sexual orientation
Example Sentences
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Instead of suffering through that, I watched people of every imaginable race, creed, sexual orientation and color enjoying life.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
He wrote the court’s four major rulings rejecting discrimination based on sexual orientation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
The bill would make it a criminal offence to provide conversion therapy, or to engage in coercive conversion behaviour, external with the goal of changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
They didn’t track representation based on gender, sexual orientation or Asian origin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
From our much more broadminded twenty-first-century North American viewpoint, it’s important to remember that identifying yourself as male or female doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with your sexual orientation.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
