LGBT and Sexual Orientation

LGBT (or GLBT) is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s.

Sexual orientation is the emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction that a person feels toward another person.

There are several types of sexual orientation; for example:

  1. Heterosexual
  2. Homosexual
  3. Bisexual
  4. Asexual