Leaders of the lesbian and gay movement of the 1970s, 80s and 90s often attempted to hide masculine lesbians, feminine gay men, transgendered people, and bisexuals from the public eye, creating internal divisions within LGBT communities.

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.

The majority of media about lesbians is produced by men ; women's publishing companies did not develop until the 1970s, films about lesbians made by women did not appear until the 1980s, and television shows portraying lesbians written by women only began to be created in the 21st century.

The growth of lesbian feminism in the 1970s at times so conflicted with the gay liberation movement that some lesbians refused to work with gay men.

After the initial euphoria of the Stonewall riots wore off, starting in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, there was a change in perception ; some gays and lesbians became less accepting of bisexual or transgender people.

In the 1970s, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon reflected that by contemporary standards, the early ideals of the DOB for integration and adjustment of the lesbian into society were outmoded, but they remembered that in the 1950s and early 1960s many gay men and lesbians considered those ideals unreachable, and this approach radical.

Equating the three self-fashioning identity labels " gay ," " homosexual ," and " homomasculine ," Fritscher also coined " homofemininity " for lesbians to whom he opened Drummer magazine in the late 1970s by publishing writing about the Society of Janus and writing from Samois, a group founded by gay activists Patrick Califia and Gayle Rubin.

Rich developed her theory in the Village Voice newspaper, describing films that were radical in form, and aggressive in their presentation of sexual identities which challenged both the status quo of heterosexual definition, and resisted promoting " positive " images of lesbians and gay men that had been advocated by the gay liberation movement of the 1970s and 1980s.

Over the course of the novel, Gris finds himself in possession of twelve tons of pure gold, which he tries to launder through a Swiss bank account in order to keep it all for himself ; he becomes a prisoner of two man-hating lesbians ( who end up marrying Gris after he rapes them and thereby " cures " them of their lesbianism, but not before various ingenious tortures, one of which involve a cheese grater and chili powder ); he repeatedly finds himself losing large amounts of money, becoming broke, and having to concoct wild schemes to save himself from his creditors ; he has an affair with a young nymphomaniac teenage girl whom he cannot escape ; he hires a hit man to kill Heller's fiancé, only to stumble through the affair and end up being a target for the hit man himself ; he embarks on a long cruise through the Mediterranean ( mirroring Hubbard's own voyages through the area in the 1970s ); and finally, Gris becomes the target after Heller realizes that he is behind the operation to disrupt his mission.

Festival gatherings offered an alternative to urban bars, coffeehouses and protest marches, which were some of the few opportunities for lesbians to meet one another in the early 1970s.

Lesbian feminism is a cultural movement and critical perspective, most influential in the 1970s and early 1980s ( primarily in North America and Western Europe ), that questions the position of lesbians and women in society.

During the 1970s gays and lesbians began to establish residences, businesses, and organizations in Hillcrest.

In the 1970s, lesbians and feminists created a network of publications, presses, magazines, and periodicals designated " for women only " and " for lesbians only ", a common sight in the 1970s through the 1990s, ( see List of lesbian periodicals ) including the London lesbian magazine Gossip: a journal of lesbian feminist ethics, Lesbian Feminist Circle, a lesbian only journal collectively produced in Wellington, New Zealand, the Australian periodical Sage: the separatist age Canada's Amazones d ' Hier, Lesbiennes d ' Aujourd ' hui, produced for lesbians only in Montreal, Quebec, and the Killer Dyke a magazine by the " Flippies " ( Feminist Lesbian Intergalactic Party ), based in Chicago.

Separatist feminism provided lesbians opportunities to " live their lives apart from ... mainstream society ," and, in the 1970s, " significant numbers of lesbian feminists moved to rural communities.

The Gay liberation movement of the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s urged lesbians and gay men to " come out ", publicly revealing their sexuality to family, friends and colleagues as a form of activism, and to counter shame with gay pride.

Its initial audiences were club-goers from the African American, Latino, gay, and psychedelic communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The gay and lesbian rights movement in the 1970s and 1980s raised the issue by publicizing several noteworthy dismissals of gay servicemembers.

With knowledge of his sexuality becoming more common beginning in the 1970s, some film historians and gay studies scholars have detected homosexual themes in Whale's work, particularly in Bride of Frankenstein in which a number of the creative people associated with the cast, including Ernest Thesiger and Colin Clive, were alleged to be gay or bisexual.

In response to the gay rights movements of the 1970s and 1980s, the Department of Defense issued a 1982 policy ( DOD Directive 1332. 14 ) stating that homosexuality was clearly incompatible with military service.

Like many other male genital piercings, it has a history of practice in gay culture in the twentieth century and became known outside that culture at the same time that body piercing began to emerge in popular culture in the late 1970s.

