The LGBT term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which began to replace the term gay (or gay and lesbian) in reference to the broader
LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. When not inclusive of transgender people, the shorter term LGB is still used instead of LGBT.
It may refer to anyone who is
non-heterosexual or non-
cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant, LGBTQ, adds the letter Q for those who identify as
queer or are
questioning their sexual or
gender identity. The initialisms LGBT or GLBT are not agreed to by everyone that they are supposed to include. (Full article...)
Gay bars once served as the centre of gay culture and were one of the few places people with
same-sex orientations and
gender-variant identities could openly socialize. Other names used to describe these establishments include boy bar, girl bar, gay club, gay
pub, queer bar, lesbian bar, drag bar, and dyke bar, depending on the niche communities that they served. (Full article...)
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.
...the first edition of Patience and Sarah, winner of the 1971
Stonewall Book Award, was self-published and all copies sold by the author after six publishers rejected it for not being marketable?
...that openly-gay actor Robert La Tourneaux considered his role as the gay hustler in the 1970 film The Boys in the Band to be the "kiss of death" for his career?
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