the treatment of a person, or particular group of people, as if they are not important or as important as other groups.

Examples within Queer contexts would be the marginalisation of LGBTQIA+ people in general society by their cishet peers, with their rights considered less significant.

It also takes place within the Queer community – such as the marginalisation of people of colour within various Queer communities, which, as a consequence, has led to their voices, cultures and specific concerns being ignored; others include the erasure of bisexual+ people from Queer discourse (and as such, their health concerns and their identities); the exclusion of asexual people within the Queer umbrella; the lack of voice given to people with intersex variations within the Queer community; the focus on gay male/MSM sexuality and health over lesbian/WSW in academia or media; the anti-trans rhetoric found within some sectors of the Queer community, and indeed, the dismissal of nonbinary individuals by cisgender Queer peopleand other transgender people.