Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual or are not cisgender. Beginning in the late 1980s,
queer activists, such as the members of
Queer Nation, began to reclaim the word as a deliberately provocative and politically
radical alternative to the more assimilationist branches of the
LGBT community. In the 21st century,
queer became increasingly used to describe a broad spectrum of non-normative sexual and gender identities and politics. Academic disciplines such as
queer theory and
queer studies share a general opposition to binarism, normativity, and a perceived lack of
intersectionality, some of them only tangentially connected to the
LGBT… Read more movement.
Queer arts,
queer cultural groups, and
queer political groups are examples of modern expressions of
queer identities.
LGBTQ an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, and
queer. It functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or
transgender. Other common variants also exist, such as
LGBTQIA+, with the I standing for "intersex" and A standing for "asexual" or "aromantic". Longer acronyms also exists, such as LGBTTQQIAAP (lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, transsexual,
queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual). Various flags represent specific identities within the
LGBT movement, from sexual or romantic orientations,
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A symbol of the Women's Movement or
radical feminism, consisting of the astronomical and astrological symbol of the planet Venus, also known as a symbol of the Roman goddess Venus, and the clenched fist, a symbol of the 1960's and early 1970's "power" movements.
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