Glossary
Sexual orientation
[ sek-shoo-uhl awr-ee-uhn-tey-shuhn, ‐en‐ ]
An individual's enduring physical, romantic, emotional, and/or spiritual attraction to members of the same and/or different sex and/or gender.
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