* Imaan supports LGBT Muslim people, their families and friends ( UK )

* Imaan, UK Muslim LGBT support organisation

Some Muslim majority countries have held public gay events, as in Turkey or Azerbaijan.

* Gay Travels in the Muslim World, an anthology of travel essays by gay Muslim and non-Muslim men ; Luongo, Michael ( ed.

Turkey is the first Muslim majority country in which gay pride march is held.

It has also been praised for its treatment and integration of characters from ethnic minorities, notable examples of which include the inimitable Yasmin, who had been with the show for seven years at its final episode in December, and the more recent addition of a gay Muslim character, Sami Shafiq ( Hosh Kane ).

The opposition of MCB Chairman Sir Iqbal Sacranie to homosexuality and registration of civil partnerships led Tatchell to observe " Both the Muslim and gay communities suffer prejudice and discrimination.

Tatchell wrote in the Guardian that certain Muslim leaders, whom Tatchell describes as appearing " to be representative of the majority of British Muslim opinion ", of having " intolerance " to gay people.

Following the vote by the Knesset, the Israeli legislature, in 2007 in favour of bills to ban lesbian and gay pride parades in Jerusalem, the Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism criticised Tatchell saying " Peter Tatchell and others who have distinguished themselves by the speed of their quite proper defence of lesbian and gay rights when these have been attacked by Black, Arab, Muslim forces or regimes have still refused to condemn with equal force the official attacks on lesbian and gay rights by the highest institutions of the State of Israel.

Within the framework of justice and equality for all, Muslim liberals include gay rights as a human right.

In February 2006 at the University of Toronto, Tagar organized a " Know Radical Islam Week " featuring activist Nonie Darwish, former Sudanese slave Simon Deng, Dr. Salim Mansur ( a Muslim activist speaking on gay rights in the Middle East ) and presentations by Honest Reporting and Palestinian Media Watch.

Respect has been accused of abandoning some traditional liberal-social issues, including women's rights, abortion, gay rights and fighting homophobia in order to attract Muslim support.

He is a Labour life peer and is one of a few openly gay Muslim politicians in the world.

In a press release dated 26th January 2001 the Muslim Council of Britain listed two points of contention that prevented them from attending the event, which were that it " totally excludes and ignores the ongoing genocide and violation of Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere " and that " It includes the controversial question of alleged Armenian genocide as well as the so-called gay genocide.

Faisal Alam, founder of the lesbian and gay Muslim group Al-Fatiha Foundation, published an opinion piece claiming that:

* Stonewall ( charity ), a gay rights organisation formed in 1989

Liverpool, England is home to a large LGBT population ( equivalent to the size of San Francisco's ), and as well as having an officially recognised gay quarter, the city hosts the annual Homotopia ( festival ), the only lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans combined arts organisation in the North of England.

ILGA was the first lesbian and gay rights organisation to gain " consultative status " as a non-governmental organisation at the United Nations.

The Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service in Newtown provides free telephone counselling for gays and lesbians living in NSW, as well as Twenty 10, a support organisation for young gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, same-sex attracted and gender-questioning people who are under 26 and having problems at home or have recently become homeless.

The LBL ( Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske, a national organisation for gay men and lesbians ) was established in 1948, and in 1989 Denmark became the first country in the world to offer gay partners most of the same legal rights as heterosexual couples, in the form of " registered partnership.

The organisation regarded itself as having learned important lessons from the women's movement, gay liberation struggles and environmental movements and is oriented towards broad campaigns and recomposition of the left.

Although Stonewall is a lobbying organisation rather than membership organisation, it has diversified into policy development for the rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people after Labour came to power in 1997.

* 28 – In the United Kingdom, The Queer Youth Alliance is founded, the first such " youth-led " gay rights organisation.

JOY becomes the largest gay and lesbian community member-based organisation in Australia.

The third points towards the headquarters of COC Nederland, the Dutch gay rights group founded in 1946, making it the oldest continuously operating gay and lesbian organisation in the world.

* Jerusalem Open House, an Israeli gay rights organisation

Chaired by former TD Anne Colley, this working group included GLEN, the gay rights lobby organisation, who said they expected a recommendation for civil marriage.

Ben Jeffrey Peter Summerskill OBE ( born 6 October 1961, Kent ) is a British businessman and journalist, who is the Chief Executive of the UK-based lesbian, gay and bisexual equality organisation Stonewall, now the largest gay equality body in Europe.

