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. a politically correct self-designation of the "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transexual" community

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.

Translations

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transexual

Arabic: إل جي بي تي (ar) ('el jii bii tii) Bengali: এলজিবিটি (bn) Bosnian: LGBT (bs) Bulgarian: ЛГБТ (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: LGBT (zh) Croatian: LGBT (hr) Czech: LGBT (cs) Danish: HBT (da) Finnish: HLBT (fi) French: LGB (fr) German: LSBT (de) Greek: ΛΟΑΤ (el) 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) Serbian: ЛГБТ (sr) Spanish: LGBT (es) Swedish: HBT (sv) Thai: กลุ่มบุคคลที่มีความหลากหลายทางเพศ (th) Turkish: LGBT (tr) Ukrainian: ЛГБТ (uk) Urdu: ایل جی بی ٹی (ur) (el jī bī ṭī) Uzbek: LBBT (uz) Welsh: LHDT (cy)

See also

• LGBT on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• GLBT