O ' Leary also worked in the early 1970s to exclude trans people from gay rights issues because she felt that rights for trans people would be too difficult to attain.

Sylvia Rivera left gay activism in the 1970s to work on issues for transgender people and cross-dressers.

Throughout the 1970s gay activism had significant successes.

Like the divide that occurred within the black civil rights movement, the late 1960s and the 1970s brought a new generation of activists, many of whom felt that the gay rights movement needed to endorse a larger and more radical agenda to address other forms of oppression, the Vietnam War, and the sexual revolution.

Such " anti-homosexual " laws were widespread throughout the western world until the 1960s and 1970s, so many gay men did not feel safe to come forward with their stories until the 1970s when many so-called " sodomy laws " were repealed.

Michael Jackman, writer for Detroit's " Metro Times ," did an interview with Meatmen singer Tesco Vee, who said that the song's origins dated to the late 1970s and early 1980s in Detroit, when hardcore punk bands, unable to get booked in bars and in a city lacking all-ages clubs, would do " punk nights " at gay men's bars, creating what Vee called a " worlds collide " sort of thing.

Boomers often are associated with the civil rights movement, the feminist cause in the 1970s, gay rights, handicapped rights, and the right to privacy.

The popularity of the Julian and Sandy characters played by Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick ensured that this secret language became public property, and the gay liberationists of the 1970s viewed it as rather degrading, divisive and politically incorrect as it was often used to gossip about, or criticise, others, as well as to discuss sexual exploits.

Beginning in the 1970s, conservative Christian protests against sexual immorality began to surface, largely as a reaction to the " permissive sixties " and an emerging prominence of sexual liberties arising from Roe v Wade and the gay rights movement.

Today's manifestations of " gay ghettos " bear little resemblance to those of the 1970s.

The professors also noted that the presence of gay men in the real estate industry of San Francisco was a major factor facilitating the urban renaissance of the city in the 1970s.

The first widely used term, homosexual, was thought to carry negative connotations and tended to be replaced by homophile in the 1950s and 1960s, and subsequently gay in the 1970s.

By the end of the 1970s, the pink triangle was adopted as a symbol for gay rights protest.

These include Quanterness chambered cairn ( 3250 BC ) in which the remains of 157 individuals were found when excavated in the 1970s, Cuween Hill near Finstown which was found to contain the bones of men, dogs and oxen and Wideford Hill cairn, which dates from 2000 BC.

By the late 1970s, RCA decided to remove Atkins from his producing duties and replace him with younger men.

Lesbian feminism, which was most influential from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, encouraged women to direct their energies toward other women rather than men, and advocated lesbianism as the logical result of feminism.

The belief that the sexual revolution was a victory of men over women would eventually lead to the women's anti-pornography movement of the late 1970s.

In the 1970s the People's Navy had grown to about 18, 000 men.

The modern academic sense of the word, in the context of social roles of men and women, dates from the work of John Money ( 1955 ), and was popularized and developed by the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards ( see below ).

In both the 1960s and 1970s many men and women wore their hair very long and straight.

By the 1970s the pay, which had been 2. 5: 1 ratio between men and women, increased.

At the height of his fame in the 1970s and 1980s, he was often described as one of the world's most attractive men and remains one of the most popular movie stars.

Regular subplots since the 1980s included: Howard and Marina trying to have an affair without Howard's wife finding out ( a variation of the Wainwright-Partridge subplot of the 1970s ), the older women meeting for tea and discussing their theories about men and life, Auntie Wainwright trying to sell unwanted merchandise to unsuspecting customers, Smiler trying to find a woman, Barry trying to better himself ( at the insistence of Glenda ), and Tom trying to stay one step ahead of the repo man.

In the late 1970s ( i. e. 1978 ) and early 1980s, doctors in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco began seeing young men with Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer usually associated with elderly men of Mediterranean ethnicity.

The hanky code was widely used in the 1970s by gay and bisexual men, and grew from there to include all genders and orientations.

The Radical Faerie movement started in the United States among gay men during the 1970s sexual and counterculture revolution.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, several towns had enacted rules prohibiting local brothel prostitutes from frequenting local bars or casinos or associating with local men outside of work.

While conventional neoclassical economic theories of the 1960s and 1970s explained these as the result of free choices made by women and men who simply had different abilities or preferences, feminist economists pointed out the important roles played by stereotyping, sexism, patriarchal beliefs and institutions, sexual harassment, and discrimination.

The Morris dance revival of the 1970s led to the creation of many new sides, which nowadays usually involve both men and women.

By the early 1970s, Jones began deriding traditional Christianity as " fly away religion ," rejecting the Bible as being white men ’ s justification to subordinate women and subjugate people of color and stating that it spoke of a " Sky God " who was no God at all.