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.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements share inter-related goals of social acceptance of sexual and gender minorities.

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.

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

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

* 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

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.

Lesbian and bisexual females have the opposite trend, with fewer attempts during the teenager years compared to heterosexual females.

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.

In 2003, Carlos Sanchez from the International Lesbian and Gay Association issued a report on the status of gay people in Cuba that claimed that the Cuban government no longer offers any legal punishment for its gay citizens, that there is a greater level of tolerance among Cubans for gay, bisexual, and transgender people, and that the Cuban government was open to endorsing a gay rights plank at the United Nations.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ( LGBT ) rights, culture, people, organisations, and related topics

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people ( LGB ) may employ the pronoun game when conversing with people to whom they have not " come out ".

* Lesbian Feminism at the GLBTQ encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture

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 ).

* After the 1991 bisexual anthology Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out was forced to compete in the Lambda Literary Awards under the category Lesbian Anthology, BiNet USA led the Bisexual Community a multi year campaign eventually resulting in the addition of a Bisexual category, starting with the 2006 Awards.

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.

The Day of Silence is 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.

Non-erotica Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ( LGBT ) related visual art

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) characters have been depicted in some video games since the 1980s.

Lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgendered counseling in schools and families ( 1, 2 ).

Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons is an international organization for gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and intersex people who identify as members or ex-members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

The GLAAD Media Award is an accolade bestowed by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ) to recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) community and the issues that affect their lives.

The first GLAAD Media Awards were presented by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in 1990 to honor the 1989 season, and were envisioned as a way to recognize various branches of the media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) persons in Poland may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

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.

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.

Lesbian as a concept, used to differentiate women with a shared sexual orientation, is a 20th-century construct.

In 1890, the term was used in a medical dictionary as an adjective to describe tribadism ( as " Lesbian love "): sexual gratification of two women by simulating intercourse.

Newspaper stories frankly divulged that the book's content includes " sexual relations between Lesbian women ", and photographs of Hall often accompanied details about lesbians in most major print outlets within a span of six months.

Lesbian rights groups have gradually formed since 1986 to build a cohesive community that works to overcome philosophical differences with heterosexual women.

The lyrics to the Meatmen's song " Lesbian Death Dirge " read, " Twisted women in a line.

Lesbian women and straight men have, on average, slightly larger right brain hemispheres.

Promoting the more liberal ideas — including changing the name of the church because it is seen to be exclusionary of women, acceptance of homosexuals as members and ministers, and increased social and political activity — are groups such as Womaen's Caucus, Voices for an Open Spirit, and the Brethren Mennonite Council on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Interests.

* Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender-an umbrella term for women of non-heterosexual sexuality.

Wolden was responsible for materials that stated, " You parents of daughters — do not sit back complacently feeling that because you have no boys in your family everything is all right ... To enlighten you as to the existence of a Lesbian organization composed of homosexual women, make yourself acquainted with the name Daughters of Bilitis.

She removed " A Lesbian Review " from the cover, placed there in 1964 by Gittings, to attract more women readers.

Lesbian women are at a lower risk for eating disorders than heterosexual women.

In 1990, the gay newspaper OutWeek covered the Lesbian Ladies Society, a Washington, D. C .– based social group of " feminine lesbians " that required women to wear a dress or skirt to its functions.

The party's provincial executive is composed of the party's officers, six men and six women elected on a regional basis, three women and three men elected at large, one woman and one man elected by the Ontario New Democratic Youth, two women representing the Women's Committee, one woman and one man representing the Lesbian, Gay and Trans-identified Committee, one women and one man representing the party's ethnic committees, one woman and one man representing the Disability Rights Committee and one woman and one man representing the Aboriginal Section.

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 ).

* Lesbian Sex Mafia, a New York City group for the support of alternative culture women

Chapter 4 " The Lesbian " is a description of sexual relations with women, which Beauvoir believed that society thought was a " forbidden path ".

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.