexuality.


homopositive

en-adj

homopositive (comparative more homopositive, superlative most homopositive)

more homopositive (comparative)
most homopositive (superlative)

Holding or expressing positive attitudes toward homosexuality.


biowoman

From bio- + woman, short for biological woman.

As I gazed into her wonderful green eyes, I realized that there was a marked resemblance to those of Leonardo. Clearly, this was another indication that I was not dealing with a biowoman.

2002, Eduard Prugovecki, Dawn of the New Man, page 76:

Now we move from the drag king and his mirrored self to the drag king coupled with what could be a drag queen or a biowoman in Volcano's “Tits and Tomcat.”

2005, J. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place:

However, he found himself almost paralyzed with social anxiety at the prospect of dating a biowoman who was not part of queer community, though he knew full well she had no problem with his being an FTM.

2007, Reid Vanderburgh, Transition and Beyond: Observations on Gender Identity, page 143:

In many communities (including the ones that Nina inhabits in The Silicone Diaries), being able to pass as a biowoman is central to one's identification with being feminine.

2012, Judith Rudakoff, Trans(per)forming Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work:


vulvoplasty

(surgery) A surgical procedure to construct, repair, or remodel a vulva.


sexual majority

en-noun

sexual majority (countable and uncountable, plural sexual majorities)

Near-synonym: age of consent

(uncountable) The state of being an adult (major, rather than a minor) in sexual matters.

seksuaalinen täysi-ikäisyys

state of being an adult in sexual matters

(countable) People who are inside of the mainstream of accepted sexual expression or orientation in a given culture; non-queer people.

seksuaalienemmistö

people who are inside of the mainstream of sexual expression or orientation


TNB

For quotations using this term, see Citations:TNB.


LGBT+

Taiwan became the first place in Asia to legalize gay marriage in May and more than 2,000 same sex couples have since wed, prompting a rush of commercial surrogacy agencies to head to Taiwan to help more LGBT+ couples seeking to start families.

2019 December 22, Rik Glauert, “FEATURE -Taiwan emerges as new market for LGBT+ surrogacy after gay marriage law”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-08, Non-cyclical Consumer Goods:

Initialism of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual plus. The "plus" is inclusive of other groups, such as asexual, intersex, queer, questioning, etc.


V triad

From the V shape of a diagram of the relationship: a triangle with one side missing.

A triad in which one person is in a polyamorous relationship with two other people who are not in a relationship with each other.


bathroom bill

His goal, he emphatically clarified, was to enact “an anti-discrimination bill,” “not a bathroom bill.”

2020, Alexander K. Davis, Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 6:

Legislation concerning the use of public bathrooms.

(Canada, US, neologism) In particular, legislation concerning the use of public bathrooms by transgender individuals.


MTF

Alternative forms: MtF, M2F

(LGBTQ) Initialism of male-to-female (transgender or transsexual).


MTF

Alternative forms: MtF, M2F

Hormone-related cancer in transgender persons is very rare (there are case reports of breast cancer in MTFs).

2008, Harvey J. Makadon, The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health:

A trans person might be a butch or a camp, a transgender or a transsexual, an MTF or FTM or a cross-dresser; […]

2013, Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle, The Transgender Studies Reader, page xi:


throuple

The Air Force veteran fatally shot by police during last week’s US Capitol riot had been in a “throuple” with her husband and their live-in girlfriend, according to reports.

2021 January 14, Tamar Lapin, “Ashli Babbitt, Air Force vet killed at Capitol, was in a ‘throuple’”, in New York Post, retrieved 2021-07-22:

Nearly a year ago, I began dating two friends — I’ll call them Rachel and Dave — who were already themselves in a relationship. We all had no experience with polyamory. The throuple ended fairly quickly, with no one being at fault; the other two continued to date but broke up not too long afterward.

2023 April 21, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Our Throuple Fell Apart. What Are the Rules of the Breakup?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

But among all the throuples, polycules and nesting partners, there exists another category of polyamory that still throws many for a loop: solo polyamory, or having concurrent intimate relationships while maintaining independence.

2024 August 2, Gina Cherelus, “You’re ‘Solo Poly’? So … You’re Single?”, in The New York Times:

“Honeybee, if you stare at that dividend check any harder, we're gonna officially be a throuple.” [chuckles] “I'm in.”

2024 May 17, Thomas Reyes, “The Mighty Pucks Adventure” (0:35 from the start), in The Great North, season 4, episode 6, spoken by Wolf Tobin (Will Forte):

(neologism) Three individuals engaged in a romantic or sexual relationship.


fagness

(slang, vulgar, offensive) Homosexuality; the quality of being a fag.


AMAB

The sample consists of participants AMAB.

Gender-affirming hormone therapy may involve testosterone for trans people assigned female at birth (AFAB) and estradiol and anti-androgens for trans people AMAB.

2021, Jane Y. Xu, Michelle A. O’Connell, Lauren Notini, Ada S. Cheung, Sav Zwickl, Ken C. Pang, “Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators: A Potential Option For Non-Binary Gender-Affirming Hormonal Care?”, in Front Endocrinol, →DOI:

(LGBTQ) Acronym of assigned male at birth.


AMAB

Coordinate term: AFAB

I don’t mean that trans AFABs have an easier experience than trans AMABs (Assigned Male At Birth). Each requires different resources and support. If Harpeth Hall doesn't have those for AFABs, they certainly don’t have them for AMABs.

2022 September 2, Bucky Fuchs, “I'm a trans grad of Harpeth Hall and glad they reneged on their gender policy”, in The Tennessean:


AFAB

The sample consists of participants AFAB.

(LGBTQ) Acronym of assigned female at birth.


AFAB

Alright, AFAB porn performers: we're all doubling our scene rates for creampie scenes, right?

2022 June 24, Siri Dahl, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-12-15:


AFAB

Coordinate term: AMAB

They experience deadnaming, alienation, and bullying. And this happens to people Assigned Female at Birth (AFAB) at a school specifically for AFABs. / I don’t mean that trans AFABs have an easier experience than trans AMABs (Assigned Male At Birth).


graysexuality

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From gray + asexuality, equivalent to graysexual + -ity.

As with graysexuality and grayromanticism, demisexual is not the same thing as demiromantic.

2015, Julie Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality, →ISBN:

So far there isn’t a lot of data about how many people identify as graysexual, but creating language that describes being grasexual is necessary if we ever hope to grasp what graysexuality really looks like.

