People whose gender identity differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.
Though the term transgender has only been used in print for about 50 years, transgender-related practices have existed throughout history.
A person whose self identity conforms with the gender that corresponds to their biological sex. It is the opposite of the term transgender. There are two versions of the term: cis male for "male assigned male at birth" or cis female for "female assigned female at birth".
Cisgender was "coined in 1995 by a transsexual man named Carl Buijs," to mean "non-transgender." He formed the word "cisgender" from the Latin prefix cis-, "on the same side," which is the counterpart of trans-, "across to the other side."
Exploration by people who may be unsure, still exploring, and prefer to not apply a social label.
During the stage of adolescence, the notions of questioning one's sexuality or gender, along with the diverse areas related to it, can arise as the construction of identity begins to form. It is a stage where exploration, learning and experimenting often occurs.
A person sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.
Since the 1960s and 1970s, a large body of research has provided evidence and analysis of the extent to which heterosexuality and homosexuality are socially organized and historically changing.This work challenges the assumption that heterosexuality, homosexuality, and sexualities of all varieties, can be understood as primarily biological and psychological phenomena.
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or cisgender.
The word queer was first used to mean 'homosexual' in the late 19th century; when used by heterosexual people, it was originally an aggressively derogatory term. It originally meant weird and peculiar.
A man who is homosexual
Forty years ago, New York City’s Greenwich Village served as the site of the Stonewall Riots, an uprising widely recognized as the birth of the modern gay rights movement. In the predawn hours of June 28, 1969, a handful of City police descended on the Stonewall Inn, a popular neighborhood gay bar.
A woman who is homosexual
The evidence about female homosexuality in the ancient Greek world is limited, it being hardly mentioned in extant Greek literature. Most surviving sources from the classical period come from Athens, and they are without exception written by men. At least among these Athenian men, the discussion and depiction of female homosexual activity seems to have been taboo. Kenneth Dover suggests that, due to the role played by the phallus in ancient Greek men's conceptions of sexuality, female homosexual love was not conceivable as a category to the authors of our surviving sources.