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LGBT pride parades, related events and publications, such as this annual edition from the United States featuring openly gay war veterans, increasingly drop the LGBT initialism instead of regularly adding new letters, and dealing with issues of placement of those letters within the new title.

LGBT (or GLBT) is an initialism referring collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. In use since the 1990s, the term LGBT is an adaptation of the initialism LGB which itself started replacing the phrase gay community which many within LGBT communities felt did not represent accurately all those to which it referred.[1] In modern usage, the term LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of "sexuality and gender identity‐based cultures" and is sometimes used to refer to anyone who is non‐heterosexual instead of exclusively to people who are homosexual, bisexual, or transgender.[1][2] To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant adds the letter Q for queer and questioning (e.g., LGBTQ) for those not explicitly denoted by LGBT, such as pansexuality, polyamory, intersex, etc.

As of 2005, the acronym has become mainstream as a self-designation and has been adopted by the majority of LGBT community centers and LGBT media in most English‐speaking countries.[3][4]

In 2009 transgender actress Candis Cayne called the LGBT community "the last great minority", noting that "We can still be harassed openly" and "called out on television

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