KhushDC is a community and event organizer for LGBT South Asians in D.C. SALGA features a support group that meets every second Saturday of the month from 4:00pm to 6:00pm at the Lesbian and Gay Community Center (208 W 13th Street, between 7th & 8th Aves., New York, NY). South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association of New York City | The South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association of New York City ( SALGA-NYC) serves to promote awareness, acceptance, empowerment, and safe inclusive spaces for people of all sexual and gender identities, who trace their heritage to South Asia or who identify as South Asian. Sundays, 8-10 PM Eastern (5-7 PM Pacific) Thursdays, 8-10 PM Eastern (5-7 PM Pacific)
You can write to DeQH anytime or call 90. Trikone | DESI LGBTQ HELPLINE FOR OUTH ASIANS | Trikone, a South Asian LGBT org originally based in the Bay Area, started a peer-support hotline for LGBT Desis, their friends, and family. Given that gender is limitless, there are many and more gender identity labels that people may use. The term transgender or trans is often used as an umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or expression is different from cultural expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth. However, for many other people, their internal experience of gender does not align with their sex as prescribed at birth. transGender and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) Peopleįor many people, one's sex assigned at birth of female, male, or intersex does align with their gender identity (often termed cisgender or cis people). Gender expression may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being masculine, feminine, and/or androgynous. Gender expression refers to the external appearance of one's gender identity, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, haircut, voice, accessories, jewelry, and other methods of signifying or performing gender.
For example, though many contemporary Western constructs of gender are traditionally binary (meaning you only have two options), that is not the case in many civilizations across the world, including hijra (South Asia), aravani (Tamil Nadu), and meti (Nepal), as well as mashoga (Kenya and Tanzania), guevedoche (Dominican Republic), fa'afafine (Samoa), nádleehí (Navajo), and mahu (Native Hawaiian), just to name a few. Given that gender is an entirely social construct, it varies widely across cultures and eras based on social and cultural differences in much the same way that any other identity, culture, or custom may. Gender identity is an internal experience of how a person perceives their gender and chooses to describe their felt sense of self. Heterosexual or Straight | Romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between persons of different genders. Asexual people typically have the same emotional needs as all other humans and are just as capable of forming intimate and romantic relationships.ĭemisexual | A person who does not experience sexual attraction unless they form an emotional connection. Same-gender loving | A term some prefer to use instead of lesbian, gay or bisexual to express attraction to and love of people of the same gender.Īsexual | A person who experiences lessened or no sexual attraction.
Queer | A fluid or umbrella term often used to express a variety of sexual or romantic identities and orientations outside of heterosexuality. Attraction is not not necessarily experienced simultaneously, in the same way or to the same degree. Lesbian or Gay | A person who is emotionally, romantically or sexually attracted to members of the same gender.īisexual or Pansexual | A person emotionally, romantically or sexually attracted to more than one sex, gender or gender identity. As with any other identity vector, there are innumerable ways that a person may choose to identify their sexual orientation, including none at all. Some common sexual orientations and definitions include: Sexual orientation is an inherent, immutable, and enduring identity. Sexual orientation is defined as a person's romantic, sexual, and/or emotional attraction to other people.