ed., The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage ( New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1995 )

Gender-free contra dancing started in the 1970s, with the Boston Lesbian and Gay Folk Dance as perhaps the first group regularly contra dancing without gender roles.

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.

" Frequently Asked Questions About Being Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender and Catholic " Dignity USA.

" In 1988, in response to a campaign against lesbians at the Marine's Parris Island Depot, activists launched the Gay and Lesbian Military Freedom Project ( MFP ) to advocate for an end to the exclusion of gays and lesbians from the armed forces.

* Verzaubert International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Germany: Best film nomination ( 1999 )

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center – best known as simply " The Center " – has occupied the former Food & Maritime Trades High School at 208 West 13th Street since 1984.

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.

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.

According to the International Lesbian and Gay Association ( ILGA ) seven countries still retain capital punishment for homosexual behavior: Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen.

Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing.

These include an umbrella organizations called Eshel, the Gay and Lesbian Yeshiva Day School Alumni Association, the women's group OrthoDykes, the youth group JQYouth, the American-Israeli group headquartered in Jerusalem Bat Kol and the Israeli group Hod (" Majesty ").

* Balka, Chistie and Rose Andy Twice Blessed: on Being Lesbian or Gay and Jewish Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

Ayuquelén worked with the International Lesbian Information Service, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, and the Chilean gay rights group Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual ( Movement to Integrate and Liberate Homosexuals ) to remove the sodomy law still in force in Chile.

The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement, G. K. Hall & Co. ISBN 0-8057-9714-9

Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-7425-1971-6

Gay & Lesbian Almanac.

Gay and Lesbian Asia: Culture, Identity, Community, Harrington Park Press.

Living Out Loud: A History of Gay and Lesbian Activism in Australia, Allen & Unwin.

* ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay History of the World, Vol.

* The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands, founded in June 2004 on the uninhabited Coral Sea Islands off the coast of Queensland, in response to the Australian government's refusal to recognize same-sex marriage.

Bashir also took up the position of Patron of the Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service, which addresses mental and social issues in the LGBT community.

The church has provided office space for various community groups, such as the Toronto Counselling Centre for Lesbians and Gays, Lesbian & Gay Youth Toronto, and the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario.

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.

On October 27, 1967, the " Baltimore Four " ( Berrigan, artist Tom Lewis ; and poet, teacher and writer David Eberhardt and United Church of Christ missionary and pastor, the Reverend James L. Mengel ) poured blood ( blood from several of the four, but additionally blood purchased from the Gay St. Market-according to the FBI-poultry blood-perhaps chicken or duck used by the Polish for soup ) on Selective Service records in the Baltimore Customs House.

Writers who worked at the Star in its last days included Nick Adde ( Army Times ), Stephen Aug ( ABC News ), Michael Isikoff ( Newsweek ), Howard Kurtz ( The Washington Post ), Fred Hiatt ( The Washington Post ) Sheilah Kast ( ABC News ), Jane Mayer ( The New Yorker ), Chris Hanson ( Columbia Journalism Review ), Jeremiah O ' Leary ( The Washington Times ), Chuck Conconi ( Washingtonian ), Crispin Sartwell ( Creators Syndicate ), Maureen Dowd ( The New York Times ), novelist Randy Sue Coburn, Michael DeMond Davis, Lance Gay, ( Scripps Howard News Service ): Jules Witcover ( The Baltimore Sun ), Jack Germond ( The Baltimore Sun ), Judy Bachrach ( Vanity Fair ), Lyle Denniston ( The Baltimore Sun ), Fred Barnes ( Weekly Standard ), Kate Sylvester ( NPR, NBC, Governing Magazine ) and Mary McGrory ( The Washington Post ).

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Big Gay Al became one of the most popular and easily recognizable of the non-regular South Park characters, and was featured in the 1999 film, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut as the MC of a United Service Organizations show.

* The 1997 Dignity / USA Prophetic Service Award " In Recognition of over 25 years of extraordinary work on behalf of the Catholic Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgenered Community ";

West, a biweekly LGBT newspaper, Qmunity ( formerly the Gay and Lesbian Centre ) which provides a variety of services for the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents, and the Vancouver Pride Society, which puts on the annual Pride Parade and Festival.

Liverpool's official Pride was launced in 2010, but by 2011 it became the largest free Gay Pride festival in the United Kingdom outside London.

When Forster ’ s cousin, Philip Whichelo, donated a portrait of Forster to the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association ( GLHA ), Jim Herrick, the founder, quoted Forster's words: " The humanist has four leading characteristics-curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Many festivals are held in Sydney, including the Sydney Festival, a celebration of free performances throughout January ; the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ( see below ); the Sydney Royal Easter Show, which unites rural and urban communities together in 1 annual event at Homebush ; the Sydney Film Festival and many smaller festivals such as Tropfest.

Gay free zone.

Today, Seattle Center is host to the Bite of Seattle, Bumbershoot, a music and art festival that draws crowds in the hundreds of thousands every Labor Day Weekend, Northwest Folklife Festival on Memorial Day Weekend, a comparably large folk music and folk culture festival, which somehow manages to stay in the black despite being free to all comers, and PrideFest, a finali of the much larger event Seattle Gay Pride Parade like many other cities every year in late June in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Riots proudly flying the pride flag atop the Space Needle for the first time in 2010.

During the early 1980s, in the early days of HIV / AIDS awareness, the Atlanta Gay Center offered free testing and support groups.

The Independent Gay Forum is an organization that sponsors a website featuring free access to articles and opinions penned by gay conservative, center-right Independent and libertarian gay authors.

The Independent Gay Forum mission statement is to forge a new " gay mainstream " that is committed to more conservative-libertarian values ; i. e., limited government, free market capitalism and personal responsibility.

Fugues is published as an alternative format ( 7 " X 10, 25 ") glossy magazine, similar in size to a comic book, and is distributed as a free publication not only in Montreal's Gay Village, but also all over town and in other cities across Canada.

An avant-garde event in the heart of downtown Montreal and in Montreal's Gay Village area held usually on the end of July and beginning of August every year and extending usually for a full week, it is open to all audiences, gay and heterosexual, including many events that are free.

Capital Gay was a weekly free gay newspaper published in London.

Birmingham Pride is a weekend-long LGBT festival held annually in the Gay Village, Hurst Street, Birmingham, England, over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend and is the largest free Pride event in the UK.