i just know what lbgt is. now reading all these post, there is furry love, homoromantic, queer?, and all these other labels. can someone decode these for me.
Homoromantic means feeling romantic feelings for the same sex. Homosexual means feeling sexual feelings for the same sex. When both of these match up, gay is an umbrella term above them, I think. Queer means anyone who's not straight. Basically, anyone who is gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, homoflexible, heteroflexible, etc. Not sure what furry love is...
LBGT = Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender Depending on whose using them, the letters may also be arranged as LGBT or GLBT or probably other combinations. It's generally used as a catchall term for non-straight people, although since it was coined there have been further additions or subdivisions within the non-straight population such as pansexuals, demisexuals, asexuals, etc. some people have addressed this by adding additional letters to the list, others instead use 'queer' as an umbrella term (although others find this offensive), and other people don't care all that much or use yet other terms that they prefer. There isn't really a single term that is universally agreed upon. Furries are people who identify as part of furry fandom: Furry fandom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Furry love would be the romantic and sexual elements of furry fandom. Todd
homoromantic is someone who only have romantic feelings for the same sex for example someone could be bisexual and homoromantic they can be sexually attracted to both sexes but only romantically and sexually attracted to the same sex . Queer means not straight it could be gay , lesbian , and bisexual or whatever . Queer also to me can also be used for someone that's bisexual but more into the same sex . furry has actually been around for a long time , I have heard the term but I'm not really an expert on it .
Homoromantic means attracted romantically to the same sex. Homoromantic is often paired with being gay, but you could also be bisexual or even heterosexual and still be homoromantic. Furry has always seemed a bit strange to me, but basically it is a group of fans who are interested in anthropomorphic characters, like Sylvester the Cat or any part human part animal creature. For most of them this isn't sexual, but a small subset of the fandom like to dress up as animals and have sex, or draw erotic drawings of anthropomorphic characters. Finally queer to me is basically the anti-label label for non straight people. By choosing to identify as queer you are just saying "not straight" without being specific and boxing yourself in to any one definition of your sexuality. If you find any other terms you're curious about I pretty much know all of them, so feel free to post on my wall and ask a question.
Keep in mind many of the terms currently in vogue have no basis in the psych or sexology literature and are entirely consensus-based reality. So I wouldn't worry too much.
I find it funny that queer is anti label , queer is a label it's a word with meaning ,if your anti label wouldn't it be better to just not use a label at all. Labels are words with meaning.
Well, it's an umbrella term, so that instead of saying "I'm a biromantic homo-demisexual" or simply if you don't like saying "I'm bisexual" or whatnot, you can say queer.
I don't know. It's all a little silly to me. LGBT pretty much covers it all. Anything else is a sub-group already covered by either L, G, B or T. I don't get the Q's.
Queer basically means LGBT in general. I prefer calling myself a queer woman in general, just because lesbian sounds like a porno term :/
Because it's vague as hell. By identifying yourself as queer you don't need to change your label if for example you went through a period where you preferred women even though previously it had been about equal between women and men. That's just an example though. Also Chip, every time someone talks about these terms you always seem so against them. Is there really any problem you can see if someone else chooses to identify as queer? There's a whole field of research called queer studies, so I'm not sure the word itself is not scientific. Even if it wasn't I don't understand the big deal.
I agree with you here ,.wuggums. but I just think it's kind of silly to think of the word queer as not a label when it actually is . To me it's not really anti label just a label you use if you don't want to go into detail. Because I'll see someone say I hate labels then you see queer on their orientation which is a label. It makes me think if you really hated it and thought labels were useless , you wouldn't be using it at all.
I was the same when I came here except I knew what a few of them were.. I never knew what Polysexual was until I joined this website. I've actually thought I was a homo-romantic bisexual at one point due to a silly but concerning reason. Anyway.. other people have surely already told you what they mean and if they haven't google search is a good option.
I don't consider myself a sub-group of bisexuality. They're both legitimate orientations, one is not higher than the other. The Q is there to cover everything not covered in the LGBT. There's pansexuals, asexuals, etc.
I feel I have to chime in here. I have termed myself queer. I have recently discovered I like girls. Alot. But I am married to a man. I am working through that part. But as long as I am with him and unfortunately still having sex with him, I feel I cannot call myself a lesbian. But I am not sure I would ever use that term. Queer feels good to me. The girl I fell in love with made me dislike the word lesbian. Her and her grouo of lesbians are these man hating you need to act and love and hate all the same way people. That doesn't make me feel proud of myself. I can't be part of that. So queer is my term. It covers for me everyone who doesn't like labeling. I know it is one but we just want to love an be loved.