In the early 1970s, he was an Honorary Vice President of the lesbian and gay rights organisation, the Scottish Minorities Group ( now known as Outright Scotland ).

The group was a self-help organisation working for the rights of homosexual men and women, and had the aims of providing counselling, working for law reform and providing meeting places for lesbians and gay men.

It is a membership organisation which aims to promote legal and social equality for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals in England and Wales.

Some people questioned the appropriateness of this appointment since Grey was a gay man who was living with another man ; there was concern that he might be subject to the same type of police attention that the organisation was campaigning against.

The Albany Trust developed into a pioneering counselling organisation for gay men, lesbians and sexual minorities.

It was initially popularized circa 1984 in discothèques catering to gay and mixed, primarily African-American and Latino audiences in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, fanned out to other major cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, Boston, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris.

Bergler initially blamed those who mistreated gay people, because it provided a rationale for the masochistic view of the world ; but, from the 1950s, and following the emergence of gay rights organisations, he began to blame homosexuals for their own oppression.

It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit.

Ambach was initially charged with murder, but the charge was downgraded to manslaughter after Ambach's lawyer successfully invoked the gay panic defense.

It soon gained a cult following of movie-goers who would repeatedly come to the Elgin Theatre to watch it, a group Barenholtz would characterize as initially composing primarily of " downtown gay people, more of the hipper set ," but, after a while Barenholtz noted that this group eventually broadened, with the film also becoming popular with " working-class kids from New Jersey who would become a little rowdy ".

While the memoir was initially unsuccessful, it was rediscovered in the late 1960s and widely read in the underground gay community.

The PCF initially supported the general strike but opposed the revolutionary student movement, which was dominated by Trotskyists, Maoists and anarchists, and the so-called " new social movements " ( including environmentalists, gay movements, prisoners ' movement ).

Disney executives were initially confused by Depp's performance, asking him whether the character was drunk or gay.

May's appointment to the role was initially criticised by some members of the LGBT / gay rights movement, as she had voted against lowering the age of consent ( in 1998 ) and against greater adoption rights for homosexuals ( in 2002 ), voting in favour of civil partnerships.

The story was initially published only in local and gay press ; then the New Times broke the story in the mainstream press.

Previous to PrideVision being sold, Pink Triangle Press became partners with television producer Les Tomlin, forming Bumper 2 Bumper Media Inc. which produces Bump !, the world's first gay travel show, initially airing on PrideVision and now in production on a fifth season.

It opened initially as a private membership gay nightclub ( returning the idea of a club to " nightclub "), and set the standard for disco presentation, lighting, sound system, hydraulics and technical support.

Mailman had initially approached Zeiss regarding the purchase of a star-projection system, but the company refused to sell one, believing its use in a gay club would be an inappropriate use for their system.

However, though initially sought for the role of a gay barrister in Victim, he turned it down fearing that it might conflict with his masculine image.

In 1924 he founded the Fortune Press in London, initially as a small press specialising in gay erotica.

Rose is disenchanted with her down-to-earth boyfriend and is smitten with Bob but she does not initially realise he is gay.

Martin had been sitting in the lecture hall when Tanja confronted his father and becomes intrigued enough to visit the area, and begins a friendship with a black boy, Shawn, who turns out to be a gay prostitute, and who initially thinks Shawn has come to the area to pick up men.

After the Second World War, campaigns for gay rights began to develop, initially in the UK, Europe and North America.

After initially auditioning for the role of Craig Manning ( a role played by Jake Epstein ), he joined the Degrassi cast in 2002 in the role of Marco Del Rossi, a gay teenager who struggles with coming to terms with his sexuality.

Eyal is initially disgusted and disappointed to discover that Axel is gay.

The biker style has influenced the look of other sub-cultures such as punk, heavy metal, gay leather subculture and cybergoth fashion, and, initially as an American subculture, has had an international influence.

The strip initially featured four main cartoon characters whose outlook on life was stereotypical: Stan the gay man, Vera the bull-dyke, Winston the nerd, and Victor the moron.

The episode encourages tolerance of homosexuality, with protagonist Stan initially displaying anger and dismay upon learning that his dog is gay, but eventually learning to accept homosexuality and concluding that we should accept others for who they are.