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LGBT History Month

Index LGBT History Month

LGBT History Month is a month-long annual observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. [1]

64 relations: Allan Horsfall, Amnesty International, Angela Eagle, Barbara Follett (politician), Bill Clinton, Bisexuality, Bisexuality in the United States, Budapest, Civil and political rights, Concerned Women for America, Crown Prosecution Service, Cyril Nri, Debrecen, Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom), Elly Barnes, Gay, Gay pride, Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, GLSEN, Háttér Society, Heterosexism, History of bisexuality, History of gay men in the United States, History of lesbianism, History of lesbianism in the United States, History of transgender people in the United States, Ian McKellen, Indoctrination, Jacqui Smith, Kevin Jennings, Labi Siffre, Labrisz Lesbian Association, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBT history, LGBT rights by country or territory, LGBT Youth Scotland, Linda Bellos, March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, Mary Whitehouse, Mayor of London, Metropolitan Police Authority, Metropolitan Police Service, Miskolc, National Coming Out Day, National Education Association, OurStory Scotland, Patricia Scotland, Pécs, Political correctness, ..., Royal Courts of Justice, Scottish Government, Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Section 28, Sexual diversity, Southwark London Borough Council, Stella Duffy, Sue Sanders, Szeged, Tate Modern, Trades Union Congress, Transgender, Typography, Windy City Times. Expand index (14 more) »

Allan Horsfall

Allan Horsfall (20 October 1927–27 August 2012) was a British gay rights campaigner and founder of the North West Committee for Homosexual Law Reform, which became the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.

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Angela Eagle

Angela Eagle (born 17 February 1961) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallasey since the 1992 general election.

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Barbara Follett (politician)

Daphne Barbara Follett (Hubbard; born 25 December 1942) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stevenage from 1997 until 2010.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes alternatively termed pansexuality. The term bisexuality is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward both men and women, and the concept is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation along with heterosexuality and homosexuality, all of which exist on the heterosexual–homosexual continuum.

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Bisexuality in the United States

This article addresses the history of bisexuality in the United States. It covers this history from 1892, when the first English-language use of the word "bisexual", in the sense of being sexually attracted to both women and men, occurred, to the present.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Concerned Women for America

Concerned Women for America (CWA) is a socially conservative Christian non-profit women's activist group in the United States.

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Crown Prosecution Service

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public prosecuting agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales.

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Cyril Nri

Cyril Ikechukwu Nri (born 25 April 1961 in Nigeria) is a British actor, writer and director who is best known for playing Superintendent Adam Okaro in the police TV series The Bill.

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Debrecen

Debrecen is Hungary's second largest city after Budapest.

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Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom)

The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) was a United Kingdom government department between 2001 and 2007, responsible for the education system (including higher education and adult learning) as well as children's services in England.

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Elly Barnes

Dr Elly Barnes MBE (born 1971 in Leicestershire) is the Founder and Chief Executive of the charity Educate & Celebrate, the organisation that transforms schools into LGBT+ friendly places.

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Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.

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Gay pride

Gay pride or LGBT pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people to promote their self-affirmation, dignity, equality rights, increase their visibility as a social group, build community, and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance.

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Gerber/Hart Library and Archives

The Gerber/Hart Library and Archives (or "The Henry Gerber–Pearl M. Hart Library: The Midwest Lesbian & Gay Resource Center"), founded in 1981, is the largest circulating library of gay and lesbian titles in the Midwestern United States.

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GLSEN

GLSEN (formerly the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) is a United States-based education organization working to create safe and inclusive K-12 schools.

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Háttér Society

Háttér Society (Háttér Társaság in Hungarian) is one of the oldest and largest LGBTQI NGOs in Hungary.

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Heterosexism

Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships.

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History of bisexuality

This is an article about the history of bisexuality.

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History of gay men in the United States

This article is about the history of gay men in the United States. For lesbians, please see History of lesbianism in the United States.

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History of lesbianism

Lesbianism is the sexual and romantic desire between females.

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History of lesbianism in the United States

This article addresses the history of lesbianism in the United States. Unless otherwise noted, the members of same-sex female couples discussed here are not known to be lesbian (rather than for example bisexual), but they are mentioned as part of discussing the practice of lesbianism — that is, same-sex female sexual and romantic behavior.

