Outline of LGBTQ topics
The following outline offers an overview and guide to topics about LGBTQ people.
The initialism LGBTQ stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer". It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual, non-heteroromantic, and/or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
Sexuality
- Human sexuality
- * Sexology
- ** Sexology
- * Sexual diversity
- * Gendered sexuality
- ** Gender variance
- ** Human male sexuality
- ** Human female sexuality
- ** Transgender sexuality
- Sexual attraction
- * Androphilia and gynephilia
- * Attraction to transgender people
- * Achillean
- * Sapphism
- * Split attraction model
- Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation types
- Monosexuality
- * Homosexuality
- Plurisexuality
- * Bisexuality
- ** Pansexuality
- Asexuality
- * Gray asexuality
- ** Aceflux
- ** Autosexuality
- ** Fictosexuality
- ** Demisexuality
- ** Fraysexuality
Topics
- Ego-dystonic sexual orientation
- Environment and sexual orientation
- Biology and sexual orientation
- * Neuroscience and sexual orientation
- * Prenatal hormones and sexual orientation
- * Handedness and sexual orientation
- * Epigenetic theories of homosexuality
- * Fraternal birth order and male sexual orientation
- Demographics of sexual orientation
- Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine
- Scales of sexual orientation
- Sexual fluidity
- * Bi-curiosity
- * Heteroflexibility
- Gray asexuality
- Queer heterosexuality
By region
- Sexuality in Africa
- Sexuality in Bangladesh
- Sexuality in China
- Sexuality in India
- Sexuality in Japan
- Sexuality in Somalia
- Sexuality in South America
- Sexuality in South Korea
- Sexuality in the Philippines
- Sexuality in the United States
By culture
- Sexuality in Christian demonology
- Sexuality in Islam
- Sexuality in Star Trek
- Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings
- Sexuality in ancient Rome
- Sexuality in music videos
- Sexuality in older age
Identities
- Queer
- Questioning
Sexual identity topics
- Sexual orientation identities
- * Non-heterosexual
- ** LGBTQ psychology
- ** Heteroflexible
- ** Homosexual
- *** Lesbian
- *** Gay
- *** Gay men
- ** Bisexual
- ** Pansexual
- ** Bi-curious
- ** Asexual
- Romantic orientation
- * Aromantic
Gender identity topics
- Gender
- * Androgyne
- * Cisgender
- * Intersex
- * Transgender
- ** Identitites
- *** Trans men
- *** Trans women
- *** Non-binary
- ** History
- ** People
- ** Rights
- *** Discrimination
- ** Health care
- *** Gender dysphoria
- *** Gender-affirming hormone therapy
- *** Gender-affirming surgery
- *** Legal status
- *** Misinformation
- Gender identity
- * Man
- * Woman
- * Non-binary
- * Third gender
- ** Androgynos
- ** Akava'ine
- ** Apwint
- ** Bakla
- ** Bugis genders
- ** Chibados
- ** Enaree
- ** Eunuch
- ** Fa'afafine
- ** Fakaleitī
- ** Femminiello
- ** Galli
- ** Güevedoce
- ** Hijra
- ** Kathoey
- ** Khanith
- ** Köçek
- ** Koekchuch
- ** Lhamana
- ** Māhū
- ** Mak nyah
- ** Mukhannathun
- ** Muxe
- ** Nádleehi
- ** Nullo
- ** Rae-rae
- ** Sipiniq
- ** Sworn virgin
- ** Takatāpui
- ** Travesti
- ** Tumtum
- ** Two-spirit
- ** Winkte
Sex and physiology
- Male
- Female
- Endosex
- Intersex
Romance
- Cross-sex relationships involving LGBTQ people
- Same-sex relationship
- * LGBTQ romance
- * Boys' love
- **Shōnen Ai no Bigaku
- ** Yaoi
- *** Yaoi fandom
- Romantic orientation
- * Aromanticism
- * Same gender loving
- Split attraction model
Expression
- Camp
- Coming out
- Passing
- Cross-dressing
- * Drag
- ** Drag pageantry
- ** Drag king
- ** Drag queen
- ** Female queen
- * Transvestism
- Gender roles
- * Manhood
- * Womanhood
- * Gender roles in non-heterosexual communities
- Gender expression
- * Masculinity
- * Femininity
- * Epicenity
- * Androgyny
- Homoeroticism
- Effeminacy
- Butch and femme
Practices
- Men who have sex with men
- *Gay beat
- * Gay bathhouse
- Women who have sex with women
- Sexual practices between men
- Sexual practices between women
Society
- Education and the LGBTQ community
- * LGBTQ student movement
- * LGBTQ student center
- * GLSEN
- * Gay–straight alliance
- * LGBTQ bullying
- * LGBTQ sex education
- * Safe Schools Coalition Australia
- * Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association
Homosexuality
- Societal attitudes towards homosexuality
- Homosexuality in society
- * Homosexuality in American football
- * Homosexuality in Australian rules football
- * Homosexuality in China
- * Decriminalization of homosexuality in Ecuador
- * Homosexuality in English football
- * Homosexuality in India
- * Homosexuality in Indonesia
