Many Mainline Protestant churches are open and affirming to gay and lesbian couples.

Many refer to Mark Segal as the dean of American gay journalism.

Many new activists consider the Stonewall uprising the birth of the gay liberation movement.

Many who arrived at GLF or GAA meetings were taken aback by the number of gay people in one place.

Many lesbians found men's attitudes patriarchal and chauvinistic, and saw in gay men the same misguided notions about women as they saw in heterosexual men.

Many books ended unsatisfactorily and drastically, often with suicide, and writers portrayed their gay characters as alcoholics and deeply unhappy.

Many of the participants and residents of Greenwich Village were involved in political organizations that were effectively able to mobilize a large and cohesive gay community in the weeks and months after the rebellion.

Many countries will begin to relax their laws on private recreational drug use, gay marriage, prostitution, euthanasia and so on.

Many vacationers who visit Asbury Park are gay, and the city houses New Jersey's only gay hotel, The Empress Hotel.

Many vacationers stay at the numerous gay B & B's in Ogunquit village.

Many San Francisco gays also moved there after about 1970 from what had been the formerly most prominent gay neighborhood, Polk Gulch, because large Victorian houses were available at low rents or available for purchase for low down payments when their former middle-class owners had fled to the suburbs.

Many LGBT organizations exist to represent and defend the gay community.

Many have aimed to establish or broaden the rights of subordinate groups, such as abolitionism, the women's suffrage movement, the Civil rights movement, feminism, men's rights movement, gay rights movement, the Disability rights movement, or the inclusive human rights movement.

Many of the early victims of the disease had been openly gay only within the confines of insular " gay ghettos " such as New York City ’ s Greenwich Village and San Francisco ’ s Castro ; they remained closeted in their professional lives and to their families.

Many heterosexuals who thought they didn't know any gay people were confronted by friends and loved ones dying of " the gay plague " ( which soon began to infect " straight " people also ).

Many of his other conjectures, particularly about hidden sexual themes ( e. g. images of female nudity concealed in drawings of muscles and tree bark, or Batman and Robin as gay partners ), were met with derision within the comics industry.

* Coming out: Many gay, lesbian and bisexual people go through a " coming out " experience at some point in their lives.

Many of the gay clubs have their own events and themed nights, one of these is Mr Gay Sweden.

Many historical figures, including Socrates, Lord Byron, Edward II, and Hadrian, have had terms such as gay or bisexual applied to them ; some scholars, such as Michel Foucault, have regarded this as risking the anachronistic introduction of a contemporary social construct of sexuality foreign to their times, though others challenge this.

Many of the articles justified the lack of coverage, citing that the death did not justify national attention ; initial reports failed to mention that the two perpetrators were gay, whereas the Shepard reports identified Shepard as gay and the crimes as hate crimes from the beginning.

Many well known celebrities were among the clientele and the Lord Ranelagh is considered to have played a role in the history of gay liberation.

Many anti-globalization activists call for forms of global integration that better provide democratic representation, advancement of human rights, fair trade and sustainable development and therefore feel the term " anti-globalization " is misleading.

Many western human rights groups state that civil rights and free expression are severely limited in Belarus, though there are some individuals and groups that refuse to be controlled and some journalists have disappeared.

Many examples are familiar in everyday speech even today, " One cannot be a judge in one's own cause " ( see Dr. Bonham's Case ), rights are reciprocal to obligations, and the like.

Many people blamed animal rights activists who were angered at Deicide's lyrical themes of animal sacrifice.

Many historians trace modern Ethiopian foreign policy to the reign of Emperor Tewodros II, whose primary concerns were the security of Ethiopia's traditional borders, obtaining technology from Europe ( or modernization ), and to a lesser degree Ethiopian rights to the monastery of Dar-es-Sultan in the city of Jerusalem.

Many male feminists and pro-feminists are active in both women's rights activism, feminist theory, and masculinity studies.

Many charge that some of the worst human rights violations of the internal conflict were committed under Ríos Montt's rule.

Many groups and movements have achieved profound social changes over the course of the 20th century in the name of human rights.

Many Muslim-majority countries are not liberal in terms of tolerance for homosexual rights.

Many cities were granted the German system of laws ( Magdeburg rights ), with the largest of these being Vilnius, since 1322 the capital of the Grand Duchy.

Many libertarian socialists argue that large-scale voluntary associations should manage industrial manufacture, while workers retain rights to the individual products of their labor.

Many early feminists and advocates of women's rights were considered left-wing by their contemporaries.

Many of the police officers and border guards who were approached for interviews by the One Day in September production team were threatened with the loss of their pension rights if they talked for the film.

Many nations have laws protecting minority rights.

Many of the Romans saw the beginning of Otto the 2nd ’ s reign as a glimmer of hope that it might be possible for them to recover their ancient rights and even free themselves from foreign rule.

Many radical feminists today still believe that transsexuality is oppressive to women, and genital reassignment surgery is a violation of human rights.

Many civil rights were explicitly acknowledged, and measures were established to increase the stability of elected governments while new organs supervising the administrative power also emerged for the first time such as The Constitutional Court, The Administrative Court and The Ombudsman.

Many men and women with background in prostitution and activists for sex workers ' rights, such as Norma Jean Almodovar and Starchild, have run for office on the Libertarian Party ticket or are active members of the party.

Many people's view of the world changed significantly as they became much more aware of the struggles of others and, as such, became increasingly concerned with human rights.

Many foreign governments were interested in John Holland's latest submarine designs, and began purchasing the rights to build them under licensing contracts through the Electric Boat Company.

Many contemporary states have a constitution, a bill of rights, or similar constitutional documents that enumerate and seek to guarantee civil liberties.

Many organizations advocating for indigenous rights, and the indigenous communities themselves, seek to particularly and explicitly identify peoples in this position as indigenous.

Many environmental lawsuits question the legal rights of property owners, and whether the general public has a right to intervene with detrimental practices occurring on someone else's land.

Many markets for " pollution rights " have been created in the late twentieth century — see emissions trading.