Does Polyamory Fall Under the LGBT+ Umbrella?

Should polyamory be considered part of the LGBT+ community?

Kim Barrett
Polyamory Today
Published in
4 min readJan 24, 2020

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Polyamory is common among LGBT+ people with gay men being the most likely group to be polyamorous. Some types of polyamory are inherently part of the LGBT+ community: when three people are all dating each other (in a triad or throuple), at least two of the people must have a sexual…

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Kim Barrett
Polyamory Today

Freelance writer & software developer (they/them) 📍 Oxford, UK https://kbarrett.github.io/