* 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 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.

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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.

Lesbian bed death is a term coined by University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz in her 1983 book American Couples.

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.

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.

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

The area is most famous for the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

This is corroborated by the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees ( formerly the Persian Gay and Lesbian Organisation ), most of whose members are based inside Iran and regularly provide reports of homophobic beatings, torture and imprisonment by state agents.

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.

Tablet worked extensively with the Rat City Rollergirls, Bumbershoot, the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Vain, Three Imaginary Girls, the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, KEXP, Seattle Art Museum, Henry Art Museum, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle Public Libraries, Roq La Rue, Richard Hugo House, Grand Illusion Cinema, I Heart Rummage, Home Alive, the Independent Media Center and most of Seattle's alternative music venues.

They believe that the following four groups suffer the most: Women, Minorities, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender, and Dance, Music and Entertainment.

The most common terms are Gay ( both men and women ) and Lesbian ( women only ).

The Blondes were taken off television in the same month following protests from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, who threatened to organize a boycott of WCW, claiming that " The character of Lenny is presented with the intention to incite the crowd to the most base homophobic behavior " and " the audience's reaction Lenny Lane and Lodi being physically attacked by other wrestlers gives permission to viewers to do harm to gay people in a very literal way.

Her fiction and essays have been published throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including in Semiotext ( e )’ s The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading and most recently, Dave Eggers ’ s The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008.

The Blondes were taken off television in the same month following protests from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, who threatened to organize a boycott of WCW, claiming that " The character of Lenny is presented with the intention to incite the crowd to the most base homophobic behavior " and " the audience's reaction Lenny Lane and Lodi being physically attacked by other wrestlers gives permission to viewers to do harm to gay people in a very literal way.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ( LGBT ) rights in Israel are considered the most progressive in the Middle East and Asia.

" Iasenza elaborated that, " In the 1995 Advocate Survey of Lesbian Sexuality and Relationships, results showed that lesbian women had more enjoyable sex than most American women.

The most reputable wines of ancient Greece were Chian, Coan, Corcyraean, Cretan, Euboean, Lesbian, Leucadian, Mendaean, Peparethan wine, Rhodian and Thasian. Wine was also important for ancient Macedonia.

NJA was most controversial for its stances on the rights of Palestinians and Lesbian and Gay Jews.