In linguistics, Aeolic Greek (; also Aeolian, Lesbian or Lesbic Greek ) is the set of dialects of Ancient Greek spoken mainly in Boeotia ( a region in Central Greece ), Thessaly, in the Aegean island of Lesbos, and the Greek colonies of Asia Minor ( Aeolis ).

* Aeolic was spoken in three subdialects: one, Lesbian, on the island of Lesbos and the west coast of Asia Minor north of Smyrna.

Aeolic is an exclusively poetic lyric dialect, represented by Sappho and Alcaeus for Aeolic ( Lesbian ) and Corinna of Tanagra for Boiotic.

These were Lily Tomlin, a gay actress and comedian ; Peter Tatchell, a world-renowned gay rights campaigner ; Don Baxter, Executive Director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations at that time ; Bev Lange, Chief Executive Officer of the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation at the time, a former President of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and a former co-chair of the Sydney Gay Games ; Lex Watson and Sue Wills, Campaign Against Moral Prosecution's ( CAMP ) first Co-Presidents ; and Hannah Williams and Savannah Supski, who had recently protested against the ban against same-sex couples at Hannah's Melbourne school formal.

* Seth and Derek originally beat up a gay student, with Seth kicking him while Derek reads a newspaper article on school funds going to a Gay And Lesbian organization.

His intention to write in this genre is expressed in a letter to his friend Norman Iles, dated 5 June 1943, just before Larkin sat his degree Finals: " I am spending my time doing an obscene Lesbian novel in the form of a school story ".

Amherst Regional High School is the only public high school in the nation to offer a course in Gay and Lesbian Literature, a program started by Sara Barber-Just.

* is attested only in Lesbian and Spartan lyric poetry from the Archaic age and in Bucolic poetry from the Hellenistic Age.

Hallwalls also co-sponsors, along with organizations Just Buffalo Literary Center, Gay & Lesbian Youth Services of WNY, and Compass House, Spotlight on Youth, an open-mic, poetry program dedicated to young poets and artists in the Buffalo community.

In Australia, " Fabulous " was released 24 February 2001 and Easton was asked to perform songs from the album to close out 2001 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ceremonies.

Easton also went back to Australia in 2001 for the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras and closed the celebration with songs from Fabulous.

Strabo, writing some 400 years later, adds that Charaxus was trading with Lesbian wine and that Sappho called Rhodopis Doricha.

* Sappho at the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre

She is also called a Lesbian and a Mytilenean, on account of her residence in Lesbos with Sappho.

Alcaeus " A probably authentic Lesbian coin has been preserved, bearing upon the obverse ... a profile head of Alcaeus, and upon the reverse ... a profile head of Pittacus.

Horace, who often wrote in imitation of Alcaeus, sketches in verse one of the Lesbian poet's favourite subjects-Lycus of the black hair and eyes ( C. 1. 32. 11-12: nigris oculis nigroque / crine decorum ).

The Roman poet Horace modelled his own lyrical compositions on those of Alcaeus, rendering the Lesbian poet's verse-forms, including ' Alcaic ' and ' Sapphic ' stanzas, into concise Latin-an achievement he celebrates in his third book of odes.

* Sappho's countryman and contemporary, the lyric poet Alcaeus, paraphrased a section of Works and Days ( 582 – 88 ), recasting it in lyric meter and Lesbian dialect.

In 1989 an academic cohort named the Lesbian History Group wrote: Because of society's reluctance to admit that lesbians exist, a high degree of certainty is expected before historians or biographers are allowed to use the label.

With the attitudes in Europe regarding the legalization of same-sex marriage ; Denmark proved to be high on the list of possible nations that would grant marriage to Gay and Lesbian citizens, in third place behind The Netherlands ( 82 %), and Sweden ( 71 %).

As mayor, Agnos and his family became the first to ride in the Lesbian Gay Freedom Day Parade, appointed minorities, lesbians and gays to high city posts, and ended the city ’ s opposition to a court-ordered consent decree to hire and promote minorities and women in the fire department which a federal judge opined was “ out of control ” due to racism when Agnos took office.

However, in Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston,, the Court ruled that a group may exclude people from membership if their presence would affect the group's ability to advocate a particular point of view.

However, in the subsequent decisions of Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston, the Court ruled that a group may exclude people from membership if their presence would affect the group's ability to advocate a particular point of view.

It was at this point the emergence of a divide within the gay activist movement occurred mainly due to a difference in ideologies, after which a number of groups including Organisation for Lesbian and Gay Action ( OLGA ), Stonewall ( which focused on lobby tactics ), the Lesbian Avengers and OutRage!

In addition to advocating withdrawal from working, personal or casual relationships with men, The Furies recommended that Lesbian Separatists relate " only ( with ) women who cut their ties to male privilege " and suggest that " as long as women still benefit from heterosexuality, receive its privileges and security, they will at some point have to betray their sisters, especially Lesbian sisters who do not receive those benefits.

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.

By the time of the Street Festival's inception, the Neartown area served as the social and geographic hub of Houston's Gay and Lesbian Community, as well as the focal point of alternative art and music within the City of Houston at large.

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.

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.

Lesbian feminism, which was most influential from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, encouraged women to direct their energies toward other women rather than men, and advocated lesbianism as the logical result of feminism.

** The Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney, Australia to mark 10th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots ( which later becomes the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ; later incorporating a festival ).

* Lesbian Books ()-In three books, which derived its name from the fact that the scene of the philosophical dialogue was laid at Mytilene in Lesbos.

In 1998, the year of the centennial commemoration of the Republic of the Philippines, a Gay and Lesbian Pride March was incorporated in the mammoth " citizens ' parade " which was part of the official centennial celebration.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There were 4, 296 households out of which 13. 9 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47. 4 % were married couples living together, 8. 2 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 41. 9 % were non-traditional families as a large number of Gay and Lesbian couples live in OBC.

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.

Rich suggests that Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie's book Parker and Hulme: A Lesbian View may have been an unacknowledged source of inspiration for Heavenly Creatures, which according to her created a distorted image of the Parker – Hulme murder case.

On January 19, 2008, Robert Forsyth, Anglican bishop of South Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, condemned Corpus Christi ( which opened for February's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, a play depicting Judas seducing Jesus ): " It is deliberately, not innocently, offensive and they're obviously having a laugh about it.

The Greyhound has been undergoing a multi-million dollar redevelopment since 2008 which has seen live music make way for a predominantly Gay & Lesbian clientele, building upon the successful Saturday night drag shows that have been running at the venue for over 15 years.

She has guest-starred on the television sitcom Friends in January 1996, in which she officiated over a commitment ceremony for two recurring characters in the episode " The One With the Lesbian Wedding.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ) is a US non-governmental media monitoring organization which promotes the image of LGBT people in the media.

The chairman of the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, which provided state funding for Safe Schools program defended GLSEN's work in the state's schools, stating " A tiny minority of opponents of the program are grasping at straws to discredit the program.

LGBT rights groups which condemned the comments by Santorum included the Pennsylvania Gender Rights Coalition, OutFront, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, and the Human Rights Campaign.

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.