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LGBT and themes
* LGBT themes in horror fiction
* LGBT themes in mythology
* LGBT themes: Another metaphor that has been applied by some to the X-Men is that of LGBT.
* LGBT themes in speculative fiction
* LGBT themes in mythology
* Lists of American television episodes with LGBT themes
Anti-LGBT rhetoric and anti-gay slogans are themes, catchphrases, and slogans that have been used to condemn homosexuality or other non-heterosexual sexual orientations or to demean LGBT people.
Nowadays Fair City deals with LGBT themes more openly and more regularly.
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Films of the New Queer Cinema movement typically share certain themes, such as the rejection of heteronormativity and the lives of LGBT protagonists living on the fringe of society.
* LGBT themes in classical mythology
The film was noted for helping to bring Australian cinema to world attention and for its positive portrayal of LGBT individuals, helping to introduce LGBT themes to a mainstream audience.
Also, IUSY has two permanent working groups – Feminism and LGBT – that deal with issues involving those specific themes.
Category: Children's books with LGBT themes
* LGBT themes in American mainstream comics
* LGBT themes in comics
The inclusion of LGBT themes in comic books, television and film continues to attract media attention and controversy, while the perceived lack of sufficient representation, along with unrealistic depictions, provokes criticism from LGBT sources.
Early works that contained LGBT themes and showed the gay characters to be morally impure include the first lesbian vampire story " Carmilla " ( 1872 ) by Sheridan Le Fanu and The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ) by Oscar Wilde, which shocked contemporary readers with its sensuality and overtly homosexual characters.

LGBT and speculative
However, slash fiction has been described as important to the LGBT community and the formation of queer identities, as it represents a resistance to the expectation of compulsory heterosexuality, but has also been noted as being unrepresentative of the gay community, being more a medium to express feminist frustration with popular and speculative fiction.
It has also been claimed by critics such as Nicola Griffith that LGBT readers identify strongly with the mutants, aliens, and other outsider characters found in speculative fiction.
Specialist gay publishing presses and a number of awards recognising LGBT achievements in the genre emerged, and by the twenty-first century blatant homophobia was no longer considered acceptable by most readers of speculative fiction.
The inclusion of significant LGBT characters in modern speculative fiction television series has not been universal.
A number of awards exist that recognise works at the intersection of LGBT and speculative fiction:
* The Outer Alliance, LGBT advocacy in speculative fiction and literature
* 2010: Disturbed by Her Song ( nominated, best LGBT speculative fiction )
It has also been claimed that LGBT readers identify strongly with the mutants, aliens, and other outsider characters found in speculative fiction.
* LGBT themes in speculative fiction

LGBT and fiction
* List of LGBT characters in film, radio, and TV fiction
LGBT has also left its mark on the genre of crime fiction.
Nicola Griffith has written that LGBT readers tend to identify strongly with the outsider status of mutants, aliens, and characters who lead hidden or double lives in science fiction.
Slash fiction has been described as important to the LGBT community and the formation of queer identities, as it represents a resistance to the expectation of compulsory heterosexuality, but has also been noted as being unrepresentative of the gay community, being more a medium to express feminist dissatisfactions with SF.
* Gaylaxicon, annual LGBT science fiction, fantasy, horror, comics & gaming convention
It won both the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT ( lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered ) fiction, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our understanding of gender.
" Tina Fey, Morgan's boss both in fiction and in real life, said, " I'm glad to hear that Tracy apologized .... but the violent imagery of Tracy's rant was disturbing to me at a time when homophobic hate crimes continue to be a life-threatening issue for the LGBT community ... the Tracy Morgan I know, ... is not a hateful man and never hurt another person.

LGBT and refer
Some Christians believe that Biblical passages have been mistranslated or that these passages do not refer to LGBT orientation as currently understood.
The term LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of " sexuality and gender identity-based cultures " and is sometimes used to refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or cisgender instead of exclusively to people who are homosexual, bisexual, or transgender.
Gaymer, or Gay Gamer, is a term used to refer to the group of people who identify themselves as LGBT ( gay, bisexual, lesbian, or transgendered ) and have an active interest in the video game community ( gamers ).
The gender-ambiguous term Pat and Chris has been used, particularly in LGBT dance venues, to refer to events where the gender of lead and follow isn't specified.
The idea of a homosexual agenda is also used by some Christian critics of LGBT rights in conjunction with a putative ideology they refer to as homosexualism ( as opposed to a synonym for homosexuality ), using homosexualists to describe people who seek to advance LGBT emancipation.
Boi ( plural: bois ) is a term used within LGBT and butch and femme communities to refer to a person's sexual and gender identity.

LGBT and incorporation
Unlike traditional psychotherapeutic interventions, this approach reframes LGBT individuals ’ psychological issues as resulting from an understandable incorporation of the homonegative attitudes characteristic of the social structures within which such individuals exist.

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