Glbt

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s.

The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may be used to refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant adds the letter Q f
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Difficult Women
Wayfarer (Passenger, #2)
History Is All You Left Me
A List of Cages
Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)
The Alchemists of Loom (Loom Saga, #1)
This is How It Always Is
Good Boy (WAGs, #1)
The You I've Never Known
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World
Our Own Private Universe
Infini (Aerial Ethereal, #2)
The Careful Undressing of Love
Dreadnought (Nemesis, #1)
The Summer Palace (Captive Prince Short Stories #2)

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  • Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)
    The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #2)
    This Is Where It Ends
    Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices, #1)
    This is How It Always Is
    Difficult Women
    Lily and the Octopus
    Lumberjanes, Vol. 5: Band Together
    Infini (Aerial Ethereal, #2)
    Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy (Lumberjanes #1-4)
    Love Is Love
    Modern Lovers
    Days Without End
    Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
    The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
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    Best Gay Fiction
    1,492 books — 1,843 voters

    Hot Head by Damon SuedeFaith & Fidelity by Tere MichaelsPromises by Marie SextonThe Assignment by Evangeline AndersonThe Tin Star by J.L. Langley
    Best Gay Friends Become Lovers
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    Tipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersFingersmith by Sarah WatersAnnie on My Mind by Nancy GardenFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggKeeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters
    Best Lesbian Fiction
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    The Magpie Lord by K.J. CharlesWiddershins by Jordan L. HawkThe Gentleman and the Rogue by Bonnie DeeDowntime by Tamara  AllenThink of England by K.J. Charles
    Best Gay Historical Romance
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    Luck in the Shadows by Lynn FlewellingMagic's Pawn by Mercedes LackeyStalking Darkness by Lynn FlewellingCaptive Prince by C.S. PacatTraitor's Moon by Lynn Flewelling
    Best Fantasy Books with Gay Main Characters
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    Popular Glbt Books

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    Becky Albertalli
    It is definitely annoying that straight (and white, for that matter) is the default, and that the only people who have to think about their identity are the ones who don't fit that mold. Straight people really should have to come out, and the more awkward it is, the better. Awkwardness should be a requirement.
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    Alanis Morissette
    I am what I am Are you what you are or What?
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