2015 October 20, Kirstin Kelley, “What Is 'Graysexuality'?”, in AlterNet:

Graysexuality falls somewhere between asexuality and sexuality; these people may or may not have a sex drive.

2016 March 31, Pallavi Bansal, “Find out if you're an asexual”, in Times of India:


LGBTIQ

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


(LGBTQ) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or sometimes questioning), two-spirited.


LGBTQI

en-adj

LGBTQI (comparative more LGBTQI, superlative most LGBTQI)

more LGBTQI (comparative)
most LGBTQI (superlative)

(LGBTQ) Abbreviation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (or: queer), intersex.


Latinx

en-noun

Latinx (plural Latinxs or Latinx or Latinxes)

Latinxs (plural)
Latinx (plural)
Latinxes (plural)

Spanish: latinx

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered Spanish suffixes -a and -o. Reinforced by United States Spanish latinx.

-a-o-x

(which see for more)

@nmoon Looks can be deceiving, but I "see" no Latinx, several multi-racials, 3 whites 90% AfrAm. I don't see anyone who looks solely AsAmer

2008 July 26, Elisa Camahort Page, “Elisa Camahort Page on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-17:

@metalmujer @soylamar there's also a variant with an x (Latinxs, maestrxs, etc.) but not quite as popular as @

2011 April 20, Karari Kue, “Karari Kue on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-17:

@kararikue @metalmujer I would love to read more abt the variations of Latin@ Latinx send me links, working on a presentation on diversity

2011 April 21, Reina Valenzuela, “Reina Valenzuela on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-17:

Asian Latinxs … Chicanxs/Latinxs …

2015 Fall, City on a Hill Press-Primer, page 30

Exclusion mainly occurs because Latinxs are conceived by the dominant Euroamerican culture as not belonging, as perpetual “illegals.”

2016, Miguel A. De La Torre, The U.S. Immigration Crisis: Toward an Ethics of Place, page 72:

[And] there is no reason Latinxs shouldn't be the ones to fill them.

Do stars with “hyphenated identities” have a responsibility to their constituencies (for example, a Latinx star to young Latinxes)?

2019, Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelača, Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction, Routledge, →ISBN:

Her [Lucila D. Ek’s] research focuses on the bilingualism, biliteracy, and identities of Latinxes.

2019, “Author Biographies”, in Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, editors, Language and Cultural Practices in Communities and Schools: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page xiii:

Similarly, White Latinx people, who can pass in the United States as part of the dominant culture, sometimes experience pressure to not identify as Latinx or are told they are not as Latinx as brown-hued Latinxes.

2019, Grisel Y. Acosta, editor, Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity, Routledge, →ISBN:

Dr Pigozzi’s book is essential reading for professionals who want to deliver effective and equitable care for Latinx.

2020, Teddie M. Potter, “Foreword”, in Laura Maria Pigozzi, Caring for and Understanding Latinx Patients in Health Care Settings, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 10:

Seventy percent of Latinxes’ ages 5 and older speak English proficiently, yet English proficiency varies across bilingual communities in the U.S. South Americans have the largest percentage (66.8%) of children who speak English very well, while 43.1% of Mexicans and 41.0% of Central American children (ages 5 – 18 years) speak English less than well.

2020, Sheila Bridges-Bond, “A Bilingual Child Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)”, in Diane M. Scott, editor, Cases on Communication Disorders in Culturally Diverse Populations (Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies), IGI Global, →ISBN, page 92:

With the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections being decided by the electoral college rather than the popular vote, the distribution of Latinx is of prime political importance. Latinx are learning that the best defenses against xenophobic laws are U.S. citizenship and the right to vote.

2020, Edwin David Aponte, Miguel A. De La Torre, Introducing Latinx Theologies, Orbis Books, →ISBN:

The following section seeks to deepen our understanding of the heterogeneity of Latinxes.

2020, Desiree D. Zerquera, Jasmine Haywood, Martín De Mucha, “More Than Nuance: Recognizing and Serving the Diversity of the Latinx Community”, in Robert T. Teranishi, Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen, Cynthia M. Alcantar, Edward R. Curammeng, editors, Measuring Race: Why Disaggregating Data Matters for Addressing Educational Inequality (James A. Banks, editor, Multicultural Education), Teachers College Press, →ISBN, part II (Unmasking Educational Inequality Through Disaggregated Data), page 157:

Recent national elections launched millions of young people, women, working people, LGBTQIA+ people; those concerned about the environment; Blacks, Latinxes, and immigrants fighting voter suppression; and others into electoral politics, movement building, and community organizing.

2021, Nicholas Freudenberg, “From Now to Next: How to Build a Movement for Another World”, in At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 298:

GARCÍA I think that's such a great way of thinking about some of the critical issues that we're facing today as Latino/Latina/Latinxes, however you identify yourself, in the United States.

2021, Michael M. Chemers, editor, The Theatre of Luis Valdez, Routledge, →ISBN:

While Farrakhan’s body gains its meaning through relationship to the Wheel, his true “mother,” Farrakhan is connected to the meaning of black women’s bodies and to all “black” people’s bodies—black in all the colors and “races” of blackness—historically, Native Americans, Asians, Latinxes, and the people of African descent, among whom African Americans are most significant.

2022, Stephen C. Finley, In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam, Duke University Press, →ISBN:

Latinxes often view their achievements as being dependent on the outcome of others.

2022, Bryan Powell, Gareth Dylan Smith, editors, Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education: Perspectives from the Field, Intellect, →ISBN:

The handbook authors draw on their methodological expertise and demonstrate in their individual chapters how Latinx are crafting lived theologies of liberation through their words, actions, and embodied faith. […] Reimagining Christianity and its theological constructs, and proclaiming what it can be for US Latinx, as well as demonstrating what this looks like, is at the heart of all of the chapters.

2022, Kristy Nabhan-Warren, “Introduction: Una Historia de perseverancia y resiliencia pueblo (A People’s History of Perseverance and Resilience)”, in The Oxford Handbook of Latinx Christianities in the United States, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

(chiefly US, see usage notes) A Latin person (of any gender); a Latino or Latina.


TIP

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(computing) Initialism of Tertiary Ideographic Plane, the fourth 65,536-codepoint plane in Unicode (from U+30000 through U+3FFFF).

