Sometimes understanding iconography and symbols can be difficult, especially if the language isn’t your native tongue. To help aid people who wonder what the various symbols on the site mean, we have created a glossary.
TV Shows
Tropes
- Background Queers (lamp)
- Based on a True Story (ribbon)
- Big Queer Reveal (nessie)
- Big Queer Wedding (wedding-cake)
- Bisexual Love Triangle (group)
- Bury Your Queers (skull-crossbones)
- Coming Out (toaster)
- Erased Queerness (boomerang)
- Everyone's Queer (fireworks)
- Fake Relationship (reminder)
- Freakout Hetero Sex (sausage)
- Gal Pals (snowflake-alt)
- Gaybies (baby)
- Happiness then Tragedy (theater_masks)
- Happy Ending (crown)
- In Love With a Str8 Person (heart-arrow)
- In Prison (fence-chainlink)
- Literary Inspired (books)
- None! (trophy)
- Outed (share)
- Queer for Laughs (smile)
- Queer of the Week (escalator)
- Queerbaiting (star-of-life)
- Queerbashing (location-target)
- Queers in Law Enforcement (badge)
- Queerspawn (fish)
- Secret Spouse (diamond-ring)
- Sex Workers (censored)
- Slow Burn (campfire-smoke)
- Subtext (cannon)
- Teacher/Student Romance (apple-bite)
- The Big Bad Queers (jason-mask)
- Unrequited (kleenex)
- Video Game Inspired (game-controller-alt)
Formats
Genres
- Action (fencing)
- Adult (zipper)
- Adventure (kayak)
- Animation (pen-nib)
- Anime (leaf-angle)
- Anthology (books)
- Biography (book)
- Children's (blocks)
- Comedy (happy)
- Cooking (pan)
- Crime (bag-dollar)
- Dark Comedy (bookmark)
- Drama (city)
- Family (group)
- Fantasy (castle)
- Holiday (gifts)
- Horror (zombie)
- Legal (gavel)
- Medical (stethoscope)
- Mockumentary (camcorder)
- Musical (music)
- Mystery (fingerprint)
- Period Piece (viking-helm)
- Police (donut)
- Political (fingers-crossed)
- Procedural (clipboard-pencil)
- Romance (heart-arrow)
- School (schoolbus)
- Sci-Fi (ufo)
- Soap Opera (soap)
- Sports (football)
- Superhero (asteroid)
- Supernatural (ghost)
- Teen (game-controller-alt)
- Telenovela (theater_masks)
- Thriller (machete)
- Utopian/Dystopian (fish-bones)
- War (tank)
- Western (cactus)
Intersectionality
- Disabilities (universal-access-alt)
- Diverse Cast (pencil-paintbrush-pen)
- Gender Presentation (yin-yang)
- Immigrants (statue-of-liberty)
- Interracial Relationships (fitness-watch)
- Neurodivergence / Neuroatypical (brain)
- PoC-Centric (stanp-portrait)
- Religion (church)
- Senior Representation (blind-walking)
Characters
Cliches
- Abusive (volcano)
- Addict (pills)
- Alien (alien)
- Artist (art-palette)
- Athlete (baseball-sport)
- Based on a Real Person (gingerbread-man)
- Cartoon (face-id)
- Celibate (monk)
- Closeted (door_open)
- Conditional Queerness (directions-u-turn)
- Cougar (cat)
- Criminal (spy)
- Cross-Dresser (clothes-hanger)
- Dead Queers (rest-in-peace)
- Disabled (universal-access)
- Educator (chalkboard)
- Fictionalized Self (fishbowl)
- Firefighter (fire)
- Forced to Transition (universal-access-off)
- Gender Swapped (arrow-swap)
- Intimacy Issues (running)
- Journalist Type (newspaper)
- Just A Phase (turkey)
- Just One of the Guys (dumbbell)
- Law Enforcement / Military (badge)
- Legal Eagle (scales)
- Mentally Ill (brain)
- Non-Human (unicorn)
- None (medal)
- Parent (baby_bottle)
- Politically Inclined (keynote)
- Promiscuous (hot-tub-multi)
- Queer IRL (rainbow)
- Robot (robot)
- Scientifically Inclined (microscope)
- Sex Worker (butt)
- Student (backpack)
- Supernatural (radioactive)
- Undead (ghost)
- Vegetarianish (carrot)