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Initialism Of The LGBT Community

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LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender” [3]. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s [4]. Activists believed that the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred [5]. In 2016 GLAAD's Media Reference Guide states that LGBTQ is the preferred initialism, being more inclusive of younger members of the communities who embrace queer as a self-descriptor [6].
Sexual orientation refers to a person’s physical, romantic and/or emotional attraction towards other people. Everyone has a sexual orientation, which is integral to a person’s

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