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WHAT IS LGBTQ+?
01
WHAT IS HOMOPHOBIA?

HOW DO YOU RECOGNIZE

02
HOMOPHOBIA IN YOURSELF
AND OTHERS?
03 Where is homosexuality
still outlawed?
Celebrities on Their
04
Coming-Out Stories
05
CONCLUSIONS
06
 01
WHAT IS
LGBTQ+?
LGBTQ+
● LGBTQIA+ is an abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning,
intersex, asexual, and more. These terms are used to describe a person’s sexual orientation or
gender identity.
● Lesbian=a woman whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction is to other
women.
● Gay= The adjective describes people whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional
attractions are to people of the same sex.
● Bisexual= A person who can form enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attractions to
those of the same gender or more than one gender.
● Transgender= A person who can form enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attractions
to those of the same gender or more than one gender.
● Queer= An adjective used by some people whose sexual orientation is not exclusively
heterosexual or straight. This umbrella term includes people who have nonbinary, gender-fluid, or
gender-nonconforming identities.
PRIDE HISTORY

STONEWALL RAINBOW ALLIES

It began in the early The flag was designed Acceptance of the

hours of June 28, by San Francisco LGBTQ community
1969, after police artist Gilbert Baker increased among the
raided the Stonewall and has been adopted straight community
Inn bar globally
THE LGBT+ POPULATION

GAYS BISEXUALS
11%
5% 19%

TRANSGENDER LESBIANS
S

35% 30%
OTHER
FLAGS OF EACH COLLECTIVE

BISEXUAL DEMISEXUAL GENDER-FLUID

Experiences attraction to Attracted to folks with a Can change over time and be
people regardless of gender previous emotional dependent on the situation
connection

LESBIAN ASEXUAL QUEER

Women that feel romantic Experiences a lack of sexual An umbrella term of people
and sexual attraction to attraction to others who aren’t exclusively
women heterosexual
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WHAT IS
HOMOPHOBIA?
HOMOPHOBIA

● Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or

people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. It has been
defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred or antipathy, may be based on irrational fear, and
may also be related to religious beliefs.

● Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination and violence on
the basis of sexual orientations that are non-heterosexual. Recognized types of homophobia
include institutionalized homophobia, e.g. religious homophobia and state-sponsored
homophobia, and internalized homophobia, experienced by people who have same-sex attractions,
regardless of how they identify.
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HOW DO YOU
RECOGNIZE
HOMOPHOBIA IN
YOURSELF AND
OTHERS?
INTERPERSONAL/PERSONAL HOMOPHOBIA

● There are four distinct but interrelated types of homophobia: personal, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural. Personal
(internalized) homophobia is prejudice based on a personal belief that lesbian, gay and bisexual people are sinful, immoral, sick,
inferior to heterosexuals, or incomplete women and men. Personal homophobia is experienced as feelings of fear, discomfort,
dislike, hatred, or disgust with same ‐sex sexuality.
● Anyone, regardless of their sexual orientation or preference, can experience personal homophobia; when this happens with
LGBTQ people, it is called internalized homophobia.
● Like heterosexuals, lesbians, gays, and bisexuals are taught that same sex sexuality is inferior to heterosexuality, and many
internalize this to the point where self ‐ acceptance is difficult. One result of this is that some LGBTQs desperately try to deny or
change their sexual orientation; and some have tried or succeeded in committing suicide.
● Interpersonal homophobia is individual behavior based on personal homophobia. This hatred or dislike may be expressed by name ‐
calling, telling "jokes,” verbal and physical harassment, and other individual acts of discrimination. Interpersonal homophobia, in
its extreme, results in LGBTQs being physically assaulted for no other reason than their assailants' homophobia.
● Most people act out their fears of LGBTQ people in nonviolent, more commonplace ways. Relatives often shun their LGBTQ
family members; coworkers are distant and cold to LGBTQ colleagues; heterosexual friends aren't interested in hearing about their
LGBTQ friends' relationships.
INSTITUTIONAL HOMOPHOBIA

● Institutional homophobia refers to the many ways in which government, businesses, churches, and
other institutions and organizations discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation.
Institutional homophobia is also called heterosexism. Institutional homophobia is reflected in
religious organizations which have stated or implicit policies against lesbians, gays, bisexuals,
and transgenders leading services; agencies which refuse to allocate resources for services to
LGBTQ people; and governments which fail to insure the rights of all citizens, regardless of their
sexual orientation.
CULTURAL HOMOPHOBIA

● Cultural homophobia refers to social standards and norms which dictate that being heterosexual is better or more moral than being
LGBTQ, and that everyone is or should be heterosexual. Cultural homophobia is also called heterosexism. Cultural homophobia is
spelled out each day in television shows and print advertisements where virtually every character is heterosexual, every erotic
relationship involves a female and a male, and every "normal" child is presumed to be attracted to and will eventually marry
someone of the other sex. In the few cases where LGBTQ are portrayed, they are usually unhappy, stereotyped, engaged in self ‐
destructive behaviors, or ambivalent about their sexual orientation.
#LOVEISLOV
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Express yourself the way you are!
 Where is
homosexuality still
04 outlawed?
Where is homosexuality still outlawed?

