Vaid was executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1988 – 1992 and has been an activist and writer since that time.

The American writer Patricia Nell Warren, known as " the mother of Frontrunners " — the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender running / walking clubs — locates parts of her 1974 best-selling novel The Front Runner, as well as of Harlan's Race, a 1994 sequel, on Fire Island.

* Lesbian writer and poet Carol Guess ( Class of 1990 );

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.

Joan Nestle started the Lesbian Herstory Archives in 1975, and credits " its creation to that night and the courage that found its voice in the streets ".

* Several collections relating to the Gay Activists Alliance can be found at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center's National History Archive in New York City.

Lesbian culture also found a focal point in a small bar named Crocodile Rock in Far East Plaza, which remains to this day the oldest lesbian bar in Singapore.

Lesbian themes were found in European films such as Mädchen in Uniform ( 1931 ).

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

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

In the ideal society, named Lesbian Nation, " woman " and " lesbian " were interchangeable.

* 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.

* Lesbian Avengers, a group of lesbian activists

* date unknown – Anne Lister, A wealthy Lesbian from Halifax, famous for her openly lesbian life style and her extensive, coded diaries ( d. 1840 )

'" 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.

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.

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.

* 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

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.

Coors encouraged the organization of its gay and lesbian employees into the Lesbian and Gay Employee Resource ( LAGER ) in 1993.

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 relationships do not require these two identities to comprise them, and many lesbian individuals and couples cannot be described accurately in these terms.

Following the vote by the Knesset, the Israeli legislature, in 2007 in favour of bills to ban lesbian and gay pride parades in Jerusalem, the Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism criticised Tatchell saying " Peter Tatchell and others who have distinguished themselves by the speed of their quite proper defence of lesbian and gay rights when these have been attacked by Black, Arab, Muslim forces or regimes have still refused to condemn with equal force the official attacks on lesbian and gay rights by the highest institutions of the State of Israel.

Founded as the Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teachers Network ( GLSTN ) in 1990, the organization began as a local volunteer group of 70 gay and lesbian educators.