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The phenomenon was labeled " Lesbian bed death ".

" Dowling surmised that " Lesbian bed death is probably only sticking around " due to lesbophobia.

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" 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.

The Maine Lesbian / Gay Political Alliance, which later became EqualityMaine, was formed in part as a reaction to Howard's death.

From 1992 till her death in 1998 she was an active member of the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre management Committee.

* Carmilla is featured as the main antagonist in the 2009 movie Lesbian Vampire Killers, a comedy starring Paul McGann and James Corden.

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 ( 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 is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females.

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

In 1989 an academic cohort named the Lesbian History Group wrote: Because of society's reluctance to admit that lesbians exist, a high degree of certainty is expected before historians or biographers are allowed to use the label.

** The Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney, Australia to mark 10th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots ( which later becomes the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ; later incorporating a festival ).

* October 20 – The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is held as a protest march and commemoration of the Stonewall Riots.

* October 11 – The first National Coming Out Day is held in celebration of the second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

Later in June, the Gay and Lesbian Service organization hosts the Lexington Pride Festival, currently into the planning phases of its third festival as of 2009, the event is popular among the diverse communities in Lexington.

Sydney's pride parade, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, is one of the world's largest and is held at night

The Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras is the largest Australian pride event and one of the largest in the world.

This piece is discussed more completely later in this article at Lesbian relationships.

He states he is a member and carries the membership cards of the Elks, the Masons, the Communists, the Stonecutters and for some reason unbeknownst to him he carries a card listing him as the president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance.

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.

Another acronym that has begun to spread is QUILTBAG, from Queer / Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans, Bisexual, Asexual, Gay.

The pink triangle is the basis of the design of the Homomonument in Amsterdam, the Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial in Sydney, the Pink Triangle Park in the Castro neighbourhood of San Francisco and the huge Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks that is displayed every year during San Francisco Pride weekend in San Francisco.

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.

The magazine Anything That Moves coined the acronym FABGLITTER ( from Fetish such as the BDSM lifestyle community, Allies or poly-Amorous as in Polyamorous couples became more used, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Intersexed, Transgender, Transsexual Engendering Revolution or inter-Racial attraction ), although this term has not made its way into common usage.

The initial A for Allies came from some of the paraphilia or sexual fetishism lifestyles, who are primarily in support of the GLBT community, and sometimes they form an alliance in sociopolitical affairs to further represent the umbrella term GLBTA ( Gay Lesbian Bi Trans Alternative or Allies ).

The terms cisgender and cissexual have more recently been used in publications, such as a 2006 article in the Journal of Lesbian Studies and Julia Serano's 2007 book Whipping Girl, after which the term gained some popularity among English-speaking activists and scholars.

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

* Hot Lesbian Action, a term used by Eric Bischoff during his tenure in WWE in 2002

A related term is Lesbian Until Graduation ( LUG ).

In the book Lesbian Polyfidelity, author Celeste West uses the term polyfidelity in much the same way that others use polyamory.

This use of the term was first adopted at the inaugural Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in Hong Kong in 1989, with the aim of presenting same-sex relationships are positive and suggesting solidarity between LGBT people, while also providing an indigenous term to capture the Chinese experience of same-sex love ; it also puns on tóngxìnglìan ( 同性戀 ), the formal ( if clinical and disfavored ) term for homosexuality.

* Lesbian activist Anna Rueling used the term in her 1904 speech, " What Interest does the Women's Movement have in Solving the Homosexual Problem?

* Rezubian, or Bian, Japanese term to refer to a woman as a Lesbian

The Guardian Style Guide, Newswatch Diversity Style Guide, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, and the Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concern of the American Psychological Association's Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language agree that " gay " is the preferred term.

Lesbian writer Emma Donoghue found that the term lesbian ( with its modern meaning ) was in use in the English language from at least the 17th century.

* Slang term, shortened form of the word Lesbian, referring to homosexual women

In 1956, ONE Inc. created the ONE Institute, an academic institute for the study of homosexuality, utilizing the term “ Homophile Studies .” In 1994, ONE, Inc. and the International Gay and Lesbian Archives run by Jim Kepner merged.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

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.

The use of " Lesbian " in medical literature became prominent ; by 1925, the word was recorded as a noun to mean the female equivalent of a sodomite.

Lesbian subculture developed in response to the categorization of lesbianism as a medical problem by sexologist s such as Havelock Ellis.

The written ode, as it was practiced by the Romans, returned to the lyrical form of the Lesbian lyricists.

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.

The plaintiffs were represented by Mary Bonauto, an attorney from Boston-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, and two Vermont attorneys: Susan Murray and Beth Robinson.

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

This same performance also led to an “ Excellence in Media Award ” by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ).

'" 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.

The day was founded in 1988, by Dr. Robert Eichberg, his partner William Gamble, and Jean O ' Leary to celebrate the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights one year earlier, in which 500, 000 people marched on Washington, DC, United States, for gay and lesbian equality.

* Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language, published by the Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns, American Psychological Association.

glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture, edited by Claude J. Summers.

Lauper embarked on an Australian tour playing at the Kings Park Botanic Gardens in Perth, supported by Katie Noonan and Kate Miller-Heidke on February 22, 2008, and she was the headline and final act at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Party, on March 2, 2008.

* Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations, also published as The Gay and Lesbian Quotation Book: a literary companion, ( 1989 ) edited by Quentin Crisp, Hale, 185 pages ISBN 0-7090-5605-2.

Fair Day 2007 " Sea of Hearts " by the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby

West Hollywood also seeks to address the health needs of residents who do not have adequate insurance by subsidizing the LA Free Clinic and The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.

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.

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

City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000 ; reprinted by Temple University Press, 2004.

" In Glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture, edited by Claude J. Summers.

The satellite space was utilized by corporate parent MTV Networks to launch Gay & Lesbian centric network, Logo.