Tertiary Ideographic Plane

[…] is based on a far too general assessment of the social position of TIP and Late Period priesthood. Further, it overlooks the actual historical context in which the trend of archaism emerged.

2015 November 2, László Török, The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization, BRILL, →ISBN, page 191:

Third Intermediate Period
w:Third Intermediate Period

Initialism of Third Intermediate Period.


TIP

(possibly offensive) Initialism of trans-identified person.


homophobophobia

It's funny what your homophobophobia does to you.

1999 September 26, CJ Watson, “Re: The Bible and Homosexuality”, in alt.teens.gay (Usenet):

I note that some certainly do seem to be homophobophobes. I.e. they have an irrational fear of irrational fear. This "homophobophobia" seems to cause some social scientists to hide various facts and the like. Also, it's exploited to the point of becoming passe by homophiles in just such a way, to hide facts and the like.

2000 June 22, C.J.W., “Re: Why Heterosexuals should not be in scouting”, in rec.scouting.issues (Usenet):

Futhermore, Oleg resented the fact that, when the Rutgers University administration was planning to extend marital benefits to the "domestic partners" of homosexual and lesbian faculty and staff, I was part of a group that attended an "open forum" on the issue, where we raised our objections and announced the formation of "RUHA", the Rutgers University Heterosexual Alliance, a counter to RULGA, the Rutgers University Lesbian/Gay Alliance -- the vociferous lobby behind this move. We also held a press conference where we introduced a victim of homophobophobia.

2002 March 30, Theodore A. Kaldis, “Re: Making John's Day”, in alt.religion.christian.calvary-chapel (Usenet):

(often sarcastic) Fear or dislike of those who oppose homosexuality.


transprejudice

Understand that transprejudice and transphobia pervade the social and cultural foundations of many institutions and traditions and foster negative attitudes, high incidence of violence/hate crimes, and overt hostility toward transgender people.

2010, Judith A. Lewis, Michael D. Lewis, Judy A. Daniels, Community Counseling: A Multicultural-Social Justice Perspective:


homoprejudice

Recognize and address the effects of externalized and internalized homoprejudice or heteroprejudice and biprejudice.

2002, Bob Barret, Robert L. Barret, Colleen Logan, Counseling Gay Men and Lesbians: A Practice Primer, page 119:


heteroprejudice

Counselors who are tuned to recognizing homoprejudice may be surprised to encounter heteroprejudice when working with gay clients.

2014, Matt Englar-Carlson, Marcheta P. Evans, Thelma Duffy, A Counselor's Guide to Working With Men, page 124:

You can emotionally support survivors by sharing that they are the victims of heteroprejudice and, regardless of whom we are, nobody has a right to violate our property or us.

2001, Daya Singh Sandhu, Faces of Violence:

Prejudice expressed by heterosexual people against other groups.


sworn virgin

Anila, who prefers to be called Rrok (a male name) […] displays a significant number of the attributes of the more traditional sworn virgins: male attire, short hair, assertive male gestures and a self-confident stride, but his reason for assuming the role is not traditional. […] He explains that it not only gives him freedom to wander around the village; [...]

2012, Andreas Hemming, Gentiana Kera, Enriketa Pandelejmoni, Albania: Family, Society and Culture in the 20th Century, →ISBN, page 172:

A person, assigned female at birth, who adopts a traditional masculine third-gender or transmasculine role in the Balkans, wearing masculine clothing and performing masculine tasks, and traditionally swearing a vow of chastity.

burrneshë

person who has a masculine third-gender role in the Balkans


transtrender

Blend of transgender + trender or transgender + trend.

Many of the genderqueer kids in today’s liberal America are what Charlotte Wolf calls “transtrenders,” using gender as a form of social provocation or subcultural bonding.

2015 March 23, Mark Gevisser, “Engendered”, in The Nation:

Threads on the social media giant Reddit occasionally discuss or condemn "transtrenders" […]

2017, Lee (Molly) J. Fraser, "Reblogging Gender: Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet", thesis submitted to the University of Western Ontario, page 92

These latter trans people are often accused of being "fakers." They are "transtrenders." Their trans identity is the result of social contagion, not Gender Dysphoria™.

2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, page 79:

However, these conversations often reproduce hegemonic conceptions of masculinity, perpetuating white supremacy, heterosexism, and the idea of a "transtrender" fad.

2014, National Women's Studies Association 2014 conference program, page 198

In fact, it would do a great disservice to the participants of these communities and social spaces to portray them all as teenagers, because it would contribute to the erasure of people who have been non-binary before the internet and potentially legitimize the "transtrender" panic, […]

2017, Lee (Molly) J. Fraser, "Reblogging Gender: Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet", thesis submitted to the University of Western Ontario, page 33

Whereas there is no transtrender subreddit, r/transmed and r/truscum both exist. Those who advocate for a strict interpretation of the dominant medical narrative feel comfortable to self- identify with monikers that identify them as such, whereas those who either do or are accused of flouting those medical narratives do not.

2019, Jessica Rae Fisher, "Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions Of The Transgender Body In The 21st Century", thesis submitted to Kennesaw State University (May 2019), page 64

(slang, derogatory) A person who affects a transgender or non-binary gender identity for perceived social benefit.


gold star lesbian

en-noun

gold star lesbian (plural gold star lesbians)

My few forays into erotic desire for straight women bore the same fruit they usually do for “gold-star” lesbians—frustration and emotional pain.

1992 Spring, Carol A. Queen, “Strangers at Home: Bisexuals in the Queer Movement”, in OUT/LOOK, volume 5, number 16, San Francisco: OUT/LOOK Foundation, →ISSN, page 29:

“I hate being the youngest and the only gold-star lesbian. It's so cliché. Like some of you, I've thought about giving the other side a try. You really can't help but wonder what it's like. […]”

2005 March 29, Linda Wagner, Faithful to My Heart, West Conshohocken: Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, page 48:

There is a checklist of risk, even here [a crowded club floor]. The straight bachelorettes. The gold-star lesbians. The tranny-chasers. The people who hate my flesh, or love it wrong, […]

2021 August 12, Remy Chartier, “Snapshots of a Trans Body in Love”, in Venus Cohen, editor, VULCANALIA 2021, LUPERCALIApress, page 106:

(slang) A lesbian who has never had sex with a man.


Chicanx

Spanish: chicanx

/t͡ʃɪˈkæŋks/

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered Spanish suffixes -a and -o.

