Hi, everyone.
Welcome to I Weigh's Glossary Series, and today we're talking about...
sexual identity.
Sexual identity is how you define yourself when it comes to who you're romantically or sexually attracted to.
It's basically about who you're into.
Gay.
Gay is a somewhat old fashioned term used describe men who are attracted to men and women who are attracted to women.
In other words, it is a way to describe...
a homosexual.
A similarly old fashioned and quite medicalized term for someone who is attracted to people who identify as the same sex or gender as they do.
Heterosexual meanwhile, describes people who are attracted to the opposite sex or gender.
Queer is often now used as an umbrella term for people who aren't straight or cis.
Ace from the term asexual is used as an umbrella term to describe a variation in levels of romantic and or sexual attraction,
including a lack of attraction.
Ace people may use terms such as asexual,
aromantic,
demis,
Grey-a,
and others to describe themselves.
Bi is now often used to encompass a range of non-monosexual identities,
i.e. attraction to more than one gender.
For some people, this could mean you're into both men and women,
while others describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms,
including, but not limited to
bisexual, queer, pansexual, etc.
Pansexual or being pan is when you're attracted to people,
regardless of their sex or gender identity,
who you're into just isn't dependent on it.
And with that, we're finished.
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