LGBTQ+ Portal

Introduction

LGBTQ+ is an acronym used to denote the various different types of people that belong to the queer community; that is, people who either do not identify as heterosexual, cisgender, or neither. This community encompasses a wide range of different sexualities, genders and identities, and many people in the community either take on multiple identities or have their identities change over time.

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The Fundamentals

Get acquainted with basic terminology such as

to tie LGBT+ struggle together with class struggle.

Distinctions

LGBT+ individuals go against the socially constructed norm in these categories:

Library works

We highly recommend the following authors, who have written extensively on LGBTQ+ topics:

Leslie Feinberg

(4 works)

Ideological currents concerning LGBTQ+ people

Gender abolitionism

People

There have been many influencial personalities within the LGBTQ+ community and in their struggle for liberation. Some of them are listed here

Pictures

Bandstand at Ciutadella Park
Plaque at the bandstand commemorating Sonia Rescalvo Zafra from 2013 to 2021.
Authorities and trans rights activists revealing the new Plaça Sonia Rescalvo Zafra sign in Barcelona on October 6, 2021

Current Events

From PinkNews (will redirect you to their website)

2026-01-09 Trans people have always been here – and these incredible colourised photos prove it
2026-01-09 AOC condemns ICE as ‘anti-civilian paramilitary organisation’ following death of Renee Nicole Good
2026-01-09 Majority of Americans think Republicans have a transphobia problem
2026-01-09 GoFundMe for Renee Good’s wife and son soars past $1million in just hours

2026-01-09 International Rebel Dykes Day is for all those lesbians who ‘feel like outsiders’
2026-01-09 LGBTQ+ charities facing ‘incredibly tough environment’ in UK amid Trump’s DEI attacks
2026-01-08 Activists call out JK Rowling with chalk messages outside Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
2026-01-07 Drag queen launches movement claiming Cambridge ‘sucks for queer people of colour’

2026-01-09 Trans people have always been here – and these incredible colourised photos prove it
2026-01-08 Director of queer drama Whisperings of the Moon dies aged 23 in ‘incident’
2026-01-07 It’s been eight years since UK announced plan to end conversion therapy – here’s where we are
2026-01-05 US claims vital UN human rights policy is too ‘woke’ to pass

Historical Events

LGBTQ+ by country

Formerly existing Socialism

Today's existing Socialism

See our page on LGBT rights and issues in AES countries

A through C


Term	Definition	Example	See also
Abbreviation	A sequence of words is reduced to their first letters.	USSR, laser	Word-formation, acronym, initialism
Ablaut	The inflectional marking of the preterite or other verb tenses is realized through change of the root vowel. Ablaut patterns consitute allomorphs of the regular -ed inflection in English.	sing, sang, sung	Allomorph, preterite, root morpheme, tense
Accent
Accomodation
Accusative case	Signals the direct object of a transitive verb.	She kissed her. You wrote a new essay?	Direct object, transitive verb
Acronym	Abbreviation that can be pronounced as one word.	NATO, NASA	Initialism, lexeme, non-additive word-formation
Additive word-formation process
Adjective
Adjective phrase
Adjunct
Adverb	A word class that modifies the main verb of a clause in a way that adds context.	She quickly realized that...	Circumstance adverb, clause, degree adverb, sentence adverb, word class
Adverb phrase
Adverbial phrase
Adverbial participle
Affix
Age
Agreement
Allomorph
Allomorphy
Allophone
Ambiguity
Antonyms
Antonymy
Arbitrariness
Assertive speech act
Aspect
Assimilation
Attributive adjective
Auxiliary verb
Background knowledge
Base
Blending
Borrowing
Bound morpheme
Case
Categorization
Classical theory of Categorization
Clause
Clause pattern
Cleft construction
Cleft test
Clipping
Closed word class
Co-hyponyms
Collocation
Commissive speech act
Comparative linguistics
Complement (1)
Complement (2)
Complementaries
Complementarity
Complement clause
Complementary distribution
Complex linguistic expression
Complex sentence
Compositionality
Compounding
Concept
Concordance
Conjunction
Connotation
Consonant
Consituent
Content word
Contradiction
Contraction
Contrast test
Conventionality
Conversational implicature
Converse relation
Converses
Conversion
Cooperative principle
Coordination
Copula
Corpus (pl. Corpora)
Count noun
Covert prestige
Creativity
Cultural transmission

