A commonly stated goal is social equality for LGBT people ; some have also focused on building LGBT communities, or worked towards liberation for the broader society from sexual oppression.

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.

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

Opponents to LGBT rights movements as well as activists within LGBT communities have used this type of outing as a controversial political campaign or tactic.

Fandom also welcomes and shares interest with other groups involved in new ideas and lifestyles, including LGBT communities, libertarians, neo-pagans, and space activist groups like the L5 Society, among many others.

* The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History-a series of pop-up museum events held at various sites across the United States focusing on the history and stories of local LGBT communities.

" In the same book, Bono reported that Cher, who was both a gay icon and ally to LGBT communities, was quite uncomfortable with the news at first, and " went ballistic " before coming to terms with it: " By August 1996, one year after I came out publicly, my mother had progressed so far that she agreed to ' come out ' herself on the cover of The Advocate as the proud mother of a lesbian daughter.

Concerned that the prevailing economic and political crisis in the country at the time presented threats to freedoms and liberties of all Filipinos, including sexual and gender minorities, LGBT individuals and groups, non-government organizations and members of various communities and sectors organized the LGBT Freedom March calling for systemic and structural change.

The very first Eastern European Pride, called The Internationale Pride, was assumed to be a promotion of the human right to freedom of assembly in Croatia and other Eastern European states, where such rights of the LGBT population are not respected, and a support for organising the very first Prides in that communities.

In the context of Western identity politics the term also acts as a label setting queer-identifying people apart from discourse, ideologies, and lifestyles that typify mainstream LGBT ( lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual ) communities as being oppressive or assimilationist.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, a number of internet communities started to use the term ' LGBTQ ,' the ' Q ' standing for ' queer ,' to represent forms of sexuality that fall outside of the original LGBT framework, in order to promote awareness and acceptance of these forms of sexuality.

Despite the fact that LGBT does not nominally encompass all individuals in smaller communities ( see Variants below ), the term is generally accepted to include those not identified in the four-letter acronym.

" SGL " (< span lang =" la-Latn " lang =" la-Latn "> i. e .</ span > " same gender loving ") is sometimes favored among black Americans as a way of distinguishing themselves from what they regard as white-dominated LGBT communities.

Observed annually on October 11, by members of the LGBT communities and their straight allies, National Coming Out Day is a civil awareness day for coming out and discussing LGBT issues among the general populace in an effort to give a familiar face to the LGBT rights movement.

Cherry Grove, along with nearby Fire Island Pines, is considered one of the most popular lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT )- accepting resort communities in the United States.

LGBT communities were increasingly seen not only as victims of a disease, but as victims of ostracism and hatred.

" Bear " is an LGBT slang term that refers to members of a subculture in the gay and bisexual male communities and to an emerging subset of LGBT communities with events, codes, and a culture-specific identity.

LGBT affirming Oneness Pentecostals ( Gay Apostolic Pentecostals ) first began to organize in 1980 in Schenectady, New York.

Since LGBT people began to organize for their social and legal rights, access to equal health care has remained an important but often not primary issue.

The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives was established in order to “ preserve, organize, and give public access to information and materials in any medium, by and about LGBT people, primarily produced in or concerning Canada .” As such, the Archives are not limited to traditional printed material, but instead contain many diverse collections.

Other forms of Wicca have also attracted queer people, for instance, the theologian Jone Salomonsen noted that there was an unusually high number of LGBT, and particularly bisexual individuals within the Reclaiming tradition of San Francisco when she was doing her fieldwork there in the 1980s and 1990s.

The decade saw further expansion of LGBT rights, with many European, Oceanic, and American countries recognizing civil unions and partnerships and a number of countries extending civil marriage to same-sex couples.

A gay village ( also known as a gay neighborhood, gay district ) is a geographical area with generally recognized boundaries, where a large number of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) people live or frequent.

While not always appearing of sufficient number or organization to be called a movement, separatists are a significant, vocal, and active element within many parts of the LGBT community.

Queen Beatrix has spoken out a number of times in support of LGBT rights.