Coordinate term: Latinx

2015 December, Hasta Mas alla De Los Gritos, page 4: It was seen as negative until Chicanxs took it back.

In California, Chicanxs/Latinxs high school graduares are rising …

2015 Fall, City on a Hill Press-Primer, page 30

(neologism) A Chicano or Chicana (of any gender).


Brighton pier

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(Cockney rhyming slang) queer; homosexual


gynophile

One who loves women; a person who loves or is sexually attracted to women or to femininity.


pangendered

If a pre op transsexual, a post op transsexual, a butch lesbian, and a person who identifies as pangendered are all kicked out of the same washroom on the same day because a non-trans woman has complained to security that there are men in the washroom, should all of them be able to file a human rights complaint?

1999, Allison Cope, Trans Accessibility Project: Making Women's Shelters Accessible to Transgendered Women:

In an effort to make the case for Nixon's womanhood, her council erases any idea of gender identity as fluid, the existence of intersex individuals as well as the realities of pangendered individuals (those that move back and forth or along a gender continuum throughout their lives).

2006, Krista Scott-Dixon, Trans/forming Feminisms: Trans/feminist Voices Speak Out, →ISBN, page 187:

"But I did!" Manda said, pushing her way past her pangendered partner in crime.

2007, Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings: A Novel, page 59:

What if truth is a woman no longer, but a trans woman, an androgyne, pangendered— even all of these and more: “genderqueer,” a catch-all phrase for everything not status quo?

2015, A. Brunneis, The Boulevards of Extinction, →ISBN, page 235:

The seeming contradictions of conventional gender roles disappear if we regard vampirism as a “pangendered construct in which traditional male and female genders are combined to form a whole.

2016, Tom Pollard, Loving Vampires: Our Undead Obsession, →ISBN, page 62:

Having or pertaining to mixed or fluid gender identity that encompasses aspects of all genders.


rotten egg

Or because they themselves experience gender dysphoria but have gone down the rotten egg path.

2021 August 14, Violent_Violette, “Is gender dysphoria an exclusively trans experience?”, in Reddit, asktransgender, archived from the original on 2022-09-26:

(chiefly transgender slang) A closeted transgender person who overcompensates by being actively transphobic.


swing that way

en-verb

swing that way (third-person singular simple present swings that way, present participle swinging that way, simple past and past participle swung that way)

swings that way (present singular third-person)
swinging that way (participle present)
swung that way (participle past)
swung that way (past)


queerspawn

In my interactions with others in the queerspawn community, I've met people from all kinds of families: Venezuelan toddlers adopted at birth by gay dads; adults whose parents came out after they left for college; […]

2005, Meredith Maran, Angela Watrous, 50 Ways to Support Lesbian & Gay Equality:

Asha is the product of many parents, is proud queerspawn, and above all loves her international family.

2009, Jennifer Clare Burke, Visible: A Femmethology, Volume One:

(slang) The children of gay or lesbian parents.


homoculture

(dated) A form of human eugenics based on promoting desirable qualities rather than eliminating undesirable ones.


gender ideology

en-noun

gender ideology (countable and uncountable, plural gender ideologies)

Although it appears to pursue the good end of honouring all people, it also assumes the whole linguistic fabric of gender ideology, which aims to eliminate the concepts of male and female, dismantle corporal identity and deconstruct the human body, marriage and family.

2018 January 24, Jonathan Luxmoore, “Catholic bishops denounce LGBT diversity law”, in The Tablet:

"We are against gender ideology," Zeljka Markic, a leader of the conservatives, told The Associated Press.

2018 March 24, “Thousands of Croatian Far-Right Supporters March in Zagreb”, in Voice of America:

Some say that the latest instruction represents the promotion of the so-called gender ideology, but the Ministry denies this, reports Večernji List

2018 June 14, Vedran Pavlic, “Transgender People Have a Right to Be Issued New Diplomas”, in Total Croatia News:

Brazil’s Bolsonaro has denounced the presence of “Marxist rubbish,” political debate, and “gender ideology” on Brazil’s school campuses. Militants opposing so-called gender ideology throughout Latin America erroneously argue that teaching sexual education attracts young people toward homosexuality, feminizes boys, and masculinizes girls.

2019 March 7, Natalia Cote-Muñoz, “Murdered Women Can’t Celebrate International Women’s Day”, in Foreign Policy:

Gender ideology is the theory that […] human individuals are properly described in terms of an “internal sense of gender” called “gender identity” that may be incongruent with their “sex assigned at birth.”

2023 July 3, Jay W. Richards, “What Is Gender Ideology?”, in The American Conservative:

One Catholic family in Indiana has suffered the unthinkable: the parents’ son was taken from their home because his parents refused to genuflect to the demands of gender ideology.

2024 February 21, Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, “When Gender Ideology Infects the Family”, in National Christian Register:

(uncountable, anti-LGBTQ slur, derogatory) LGBTQ identities and the movements to further LGBTQ rights, framed as an ideology, e.g. in conspiracy theories.


holigay

Dragsters Justin Bond and Jackie Beat kick up their own New York "holigay" spirit

1999, The Advocate, number 801, page 57:

Perfect gay pride rainbow-heart Notebook gift: Give this LGBT Journal for, trans, lesbian, queer, events, birthdays or any other special occasion.

2018, Olivia Gaydos, Happy Holigays: Notebook Journal Diary 110 Lined Pages:

(slang) A holiday involving homosexuality.


bioman

From bio- + man, short for biological man.


MAAB

I am a FAAB (female-assigned-at-birth) genderqueer, and I have a good friend who is a MAAB (male-assigned-at-birth) genderqueer.

2013, Joe MacDonald, An Autoethnography of Queer Transmasculine Femme Incoherence and The Ethics of Trans Research, Emerald Group, page 145:

(LGBTQ) Initialism of male assigned at birth.


FAAB

The options for "I'm looking for" are still limited to "women," "men," and "everybody." Shit's not helpful when I'm looking for a FAAB transmasculine cutie to smooch and/or fix my broken dresser drawer.

2015 March 4, Mariella Mosthof, “Which Dating App Is The Most Queer-Friendly? I Tried Everything From Tinder To Dattch And Found A Clear Winner”, in Bustle:

(LGBTQ) Initialism of female assigned at birth.


FAAB

What I mean is that as a FAAB, I have survived sexual abuse and violence, I've walked past abortion protestors outside of a clinic on the way to get my own termination, people still want to make laws in this country telling me what to do with my body.

