Are you cis, trans or agender? Do you feel asexual or bi? And in relationships are you more poly or just a normie? During Pride, quite a few terms fly by. With this dictionary you come as ally Today well iced. Slay, queen!
Asexual
Someone who has no interest in sex.
Ally
Someone who does not fall directly into the rainbow family, but who does stand up for the rights of that group and who stands up for lhbti people. A ‘friend of’ the LGBTI movement.
BIPOC
English abbreviation. Stands for Black, Indigenous and People of Color. This term is seen in the English speaking world as slightly more inclusive than ‘people of colour’
Bisexual
People who are attracted to both men and women.
Cisgender
Someone whose gender identity matches their biological sex. So for example: you are born with a vagina and you feel like a girl. Then you are cisgender. The opposite is therefore transgender: someone whose biological body does not correspond to how someone feels (“I was born with a penis but I feel like a woman.”)
Drag queens
Men who dress up as women with (usually) a lot of make-up, beautiful outfits, and theatrical performances. There are also women who dress up as men: the drag kings. Most drag queens have no desire to change gender permanently. They often find it enough to occasionally turn into a flamboyant alter ego. In this they differ from transgender people: they often want to change gender permanently because they do not feel comfortable in their innate body.
FLINTA
An abbreviation that came over from Germany and stands for Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Trans and Agender. In other words: women, lesbians, intersex (people with male and female genitals), trans (people born in the wrong body) and agender (people who feel they have no gender).
Gay
A trendy way to refer to the gay community.
Gender
The cultural and social characteristics associated with gender. So this is between your ears (as opposed to your gender: that is below the belt). Gender is a scale from very masculine to very feminine with everything in between. For example, you have people who identify as men but who look and dress feminine (think glam rockers) and people who identify as women but look masculine (think Annie Lennox from Eurythmics in Sweet Dreams).
Intersex
Intersex is when a body has both male and female characteristics. This used to be called hermaphroditism. TV presenter Raven van Dorst is a well-known example of an intersex person.
LGBTQIA+
The abbreviation that (ironically) keeps getting longer. Once started as LGBT to refer to Lesbians, Homosexuals, Bisexuals and Transgenders. Sometimes you also saw LGBT, the G for gay replaced the H for homosexual. The Q (for Queer), the I (for Intersex), the A (for Asexual) and the + (for all other groups) have now also been added.
Normies
Normal people. But if this list and Pride should teach you one thing, it’s that “normal” is quite a relative term.
Non-binary
People who have the feeling that they are not a man and not a woman, but something in between. There are a lot of terms for this. Transvision sat down and noted only “gender creative, (gender) queer, a-gender, bigender, gender fluid, androgynous, polygender, gender neutral, gender non-conforming, pangender, etc.”
Pansexual
People who are attracted to all gender identities and biological sexes. Looks like bisexual but where someone who is bi is attracted to both men and women, someone who is pan is also attracted to everyone in between, including transgender or non-binary people.
Poly(amory)
People who have relationships with several people at the same time (and in all openness). So this is the opposite of a monogamous relationship.
Pronouns
Personal pronouns. And before you think: what does grammar have to do with Pride? Well, sometimes quite a lot. Because if you look like a woman but feel like a man, you might want to be addressed that way. That is why nowadays you sometimes see in social media bios and email signatures with which ‘pronouns’ someone would like to be referred to, for example she/her, he/him, or sometimes even them/their (in the case of trans or agender people, for example). ).
Queer
Was once a term of abuse for homosexuals and lesbians, but has now been claimed as a nickname. Queer people don’t care about fixed role patterns about male/female and gay/straight and resist this pigeonhole thinking.
Safe space
A space where people feel safe. For example, a pink café can be a place where people from marginalized communities can feel equally safe because they don’t have to fear verbal abuse or aggression. You can call that a safe space.
Sex
The biological distinction between bodies. For example, that one person has a penis and someone else has a vagina. But beware (because this is where it gets complicated): someone with a penis can therefore call himself a woman to feel, because that’s gender.
Transgender
Someone who has a gender identity that does not correspond to biological sex. For example: you are born with a penis but you feel like a woman. Or you don’t feel like a boy or a girl (and you are therefore gender fluid).