LGBTQ community, a group of persons in any country, region, or locality who identify as lesbian, gay (in the narrow sense of being a male who is sexually or romantically attracted to other males), bisexual, transgender, or queer. The term LGBTQ community is also commonly used to refer to groups of LGBTQ persons who support or participate in LGBTQ activism. Since the early 21st century, LGBTQ communities have been understood to encompass a variety of sexual orientations and identities beyond those directly referred to in the acronym LGBTQ—among them, for example, “questioning,” “intersex,” and “agender”—and for that reason the acronym is often expanded in corresponding ways, as in LGBTQIA, or is rendered more simply as LGBTQ+.
Members of LGBTQ communities typically feel some degree of empathy and solidarity with each other based on their shared experience of prejudice, discrimination, and disrespect. Their sense of community is also informed by their awareness of the historical and contemporary oppression of LGBTQ persons.
Particular gender identities shared within LGBTQ communities are discussed in the articles homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, transgender, and queer. For treatments of gender identity itself, including psychological, sociological, and philosophical theories of its nature and origins, see gender identity and gender continuum. The historical and contemporary struggles of LGBTQ communities for equal legal and civil rights are discussed in the article gay rights movement; see also same-sex marriage.
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