LGBT

English

Etymology

An initialism for "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transexual", used as a self-designation in United States gay rights activism since about 1990. Attested since 1988 (Research, policy and practice: Annual meeting, American Educational Research Association Verlag AERA, 1988).

Alternative forms

• GLBT
• LGB

Initialism

LGBT

1. Initialism of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transexual community. (a politically correct self-designation)

Usage notes

Sometimes additional letters get added to this term such as Q for queer or questioning, I for intersex, and P for pansexual among others. In other cases the lettering is GLBT or simply LGB when speaking only of sexuality and not gender.

Hypernyms

• QUILTBAG

Translations

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transexual

• Arabic: إل جي بي تي (ar) ('el jii bii tii)
• Armenian: ԼԳԵՓ (hy) (LGEPʿ)
• Bengali: এলজিবিটি (bn)
• Bulgarian: ЛГБТ (bg) (LGBT)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: LGBT (cmn)

• Czech: LGBT (cs)
• Danish: HBT (da)
• Finnish: HLBT (fi)
• French: LGB (fr)
• German: LSBT (de), LGBT (de)
• Greek: ΛΟΑΤ (el) (LOAT)
• Hindi: एल जी बी टी (hi) (el jī bī ṭī)
• Hungarian: LMBT (hu)
• Irish: LADT (ga)
• Italian: LGBT (it)
• Japanese: エル ジー ビー ティー (ja) (eru jī bī tī)
• Malay: LGBT (ms)

• Norwegian: LHBT (no)
• Polish: LGBT (pl), (written out) lesbijki, geje, osoby biseksualne i transgenderyczne
• Portuguese: LGBT (pt)
• Romanian: LGBT (ro)
• Russian: ЛГБТ (ru) (el-ge-be-té)
• Scottish Gaelic: LCDT (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ЛГБТ (sh)

  Roman: LGBT (sh)

• Spanish: LGBT (es)
• Swedish: HBT (sv)
• Thai: กลุ่มบุคคลที่มีความหลากหลายทางเพศ (th)
• Turkish: LGBT (tr)
• Ukrainian: ЛГБТ (uk) (LHBT)
• Urdu: ایل جی بی ٹی (ur) (el jī bī ṭī)
• Uzbek: LBBT (uz)
• Welsh: LHDT (cy)

See also

• LGBT on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• GLBT