2016 January 5, Nora Singh, “Meet Hit Bargain, the LA Queencore Band That Stands on Men's Faces”, in Vice:


Korrasami

Not only did the creators openly confirm that the ending was intended — and Korrasami shippers aren't just reading too much between the lines — a ton of artwork has been created and sold to benefit LGBTQ suicide prevention.

2015, Nick Havey, "Bisexual stereotypes need to go bi bi bi", The Daily Wildcat (Arizona University), Volume 108, Issue 119, 25 March 2015, page 4

The redeeming feature of Korrasami (as the pairing has become known among fans) is that the show's producers very clearly stated that both characters are bisexual and definitely in a relationship.

2018, Kate Harrad, editor, Claiming the B in LGBT: Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative, unnumbered page:

While the “Korrasami” pairing was confirmed at the ending, fans desired to see more and engaged in slash activities to portray the relationship.

2018, Nicolle Lamerichs, “When Production Is Over: Creating Narrative Closure in Fan Edits”, in Rebecca Williams, editor, Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures, page 147:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Korra and Asami from the animated series Avatar: Legend of Korra.


transactivism

In addition, some early readers have come away with the conviction that in-your-face picketing-style transactivism originated with the Menace.

1997, Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, page 14:

In retrospect, there’s no doubt this was a turning point for transactivism. It was the first really visible national demonstration we ever pulled off.

2003, anonymous, quoted in Patrick Califia, Sex Changes: Transgender Politics, page 232

This is a human rights orientated organisation and it carves out completely different discursive space when compared to US transactivism.

2005, Kate O'Riordan, “Transgender activism and the net: global activism or casualty of globalisation”, in Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw, Neil Stammers, editors, Global Activism, Global Media, page 186:

Activism in support of transgender people and issues relevant to them, such as ending discrimination, violence, and prejudice.


HSTS

Coordinate term: AGP

I was being flip with the dinner-date suggestion. And my age would surely provoke some discussion relative to the HSTS and AG thing which I'd rather not go into.

2004 June 30, Valerie, “Re: New Girl in Town”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet), retrieved 2021-11-10:

HSTS start out as homosexual, gender variant, not very well adjusted or socially and sexually successful boys, and hopefully end up as heterosexual, gender normative, well adjusted and socially acceptable girls.

2004, S. Alejandra Velasquez, Alex Parkinson, Inoue, "Gogo" Yee, Kiira Triea, “Questions about transsexuality”, in TransKids.us, archived from the original on 2004-12-23:

A downside to being an HSTS transsexual is that quite often, the only frame of reference you have for what to means to be an HSTS is yourself.

2018 May 1, Rod Fleming, “Body-type clustering in HSTS and AGP groups”, in Rod Fleming's World:

If this is true, I believe the following: HSTS are not the opposite natal sex in any way, nor do they have opposite-sexed brains.

2020, “Stance on Gender Transition”, in Female Sexual Inversion, archived from the original on 2021-10-03:

homosexual transsexual
homosexual transsexual#English


desister

Coordinate term: detransitioner

A person who ceases to identify as transgender and who did not undergo a physical sex change operation.


political lesbianism

A feminist doctrine that advocates lesbianism and lesbian separatism as a part of the struggle against sexism.


autogynephile

/ˌɔː.təʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfaɪl/

Evidently, the woman did not get those signals from the men. (If instead of being the wife of an autogynephile, she were the sister of a homosexual transsexual, I doubt she would have asked an analogous question.)

2003, J. Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen:

Transsexual and Nontranssexual Autogynephiles Resemble Each Other. […] I knew, however, that attempting to draw a definitive line between autogynephilic transsexuals and nontranssexual autogynephiles was a difficult if not an impossible exercise, even though I believed there were legitimate reasons for trying to do so.

2012, Anne A. Lawrence, Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism, page 179:

First identified in the early 1990s by Canadian sex researcher Ray Blanchard, autogynephiles usually grow up with masculine boyhood interests, eventually finding themselves fetishistically sexually interested in female clothes and female bodies.

2012, Gary F. Kelly, America's Sexual Transformation:


light on one's feet

en-adj

light on one's feet (comparative more light on one's feet, superlative most light on one's feet)

more light on one's feet (comparative)
most light on one's feet (superlative)


vegansexual

vegansexual (comparative more vegansexual, superlative most vegansexual)

more vegansexual (comparative)
most vegansexual (superlative)

He pointed out that had his current partner been strictly vegansexual, their relationship might never have started in the first place, as when they met, he was only vegetarian.

2017, Nathan Stephens Griffin, Understanding Veganism: Biography and Identity, Springer, →ISBN, page 72:

Only having sexual relationships with other vegans.


hide in the closet

en-verb

hide in the closet (third-person singular simple present hides in the closet, present participle hiding in the closet, simple past hid in the closet, past participle hidden in the closet)

hides in the closet (present singular third-person)
hiding in the closet (participle present)
hid in the closet (past)
hidden in the closet (participle past)


androsexuality

The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to men.


transyouth

en-noun

transyouth (countable and uncountable, plural transyouths or transyouth)

transyouths (plural)
transyouth (plural)

Because of much of the validation the transyouth have experienced through the Internet and small group discussions, they are arriving on campuses with less trepidation and fear; instead, announcing, "here I am, I need services: housing, […]

2004, Yolanda C. Padilla, Gay and Lesbian Rights Organizing:

In addition, since many policies intent on helping address sexism have replicated a binary gender divide, transyouth and other gender nonconforming youth may face difficulties that go beyond policies intent on protecting women from bias.

2014, Cris Mayo, LGBTQ Youth and Education:

(uncountable) Transgender or transsexual youths, collectively.


trans-exclusionary

en-adj

trans-exclusionary (comparative more trans-exclusionary, superlative most trans-exclusionary)

more trans-exclusionary (comparative)
most trans-exclusionary (superlative)

Excluding trans people (especially trans women).


monoamory

Attested since at least 1992, from mono- + Latin amor + -y, possibly modelled on polyamory.

Practice of involving romantic or sexual relationship with a single partner at a time. (especially as contrasted with polyamory).


detransitioner

Coordinate term: desister

Detransitioners will need to be aware that 'reverse' genital surgery is not likely to be as successful as their original surgery because there will be less tissue to work with.

