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1. sex·u·al o·ri·en·ta·tion

   noun

   1. a person's sexual identity in relation to the gender to which they are attracted.

My mission for this blog is to inform and educate readers about the sexual identities in our world. There are many people everywhere that are misinformed about how many sexual identities there are and how different they all are from each other. There are many reasons for this and one of them is the representation- or lack thereof in the case of many identities- in the popular media. When/ if they are represented in television shows and/or movies, more often then not, it is not accurate to them (this does not include heterosexual people as they are accurately and wholly represented). This results in many stereotypes that  people commonly mistake as true. The acronym that is used as an umbrella term for many sexual identities is lgbt, but this does not even come close to covering all of them. The one that more closely depicts all the identites is lgb(t)q(i)ap, but most people do not ever learn most if any of them.
                                                      *(The 't' and 'i' stand for transgender and intersex and do not fit under the term sexual identities as they are words that identify someones gender identity, therefore will not be covered on my blog.)

Some sexual identities:

• Heterosexual 
• Homosexual
• Bisexual
• Pansexual
• Asexual (grey asexual, demisexual)

 How many of those did you recognize and know about? Probably not all of them. This goes to show how many are erased from right under our noses. Nearly all of these sexual identities are harmfully stereotyped by the media and normal people. For example: homosexual or gay men are often viewed as feminine or girly. Homosexual or lesbian women are seen as masculine. Bisexual women are seen as promiscuous and bisexual men as "secretly gay".  Pansexuals are "attracted to literally everything" and asexuals just "haven't found the right person yet". Some of these stereotypes apply to more than one identity and i could go on as there are endless stereotypes that are pinned on people for no reason other than who they are attracted to.

In conclusion I have so much knowledge that I would love to share with you on this subject and I encourage you to stand up to the stereotyping and misrepresentation/ under representation of sexual orientations other than heterosexual. It is by far so unfair and overall dangerous for the people that fit into this category and needs to be stopped as soon as possible.