Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) people and their allies have a long history of campaigning for what is generally called LGBT rights, also called gay rights and gay and lesbian rights.

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.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) people are almost always welcomed in individual communities, covens, study groups, and circles.

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

* LGBT ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender )

On June 1, 2009, President Barack Obama declared June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, citing the riots as a reason to " commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans ".

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) people frequently face violence motivated by their sexuality or gender identity.

Changing first to Lesbian and Gay, today most are called Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender ( LGBT ) or simply " Pride ".

Bashir also took up the position of Patron of the Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service, which addresses mental and social issues in the LGBT community.

The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual community ( commonly abbreviated as the " LGBT " community ), mostly evident in North America, Southern Cone, Western Europe, Australasia and South Africa, fits the definition of a countercultural movement as " a cultural group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.

* Day of Silence, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network's ( GLSEN ) annual day of action to protest the bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) students and their supporters

" Lane, who came out publicly after the death of Matthew Shepard, has been a long-time board member of and fundraiser for Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, and has been honored by the Human Rights Campaign, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and The Trevor Project for his work in the LGBT community.

Sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table ( GLBTRT ) of the American Library Association ( ALA ), the Stonewall Book Award is for LGBT books.

Chorley FM identifies its second objective target audience as the local LGBT ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender ) community.

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 Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ) is a US non-governmental media monitoring organization which promotes the image of LGBT people in the media.

* Labour Campaign for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights ( LGBT Labour )

Though their primary focus and issue currently is the Constitutional Equality Amendment, they also deal with reproductive issues and abortion access as well as ending violence against women, combating racism, economic justice and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender rights ( LGBT ).

LGBT rights groups which condemned the comments by Santorum included the Pennsylvania Gender Rights Coalition, OutFront, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, and the Human Rights Campaign.

Center on Halsted is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender ( LGBT ) community center in Chicago, Illinois.

West, a biweekly LGBT newspaper, Qmunity ( formerly the Gay and Lesbian Centre ) which provides a variety of services for the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents, and the Vancouver Pride Society, which puts on the annual Pride Parade and Festival.

Chapman was a vocal spokesman for LGBT rights, and in 1972 he lent his support to the fledgling newspaper Gay News, which publicly acknowledged his financial and editorial support by listing him as one of its " special friends ".

The new social movements of the sixties, such as the Black Power and anti-Vietnam war movements in the U. S, the May 1968 insurrection in France, and Women's Liberation throughout the Western world, inspired some LGBT activists to become more radical, and the Gay Liberation Movement emerged towards the end of the decade.

The numbers produced by the Grupo Gay da Bahia ( GGB ) have occasionally been contested on the grounds that they include all murders of LGBT people reported in the media — that is, not only those motivated by bias against homosexuals.

Though the reality was that the Stonewall riots themselves, as well as the immediate and the ongoing political organizing that occurred following them, were events fully participated in by lesbian women, bisexual people and transgender people as well as by gay men of all races and backgrounds, historically these events were first named Gay, the word at that time being used in a more generic sense to cover the entire spectrum of what is now variously called the ' queer ' or LGBT community.

One of the most famous attempts by the LGBT community to re-claim the term " queer " was through an organisation called Queer Nation, which was formed in March 1990 ; a few months later, an influential though anonymous flier was distributed at the New York Gay Pride Parade in June 1990 entitled " Queers Read This ".

The Rainbow flag ( LGBT movement ) | Gay pride flag, the main symbol of the LGBT community The Bear ( gay culture ) | Bear community is a subculture within the LGBT community

LGBT communities organize a number of events to celebrate their culture, such as Pride parades, the Gay Games and Southern Decadence.

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Gay pride refers to a world wide movement and philosophy asserting that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) individuals should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity.

" Gay consumers can be very loyal to specific brands, wishing to support companies that support the gay community and also provide equal rights for LGBT workers.

In 2008, the University of Bradford's LGBT Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Society, Bradford MSGI, named its LGBT library collection the Robbie Ross Liberation Library.

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.

In late 2005, Westminster City Council decreed that the Admiral Duncan and all other LGBT ( Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender ) bars and businesses that operated in its jurisdiction, including those in Soho and Covent Garden, remove their pride flags claiming that such flags constituted advertising which was forbidden in its planning laws.

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Working with the renowned LGBT publisher Alyson Publications, Lambda 10 also compiled and released three anthologies of homosexual and bisexual students ' Greek experiences: Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity ( 1998 ), Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College Sorority ( 2001 ) and Brotherhood: Gay Life in College Fraternities ( 2005 ).

* Homosexual, Bisexual, and Transsexual ( see LGBT )

In 2005, after a period of progress marked by growing acceptance in both the larger LGBT & straight communities, the bisexual community suddenly came under a new attack promulgated by the publication of a study entitled “ Sexual Arousal Patterns of Bisexual Men ” by the controversial researcher J. Michael Bailey.

Working with other established LGBT institutions such as the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force GLAAD, the Bisexual Resource Center as well as newer ones such as Bialogue, BiNet USA moved to co-ordinate a national response to this threat to the well-being of the bisexual community.

Youth Pride, an extension of the Gay pride and LGBT social movements, promotes equality amongst young members ( usually above the age of consent ) of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Questioning ( LGBTIQ ) community.

She is also the chair of the Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup, and a member of the Intergroup for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender ( LGBT ) rights.

LGBT ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender ) event related articles are listed below.

An enormous Rainbow flag # LGBT ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender ) Pride ( 1978 ) | Gay Pride flag flies above and this prophetic quote recalls the Moscone-Milk assassinations and those LGBT people who coming out | came out of their closeted | closets as a result.