Concerns the gender of the people an individual is romantically or sexually attracted to.
The community has led the cultural shift toward respecting self-identification. Normalizing the sharing of pronouns (he/him, she/her, they/them, ze/hir) has fostered safer spaces both online and offline.
: How a person outwardly presents their gender through clothing, hair, voice, or behavior. This may or may not align with their gender identity.
Throughout the 1970s–90s, trans activists carved out spaces within gay and lesbian bars, bookstores, and health clinics, even as many LGB organizations debated whether to include "T." The HIV/AIDS crisis forced some solidarity: trans people, especially trans women of color, faced epidemic rates of infection and neglect, leading to joint advocacy for healthcare and harm reduction.
Concerns an individual’s internal, deeply felt sense of being male, female, a blend of both, or neither.