#lgbap

Lavender relationship (formerly lavender marriage): a duaric mixed relationship (between a man and a woman), undertaken as a relationship of convenience to conceal the socially stigmatized orientation of one or both partners; a duaric couple in which one or both members have marginalized orientation(s)/are attractionally or affectionally variant/non-conforming.

Similar to “gay man” concept, a lot of women describe themselves as gay, some because they are wlw but not sure if they are lesbians or not, some simply because they are not straight and other because they aren’t attracted to men while not essentially attracted to other women.

LGBQAP+: lesbian, gay, bi, questioning, aro/ace or poly/pan.

Q is sometimes used as queer too, but note this is for marginalized orientations (MO) equivalent of LGBTQIAPN+, see also BPQUA, ITNB, QTI & LBTQ+.

Note this is not the same as LGB since this one was co-opted by TERFs and #DroptheT supporters. Intersectional sub-divisions do not mean exclusion nor non-inclusion, this flag isn’t for T exclusionists.

Trans people can be LGBPA+ (unstraight) or straight, a lot of activists understand why we must separate orientation movements from gender/sex ones, this isn’t capping for anti-collectivism nor separatism.

Unstraight-passability: being perceived (passable) as not straight; having a nonstraight characteristics/presentation; considering your appearance or expression as strain’t (straightn’t). Synonymy with queer-passing and gay-passing.

Passing/blending/assimilating has become controversial as “passing” can imply that one is not genuinely what they are passing as. But since many people are there using -presenting and -expressive terms, folks surely can use unstraight-passing to describe themselves.