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.

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.

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.

Among early supporters and members of the first coordinating committee were Kevin Jennings of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network ( GLSEN ); Kevin Boyer of Gerber / Hart Gay and Lesbian Library and Archives in Chicago ; Paul Varnell, writer for the Windy City Times ; Torey Wilson, Chicago area teacher ; Johnda Boyce, women's studies major at Columbus State University and Jessea Greenman of UC-Berkeley.

The Roman poet Horace modelled his own lyrical compositions on those of Alcaeus, rendering the Lesbian poet's verse-forms, including ' Alcaic ' and ' Sapphic ' stanzas, into concise Latin-an achievement he celebrates in his third book of odes.

* Sappho's countryman and contemporary, the lyric poet Alcaeus, paraphrased a section of Works and Days ( 582 – 88 ), recasting it in lyric meter and Lesbian dialect.

Lesbian poet Jewelle Gomez refers to her intertwined history with black men and heterosexual women in her essay Out of the Past, and explains that " to break away from those who've been part of our survival is a leap that many women of color could never make.

Meaker wrote: Spring Fire, 1952 Gold Medal Books ; We Walk Alone, 1955 Gold Medal Books ; We Too Must Love, 1958 Gold Medal Books ; Carol in a Thousand Cities, 1960 Gold Medal Books ; We Two Won't Last, 1963 Gold Medal Books ; Take a Lesbian to Lunch, 1972

* Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, a 1991 film directed by Richard Kwietniowski, screened at the 1993 Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

This era saw a resurgence of militancy with direct action groups like AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT UP ) ( formed in 1987 ), and its offshoots Queer Nation ( 1990 ) and the Lesbian Avengers ( 1992 ).

Salomé was screened in 1989 at the New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay films and in 1990 at the New York Gay Experimental Film Festival.

In 1990, the gay newspaper OutWeek covered the Lesbian Ladies Society, a Washington, D. C .– based social group of " feminine lesbians " that required women to wear a dress or skirt to its functions.

Founded as the Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teachers Network ( GLSTN ) in 1990, the organization began as a local volunteer group of 70 gay and lesbian educators.

On March 20, 1990, sixty LGBT people gathered at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center in New York's Greenwich Village to create a direct action organization.

Another book, the Lesbian S / M Safety Manual won the 1990 Bookseller / Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year.

" Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community ", Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay & Lesbian Past ( 1990 ), Duberman, etc., eds.

" Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World and Susie Bright's Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex World Reader ", San Francisco, CA: Cleis Press, 1990 and 1992.

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

* Fetterley, Judith ( 1986 ) " My Ántonia, Jim Burden, and the Dilemma of the Lesbian Writer " In Spector, Judith ( editor ) ( 1986 ) Gender Studies: New Directions in Feminist Criticism Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio, pages 43 – 59, ISBN 0-87972-351-3 ; and In Jay, Karla and Glasgow, Joanne ( editors ) ( 1990 ) Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions New York University Press, New York, pages 145-163, ISBN 0-8147-4175-4

The first GLAAD Media Awards were presented by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in 1990 to honor the 1989 season, and were envisioned as a way to recognize various branches of the media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.

During the 1990 election, he responded to a questionnaire from the Lesbian and Gay Association of Kingston by writing " I personally could not advocate the gay / lesbian lifestyle as an alternative to accepted norms ".

* Lesbian and Gay Writing: An Anthology of Critical Essays edited by Mark Lilly, Macmillan, 1990

In 2001, the DVD edition of the documentary includes a crew audio commentary, a second audio commentary with the late Russo, an interview Russo gave in 1990, a link to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation website, and some deleted interviews put together into a second documentary titled Rescued from the Closet.

* 1990 Audience Award Best Documentary, San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

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.

* The Humanitarian Award in 1990 from the Association of Lesbian and Gay Psychologists ;

Many festivals are held in Sydney, including the Sydney Festival, a celebration of free performances throughout January ; the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ( see below ); the Sydney Royal Easter Show, which unites rural and urban communities together in 1 annual event at Homebush ; the Sydney Film Festival and many smaller festivals such as Tropfest.

Clinton works extensively with social justice and nonprofit organizations, and has been a regular MC at major fundraising events and dinners for groups like the NYC LGBT Center ( at its Annual Garden Party ); the National Center for Lesbian Rights ; the ACLU ; Out & Equal, among others.

The initial caucuses were the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Friends ( LGBT caucus ); the part-timers and friends caucus ; the non-native and friends speaker caucus ; and the African American and friends caucus.

* St. James Press Gay & Lesbian Almanac ; Neil Schlager ( Editor ); Publisher: Thomson Gale ; 1998.

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

* Peter Altenberg ( 1859-1919 ), Austrian writer and poet

* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )

* 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer

* 1891 – David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and writer ( d. 1956 )

Notwithstanding the distinction he enjoyed as a tragic poet, he appears to have had greater merit as a writer of epic poems, elegies, epigrams, and cynaedi.

* Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Polish writer and poet

* 1884 – J. C. Squire, British poet, writer, and historian ( d. 1958 )

* 1915 – Joy Davidman, American poet and writer, wife of C. S. Lewis ( d. 1960 )

* 1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and writer ( d. 1955 )

* 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress ( b. 1892 )

* 1953 – Mark Doty, American poet and writer

* 1982 – Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian writer and poet ( b. 1962 )

* 2012 – Suresh Dalal, Indian poet and writer ( b. 1932 )

His circle included the musicians Alexander von Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker, the painter Gustav Klimt, the writer and satirist Karl Kraus, the architect Adolf Loos, and the poet Peter Altenberg.

* 1884 – Béla Balázs, Hungarian critic, writer, and poet ( d. 1949 )

* 1958 – Allison Hedge Coke, American poet and writer

Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.

The Chicano poet and writer Tino Villanueva traces the first documented use of the term to 1911, as referenced in a then-unpublished essay by University of Texas anthropologist José Limón.

For example, in one case, a prominent Chicana feminist writer and poet has indicated the following subjective meaning through her creative work.

As a poet, she was well known and highly regarded in her own day ; she completed 41 works during her 30 year career ( 1399 – 1429 ), and can be regarded as Europe ’ s first professional woman writer.

* 1567 – Christoph Demantius, German composer, music theorist, writer and poet ( d. 1643 )