2019, Jennie Kermode, Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary People with Disabilities or Illnesses, page 72:

In 2021 she spoke out in favor of approaching gender dysphoria in a more considered way, urging others in the field to pay attention to detransitioners, people who no longer consider themselves transgender after undergoing medical or surgical interventions.

2024 February 2, Pamela Paul, “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


cis lesbian

A cis woman who is a lesbian (that is, who is attracted to women).


plurisexual

From pluri- + sexual, by analogy with monosexual.

Plurisexuals are often interpreted as half gay/half straight due to the prevailing belief that multigendered attractions are temporary, or illusory.

2020, Rosie Nelson, “'What do bisexuals look like? I don't know!' Visibility, gender, and safety among plurisexuals”, in Journal of Sociology, volume 56, number 4, →DOI, page 591:


enby

→ German: Enby

The noun is a pronunciation spelling of NB, an initialism of non-binary. The word was coined by the Tumblr user “revolutionator” in 2013 as “an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls”: see the quotation.
The adjective is derived from the noun.

coinage

i wish there was an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls / nb / enby / enbies

[2013 September 10, “revolutionator” [pseudonym], “02348294832908091 [page title]”, in Tumblr, retrieved 2021-05-21:

I doubt most wedding fair vendors would recognise an enby even if you carried an explanatory sign.

2017 October, Will McCreath, “My Non-binary Wedding”, in Carrie Lyell, editor, Diva, London: Twin Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-28, page 18, column 3:

So, boys and girls and enbies, if the sex isn't good at or very near the beginning, the passage of time and/or muttering of vows isn't going to fix it.

2018 June 27 – July 3, Dan Savage, “Savage Love”, in Julie Ann Grimm, editor, Santa Fe Reporter, volume 45, number 26, Santa Fe, N.M.: Santa Fe Reporter, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-18, page 28, column 1:

'Ladies and enbies,' she said, the five foot three height requirement for pilots continued to mean that nearly all the human fighter pilots she had ever met were women or enbies. She could see no evidence before her that anything had changed. 'You might have heard of me, my call sign is Romeo,' she paused while the pilots giggled and sniggered.

2019, Claire G. Coleman, chapter 8, in The Old Lie, Sydney, N.S.W.: Hachette Australia, →ISBN:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(neologism, informal) Pronunciation spelling of NB: a non-binary person; a person whose gender identity is not strictly female or male; one who is outside of the gender binary.


enby

For non-binary-identified (or, to use my current favourite term, enby) people, this is magnified by the fact that while most of everyone except Germaine Greer and Donald Trump are prepared to recognise that trans people do exist these days, the enby population is still struggling up that hill with our glitter in the one hand and our neckties in the other.

2017, S. Bear Bergman, Meg-John Barker, “Non-binary Activism”, in Christina Richards, Walter Pierre Bouman, Meg-John Barker, editors, Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders (Critical and Applied Approaches in Sexuality, Gender and Identity), London: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, part I (Societies), page 43:

You've campaigned for non-binary and gender non-conforming people at Newcastle for a while now, including winning Campaign of the Year last year for your Beyond The Binary Week when you served as Marginalised Genders Officer, and appearing on BBC3's web shows. Would you consider yourself an enby BNOC [big name on campus]?

2018 May 14, Zoë Godden, “Interview: Saffron Kershaw-Mee”, in James Sproston, editor, The Courier, number 1370, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Students’ Union, Newcastle University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-27, page 23, column 2:

"As an enby transgxrl, and an enbie lesbian, the lesbian community needs to show [more] validation towards those who are both non-binary and lesbians. […] I know that I am valid as a lesbian so I just don't let those views affect me, and the enby community needs to be welcoming of nb lesbians a[s] well," says Evee Sams, a lesbian, polyamorous, agender, trans gxrl.

2018 August, Peach Delosreyes-Yu, “A Stream of Consciousness on Self-Acceptance”, in Leif Tobias Gifford, editor, ENBY Magazine, number 2, [Canada]: ENBY Magazine, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-15, page 7, column 2:

(neologism, informal) Pronunciation spelling of NB: non-binary; having or pertaining to a gender identity that is not strictly female or male, that is, outside of the gender binary.

muusu-

having or pertaining to a gender identity that is not strictly female or male — see also non-binary


Gaylor

There are two major fan theories at play in the lead-up to Midnights. The first we're going to call the Karma theory. The second is the Gaylor theory. One of them has been nearly confirmed, and the other nearly dashed.

2022 October 19, Constance Grady, “Let's go down the rabbit hole of Taylor Swift conspiracy theories”, in Vox, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

Anti-Gaylor fans, also known by the derisive term Hetlors, are a subculture of Swift followers who believe the harmless Gaylor fan theory is disrespectful to the pop star. The theory, which originated on the blogging site Tumblr in the mid-2010s, became a renewed topic of interest online when Swift abruptly announced her tenth studio album Midnights in 2022 — and began releasing coded messages about the contents and meanings behind her new songs.

2023 April 12, CT Jones, “Why Some Taylor Swift Stans Are Ganging Up On 'Gaylors': Report”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-29:

(fandom slang) A fan theory that singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is secretly gay.


Gaygler

Gayglers include the company's GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual) employees.

2009, Janet Lowe, Google Speaks: Secrets of the World's Greatest Billionaire Entrepreneurs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 161:

(informal) A gay employee of the technology company Google.


Stucky

A lot of people ship Stucky, and they ship it hard.

2016, Brittani Howell, “#LeaveCapAlone”, in Connect Statesboro, 1 June - 14 June 2016, page 4:

In her 'Domestic Stucky (feat. IKEA)' art project, Kurozawa Shiro decided to draw the characters Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes into a spare IKEA catalogue she had lying around (Stucky is the portmanteau name for the Steve/Bucky pairing).

2017, Francesca Coppa, “Hollywood of Our Own: Media Fandom as Female Artworld”, in Mary Harrod, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, editors, Women Do Genre in Film and Television, unnumbered page:

The Stucky fandom encompasses all kinds of fans, and acts as a vast space for fans to find their preferred content.

2018 December, Alen Ríos, Diego Rivera, “Vulnerability and Trash: Divisions within the Stucky fandom”, in Otherness: Essays and Studies, volume 6, number 1, page 35:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Steve Rogers (Captain America) and Bucky Barnes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


Malec

I think the fans of the book are really going to be excited about the "Malec" relationship.

