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to women. Gay is usually used to refer to men who are attracted to other men, but it can be used to refer to lesbians as well, or occasionally the community as a whole. Bisexuality is when a person is attracted to both men and women. Transgender refers to a person who identifies as the opposite gender of what they were assigned at birth. And queer can be interpreted to mean other sexual and gender minorities, like asexual, pansexual, genderqueer, agender, and many others. Other terms will be defined as we go.

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Body and Mind • LGBTQ Health Issues

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