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How to talk about gender and sexuality

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#1

Suggested Difficulty (Elementary etc): upper-intermediate
Video or Audio: either
Lesson Idea: Hi @Constance_Fang and Team, I was searching through the archives and am sorry if I missed it but couldn’t find a lesson on how to talk about gender and sexuality in Chinese. I would love to learn phrases for describing gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, straight, questioning, and other vocabulary for engaging with LGBT community and media in Chinese. Maybe it could be related to a lesson on marriage equality in Taiwan or pride month (which just ended).

Thanks for considering!

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#2

Hello,
gay =男同性恋
lesbian=女同性恋
bisexual=双性恋
transgender=变性人

#3

Wow, interesting topic, would indeed be interesting to see a lesson on this.

I know the term for gay pride, that’s 同志遊行.

I already heard about all the “official” ways to say gay, lesbian ect. How about translatios for queer and straight?

#4

Hi there

Thank you for your suggestion. We’ll take those topics in consideration for our upcoming lessons.

男同性恋 [nán tóngxìngliàn] gay
女同性恋 [nǚ tóngxìngliàn] lesbian
双性恋 [shuāng xìng liàn] bisexual
变性人 [biànxìng rén] transgender
酷儿 [kù er] queer
直男 [zhí nán] straight