The letters stand for the following: Lesbian: Women who are sexually attracted to women.  Gay: People who are sexually attracted to the same gender. This term is most commonly used to describe men who are attracted to men. Bisexual: People who are sexually attracted to their own gender and other genders. Transgender: There is a difference between sex (the sex characteristics of your body, such as the penis or vagina), sexuality (who you are sexually attracted to) and gender identity (whether you feel male or female or a mix of both). Feeling the opposite gender to your sex is called being transgender. Find out more here. +: This stands for people who might not identify with any of the terms above, but do not see themselves as heterosexual (straight) and/or cisgender (having a gender identity that matches their sex). Some people might refer to themselves using terms like queer, genderfluid, non-binary or MSM (man who has sex with men). And some people might not want to be labelled at all. If you want to know more, this blog is a good place to start. You can see from the list above that the term ‘LGBT+ people’ actually refers to many different types of people. The most important thing to do is to treat every LGBT+ person as an individual, while bearing in mind that LGBT+ people will face some sexual health issues that are different to straight, cisgender people.