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Bisexual vs Lgbt - What's the difference?

bisexual | lgbt |

As nouns the difference between bisexual and lgbt

is that bisexual is bisexual while lgbt is (chiefly in the plural) a member of the lgbt community.

As an initialism lgbt is

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bisexual

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (sexuality, of humans or other animals) Sexually attracted to members of two or more genders.
  • (botany) Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
  • (botany) Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
  • (botany) Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
  • (botany) Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
  • (rare) Hermaphroditic.
  • Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual .

    Hyponyms

    * heteroflexible

    Synonyms

    * (sexually attracted to persons of either sex) (slang), ambidextrous (jocular), bi (colloquial) * perfect, hermaphrodite * See also

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is bisexual. Someone who is attracted to people of two or more genders.
  • I have two family members who came out as bisexual ; my sister and my aunt.

    Synonyms

    * bi (colloquial) * See also

    Hypernyms

    *LGBT

    Also see

    * ----

    lgbt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * GLBT

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (en-initialism)
  • Usage notes

    * Sometimes, additional letters are added, such as 'Q' for 'queer' or 'questioning', 'I' for 'intersex', and 'P' for 'pansexual', 'A' for 'asexual', etc. * Sometimes, the order of the letters is switched to GLBT. * When speaking only of sexuality and not of gender, the abbreviation LGB or GLB may be used. * Some authors avoid the umbrella term 'LGBT' because "gender identity is clearly distinct from sexual identity", the 'T' community "is itself heterogeneous, comprising intersex individuals, androgynes, transvestites, and a whole range of others", and transgender and genderqueer people "experience trans-phobia within LGB services and communities".Katherine Cox, Sexual Orientation'', in ''Death, Dying, and Social Differences'' (edited by David Oliviere, Barbara Monroe, Sheila Payne, published in 2011), page 197:
    ''Trans communities

    Although the umbrella term LGBT makes pragmatic sense, there are compelling arguments to treat transgendered people as distinct from LGB communities: gender identity is clearly distinct from sexual identity (Dean et al., 2000) and to conflate the two risks ignoring the particular experiences of this ["trans"] group which is itself heterogeneous, comprising intersex individuals, androgynes, transvestites, and a whole range of others. Transgendered people can experience trans-phobia within LGB services and communities[.]

    Coordinate terms

    * LGB, LGBTI/GLBTI, LGBTQ, LGBTQA, LGBTQIA, QUILTBAG, GQ

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly in the plural) A member of the LGBT community.
  • See also

    * ("LGBT" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

    *

    References

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