D through F


Term	Definition	Example	See also
Data
Declarative speech act
Definiteness
Definition test
Deictic expression
Denotation
Dependent verb form
Derivation
Descriptive meaning
Design features
Determiner
Diachronic linguistics
Dialect
Dialect continuum
Dialectology
Direct speech act
Direct object
Directional hypothesis
Directive speech act
Displacement
Distribution
Ditransitive clause
Entailment
Ethnicity
Exclamative sentence
Expressive speech act
Extension
Face
Finite verb
Finite clause
Flouting
Free morpheme
Function word

G through I


Term	Definition	Example	See also
Gapping test
Gender
Gender-preferential speech features
Genitive case
Gerund
Gerund-participle
Grade
Gradability
Grammar
Grammaticalization
Head
Holonym
Homonym
Homonymy
Hypernym (or Hyperonym)
Hyponym
Hyponymy
Hypothesis
Icon
Idiom
Illocution (or illocutionary force)
Immediate constituents
Imperative sentence
Implicature
Implicit knowledge
Independent variable
Indirect object
Indirect speech act
Inferencing
Infinitive
Inflection
Information packaging
Initialism
Interpersonal knowledge
Interrogative sentence
Isogloss
Intransitive clause
Inversion
IPA
Irregular formation

J through L


Term	Definition	Example	See also
Lexeme
Lexical meaning
Lexical semantics
Licensing
Linguistic expression
Linguistics
Linguistic knowledge
Locution

M through O


Term	Definition	Example	See also
Main clause
Main verb
Mass nouns
Maxims of conversation
Maxim of Manner
Maxim of Quality
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of Relevance
Meaning variation
Mental lexicon
Meronym
Meronymy
Metaphor
Metonymy
Minimal pair
Modal auxiliary
Monomorphemic word
Monotransitive
Morph
Morpheme
Morphological conditioning
Morphology
Multicategoriality
Necessary and sufficient features
Negation
Negative face
Negative politeness
Node
Nominal
Nominative case
Non-additive word-formation
Non-compositional expression
Non-descriptive meaning
Non-directional hypothesis
Non-finite verb
Non-finite clause
Noun
Noun phrase
Number
Open word class
Operationalization
Operator
Opposition
Organon model
Overt prestige

P through S


Term	Definition	Example	See also
Paradigmatic relationship
Paraphrase
Past participle
Performative expression
Person
Phone
Phoneme
Phonological contitioning
Phonology
Phrase
Phrase structure rules
Plain form
Plain present form
Politeness
Polymorphemic word
Polysemy
Positive face
Positive politeness
Pragmatics
Pragmatic meaning
Predicate
Predication
Predicative adjective
Predicative complement
Predicator
Prefix
Preposition

Presupposition
Preterite
Productivity
Pronoun
Proposition
Prototype
Prototype theory
Psycholinguistics
Quiet violation of the cooperative principle
Reference
Referent
Register
Regular formation
Relative clause
Relative participle
Root
Rule
Semantics
Semantic components
Semantic field
Semantic meaning
Semantic role
Semiotic triangle
Sense
Sense relation
Sentence
Sentence meaning
Sentence semantics
Sentence type
Sentence-fragment test
Sign
Simple linguistic expression
Simple sentence
Situational context
Social class (or socio-economic status)
Sociolect
Sociolinguistics
Speech act
Speech act theory
Standard
Structural auxiliary
Style
Subordination
Substitiution test
Suffix
Superordinate clause
Symbol
Synchronic linguistics
Synonymy
Syntactic function
Syntagmatic relationship
Syntax

T through V


Term	Definition	Example	See also
Tense
Transitivity
Transitive clause
Tree diagram
Umlaut
Utterance
Vagueness
Valency
Variant
Variety
Verb
Verb phrase
Voice
Voicing
Vowel

W through Z


Term	Definition	Example	See also
Word class
Word-form
World knowledge
Zero form
Zeugma test