LGBTQ+ culture is rooted in a long history of advocacy and resilience against systemic exclusion. The Coming Out Handbook - The Trevor Project

The LGBTQ+ community encompasses diverse identities that relate to how people experience attraction and their own gender.

: An internal, deeply-held sense of being a man, woman, a blend of both, or neither. Transgender people have a gender identity that differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.