On the lead-up to the picket, a number of MPs, lobby groups and LGBT groups appealed to the UK's Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, requesting these individuals be blocked from entering the UK, on the basis that WBC would be inciting hatred towards LGBT people.

Sneak previews took place at the Seattle International Film Festival and a number of LGBT film festivals across the United States before its official debut in September 1993 at Toronto's Festival of Festivals.

Tōkyō also has a great number of gay " circles " including LGBT sports teams, cultural groups, and religious groups.

The Williams Institute estimates the number of LGBT employees as follows: 7 million private sector employees, 1 million state and local employees, and 200, 000 employees of the federal government.

During her time as Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Coughlan became involved in a number of LGBT rights controversies.

Labour Students had also held the positions of NUS Scotland President and NUS LGBT Officer ( open-place ), however, the resignations of James Alexander and Scott Cuthbertson from Labour Students depleted their number of votes on the NUS NEC.

The neighborhood hosts a number of live music and art venues, including Everything Goes Book Café, Deep Tanks Studio, Coyle Cavern, Ink Chyx Tattoo & Art Gallery, 4 St. Paul's, and the LGBT Center, all of which take part in the north shore's monthly Second Saturday art walk.

Specialist gay publishing presses and a number of awards recognising LGBT achievements in the genre emerged, and by the twenty-first century blatant homophobia was no longer considered acceptable by most readers of speculative fiction.

In recent years the number of LGBT characters has increased greatly in mainstream superhero comics ; however, LGBT characters continue to be relegated to supporting roles, and generate criticism for the treatment gay characters receive.

The series has been cited as " trail-blazing " and breaking down barriers, allowing the production of subsequent programming such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which introduced a number of LGBT characters.

The series won a number of LGBT themed awards, and was regarded as groundbreaking in its portrayal of gay youth.

As the number of works featuring LGBT characters increased, so did the visibility of LGBT fans.

A number of awards exist that recognise works at the intersection of LGBT and speculative fiction:

Between television projects, she appeared in a number of films, including the Million Man March docudrama Get on the Bus ( 1996 ), the urban comedy Sprung ( 1997 ), the Frankie Lymon biography, Why Do Fools Fall in Love ( 1998 ), the ensemble comedy 30 Years to Life ( 2001 ), Cover ( playing a woman who is married to a bisexual man ), and as a lesbian in the LGBT comedy-drama, She Hate Me ( 2004 ).

The NW 39th Street Enclave is home to many of Oklahoma's most popular gay and lesbian bars and nightclubs, in addition to a number of retail stores and eateries catering to Oklahoma City's LGBT community.

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.

LGBT movements organized today are made up of a wide range of political activism and cultural activity, such as lobbying and street marches ; social groups, support groups and community events ; magazines, films and literature ; academic research and writing ; and even business activity.

In 2007, Loach was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter initiated by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism and the South West Asian, North African Bay Area Queers ( SWANABAQ ) and calling on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival " to honour calls for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not co-sponsoring events with the Israeli consulate.

Pride parades for the LGBT community ( also known as pride marches, gay pride parades, LGBT pride parades, pride events and pride festivals ) are events celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) culture.

Most pride events occur annually and many take place around June to commemorate the Stonewall riots, a pivotal moment in the modern LGBT rights movement.

Howard also originated the idea for a week-long series of events around Pride Day which became the genesis of the annual LGBT Pride celebrations that are now held around the world every June.

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.

About 2. 5 million people attended more than 300 events over a week in the Spanish capital to celebrate Spain as the country with the most developed LGBT rights in the world.

There is opposition to pride events both within LGBT and mainstream populations.

Category: LGBT events

LGBT publications, pride parade s, and related events, such as this stage at Bologna Pride 2008 in Italy, increasingly drop the LGBT acronym and initialism | initialism instead of regularly adding new letters, and dealing with issues of placement of those letters within the new title.

Having transformed from a working-class neighborhood through the 1960s and 1970s, the Castro remains one of the most prominent symbols of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) activism and events.

Special events, parade and Steet fairs are held in the Castro include the Castro Street Fair, the Dyke March, the famed Halloween in the Castro which was discontinued in 2007 due to street violence ; Pink Saturday, and the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.