● There are 69 countries that have laws that criminalise homosexuality, and nearly half of these are
in Africa. However, in some countries there have been moves to decriminalise same-sex unions.
In February 2021, Angola signed into law a revised penal code to allow same-sex relationships
and bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In June 2020, Gabon reversed a law
that had criminalised homosexuality and made gay sex punishable with six months in prison and a
large fine. Botswana's High Court also ruled in favour of decriminalising homosexuality in 2019.
Mozambique and the Seychelles have also scrapped anti-homosexuality laws in recent years. In
Trinidad and Tobago, a court in 2018 ruled that laws banning gay sex were unconstitutional. But
there are countries where existing laws outlawing homosexuality have been tightened, including
Nigeria and Uganda. And in others, efforts to get the laws removed have failed. A court in
Singapore dismissed a bid to overturn a law that prohibits gay sex early last year. In May 2019,
the high court in Kenya upheld laws criminalising homosexual acts.
Colonial legacy

● Many of the laws criminalising homosexual relations originate from colonial times.
And in many places, breaking these laws could be punishable by long prison
sentences. Out of the 53 countries in the Commonwealth - a loose association of
countries most of them former British colonies - 36 have laws that criminalise
homosexuality. Countries that criminalise homosexuality today also have criminal
penalties against women who have sex with women, although the original British laws
applied only to men. It says the death penalty is the legally prescribed punishment for
same-sex sexual acts in Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and in the
northern states in Nigeria. Sudan repealed the death penalty for consensual same-sex
sexual acts last year
LGBT+ MARRIAGE WORLDWIDE

LEGAL MARRIAGE

CIVIL UNION ONLY

DO NOT
RECOGNIZE IT
 “To be yourself in a world
that is constantly trying to
make you something else is
the greatest accomplishment”
–A QUEER ACTIVIST
 Celebrities on
Their Coming-
05 Out Stories
DEMI LOVATO

● “It was actually, like, emotional, but really beautiful,” Lovato said of her coming out, which
happened officially with her parents in 2017. (She identifies as queer.) "After everything was
done, I was, like, shaking and crying and I just felt overwhelmed, but I have such incredible
parents. They were so supportive. My dad was like, ‘Yeah, obviously.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, okay,
Dad.’ My mom was the one that I was, like, super nervous about, but she was just like, ‘I just want
you to be happy.’ That was so beautiful and amazing, and like I said, I’m so grateful.”
ELLEN PAGE

● Page came out during the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive
conference in 2014. “I'm here today because I am gay, and because maybe I
can make a difference, to help others have an easier and more hopeful time,”
she said, per People. “Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a
social responsibility.”
BILLY PORTER

● “It was violently homophobic and I knew then that if I was going to survive, I was
going to have to extract myself from that,” Porter told the Gay Times about his
childhood, per the Independent. He came out after finding solace in the arts
community: “I found the arts and I found the theater, a community that embraced me
for who I am, and as I went deeper and deeper into that community, I discovered we
were in the middle of a plague and had to fight.”
MYLEY CYRUS

● Cyrus opened up about coming out as pansexual to Variety in October 2016, saying she first
identified with that label after “figuring out what it was.” “I went to the LGBTQ center here in
L.A., and I started hearing these stories,” she said. “I saw one human in particular who didn’t
identify as male or female. Looking at them, they were both: beautiful and sexy and tough but
vulnerable and feminine but masculine. And I related to that person more than I related to anyone
in my life. Even though I may seem very different, people may not see me as neutral as I feel. But
I feel very neutral. I think that was the first gender-neutral person I’d ever met. Once I understood
my gender more, which was unassigned, then I understood my sexuality more. I was like, ‘Oh—
that’s why I don’t feel straight and I don’t feel gay. It’s because I’m not.’”
LAVERNE COX

● Cox shared her coming-out stories to Out in 2017. “I have kind of two coming-outs. So I always knew I liked boys,
so I came out as gay first,” she said. “I’m from Mobile, Alabama, but I went to Alabama School of Fine Arts. The
funny thing about coming out in art school was that everybody was like, ‘Yeah, of course you are.’”

● She continued, “I came out to my mom first as gay my sophomore year, and she freaked out. And then, when I
came out to my mother as trans a few years later, it was after I started my medical transition—she took that easier.
This time I was living in New York, I was supporting myself, and so she never said, ‘I don’t want you in my life.’ It
was just that she didn’t understand and she had issues with the pronoun thing and the name change; it was just like,
‘Girl, you gotta get this together.’”
 IT TAKES
COURAGE TO
BE WHO YOU
ARE
SHORT CLIPS
 FINAL
CONCLUSION
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CONCLUSIONS

● As long as you love, others or even yourself, there's nothing wrong

you can do. Homophobic people will always exist, but there will also
be people to support you, like the EYA team.
● Always remember that the most beautiful thing you can do is TO
BE YOURSELF!
DON’T EVER
BE AFRAID TO
SHOW OFF
YOUR TRUE
COLORS