Now, the downward-pointing, equilateral, pink triangle is a symbol of GLBT pride and the struggle for equal rights. For example, any forced vaginal, anal, or oral sex is rape. It includes, but is not limited to, rape . The inclination or capacity to develop intimate emotional and sexual relationships with people of the same gender, the other gender or both genders. In all instances, use this term instead of sexual preference or other misleading terminology.
Sexual orientation is the correct term.
As unacceptable at school as racial or religious slurs. Term preferred by some straight people as less clinical and formal than heterosexual , but some dislike it because it gets confused with not using drugs or with being a rigid person. Some GLBT people object to it as implying that they must be, in contrast, bent. An umbrella term increasingly preferred by people who might otherwise call themselves transsexual, transvestite, cross-dressing or intersexual. Also preferred by some people who are emotionally neither sex or both sexes or whose gender role expression is significantly different from what society expects of people of their sex.