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History of transgender people in the United States

This article addresses the history of transgender people in the United States from prior to western contact until the present.

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Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor.

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Indoctrination

Indoctrination is the process of inculcating a person with ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or professional methodologies (see doctrine).

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Jacqui Smith

Jacqueline Jill Smith (born 3 November 1962) is a British Labour politician.

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Kevin Jennings

Kevin Brett Jennings (born May 8, 1963) is an American educator, author, and administrator.

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Labi Siffre

Claudius Afolabi "Labi" Siffre (born 25 June 1945) is a British singer, songwriter, musician and poet.

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Labrisz Lesbian Association

Labrisz Lesbian Association was founded in 1999 in Budapest, Hungary.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

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LGBT

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

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LGBT history

LGBT history dates back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality of ancient civilizations, involving the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and transgender (LGBT) peoples and cultures around the world.

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LGBT rights by country or territory

Laws affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or territory; everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty as punishment for same-sex romantic/sexual activity or identity.

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LGBT Youth Scotland

LGBT Youth Scotland is a voluntary organisation dedicated to the inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) young people (12-26yr olds) in the life of Scotland.

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Linda Bellos

Linda Bellos OBE (born 1950) is a British businesswoman, radical feminist and gay-rights activist.

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March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation

The March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 1993.

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Mary Whitehouse

Constance Mary Whitehouse (née Hutcheson; 13 June 191023 November 2001) was an English social activist, known for her strong opposition to social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society.

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Mayor of London

The Mayor of London is the head of the executive body of the Greater London Authority.

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Metropolitan Police Authority

The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) was the local police authority responsible for scrutinising and supporting the work of the Metropolitan Police Service, the police force for Greater London (excluding the City of London Police area).

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Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.

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Miskolc

Miskolc (Slovak/Czech: Miškovec, German: Mischkolz, Romanian: Mișcolț, מישקאָלץ Mishkoltz) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry.

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National Coming Out Day

National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an annual LGBTQ awareness day observed on October 11 and October 12 in some parts of the world.

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National Education Association

The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest professional interest group in the United States.

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OurStory Scotland

Our Story Scotland is a community history and oral history project founded in 2002 to record the histories of Scotland's LGBT communities.

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Patricia Scotland

Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal (born 19 August 1955) is an English politician and barrister who served in ministerial positions within the UK Government, most notably as the Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland.

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Pécs

Pécs (known by alternative names) is the fifth largest city of Hungary, located on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the south-west of the country, close to its border with Croatia.

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Political correctness

The term political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated to PC or P.C.) is used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.

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Royal Courts of Justice

The Royal Courts of Justice, commonly called the Law Courts, is a court building in London which houses the High Court and Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

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Scottish Government

The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba; Scots Govrenment) is the executive of the devolved Scottish Parliament.

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Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights

The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on October 11, 1987.

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Section 28

Section 28 or Clause 28While going through Parliament, the amendment was constantly relabelled with a variety of clause numbers as other amendments were added to or deleted from the Bill, but by the final version of the Bill, which received Royal Assent, it had become Section 28.

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Sexual diversity

Gender and sexual diversity (GSD), or simply sexual diversity, is a term used to refer to all the diversities of sex characteristics, sexual orientations and gender identities, without the need to specify each of the identities, behaviors or characteristics that form this plurality.

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Southwark London Borough Council

Southwark London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Southwark in Greater London, England.

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Stella Duffy

Stella Frances Silas Duffy (born 2 March 1963) is a writer and theatremaker.

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Sue Sanders

Sue Sanders Emeritus Professor Harvey Milk Institute 2015 (born in 1947 in London) is, an "out and proud" lesbian, a British LGBT rights activist who has specialized in challenging oppression in the public and voluntary sectors for over forty years.

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Szeged

Szeged (see also other alternative names) is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat of Csongrád county.

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Tate Modern

Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London.

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Trades Union Congress

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions in England and Wales, representing the majority of trade unions.

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Transgender

Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.

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Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed.

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Windy City Times

Windy City Times is an LGBT newspaper in Chicago.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_History_Month

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