2016, Isaiah Mustafa, quoted in Aleksander Tomovic, "Isaiah Mustafa", Bello, January 2016, page 34

Shadowhunters season 3 has been such a blessing for Malec fans.

2018 May, “Hollywood Tea News”, in Cinespirit Magazine, page 80:

"Malec" shippers will clamor for installments to come.

2019, The Red Scrolls of Magic review, Kirkus Reviews, 15 February 2019, page 143

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood from The Shadowhunter Chronicles franchise.


queerification

Whether through bitchification or through queerification, natives provide a groun zero for the conqueror.

1995, Emilie L. Bergmann, Paul Julian Smith, editors, Entiendes?: queer readings, Hispanic writings:

The process of making or becoming queer, i.e. not conforming to mainstream sexual identity or behaviour.


Klinefelter

Klinefelter syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome#English


wide stance

From the Larry Craig scandal. Police sergeant Dave Karsnia paraphrased Craig as having said that he "has a wide stance when going to the bathroom and that his foot may have touched mine".

(slang, euphemistic, sometimes humorous) homosexuality (as an attribute of a person)


plurisexuality

en-noun

plurisexuality (countable and uncountable, plural plurisexualities)

Bisexuality is thought to be the most prevalent plurisexuality but other identities, like pansexuality, are also common.

In participants' experience, youth sexuality was associated with risk for women and girls, with plurisexualities, particularly bisexuality, being equated with promiscuity and health risk

2020, Ruby Grant with Meredith Nash and Emily Hansen, “What does inclusive sexual and reproductive healthcare look like for bisexual, pansexual and queer women? Findings from an exploratory study from Tasmania, Australia”, in Culture, Health & Sexuality, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, page 257:

Any romantic or sexual orientation which includes attraction to more than one gender.


gayify

en-verb

gayify (third-person singular simple present gayifies, present participle gayifying, simple past and past participle gayified)

gayifies (present singular third-person)
gayifying (participle present)
gayified (participle past)
gayified (past)

(transitive) To make a person or society gay; to queerify.


skoliosexual

en-adj

skoliosexual (comparative more skoliosexual, superlative most skoliosexual)

more skoliosexual (comparative)
most skoliosexual (superlative)

From Ancient Greek σκολιός (skoliós, “curved, bent”) + -sexual, coined by DeviantArt user Nelde in 2010.

der

There is a silence surrounding sexualities such as genderqueer, skoliosexual, pansexual and asexual. These 'other' sexualities operate outside of the traditional sex-gender-desire binaries that now frame both same-sex and opposite-sex attraction.

2015, Jayne Caudwell, Sexualities and sport, page 244:

However, these identities are only a few of those that fall under the umbrella term queer, which includes other identities such as pansexual, asexual, demisexual, skoliosexual, polysexual, same gender loving, kink, polyamorous, and others.

2017, Em Chih-Rou Huang, Parts of a Whole: Reframing Identity Development Theory as a Queer and Trans Person of Color:

Cultural diversity is a term that refers to many groups defined on bases other than those that distinguish traditional cultural or ethnic groups: Sexual orientation, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, androsexual, skoliosexual, asexual, or questioning; Gender identity, such as transgender, nonbinary, or fluid; Deaf culture, representing those with hearing impairments; Physical disabilities, such as the "wheelchair culture"...

2017, Luanne Linnard-Palmer, Pediatric Nursing Care: A Concept-Based Approach, →ISBN, page 48:

(rare, of humans) Sexually attracted to transgender or non-binary and genderqueer people.


queerosexual

Blend of queer + homosexual or queer + -o- + -sexual

Queerosexuals are not bred from normal people. They are individuals who make a CHOICE to commit acts of perversion.

2002 October 15, Nuclear, “HEEHEE!! QUEERS CAN USE LEMON TO STOP AIDS!!”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

Texas? Down in Texas they execute queerosexuals. She's putting her life in jeopardy.

2009 March 3, Captain Infinity, “Criminal Minds' Kirsten Vangsness (the chubby one) to Wed Girlfriend this Spring”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

The little queerosexuals with their uncombed hair and eyeliner would have had their asses kicked back when I was in school so how the hell did they end up with a girlfriend.

2011, Nicholas Wilkinson, From here To Obesity, →ISBN:

(vulgar, slang, derogatory) A homosexual.


LGBTQ+

Initialism of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual, Queer/Questioning plus. The "plus" is inclusive of other groups, such as asexual, intersex, etc.


throupling

The act of joining together to form a throuple.


transphobism

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

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


queerify

en-verb

queerify (third-person singular simple present queerifies, present participle queerifying, simple past and past participle queerified)

queerifies (present singular third-person)
queerifying (participle present)
queerified (participle past)
queerified (past)

(transitive) To make queer; to cause not to conform to mainstream sexual identity or behaviour.


motsser

From the newsgroup name soc.motss (short for members of the same sex) + -er.

(Internet slang) A member of the soc.motss newsgroup for the discussion of gay issues.


wombyn

Form "My journey as a wombyn child emerging from a wombyn, my mother, and my own growth thru all the passages and consecutive emergences to the present is both similar to the experiences of generations of wombyn gone before me and uniquely my own.

1983, Lynda Ross Ford, Bleeding, page 147:

I come from a generation of wombyn that struggled and strived alone.

2014, Diata, Wombanystic Thoughts, →ISBN, page 108:

These spritely guides are merely an inspiration for you to begin or deepen your journey depending on where you are in your development. I invite you to take time to see what your personal guidance says about your wombyn's rhythms.

2016, Zsuzsi Hussla, Unraveling Her, →ISBN:


Fenders

"Im going to sleep!" Reads fenders fics on phone until 4am

2015 July 23, Tentacle (@10takler), Twitter:

EVERYBODY SHIPS FENDERS WRONG!!!! less angry makeouts more talking about feelings

2015 August 2, silver stars (@naiakiir), Twitter:

In my Fenders headcanon, Anders accompanies Fenris in Blue Wraith.

2023 June 26, BinkyProd (@BinkyProd), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Fenris and Anders from Dragon Age II.


mononormativity

en-noun

mononormativity (countable and uncountable, plural mononormativities)

The assumption that monosexuality (i.e., attraction to people of only one gender) is the only normal or significant form of sexuality.


buffty

You know who I am buffty.

