Sexualities and Identities

On this page you will learn all about the different sexualities that there are!

The Definition of sexuality is: a person's identity in relation to the gender or genders to which they are typically attracted; sexual orientation

Asexual

Individuals who don't experience sexual attraction to other of any gender.

Aromantic

People who experience little or no romantic attraction, regardless of sex or gender.

Bisexual

Those who experience sexual, romantic, or emotional attractions to people of more than one gender. This also includes individuals who are attracted to a variety of people, with similar genders and different ones than their own.

Biromantic

Those who experience romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction, to individuals of more than one gender.

Cupiosexual

This term describes asexual people who don't experience sexual attraction but still have the desire to engage in sexual behavior or a sexual relationship.

Demisexual

Individuals who experience sexual attraction only under specific circumstances, such as after building a romantic or emotional relationship with a person.

Gay

This term describes individuals who experience sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction to people of the same or similar gender. (This flag is the male gay flag.)

Graysexual

This term acknowledges the gray area on the sexuality spectrum for people who don't explicitly and exclusively identify as asexual or aromantic.

Heterosexual

Describes people who experience sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction to people of the opposite gender or a different gender. Cisgender and transgender identified people can be heterosexual. This is also commonly known as straight.

Lesbian

A woman or female-identified person who experiences sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction to people of the same or similar gender.

Monosexual

This term is a very broad sexual orientation category that includes people who experience romantic or sexual attraction to people of one sex or gender. This typically includes people who are exclusively heterosexual, gay, or lesbian.

Omnisexual

Similar to pansexual, this term can be used to describe individuals whose sexuality isn't limited to people of a particular gender, sex, or sexual orientation.

Pansexual

Individuals who can experience sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction to any person, regardless of that person's gender, sex, or sexuality.

Polysexual

With bisexuality, pansexuality, omnisexuality, queer and many others under the umbrella term Polysexual. This term is used to describe individuals with a sexual orientation that involves sexual or romantic attraction to people with varying genders.

Queer

Another umbrella term that describes the individuals who aren't exclusively heterosexual

Sapiosexual

A word used to describe those who experience attraction based on intelligence, rather than sex or gender.

Sex-averse

This describes those who are asexual and are averse to or extremely disinterested in sex or sexual behavior.

Skoliosexual

A sexual orientation that describes those who are sexually attracted to people with non-cisgender identities, such as people who are nonbinary, genderqueer, or trans.

Spectrasexual

A term that describes people who are sexually or romantically attracted to multiple or varied sexes, genders, and gender identities, but not necessarily all or any.

The definition of identity is: the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.

Agender

Denoting or relating to a person who does not identify themselves as having a particular gender.

Androgynous

Partly male and partly female in appearance; if indeterminate sex.

Bigender

Denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity encompasses two genders.

Demigender

individuals who feel a partial connection to a particular gender identity.

Genderfluid

Denoting or relating to a person who does not identify themselves as having a fixed gender.

Genderqueer

This is a gender identity that's built around the term "queer."

Intersex

A general term that describes bodies that fall outside of the strict male/female binary.

Multigender

This term is used to describe people who experience more than one gender identity.

Nonbinary

Nonbinary is another umbrella term but at its core it is used to describe someone whose gender identity isn't exclusively male or female.

Transgender

A person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not align with the sex they were assigned at birth.

The definition of pronouns are: a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse.

She/Her/Hers

Pronouns for those who identify as female.

He/Him/His

Pronouns for those who identify as male.

They/Them/Theirs

Pronouns for those who identify as neither male or female.

Ze/Hir/Hirs

Gender-neutral pronouns.

Ze/Zir/Zirs

Gender-neutral pronouns.

Demigirl/ demiboy/demifluid

Partial connection to a certain gender.

Gender-neutral Terms

  • Instead of boy(s)/girl(s), man/woman, and men/women, use person, people, or humans.

  • Instead of ladies and gentlemen, use folks.

  • Instead of daughter or son, use child.

  • Instead of sister and brother, use sibling.

  • instead of niece and nephew, use nibling.

  • Instead of mother and father, use parent.

  • Instead of husband and wife, use partner or spouse.

  • Instead of grandmother or grandfather, use grandparent.