LGBT

• GLBT, lgbt

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual. From earlier LGB. Attested since 1988. Used as a self-designation in United States gay rights activism since about 1990.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɛl d͡ʒiː biː tiː/

LGBT

1. Being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, or relating to these groups as a collective.

   Synonyms: GBT, GLBT

   • 2010, Geoffrey Nelson; Isaac Prilleltensky, Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-Being, →ISBN:

     This differential treatment in both the community of culture and mainstream white LGBT community may lead some LGBT people of colour to experience varying degrees of visibility and invisibility within these communities, and their identity as a LGBT person may change depending on the cultural context.

• Additional letters are sometimes added, such as 'Q' for queer or questioning, 'I' for intersex, 'P' for pansexual, 'A' for asexual, etc.
• When speaking only of sexuality, but not gender, the abbreviations LGB or GLB may be used.[2]
• Often the term queer is used as an alternative shorthand for all gender-non-conforming behavior, including homosexuality and bisexuality, but this may be controversial; see the notes there.

LGBT (plural LGBTs or LGBT)

1. (chiefly in the plural, nonstandard) A member of the LGBT community.
   • 1999, Global Human Rights Law Collection: Historical texts and materials on human rights‎:

     An applicant may exceptionally be able to demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution even if a law criminalizing LGBT is no longer enforced, […]

   • 2016 January 29, Rebekah Herrick, Minorities and Representation in American Politics, CQ Press, →ISBN:

     Further evidence of the political weakness of LGBT is that they are not concentrated enough to be a majority of voters, or even a minority of influence in any state or city.

   • 2013, Michael Shankle, The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health‎:

     In many cities you will find a neighborhood where the population density of LGBT is higher than it is in other parts of the city.

   • 1999, Democracy & Education‎, volume 13:

     Allies can point this out when they discern that a LGBT is being asked to serve in an expert capacity and ask questions like, "How comfortable do you feel being asked to assume the role of representative for all LGBTs?"

   • 2018, Disgraced former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly claims ‘the LGBTs’ are trying to rid America of white men, Pink News:

2. (food) A sandwich named after the sexuality-gender term, composed of lettuce, guacamole or avocado, bacon, tomato. A variant of the BLT.[3][4][5][6]
   • 2019 May 23, Owen Jones, “Woke-washing: how brands are cashing in on the culture wars”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Whether it’s LGBT sandwiches in an era where schools in Birmingham are facing protests for teaching LGBTQ rights, or Nike promoting the fight against police brutality in the age of Trump, brands are tapping into this sense of millennial grievance.

• LGB community, GLB community, LGBT community, LGBTQ community, GLBT community at Google Ngram Viewer

• GLBT

LGBT

1. LGBT

• IPA^(key): /ɛl.ʒe.be.te/

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LGBT (invariable)

1. LGBT; Initialism of lesbiennes, gays, bisexuels, transgenres.

(LGBT)

• IPA^(key): /ɛlɡeˈbete/

LGBT (first-person possessive LGBTku, second-person possessive LGBTmu, third-person possessive LGBTnya)

1. initialism of lesbian, gay, biseksual, dan transgender (“LGBT”).

• “LGBT” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From English LGBT.

LGBT(エルジービーティー) • (eru-jī-bī-tī) 

1. LGBT

   L(エル)G(ジー)B(ビー)T(ティー)の権(けん)利(り)

   eru-jī-bī-tī no kenri

   LGBT rights

Orthographic borrowing from English LGBT.

• IPA^(key): /ɛl ɡjɛ bɛ ˈtɛ/

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• Syllabification: L‧G‧B‧T

LGBT n (indeclinable)

1. LGBT

• LGBT in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• LGBT in Polish dictionaries at PWN

LGBT

1. (Latin America) LGBT

   Synonym: (Spain) LGTB

• In Latin America "LGBT" is used the same as almost all over the world, but in Spain "LGTB" is used, inverting the letters "B" and "T". In Spain, this applies to all derivatives: LGTBI, LGTBIQ, LGTBfobia, LGTBIfobia, etc.

• IPA^(key): /leɟebete/

LGBT

1. LGBT