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.

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.

Ayuquelén worked with the International Lesbian Information Service, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, and the Chilean gay rights group Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual ( Movement to Integrate and Liberate Homosexuals ) to remove the sodomy law still in force in Chile.

Lesbian consciousness began in Nicaragua in 1986, when the Sandinista National Liberation Front expelled gay men and lesbians from its midst.

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

* 1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D. C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands " an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people ", and draws 200, 000 people.

In 1977 a Lesbian Pride Rally was organized as an alternative to sharing gay men's issues, especially what Adrienne Rich termed " the violent, self-destructive world of the gay bars ".

The middle of the 1990s was marked by the inclusion of bisexuals as a represented group within the gay community when they successfully sought to be included on the platform of the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.

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

Although first LGBTQ festival in Slovenia dates in 1984, namely the Ljubljana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the first pride parade was only organized in 2001 as a result of an incident in a Ljubljana cafe where a gay couple was asked to leave for being homosexual.

'" In a 2006 study conducted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, it was determined that nine of the 679 lead and supporting characters on scripted broadcast television were gay or lesbian, but Smithers was not included.

Parades such as Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Manchester's Pride events attract significant investment and create tourist revenue, and cities are beginning to realize, firstly, that the acceptance of lesbian and gay culture is fast becoming a sign of urban " sophistication ", and secondly, that gay-oriented events, such as pride parades, the World Outgames and the Gay Games, are potentially lucrative events, attracting thousands of gay tourists and their dollars.

It's also the center of Folsom Europe, Easter in Berlin and the biggest street festival in Europe-Lesbisch-schwules Stadtfest Berlin ( Lesbian and gay city party ).

A 1993 alumnus gift evolved into the faculty committee-administered Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies, which developed a listing of courses relevant to lesbian and gay studies called the " Pink Book " and established a small lending library named for Boswell.

Believing the post to be " the first professorship of its kind in the country ," Harvard President Drew G. Faust called it “ an important milestone .” Funded by a $ 1. 5 million gift from the members and supporters of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, the F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality is named for a mid-20th century gay Harvard American studies scholar and literary critic who chaired the undergraduate program in history and literature.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) musicians are those who adhere to our policies on sourcing their gender and sexuality ( see Wikipedia: WikiProject LGBT studies / Guidelines for more information ) and are also categorized as musicians.

Among early supporters and members of the first coordinating committee were Kevin Jennings of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network ( GLSEN ); Kevin Boyer of Gerber / Hart Gay and Lesbian Library and Archives in Chicago ; Paul Varnell, writer for the Windy City Times ; Torey Wilson, Chicago area teacher ; Johnda Boyce, women's studies major at Columbus State University and Jessea Greenman of UC-Berkeley.

Gender-free contra dancing started in the 1970s, with the Boston Lesbian and Gay Folk Dance as perhaps the first group regularly contra dancing without gender roles.

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.

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.

" Lesbian feminism " is a related movement that came together in the early 1970s out of dissatisfaction with second-wave feminism and the gay liberation movement.

* 1970s Lesbian Feminism: An Overview, History, Bibliography & Guide

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.

This era saw a resurgence of militancy with direct action groups like AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT UP ) ( formed in 1987 ), and its offshoots Queer Nation ( 1990 ) and the Lesbian Avengers ( 1992 ).

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

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

Strabo, writing some 400 years later, adds that Charaxus was trading with Lesbian wine and that Sappho called Rhodopis Doricha.

However, a psychiatric member of APA's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues Committee has recently sought to distance the two, arguing that they were separate in the early 70s protests at APA conventions and that APA's decision to remove homosexuality was scientific and happened to coincide with the political pressure.

In 2003, decided to move the Pride March from June to the December Human Rights Week to coincide with related human rights activities such as World AIDS Day ( December 1 ), Philippine National Lesbian Day ( December 8 ), and International Human Rights Day ( December 10 ).

Lesbian feminists eschewed gender role play that had been pervasive in bars, as well as the perceived chauvinism of gay men ; many lesbian feminists refused to work with gay men, or take up their causes.

For example, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in the United States and Stonewall in the UK work with the media to help portray fair and accurate images of the gay community.

The renovated / gentrified downtown Cathedral City or " the ( Cathedral ) Cove " became a popular cultural niche for Gay and Lesbian couples with two of the valley's largest gay bars and a major private gay resort located in downtown proper.

There were 4, 296 households out of which 13. 9 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47. 4 % were married couples living together, 8. 2 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 41. 9 % were non-traditional families as a large number of Gay and Lesbian couples live in OBC.

The City College of San Francisco claims to be the " First Queer Studies Department in the U. S .," with English instructor Dan Allen having developed one of the first gay literature courses in the country in Fall 1972, and the college establishing what it calls " the first Gay and Lesbian Studies Department in the United States " in 1989.

* Seth and Derek originally beat up a gay student, with Seth kicking him while Derek reads a newspaper article on school funds going to a Gay And Lesbian organization.

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.

Over the past decade, NCSF has formed several alliances with other advocacy organizations to work on projects that defend sexual freedom rights: Free Speech Coalition, the American Civil Liberties Union, American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, among others.

* 2000: FICEB ( Festival de Cinema Eròtic de Barcelona ) " Ninfa Best Lesbian Scene " ( with Nikki Anderson & Kate More )

Working with Tom Brougham, members of the East Bay Lesbian / Gay Democratic Club, and attorney Matt Coles, the Domestic Partner Task Force drafted what has become the template for domestic partner / civil union policies around the world.

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