In our Cafeteria Building (1C) there is a bulletin board right outside the LGBTQ office educating our students about self identity and defining just a few of the MANY titles an individual may identify themselves as. 

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: THE INCLINATION OR CAPACITY TO DEVELOP INTIMATE EMOTIONAL AND SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE OF THE SAME GENDER (LESBIAN OR GAY), THE OTHER GENDER (HETEROSEXUAL), OR EITHER GENDER (BISEXUAL).

GENDER: THE BEHAVIORAL, CULTURAL, OR PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS TYPICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH ONE SEX.

BISEXUAL: A PERSON WHO IS EMOTIONALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND/OR SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.

TRANSGENDER (ALSO TRANS): A PERSON WHO IDENTIFIES WITH A GENDER OTHER THAN THE ONE ASSIGNED AT BIRTH. 

ALSO, THOSE WHO TRANSGRESS SOCIETAL GENDER NORMS: OFTEN USED AS AN UMBRELLA TERM TO MEAN THOSE WHO DEFY RIGID, BIPOLAR GENDER CONSTRUCTIONS, AND WHO EXPRESS OR PRESENT A BREAKING AND/ OR BLURRING OF CULTURAL/ STEREOTYPICAL GENDER ROLES. 

"TRANNY" IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE TERM TO USE!

PAN-SEXUAL: NOT LIMITED OR INHABITED IN SEXUAL CHOICE WITH REGARD TO GENDER OR SEX.

LESBIAN: A TERM USED TO DESCRIBE A WOMAN THAT IS SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO OTHER WOMEN.

ALLY: ANYONE, REGARDLESS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION, WHOSE ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOR IS ANTI- HETERO SEXIST AND WHO WORKS TOWARD COMBATING HOMOPHOBIA AND HETERO-SEXISM, BOTH ON A PERSONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL.

QUEER: A PEJORATIVE TERM FOR GAY PEOPLE, ALTHOUGH MANY LGBT PEOPLE HAVE RECLAIMED THIS TERM AS ONE THAT DESCRIBES INCLUSIVE, NON-HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE.

GAY: A TERM USED TO DESCRIBE A PERSONAL SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO PEOPLE OF ONE'S SAME SEX. TYPICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH MALES, BUT CAN BE USED FOR WOMEN.