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Automatic co-parent recognition: covers when children born to same-sex couples are not facing any barriers in order to be recognised legally from birth to their parents.

Biphobia: the fear, unreasonable wrath, intolerance or/and hatred toward bisexuality and bisexual people.

Bisexual: when a person is emotionally and/or sexually attracted to persons of more than one gender.

Civil union: see Registered partnership.

Cisgender:A term that refers to a person who does not identify as trans.

Cohabitation rights: two persons living together at the same physical address can, in some European countries (and regions), make a legal agreement on some practical matters (which vary from country to country). The rights emanating out of cohabitation are limited.

Coming-out: the process of revealing the identification of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or intersex person.

“Conversion therapy”: Any sustained effort to modify a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, based upon the assumption that a person’s sexual orientation, gender

LGBTQIA+ Slurs and Slang

TermContextual noteTime/Region Referencesace queens term essence “great queen”. Prison slang for a man who wears a more “feminine” look i.e. shaved legs, plucked eyebrows. May be described as part of incarcerated homosexual culture. Should not be confused with the more widely-used phrase "ace," a shortening of "asexual." See "asexual." UK, USA, s Mosca de Colores – Gay Dictionary alphabet peopleOffensive contemporary word for LGBTQ+ people, often used by right-wing people reacting to perceived advancements in LGBTQ+ people's rights. s- Green's Dictionary of Slang - bathroom queen

bog queen

Gay slang expression for people who frequent general toilets looking for sexual encounters.

Synonyms: Bathsheba (composition between bathroom and Sheba to create a label reminiscent of the Queen of Sheba), Ghost (50s, ghost, because they wander the corridors of the bathroom).

USA, UK Mosca de Colores – Homosexual Dictionary batting for the other teamA euphemistic term indicating that someone (of any gender) is male lover. T

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An adjustment made to policies, programs, and/or practises to enable individuals to benefit from and participate in the provision of services equally and perform to the best of their ability. Accommodations are provided so that individuals are not disadvantaged on the basis of the prohibited grounds of discrimination identified in the Ontario Human Rights Code or other similar codes. Accommodation with dignity is pursuing the principle that our society should be structured and planned for inclusiveness.

A person who works to end a establish of oppression that gives them privilege(s). Allies listen to, and are guided by, communities and individuals affected by oppression. Forms of oppression include: ableism, ageism, audism, classism, biphobia, homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, and others.

Beliefs, actions, policies and movements developed to actively name and eliminate prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination on the basis of race.

A person who experiences short-lived or no sexual attraction to people of any gender.

People with lesbian or bisexual orientations possess long been stigmatized. With the rise of the gay political movement in the late s, however, homosexuality's condemnation as immoral, criminal, and sick came under increasing scrutiny. When the American Psychiatric Association dropped homosexuality as a psychiatric diagnosis in , the question of why some heterosexuals harbor strongly negative attitudes toward homosexuals began to receive solemn scientific consideration.
Homophobia

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Society's rethinking of sexual orientation was crystallized in the term homophobia, which heterosexual psychologist George Weinberg coined in the belated s. Weinberg used homophobia to label heterosexuals' dread of being in end quarters with homosexuals as well as homosexuals' self loathing. The word first appeared in print in and was subsequently discussed at length in Weinberg's book, Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

The American Heritage Dictionary ( edition) defines homophobia as "ave