" Frequently Asked Questions About Being Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender and Catholic " Dignity USA.

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center – best known as simply " The Center " – has occupied the former Food & Maritime Trades High School at 208 West 13th Street since 1984.

Ayuquelén worked with the International Lesbian Information Service, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, and the Chilean gay rights group Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual ( Movement to Integrate and Liberate Homosexuals ) to remove the sodomy law still in force in Chile.

* Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender History Month ( LGBT History Month ) ( in United States )

* LGBT ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender )

On June 1, 2009, President Barack Obama declared June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, citing the riots as a reason to " commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans ".

However, in Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston,, the Court ruled that a group may exclude people from membership if their presence would affect the group's ability to advocate a particular point of view.

Willow was included in AfterEllen. com's Top 50 Lesbian and Bisexual Characters, ranking at No. 7.

* The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society

** Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, a New York City non-profit organization commonly known as the Center

However, a psychiatric member of APA's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues Committee has recently sought to distance the two, arguing that they were separate in the early 70s protests at APA conventions and that APA's decision to remove homosexuality was scientific and happened to coincide with the political pressure.

In August 2011, the APA clarified their support of same-sex marriage in light of continued research suggesting that the same community benefits accepted as result of hetero-sexual marriage apply to same-sex couples as well, " We knew that marriage benefits heterosexual people in very significant ways, but we didn't know if that would be true for same-sex couples ," said Dr. Clinton Anderson, associate executive director of the APA and director of the Office on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns.

APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues.

Changing first to Lesbian and Gay, today most are called Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender ( LGBT ) or simply " Pride ".

* Interpride The International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Coordinators

* The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society

The magazine Anything That Moves coined the acronym FABGLITTER ( from Fetish such as the BDSM lifestyle community, Allies or poly-Amorous as in Polyamorous couples became more used, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Intersexed, Transgender, Transsexual Engendering Revolution or inter-Racial attraction ), although this term has not made its way into common usage.

Another acronym that has begun to spread is QUILTBAG, from Queer / Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans, Bisexual, Asexual, Gay.

* American Psychological Association's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns Office

* The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society

glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture, edited by Claude J. Summers.

Promoting the more liberal ideas — including changing the name of the church because it is seen to be exclusionary of women, acceptance of homosexuals as members and ministers, and increased social and political activity — are groups such as Womaen's Caucus, Voices for an Open Spirit, and the Brethren Mennonite Council on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Interests.

* The National Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Centers ( NALGBTCC )

These include an umbrella organizations called Eshel, the Gay and Lesbian Yeshiva Day School Alumni Association, the women's group OrthoDykes, the youth group JQYouth, the American-Israeli group headquartered in Jerusalem Bat Kol and the Israeli group Hod (" Majesty ").

The initial A for Allies came from some of the paraphilia or sexual fetishism lifestyles, who are primarily in support of the GLBT community, and sometimes they form an alliance in sociopolitical affairs to further represent the umbrella term GLBTA ( Gay Lesbian Bi Trans Alternative or Allies ).

Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females.

In 1890, the term was used in a medical dictionary as an adjective to describe tribadism ( as " Lesbian love "): sexual gratification of two women by simulating intercourse.

The terms cisgender and cissexual have more recently been used in publications, such as a 2006 article in the Journal of Lesbian Studies and Julia Serano's 2007 book Whipping Girl, after which the term gained some popularity among English-speaking activists and scholars.

* Hot Lesbian Action, a term used by Eric Bischoff during his tenure in WWE in 2002

A related term is Lesbian Until Graduation ( LUG ).

In the book Lesbian Polyfidelity, author Celeste West uses the term polyfidelity in much the same way that others use polyamory.

This use of the term was first adopted at the inaugural Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in Hong Kong in 1989, with the aim of presenting same-sex relationships are positive and suggesting solidarity between LGBT people, while also providing an indigenous term to capture the Chinese experience of same-sex love ; it also puns on tóngxìnglìan ( 同性戀 ), the formal ( if clinical and disfavored ) term for homosexuality.

* Lesbian activist Anna Rueling used the term in her 1904 speech, " What Interest does the Women's Movement have in Solving the Homosexual Problem?

* Rezubian, or Bian, Japanese term to refer to a woman as a Lesbian

The Guardian Style Guide, Newswatch Diversity Style Guide, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, and the Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concern of the American Psychological Association's Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language agree that " gay " is the preferred term.

Lesbian writer Emma Donoghue found that the term lesbian ( with its modern meaning ) was in use in the English language from at least the 17th century.

* Slang term, shortened form of the word Lesbian, referring to homosexual women

In 1956, ONE Inc. created the ONE Institute, an academic institute for the study of homosexuality, utilizing the term “ Homophile Studies .” In 1994, ONE, Inc. and the International Gay and Lesbian Archives run by Jim Kepner merged.

Lesbian bed death is a term coined by University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz in her 1983 book American Couples.

There are for example fragments in ' Sapphic ' meter praising the Dioscuri, Hermes and the river Hebrus ( a river significant in Lesbian mythology since it was down its waters that the head of Orpheus was believed to have floated singing, eventually crossing the sea to Lesbos and ending up in a temple of Apollo, as a symbol of Lesbian supremacy in song ).

The longest standing group for lesbian and gay Christians in the UK, founded in 1976, is the non-denominational Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement ; specifically aimed to meet the needs of lesbian and gay evangelicals, there is the Evangelical Fellowship for Lesbian and Gay Christians ; specifically working within the Church of England is Changing Attitude, which also takes an international focus in working for gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender affirmation within the Anglican Communion.

" In 1988, in response to a campaign against lesbians at the Marine's Parris Island Depot, activists launched the Gay and Lesbian Military Freedom Project ( MFP ) to advocate for an end to the exclusion of gays and lesbians from the armed forces.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) people and their allies have a long history of campaigning for what is generally called LGBT rights, also called gay rights and gay and lesbian rights.

According to the International Lesbian and Gay Association ( ILGA ) seven countries still retain capital punishment for homosexual behavior: Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen.

The meetings of feminist lesbians of Latin America and the Caribbean, sometimes shortened to " Lesbian meetings ", have been an important forum for the exchange of ideas for Latin American lesbians since the late 1980s.

* 1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D. C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands " an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people ", and draws 200, 000 people.

The middle of the 1990s was marked by the inclusion of bisexuals as a represented group within the gay community when they successfully sought to be included on the platform of the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.

* date unknown – Anne Lister, A wealthy Lesbian from Halifax, famous for her openly lesbian life style and her extensive, coded diaries ( d. 1840 )

* October 11 – The first National Coming Out Day is held in celebration of the second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

* Bullough, Vern L. Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context.

The court received briefs and oral arguments, including an amicus brief from The Vermont Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights and the People For the American Way Foundation.

As a social activist, Bono became a spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, promoted National Coming Out Day, campaigned for the reelection of Bill Clinton for US President, campaigned against the Defense of Marriage Act, and served as Entertainment Media Director for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ).