ed., The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage ( New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1995 )

Gender-free contra dancing started in the 1970s, with the Boston Lesbian and Gay Folk Dance as perhaps the first group regularly contra dancing without gender roles.

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.

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

" 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.

* Verzaubert International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Germany: Best film nomination ( 1999 )

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.

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.

Many women of the Gay Liberation movement felt frustrated at the domination of the movement by men and formed separate organisations ; some who felt gender differences between men and women could not be resolved developed " lesbian separatism ", influenced by writings such as Jill Johnston's 1973 book Lesbian Nation.

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.

Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing.

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 ").

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

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.

The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement, G. K. Hall & Co. ISBN 0-8057-9714-9

Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-7425-1971-6

Gay & Lesbian Almanac.

Gay and Lesbian Asia: Culture, Identity, Community, Harrington Park Press.

Living Out Loud: A History of Gay and Lesbian Activism in Australia, Allen & Unwin.

* ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay History of the World, Vol.

* 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.

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 Rights and Moral Panic: The Origins of America's Debate on Homosexuality, Palgrave MacMillan.

* 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.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1996 – Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.

* 1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.

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

* August 6 – WWII: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima: A United States B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay, drops an atomic bomb, codenamed " Little Boy ", on Hiroshima, Japan, at 8: 15 a. m. ( local time ).

* May 20 – Gay rights – Romer v. Evans: The Supreme Court of the United States rules against a law that prevents any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of homosexuals.

From 2001 to 2004, two full series were produced, along with three one-off hour-long specials ; Gay ( retitled and issued as Absolutely Fabulous in New York for the United States ) in 2002, Cold Turkey, a Christmas special in 2003, and White Box ( which included the tying-up of loose-ends and past semi-regular characters appearing in cameos in what seemed an ironic finale for Saffy, Patsy, and Edina ), which aired in 2004.

Liverpool's official Pride was launced in 2010, but by 2011 it became the largest free Gay Pride festival in the United Kingdom outside London.

For example, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in the United States and Stonewall in the UK work with the media to help portray fair and accurate images of the gay community.

Bisbee is noted for its gay-friendliness, and its Gay Pride Days is considered one of the top 5 rural Gay Prides in the United States by the online site at gay. com.

Gay is a town in Meriwether County, Georgia, United States.

* 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

* Edward Gay Rohrbough, Republican United States Representative

According to Charles Kaiser ’ s The Gay Metropolis, there were already semi-public gay-themed gatherings by the mid-1930s in the United States ( such as the annual drag balls held during the Harlem Renaissance ).

The City College of San Francisco claims to be the " First Queer Studies Department in the U. S .," with English instructor Dan Allen having developed one of the first gay literature courses in the country in Fall 1972, and the college establishing what it calls " the first Gay and Lesbian Studies Department in the United States " in 1989.

On October 27, 1967, the " Baltimore Four " ( Berrigan, artist Tom Lewis ; and poet, teacher and writer David Eberhardt and United Church of Christ missionary and pastor, the Reverend James L. Mengel ) poured blood ( blood from several of the four, but additionally blood purchased from the Gay St. Market-according to the FBI-poultry blood-perhaps chicken or duck used by the Polish for soup ) on Selective Service records in the Baltimore Customs House.

In recent years the park has been used for large public events such as Madstock !, the Fleadh, Big Gay Out, Party in the Park and Rise: London United.

Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. ( February 23, 1915 – November 1, 2007 ) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare.

The Blade is the oldest LGBT newspaper in the United States and second largest by circulation, behind Gay City News of New York City.

Faisal Alam, founder of American Gay Muslim group Al-Fatiha, argued in the magazine Queer that Iran was condemned before the facts were certain, and in 2003 the United Nations Committee Against Torture noted that " from different and reliable sources that there currently is no active policy of prosecution of charges of homosexuality in Iran ".

He and Gay attended the First United Methodist Church in downtown Little Rock for a short time.