There is no one organization that represents all LGBT people and their interests, although there are two organizations that are inclusive of many of the LGBT community issues: InterPride by coordinating and networking gay pride events worldwide, and International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ( IGLHRC ), which addresses human rights violations against LGBT and HIV-positive people and works with the United Nations.

From the anarchistic Gay Liberation Movement of the early 1970s arose a more reformist and single-issue " Gay Rights Movement ", which portrayed gays and lesbians as a minority group and used the language of civil rights — in many respects continuing the work of the homophile period.

As with Gay Liberation, this understanding of the lesbian potential in all women was at odds with the minority-rights framework of the Gay Rights movement.

* Gay Rights: Who are the Real Enemies of Liberation ?, Socialist Review

* The lambda was selected as a symbol by the Gay Activists Alliance of New York in 1970, and declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1974.

* 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.

Haldeman writes in " Gay Rights, Patient Rights: The Implications of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy " that aversive treatments sometimes involved the application of electric shock to the hands and / or genitals, or nausea-inducing drugs, administered simultaneously with the presentation of homoerotic stimuli, while less cruel methods included masturbatory reconditioning, visualization, and social skills training.

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.

Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States: A Documentary History, Greenwood Press.

* A Look Back at the Uprising that Launched the Modern Gay Rights Movement-Video report by Democracy Now!

* 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.

* Poling, John D. Mattachine Midwest: The History of a Chicago Gay Rights Organization, 1965 to 1986 ( thesis, M. S., Illinois State University, 2002 ).

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 ).

The day was founded in 1988, by Dr. Robert Eichberg, his partner William Gamble, and Jean O ' Leary to celebrate the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights one year earlier, in which 500, 000 people marched on Washington, DC, United States, for gay and lesbian equality.

" Back in December of 1974, the lambda was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.

These were Lily Tomlin, a gay actress and comedian ; Peter Tatchell, a world-renowned gay rights campaigner ; Don Baxter, Executive Director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations at that time ; Bev Lange, Chief Executive Officer of the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation at the time, a former President of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and a former co-chair of the Sydney Gay Games ; Lex Watson and Sue Wills, Campaign Against Moral Prosecution's ( CAMP ) first Co-Presidents ; and Hannah Williams and Savannah Supski, who had recently protested against the ban against same-sex couples at Hannah's Melbourne school formal.

Groups with a " Gay Lib " approach began to spring up around the world, such as Campaign Against Moral Persecution ( CAMP, Inc .) in Australia and the British Gay Liberation Front.

Legal defenses like the Gay Panic Defense allow for more lenient punishments for people accused of beating, torturing, or killing homosexuals because of their orientation.

* Gay Panic Defense Ruling – Ruling in the Matthew Shepard Case

Leading the Parade: Conversations with America's Most Influential Lesbians and Gay Men, Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 0-8108-5913-0

Montreal's Gay Village ( Le Village, in French ) is considered one of North America's largest in population, concentration and scope.

This access was then used to embed an Iframe redirect to the Gay Nigger Association of America's shock site " Last Measure " into every page on the site.

According to Barney Frank's book The Story of America's Only Left-handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman by Stuart E. Weisberg, In the election of 1970, against Kevin White, White was the first mayor to declare the city had a race problem and that people did not want him to become governor and keep him as mayor.

This book is largely considered a fair cross-generational tableau of Gay America's age-discriminated big city bar scene in its heyday — following the Christopher Street Rebellion, but immediately prior to the devastating first appearance of AIDS in the Gay community.

* Ken Yeager, Trailblazers, Profiles of America's Gay and Lesbian Elected Officials ( New York, 1999 ), Chapter 3

Mount Gay is also one of the key ingredients in Stirling Punch, a drink named for famous yachtsman, America's Cup winner and Vanderbilt Sailing Club founder Harold Stirling Vanderbilt.

Select programs on WERE during this period ranged from America's Workforce ( labor issues in the Cleveland area ), to The Gay 90's ( homosexual and diversity issues ) to Talking Books ( interviews with literary figures ), to Those Antique Guys ( appraisals and commentary on antiques ).

* United Nations press release, 4 February 2011: Following Protracted Debate, Roll-Call Vote on ‘ No Action ’ Motion, Committee Defers Consideration of International Lesbian and Gay Association

* Laurie Guy: Worlds in Collision: The Gay Law Reform Debate in New Zealand: 1960-1985 Wellington: Victoria University Press: ( 2002 ) ISBN 0-86473-438-7

Student activity council, CAYRE, Music Council, Character Matters, DECA, Debate Team, Drama Club, Earth Charter, Gay / Straight Alliance, The Student Newspaper and Stage Crew.

Among other extracurriculars, Bay offers ASB, Jazz Band, Orchestra, Band, Choir, Engineering and Science Team, Science Decathlon, DECA, Knowledge Bowl, Drama Club, Key Club, Flight Crew, International Club, Mock Trial, Debate Team, S. T. O. P., Career Choices Interns, FFA, Skills USA, Gay Straight Alliance, Tokyohop Japanese Animation, Future Business Leaders of America, and National Honors Society.

* E. S. Dallas ( 1866 ), The Gay Science, 2 volumes, on the aesthetics of poetry.

" And that " Gay adults clearly have a different way of interpreting the Bible on a number of central theological matters, such as perspectives about God.

Whip It starred Ellen Page and Marcia Gay Harden and centered on an obsession with beauty pageants and the Austin, Texas, Hurl Scouts roller derby team.

* 1971 – Brian Gay, professional golfer ; three-time winner on the PGA Tour

The two line poetic form as a closed couplet was also used by William Blake in his poem Auguries of Innocence and also by Byron ( Don Juan ( Byron ) XIII ); John Gay ( Fables ); Alexander Pope ( An Essay on Man ).

Los Angeles held a big parade on the first Gay Pride Day.

Gay and lesbian rights advocates argued that one ’ s sexual orientation does not reflect on one ’ s gender ; that is, “ you can be a man and desire a man ... without any implications for your gender identity as a man ,” and the same is true if you are a woman.

In the 1990s, organizations began to spring up in non-western countries, such as Progay Philippines, which was founded in 1993 and organized the first Gay Pride march in Asia on June 26, 1994.

* Gay Hitler, a character on Saturday Night Live

* Balka, Chistie and Rose Andy Twice Blessed: on Being Lesbian or Gay and Jewish Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

See the work of Lance Mayer and Gay Myers for more information on Curry and Maroger.

* The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands, founded in June 2004 on the uninhabited Coral Sea Islands off the coast of Queensland, in response to the Australian government's refusal to recognize same-sex marriage.

U. S. forces then recaptured Guam beginning July 21 and invaded Tinian ( see Battle of Tinian ) on July 24, which provided the take off point for the Enola Gay, the plane dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima a year later.

* Gay Paganism: 26 articles on the Witchvox website

Beginning in 1999, Joe Mantegna played Spenser in three TV movies on the A & E cable network: Small Vices ( 1999 ), Thin Air ( 2000 ), Walking Shadow ( 2001 ), with Marcia Gay Harden as Susan and Shiek Mahmud-Bey and later Ernie Hudson as Hawk.

Comedian and television presenter Bob Saget, a board member of the SRF, directed the 1996 ABC TV movie For Hope, starring Dana Delany, which depicts a young woman fatally affected by scleroderma ; the film was based on the experiences of Saget's sister Gay.

Christopher Street Liberation Day on June 28, 1970 marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots with an assembly on Christopher Street and the first Gay Pride march in U. S. history, covering the 51 blocks to Central Park.