Homophile Movement: Early Gay and Lesbian Rights Activism
The homophile movement was an early gay and lesbian rights movement that challenged discrimination, criminalization, medical stigma, and social prejudice before gay liberation.
Gay Liberation: Sexual Freedom, Equality, Visibility, and Activism
Gay liberation is a social and political movement challenging anti-gay laws, stigma, discrimination, medicalization, and restrictive sexual norms while promoting equality and visibility.
Trans Liberation: Gender Freedom, Rights, Safety, and Bodily Autonomy
Trans liberation is a movement for freedom, equality, bodily autonomy, safety, healthcare access, gender recognition, and full social participation for trans and gender-diverse people.
Sex Positivity: Consent, Pleasure, Autonomy, and Sexual Choice
Sex positivity is an approach that supports consensual sexual expression, pleasure, autonomy, diversity, and informed choice without unnecessary shame or pressure.
Sex Negativity: Shame, Stigma, and Restrictive Sexual Norms
Sex negativity refers to beliefs or social norms that treat sexuality, desire, pleasure, or consensual sexual behavior as inherently shameful, immoral, or suspect.
Sex-Positive Feminism: Sexual Agency, Consent, and Pleasure
Sex-positive feminism supports sexual autonomy, consent, pleasure, reproductive freedom, and diverse sexual choices while challenging shame, restrictive gender roles, and coercion.
Sexual Liberation Movement: Freedom, Rights, Consent, and Social Change
The sexual liberation movement challenges restrictive sexual norms and promotes greater autonomy, equality, reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights, consent, and acceptance of sexual diversity.
Amatonormativity: Romance as a Social Expectation
Amatonormativity is the assumption that everyone should want and prioritize a central romantic relationship, often treating couplehood as necessary for a complete adult life.
Ace Erasure: Asexual Invisibility, Invalidity, and Recognition
Ace erasure is the denial, invisibility, or misrepresentation of asexuality, often through assumptions that everyone experiences sexual attraction or must want sex.
Bi Erasure: Bisexual Invisibility, Invalidity, and Identity Recognition
Bi erasure is the denial, dismissal, or invisibility of bisexuality, often occurring when people assume sexual orientation solely from a person’s current partner.