‘gender’ have been used interchangeably, it is important to note that there is a significant difference between the meanings of the two. The term sex is used to describe a person’s biology. It can include gonads, sex chromosomes, sex hormones, internal reproductive organs, and external ...
The House of Hidden Meanings: a Memoirby RuPaul (5th) Central to RuPaul’s success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world’s largest television franchises, RuPaul’s ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both ...
Other terms, likebisexualandtransgender, are much more modern and only acquired their current meanings in the last century. In the 1860s,bisexualoriginally referred to bodies that exhibited female and male characteristics, so it was a stand-in for our modern termintersex—and it was only 50 yea...
In this chapter, I review the literature on asexuality and its implications for parenting research and LGBTQ-parent families. First, I explain the meanings of asexuality through a review of its competing definitions and the evolving vocabulary of sexual and romantic dispositions within the asexual ...
Like any community, the LGBTQ+ world is full of terms, phrases, slang, acronyms and abbreviations – and it’s not always obvious what thir meanings are at first glance.That’s where the PinkNews Ultimate LGBTQ+ Glossary comes in. We’ve attempted to gather simple definitions for every ...
we fully acknowledge that the meanings of these words to those in the community differ significantly, and we further recognize the important scholarship about the unique experiences of various sexual minorities (Black et al.2002; Doan2007; Gieseking2020; Hemmings2002; Nash and Gorman-Murray2015b; ...