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  1. LGBT

    LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. In use since the 1990s, the term LGBT is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which itself started replacing the phrase gay community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the community in question felt did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred. The initialism has become mainstream as a self-designation and has been adopted by the majority of sexuality and gender identity-based community centers and media in the United States and some other English-speaking countries. The term LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures and is sometimes used to refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant adds the letter Q for those who identify as queer and/or are questioning their sexual identity as LGBTQ, recorded since 1996. On the one hand, some intersex people who want to be included in LGBT groups suggest an extended initialism LGBTI. This initialism "LGBTI" is used in all parts of "The Activist's Guide" of the Yogyakarta Principles in Action. Furthermore, the initialism LGBTIH has seen use in India to encompass the hijra third gender identity and the related subculture. More recently the catch-all term "Gender and Sexual Diversity" GSD has been proposed.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of LGBT in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of LGBT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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  1. Oli London:

    People like these 18-year-olds that have had their bodies altered in unnatural ways, and now they live to regret it. She is saying they don't exist. And, you know, this was a committee meeting about combating violence against LGBT people. Well, I have to say, people like this woman are the reason why people that detransition get hate, they get bullied. They get abuse because people like her in a position of power that say these people don't exist. You know, that shows that these people don't care about detransition. They don't care about it. They just care about the dream being sold that everyone who is trans is happy. And it's simply not the case.

  2. Tom Daley:

    When I was Tom Daley, I felt like an outsider, and felt different, and I felt like I was never going to be anything, because who I was, wasn't what society wanted me to be, and to be able to see out LGBT people performing at the Olympic Games, I hope( that) can give young kids hope and not feel so frightened and scared and alone, and to be able to see that no matter who Tom Daley are, where Tom Daley come from, Tom Daley can become an Olympic Games champion, because I did.

  3. The Duma:

    He cited data from opinion polls, according to which 16% of Europeans aged 14 to 29 identify themselves as LGBT, and in the U.S. state of Maryland, the number of students who have not decided on their gender due to the promotion of non-traditional relationships has grown almost six times in two years and today makes up 45% of all students in the state.

  4. Matt Thorn:

    The Department of Defense has been in a lot of ways a leader in LGBT rights, both in the Obama administration and in government in general.

  5. Jonathan Kasdan:

    There's a fluidity to Donald Glover and Billy Dee's( portrayal of Lando's) sexuality, i mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie. I think it's time, certainly, for that, and I love the fluidity -- sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald Glover appeals to and that droids are a part of.

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