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 ).

Vaid was executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1988 – 1992 and has been an activist and writer since that time.

It was at this point the emergence of a divide within the gay activist movement occurred mainly due to a difference in ideologies, after which a number of groups including Organisation for Lesbian and Gay Action ( OLGA ), Stonewall ( which focused on lobby tactics ), the Lesbian Avengers and OutRage!

* Brian Kennedy ( journalist ) ( died 1990 ), journalist and activist who helped set up the London Lesbian and Gay Centre in 1985

In 2001 an online Iranian LGBT rights organization was founded by a well-known Iranian gay activist, Arsham Parsi called " Rainbow ", followed by a clandestine organization called the Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization.

She became a gay activist, co-founding the Mattachine Society and the Lesbian Writers ' Conference in Chicago in 1974.

The origin of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender student movement can be linked to other progressive and activist movements from the mid-20th century.

In 1972, she left the male-dominated GAA and founded Lesbian Feminist Liberation, one of the first lesbian activist groups in the women's movement.

Brian Kennedy ( died 29 December 1990 ) was an English journalist and LGBT rights activist who helped set up the London Lesbian and Gay Centre in 1985.

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

Lesbian as a concept, used to differentiate women with a shared sexual orientation, is a 20th-century construct.

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 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.

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

The arena was used on May 8, 2009 for the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association's convention tradeshow.

Responding to the sentence, Sören Andersson, the president of Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights ( RFSL ), said that religious freedom could never be used as a reason to persecute people.

This category is for vocabulary terms used by LGBT ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender ) people ; as well as those used by larger society to describe LGBT-related ideas, people, and things.

Then she changed into a white dress for a final speech in which she " begged humanity, ' already used to earthquakes and murderers ,' to try to put up with a minor calamity like the play's and the book's Lesbian protagonist, Stephen Gordon ".

Unfortunately the venue used, the London Lesbian and Gay Centre, had just decided to ban bisexuals ( and some other groups ) from their premises.

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, Bisexual and Transgender-an umbrella term for women of non-heterosexual sexuality.

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.

* 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.

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

Rich suggests that Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie's book Parker and Hulme: A Lesbian View may have been an unacknowledged source of inspiration for Heavenly Creatures, which according to her created a distorted image of the Parker – Hulme murder case.

The adjectives deriving from her name and place of birth ( Sapphic and Lesbian ) came to be applied to female homosexuality beginning in the 19th century.

Some of her more well known characters include Mrs. Enid, Babe Bennett, Joe Crow, and one of her personal favorites, ' Love Murphy ', who played a love interest with her female character in the short film Outport Lesbian.

In 1994 charity Save the Children dropped her services as compere of its 75th-anniversary celebrations after she came out, but following a direct action protest by the Lesbian Avengers, the charity apologised.

In 1998, she had a library named after her at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.

She won the Best Album Award from the Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards for her self-titled 1997 album.

In her regular paid advertisement in the South Sydney Herald, in 2010 Pliberek wrote that ' The passing of these reforms to federal legislation was one of the proudest moments of my time in the Australian Parliament ' and has marched in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade in 2008 .< ref >

The American writer Patricia Nell Warren, known as " the mother of Frontrunners " — the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender running / walking clubs — locates parts of her 1974 best-selling novel The Front Runner, as well as of Harlan's Race, a 1994 sequel, on Fire Island.

Following her success in Maestro, Perkins guest-conducted the London Lesbian / Gay Symphony Orchestra on 11 October 2009, at St Anne's Church Garden in Soho.

* In the episode " The One with the Lesbian Wedding " of the TV series Friends, Phoebe mentions Soupy Sales while supposedly being inhabited by the spirit of her dead massage client.

She moved from Arkansas perhaps because her mother had died in 1917, and by 1920 she was living in Manhattan with her life-partner Elisabeth Irwin ( 1880 – 1942 ), the founder of the Little Red School House, with whom she raised several adopted children ( source: < em > Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America </ em >, Lillian Faderman, 1991 ).

Pantsdown performed a remixed version of " I Don't Like It " at the 2011 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Party during Bob Downe's ' Retro-Gras ' DJ set just days before Hanson announced her candidacy in the 2011 NSW state election.

The Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby specifically singled out Coote for praise, describing her as " very proactive on gay issues ".

Quoting Jackie on her early lesbian experiences, she said ' I didn't see myself as being a Lesbian, or her, because I didn't look as I imagined they did, and nor did she.

From 1992 till her death in 1998 she was an active member of the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre management Committee.

Eddy was murdered on September 29, 2004, a group of at least three men broke into the office of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association in central Freetown, gang-raped her, stabbed her, and eventually broke her neck.