List of LGBTQ acronyms

This page lists common initialisms relating to LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) people and the LGBTQ community.

• 2SLGBTQI+^[9]
• GBT or GBTQ^[10] – variant omitting "lesbian", typically when referring only to men.^[11]
• GLBT – Commonly used until the 1980s. The L was placed first in honor of lesbians who provided care and donated blood during the AIDS Crisis, and LGBT became the dominant spelling.^[12][13]
• HBTQ – homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer.^[14] More common in Swedish.^[15][16]
• LBT or LBTQ,^[17][18][19] – variant omitting "gay", typically when referring only to women.^[20]
• LGB or GLB^[21] – lesbian, gay, and bisexual.^[22][23] In the 21st century, the term became associated with anti-trans groups such as LGB Alliance and #DropTheT.^[24][25]
• LGBPA+^{[22][26][27][28]}
• LGBQ^[29]
• LGBT
• LGBT+
• LGBTA^[30][31]
• LGBTH, with H for HIV+^[32]
• LGBTI^[33]
• LGBTIH, with H for hijra^[34]
• LGBTQI, LGBTIQ, LGBTQI+, or LGBTIQ+^[35]
• LGBTQIA or LGBTQIA+^[36]
• LGBTQIAP+, with P for pansexuality or panromantic^[37][38]
• LGBTQIAPD+, with D for demisexual and demiromantic^[39][40]
• LGBTQIAPK+, with K for kink^[41][42][43]
• LGBTQIAPN+, with N for non-binary^[44]
• LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM^[a], acronym for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, flexual, asexual, genderfuck, polyamorous, bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sadism/masochism".^[45][46][47] The acronym was coined in the early 2000s by LGBTQ students at Wesleyan University, including asexual activist David Jay, who took credit for the inclusion of FAG in the acronym.^[48][49] In 2015, the term's continued inclusion on a campus housing page from that period provoked backlash.^[50]
• LGBTTT or LGBTTTIQ,^[51][52] with TTT standing for transgender, transvestite (or travesti), and transsexual.^[53][54]
• LGT, GLT, or GLTT – referring only to monosexual and monoromantic identities.^[55][56] More common in Brazil around the middle of 1990s.^[57]
• LGTB or GLTB – more common in Spanish.^{[58][59][60][61]}
• QUILTBAG, with U standing for undefined, unlabeled, or unsure^[62][63]

• GSRD, GSD – gender and sexual (and romantic) diversity
• SGM, GSM, GSRM – gender and sexual (and romantic) minority^[64][65][66]
• SGMY – sexual and gender minority youth.^[65][67]
• MOGAI or MOGII – marginalized orientations, gender alignments and intersex^[68][69]
• SOGI – sexual orientation and gender identity.^[70][71]
• MVPFAFF – Māhū, Vakasalewa, Palopa, Fa'afafine, Akava'ine, Fakaleitī (Leiti), and Fakafifine (identities in the Pacific Islander community)^[72]
• SOGIE – sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.^[66]
• SOGIESC – sexual orientation, gender identity and (gender) expression, and sex characteristics.^[73][74]
• SSOGIE – sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.^[66]

• MLM / WLW – men loving men / women loving women (or non-binary people), regardless of sexual or romantic orientation as gay, bi, pan, etc.^[75]
• MSM / WSW – men who have sex with men / women who have sex with women. Used primarily in public health as a behavioral category distinct from sexual orientation.^{[76][77][78][79]}
• NBLNB – non-binary loving non-binary.^[75]
• SGA, SSA – same-gender attraction, same-sex attraction^[80][81][82]
• SGL – same-gender loving. This term is used by some in the Black community to avoid identity terms considered Eurocentric.^[74][83]

• AFAB – assigned female at birth
• AGAB/ASAB – assigned gender at birth / assigned sex at birth.^[84]
• AMAB – assigned male at birth
• DSD – disorders of sex development (or differences in sex development).^[85] Describes intersex variations. The former is considered pathologizing by some intersex people.^[86]
• FLINTA* – German acronym of frauen (women), lesben (lesbian), intersexuelle (intersex), nicht-binäre (non-binary), transgender and agender.^[87]
• FTM/MTF – female-to-male or male-to-female respectively. Considered outdated; trans man and trans woman are preferred.^[88][89]
• FFS – facial feminization surgery
• GAC – gender-affirming care; the medical aspect of gender transition
• GAHT – gender-affirming hormone therapy
• GNC – gender non-conforming
• ITNB+ – intersex, trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming.^[90] More common in Portugal.^[91]
• NB (sometimes spelled "enby") – non-binary.^[92] Occasionally confused for "non-Black" (also abbreviated NB).^[93]
• PGP – preferred gender pronouns. Sometimes proscribed in favor of just "pronouns", to avoid implying that one's pronouns are just a preference, or that they necessarily indicate one's gender.^[94]
• PTP – person with a transgender parent^[83]
• TGD – transgender and gender diverse^[95][96][97]
• TGE – transgender and gender expansive^[98][99]
• TGI – transgender, gender diverse, and intersex.^[100] The term is also inclusive of people who identify as transsexual.^[101]
• TGNC – trans and gender nonconforming^[83]
• TQI+, QTI+, or QIT+, meaning queer, trans, or intersex, and other groups.^{[102][103][104][105]}

• T4T – trans for trans; transgender people primarily or exclusively seeking relationships with other transgender people.^[106][107]
• VSC – variations in sex characteristics. An alternative term for intersex variations.^[85]
• XtX, XtF, XtM,^[108] FtX and MtX,^[109] alternative terms that are used in place of FtM or MtF. X represents nonbinary or undefined genders. F stands for female and M stands for male.^[110]

• GSA – gay-straight alliance, or genders and sexualities alliance.^[111]
• GLA – gay and lesbian alliance^[112][113]
• GLOW – "gay, lesbian, or whatever"^[114][115]
• QPR – queerplatonic relationship; committed intimate partnerships which are non-romantic^[116]
• QPOC – queer people of color.^[117]
• QSA, meaning queer-straight alliance.^[118][119]
• QTPOC/QTIPOC, standing for queer and trans people of color or queer, trans, and intersex people of color.^[83][120]
• QTWOC, standing for queer and trans women of color.^[121]

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