1999 April 21, Hail mail, “IMPORTANT!!”, in alt.sports.soccer.celtic (Usenet):

Are ye calling me a buffty?

1999 July 9, [LSoG]Hesitator, “Action Q2”, in uk.games.computer.quake2 (Usenet):

must be a closet buffty then

1999 November 23, David Jenkins, “The best players are ?”, in alt.games.half-life.tfclassic (Usenet):

"He is Awfull, but I like him" in buffty voice

2001 February 15, Andy W, “Big numptie”, in uk.sport.football.scottish (Usenet):

(Scotland, slang, derogatory) A homosexual.


gynesexuality

The state of being sexually and romantically attracted to feminity.


lesbro

Isaac, a 20-year-old gay male who lives with a lesbian and her bi-sexual girlfriend, did not realize he was a "lesbro" until he moved in with these two women.

2008 July, Ben Cartwright, “Lesbros”, in FlawLes Magazine, page 17:

If you're content to remain a lesbro—a straight guy who's friends with lesbians—your lesbian friends can provide you with priceless beneﬁts: unlimited insight into the bizarre thinking and behaviour of women.

2013, Amy Alkon, "Advice Goddess", Metro (Silicon Valley), 2 January - 8 January 2013, page 44

The group expects to see a lot of women turn out, but is optimistic that Town Hall will draw a good number of "our lesbros, as well."

2016, Paul Schindler, “Lesbian Political Action Committee All In For Hillary”, in Gay City News, 26 May - 8 June 2016, page 10:

(slang) A male friend or companion of a lesbian.

(slang, offensive, derogatory) A man who is sycophantic or groveling to lesbians and/or bisexual women.


fa'afafine

Borrowed from Samoan fa'afafine, from fa'a (“in the manner of”) + fafine (“woman”).

What I wish to emphasize here is that 'traditionally' fa'afafine have been and generally still are initially identified in terms of labour preferences.

2004, Ulrike Schuerkens, Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds: Social Transformations, →ISBN, page 209:

While Pakeha (New Zealanders of European descent) transyouth are invisible in the curriculum through their gender identity, fa'afafine youth are additionally invisible through their cultural identity. There are currently no support groups in Aotearoa/New Zealand for fa'afafine young people.

2005, James Thomas Sears, Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia, →ISBN:

To begin with, he describes the relationship between his Samoan and fa'afafine identities by saying: 'for me culture is always first and then sexuality', and 'any interaction I have with anybody, the two things I want them to find out about me is the fact that I'm Samoan first and foremost and .... [secondly] that I'm fa'afafine.'

2006, Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle, The Transgender Studies Reader, →ISBN, page 660:

A Samoan whose gender is neither male nor female, being biologically male but preferring (or being raised for) traditionally female duties and tasks.


biprejudice

Recognize and address the effects of externalized and internalized homoprejudice or heteroprejudice and biprejudice.

2002, Bob Barret, Robert L. Barret, Colleen Logan, Counseling Gay Men and Lesbians: A Practice Primer, page 119:

(rare) Prejudice against bisexual people.


homophobophobe

You narrow-minded, bigoted little homophobophobe.

1997 September 11, Heh V. Sarcasm, “Homophobophobia runs rampant on alt.atheism! (Re: I Am A Gay Christian And Proud Of It.)”, in alt.religion.christian.baptist (Usenet):

Yes, I am probably a homophobophobe and I might even hate homophobes (though I don't think so, I think most of you are pitiful), […]

1998 April 1, Hugh Young, “Re: Intolerance was Re: Patrick Dunford...”, in nz.soc.queer (Usenet):

Why are homophobophobes obsessed with covering up the behavior caused by homosexuality?

1999 September 3, CJ Watson, “Re: help aus.politics, should...........?”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

(often sarcastic) A person who dislikes or opposes homophobia.


Persian love

The Lesbian is the analogue among women of Persian love among men, and this perversion takes place in two ways, either by friction of the two female bodies, known as tribadism, or by the tongue, designated as cunnilinguism.

1908, Medical Council: Volume 13, page 12:


jobbie jabber

From jobbie (“lump of shit”) + jabber (“one who jabs”), in reference to anal sex.

By the time the bell goes, I think most of us have forgotten the jobbie jabber's even in the cupboard

He's a bit of a jobbie jabber if you know wha' a mean. Aye, he's gay. But he's actually alright.

2020, Jon Bradfield, Martin Hooper, He's Behind You: Eleven Gay Pantomimes:

(childish, vulgar, UK, slang) A homosexual man.


multigenderism

While I'll acknowledge that 'communal/matriachial' societies have traditionally supported transgenderism and multigenderism, I'm uncertain that it can be attributed to the 'communal' nature of teh culture (that Leslie seems to imply).

1996 October 19, Rosalind Hengeveld, “Transgender Warriors”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

Multigenderism has CLEARLY FAILED! and only immigrants of the SAME GENDER should be allowed in.

2002 July 9, fasgnadh, “Is Multiculturalism worth it?”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

Here Garton Ash argues that when liberals extended their thinking to embrace the rights of workers and women, for example, they did not find it necessary to address 'multiclassism' or 'multigenderism'. So, why bother with 'multiculturalism'?

2013, George Crowder, Theories of Multiculturalism: An Introduction, →ISBN, page 208:

True liberation of gender/sexuality would be multigenderism, but not postgenderism, ie: in current conditions settling niches for more than two genders would be much more helpful than complete elimination of gender.

2016 June, Y Kolesnikova, “Culturalist criticism of queer doctrine”, in CAES, volume 2, number 2:

The belief in and acceptance of more than two gender identities (i.e. more than male and female).


bioboy

"I'm afraid I'll disappoint her by not being enough like a bioboy." Raymond was not talking about sex. He was finding it difficult to navigate issues such as, "Is she expecting me to hold the door for her?"

2007, Reid Vanderburgh, Transition and Beyond: Observations on Gender Identity, →ISBN, page 143:


gay cancer

From gay (“homosexual”) + cancer (“disease”). From the fact that HIV/AIDS was in its beginnings very disproportionately found in homosexual men. The word “cancer” from the analogy with a suddenly emerging, highly feared and highly lethal disease.

acquired immune deficiency syndrome#English

(pathology, obsolete, slang, 1980s) Synonym of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”)

GRID

gay-related immune deficiency or gay-related immunodeficiency


gay-related immunodeficiency

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:

(pathology, dated) Synonym of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).