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This era saw a resurgence of militancy with direct action groups like AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT UP ) ( formed in 1987 ), and its offshoots Queer Nation ( 1990 ) and the Lesbian Avengers ( 1992 ).
One of the most famous attempts by the LGBT community to re-claim the term " queer " was through an organisation called Queer Nation, which was formed in March 1990 ; a few months later, an influential though anonymous flier was distributed at the New York Gay Pride Parade in June 1990 entitled " Queers Read This ".
* Katlin, T. " Slant: Queer Nation ".
In the early 1990s, Selleck held a press conference to say that he was not gay after a Queer Nation poster allegedly tried to out him.
* Queer Nation
* Queer Nation, a direct action group is founded in New York City by activists from the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT UP ).
Scott Fack and Noel Turner were the " poster boys " for this change through the gay media, including Express Newspaper and the Queer Nation television show.
Queer Nation was an organization founded in March 1990 in New York City, USA by AIDS activists from ACT UP.
Although the name Queer Nation had been used casually since the group ’ s inception, it was officially approved at the group's general meeting on May 17, 1990.
Queer Nation was most effective and powerful in the early 1990s in the USA, and used direct action to fight for gay rights.
Other slogans used by Queer Nation include " Two, Four, Six, Eight!
In protest, Queer Nation mobilizes 1000 queers in a matter of hours.
" Members of Queer Nation travel from New York City to the Newport Mall in Jersey City with leaflets offering information about queers, safe sex tips, and a list of famous queers throughout history.
A confrontational sticker created by Queer Nation / San Francisco ( 1990 )
Queer Nation chapters were founded in dozens of other cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Charlottesville, Virginia, Chicago, Columbus, Ohio, Columbia, S. C., Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal ( known as Queer Nation Rose ), Philadelphia ( known as Queer Action ), Nashville, San Francisco, Seattle and Toronto.
Queer Nation / San Francisco was founded in June 1990 by Mark Duran, Steve Mehall and Daniel Paíz ; they organized a meeting at the San Francisco Women's Building the following month where the group was launched publicly.
The Queer Nation chapters in Atlanta, Georgia ; Columbia, South Carolina ; Berea and Lexington, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee were active in protesting homophobic policies of the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain.
Queer Nation in Houston was active from the beginning of 1991 through late 1994.
Queer Nation / Portland generated many original and popular sticker designs and slogans, including " Fuck Your Gender ," " Bend Over Pretty ," and a series of stickers interpolating Madonna lyrics, as " Strike a Pose, Not a Fag.

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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.
In 2004 he won an Emmy Award along with the other cast members and producers of Queer Eye for " Outstanding Reality Program " from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
* Co-author, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The Fab Five's Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better, and Living Better ( Clarkson Potter, 2004 ), with the four other cast members.
During a May 1991 taping, three or four members of Queer Nation, seated in the back row in different sections of the audience, interrupted Hall's opening monologue demanding to know why he never had any gay guests on the show.
Many SA members have been elected as National Union of Students Queer Officers and have used this position to promote Equal Love and attack the Rudd-Gillard Government for not repealing the ban.
This has made her a true pioneer and a beloved friend of the members of the Brazilian Homosexual Movement ( Movimento Homossexual Brasileiro ) and of the all-encompassing Queer community of Brazil.
Queer Youth Network members from London and the South East marching down Whitehall as part of Pride London 2011.
The Queer Youth Network is campaigning for the legalisation of marriage for same sex couples and as a result the organisation is one of the founding members of the Coalition for Marriage Equality ( UK ) together with OutRage!
The episode was also partly based on some of the Simpsons staff members ' experience with making internet cartoons, such as Queer Duck and Hard Drinkin ' Lincoln, both of which were created by Mike Reiss.

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She made appearances on Showtime's hit show Queer As Folk in 2005, making her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera in 2006 as Jenny, and directing a commercial for Totally 80s edition of the board game Trivial Pursuit.
* Emmett Honeycutt, a fictional character from the TV show Queer as Folk.
Because of the TV show, it was the Queer As Folk CD soundtrack, which went gold within one month of going on sale in March 1999 in the UK, that has become the most successful project the label has ever taken on.
* FAB 5 Greek version of American reality show Queer Eye, which entered its first season in November 2011.
The success of the show led to merchandising, franchising of the concept internationally, and a woman-oriented spin-off, Queer Eye for the Straight Girl.
Australia's take on the show, Aussie Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, premiered on Network Ten in February 2005 but was cancelled after three episodes ; a Spanish version named El equipo G aired on Antena 3 for only a few weeks ; the German equivalent, RTL 2's Schwul macht cool (" Gay makes you cool ") was canceled after six episodes ; Queer, Cinq Experts dans le Vent was shown in France on TF1 for eight episodes in 2004 ; and Esquadrão G, a Portuguese version of the show, was cancelled in Portugal after the end of the first season.
The show theme for the first two seasons was titled "( This Is The Way ) I Am ", and was written and produced by Widelife, also creators of the theme for Bravo's Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, and performed by Faith Trent.
" Queer Fashion Show ," formerly " Alternative Fashion Show " is a current annual program featuring student made fashion and a variety show.
The single, " You Are My Joy " appeared on US show, Grey's Anatomy, and on fourth season of US TV series Queer as Folk.
As part of Queer Eyes " Fab Five " Douglas has co-authored a book and appeared on a soundtrack CD and accompanying DVD based on the show, as well as appeared on many magazine covers and TV talk shows.
His leap into television took place in 2003 when he gained great exposure as the " fashion savant " on Queer Eye when the show debuted on the Bravo cable television network.
The single is also available on the soundtrack of the popular American television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
They contributed the song Shipping & Handling to the television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, for February 2004.
The song " Shipping and Handling " from this album was contributed to the television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
According to the IMDb trivia for the American version of the show, The Los Angeles Times had predicted that an American " Queer as Folk " would be a complete " disaster ", but the series lasted five seasons.
" Another celebrity known for owning Saddlebreds and for his success as a horse show exhibitor is Carson Kressley, star of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
* Fab Five, the five stars of television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
* Gus, Brian Kinney's baby in the American television show Queer as Folk
They were first seen hosting the show " Hick Eye For The Queer Guy ", and later opened a party planning company.

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