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If you find yourself struggling to feel confident in your communication with LGBTQ+ friends, family, and neighbors, this guide is for you. The LGBTQ+ community uses many terms that may take time and intention to learn and understand. Terminology also changes rapidly, and words used today sometimes replace terminology that LGBTQ+ people have found incomplete, confusing, or offensive in the past. Words Can Crush: Compassionate Communication with LGBTQ+ Friends is meant to be a trusted partner on your journey to understand the words used by LGBTQ+ people and which words and phrases can unintentionally cause offense. Some problematic terms are easily recognizable, well-known, and avoided by most people. Other difficult words and phrases are not as well-known, and it would be easy to use them and cause offense inadvertently. In this guide, we offer a glossary of terms to help you practice better communication with LGBTQ+ friends, and a list of problematic words and phrases together with brief explanations of why they’re difficult and what you might use instead. At the end of this guide, we also offer a list of more plainly offensive terms to strike from your vocabulary.
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