- * Homosexuality in Japan
- * Homosexuality in Mexico
- * Homosexuality in Sri Lanka
- * Homosexuality in ancient Egypt
- * Homosexuality in ancient Greece
- * Homosexuality in ancient Rome
- * Homosexuality in association football
- * Homosexuality in college sports
- * Homosexuality in football
- * Homosexuality in medieval Europe
- * Homosexuality in modern sports
- * Homosexuality in pre-Columbian Peru
- * Homosexuality in society
- * Homosexuality in sports in the United States
- * Homosexuality in the Batman franchise
- * Homosexuality in the DSM
- * Homosexuality in the Hebrew Bible
- * Homosexuality in the New Testament
- * Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece
Lesbianism
- Lesbians in Francoist Spain
- Lesbianism in Gibraltar
- Lesbians in Nazi Germany
- Lesbians in pre-modern Spain
- Lesbians in the Spanish Second Republic
- Lesbians in the Spanish democratic transition period
- Lesbianism in Sri Lanka
Adoption, parenting, and same-sex marriage
- Same-sex adoption
- Same-sex parenting
- * LGBTQ adoption and parenting in Australia
- * LGBTQ parenting in Canada
- * Same-sex adoption in Brazil
- * Same-sex adoption in Europe
- * Same-sex adoption in the United Kingdom
- * Same-sex adoption in the United States
- Same-sex marriage
- * Same-sex marriage and Judaism
- * Same-sex marriage and the family
Same-sex marriage (SSM) by region
- Same-sex marriage in Andorra
- Same-sex marriage in Argentina
- Same-sex marriage in Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten
- Same-sex marriage in Australia
- Same-sex marriage in Austria
- * Same-sex marriage in the Australian Capital Territory
- Same-sex marriage in Belgium
- Same-sex marriage in Brazil
- * Same-sex marriage in Alagoas
- * Same-sex marriage in Santa Catarina
- Same-sex marriage in Chile
- Same-sex marriage in Colombia
- Same-sex marriage in Costa Rica
- Same-sex marriage in Cuba
- Same-sex marriage in Denmark
- * Same-sex marriage in the Faroe Islands
- Same-sex marriage in Ecuador
- Same-sex marriage in Estonia
- Same-sex marriage in Finland
- Same-sex marriage in France
- Same-sex marriage in Georgia
- Same-sex marriage in Germany
- Same-sex marriage in Greece
- Same-sex marriage in Greenland
- Same-sex marriage in Iceland
- Same-sex marriage in Liechtenstein
- Same-sex marriage in Luxembourg
- Same-sex marriage in Malta
- Same-sex marriage in Nepal
- Same-sex marriage in New Zealand
- Same-sex marriage in Norway
- Same-sex marriage in Portugal
- Same-sex marriage in Slovenia
- Same-sex marriage in South Africa
- Same-sex marriage in Spain
- Same-sex marriage in Sweden
- Same-sex marriage in Switzerland
- Same-sex marriage in Taiwan
- Same-sex marriage in Thailand
- Same-sex marriage in Uruguay
- Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands
- * Same-sex marriage in Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Same-sex marriage in the Republic of Ireland
SSM in Canada
- Same-sex marriage in Canada
- * Same-sex marriage in Alberta
- * Same-sex marriage in British Columbia
- * Same-sex marriage in Manitoba
- * Same-sex marriage in New Brunswick
- * Same-sex marriage in Newfoundland and Labrador
- * Same-sex marriage in the Northwest Territories
- * Same-sex marriage in Nova Scotia
- * Same-sex marriage in Nunavut
- * Same-sex marriage in Ontario
- * Same-sex marriage in Prince Edward Island
- * Same-sex marriage in Quebec
- * Same-sex marriage in Saskatchewan
- * Same-sex marriage in Yukon
SSM in Mexico
- Same-sex marriage in Mexico
- * Same-sex marriage in Aguascalientes
- * Same-sex marriage in Baja California
- * Same-sex marriage in Baja California Sur
- * Same-sex marriage in Campeche
- * Same-sex marriage in Coahuila
- * Same-sex marriage in Colima
- * Same-sex marriage in Chiapas
- * Same-sex marriage in Chihuahua
- * Same-sex marriage in Durango
- * Same-sex marriage in Guerrero
- * Same-sex marriage in Guanajuato
- * Same-sex marriage in Hidalgo
- * Same-sex marriage in Jalisco
- * Same-sex marriage in the State of Mexico
- * Same-sex marriage in Mexico City
- * Same-sex marriage in Michoacán
- * Same-sex marriage in Morelos
- * Same-sex marriage in Nayarit
- * Same-sex marriage in Nuevo León
- * Same-sex marriage in Oaxaca
- * Same-sex marriage in Puebla
- * Same-sex marriage in Querétaro
- * Same-sex marriage in Quintana Roo
- * Same-sex marriage in San Luis Potosí
- * Same-sex marriage in Sinaloa
- * Same-sex marriage in Sonora
- * Same-sex marriage in Tamaulipas
- * Same-sex marriage in Tabasco
- * Same-sex marriage in Tlaxcala
- * Same-sex marriage in Veracruz
- * Same-sex marriage in Yucatán
- * Same-sex marriage in Zacatecas