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 Irish servicemen, particularly sailors, settled in Britain: During the 18th and 19th century a third of the Army and Royal Navy were Irish.

Many Māori served in the Second World War and learned how to cope in the modern urban world ; others moved from their rural homes to the cities to take up jobs vacated by Pākehā servicemen.

Many of their films cast them as bumbling servicemen such as In The Navy and Keep ' Em Flying ( amusingly enough, the Japanese military showed these films to their soldiers to " show " the ineptitude of American soldiers ).

Many of the returning servicemen brought with them a new perspective and confidence, which led them to seek better employment opportunities.

Many people were born to Asian women and U. S. servicemen during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

Many councils offer the option for customers to sponsor boxes of cookies to be sent to U. S. servicemen and women.

Many members of the other units, or simply former national servicemen, were recruited by Executive Outcomes ( EO ).

Many servicemen drowned in the cold sea while waiting to be rescued.

Many were the children of American servicemen who came to the country in the 1960s and 1970s, when there were several large US military bases in the country.

Many posthumous awards of the Military Merit Medal to American servicemen included the Vietnamese " Gallantry Cross with Palm ".

Many servicemen gave their gratuities.

Many were concerned, included 225 wounded servicemen who were attending the game and Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announced that the American flag would be flown at full staff at Shea for Game 4.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

Many of the myocardial fibers were hypertrophied and had large, irregular, basophilic nuclei.

Many of them had once been members of a church or at least had been given instruction in Christianity but for one or another reason had allowed the connexion to lapse.

Many times since his death that memory had worried and troubled her.

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

Many industries, notably textiles, firearms, clocks and watches, buttons, horse-drawn vehicles, railroad cars and locomotives, sewing machines, and bicycles, saw expeditious improvement in materials handling, machining, and assembly during the 19th century, although modern concepts such as industrial engineering and logistics had not yet been named.

Many Athenians prominent earlier in the century would have lost citizenship, had this law applied to them: Cleisthenes, the founder of democracy, had a non-Athenian mother, and the mothers of Cimon and Themistocles were not Greek at all, but Thracian.

Many clinical tests were inconclusive, probably because it had been used as a surface antiseptic.

Many CPU accelerator cards also had integrated SCSI controllers.

Many were in common use, but had become unacceptable in normal discourse before the end of the twentieth century.

Many homes had a sack made of deerskin filled with bear oil for cooking, while solidified bear fat resembled shortening.

Many old methods had been lost during the periods of European contact.

Many Democrats who had supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in previous elections switched their support to Clinton.

Many years later, Bob Heironimus, an acquaintance of Patterson's, said that he had worn an ape costume for the making of the film.

Many scholars debate over what happened on the threshing floor ; yet it seems unlikely Boaz and Ruth had sexual relations based on the narrative's portrayal of their character ( esp.

Many original members of the future Social Democratic Party had been members of the Manifesto Group within the Labour Party.

Many ships had only jury masts and it took a full day for the convoy to reach the mouth of the bay, finally sailing into open water on 15 August.

Many city-states in ancient Greece limited debt slavery to a period of five years and debt slaves had protection of life and limb, which regular slaves did not enjoy.

Many of the early building societies were based in taverns or coffeehouses, which had become the focus for a network of clubs and societies for co-operation and the exchange of ideas among Birmingham's highly active citizenry as part of the movement known as the Midlands Enlightenment.

Many Boers had German ancestry and many members of the government were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War, which had ended only twelve years earlier.