Pansexual and Bisexual!

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Pansexuality started as a descriptor for events that welcomed all and was then mistakenly appropriated to describe an individual's orientation. More recently, various other terms have been coined to express that the speaker's attraction to people is not limited by gender and other factors. More anciently, the Freudian phrase "polymorphously perverse" was gleefully appropriated to mean something similar.
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Bisexual has an etymology suggesting a connection to binary, but in practice has always been used to connote openness. The strawman of someone liking people who are strictly male or strictly female, but rejecting anyone ambiguous, was always fictional.
 
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What is the difference between pansexual and bisexual?
Pansexual means you are attracted to people regardless of gender.

Bisexual means you are attracted to two or more genders, including your own. (Bisexuality does not exclude trans people or non-binary people, especially since binary trans people aren't a third gender)

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The differences are subtle, but they usually have to do with how you feel attracted, not who you think you are interested in. For example, bisexuals often prefer one gender. In contrast, still being attracted to others, or they think differently about each attraction, while pansexuals feel attraction the same way across all genders.

Queer is an umbrella term that encompasses all of the LGBTQ+ community. It can be beneficial for questioning people who only know that they are cishet or for non-binary people who don't have a relevant term for their sexuality because of their gender. But not all people want to be called queer because some people have negative associations with the word.
 

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