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Straight ally

Index Straight ally

A straight ally or heterosexual ally is a heterosexual and cisgender person who supports equal civil rights, gender equality, LGBT social movements, and challenges homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. [1]

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Allies (disambiguation)

Allies is a term referring to individuals, groups or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose.

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Ally

Ally is the singular form of allies.

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Atticus Circle

Atticus Circle is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and mobilize heterosexual people to advance equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender partners, parents, and their children.

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Atticus Finch

Atticus Finch is a fictional character in Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Ball State University

Ball State University, commonly referred to as Ball State or BSU, is a public coeducational research university in Muncie, Indiana, United States, with two satellite facilities in Fishers and Indianapolis.

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BEN (Adair Lion song)

"BEN" ("Better Everything Now") is a hip hop song written by rapper, producer, and director Adair Lion (Adair Fragoso), a native of El Paso, Texas.

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor who has performed in film, television, theatre and radio.

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Berlin Pride

The Berlin Pride Celebration, usually known as CSD Berlin, is a parade and festival held in the second half of July each year in Berlin to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies.

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Blair Academy

Blair Academy is a private, coeducational, boarding and day school for students in high school for ninth through twelfth grades.

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Campus Pride

Campus Pride is an American national nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded by M. Chad Wilson, Sarah E. Holmes and Shane L. Windmeyer in 2001 which serves lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and ally student leaders and/or campus organization in the areas of leadership development, support programs and services to create safer, more inclusive LGBT-friendly colleges and universities.

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Coalition of African Lesbians

The Coalition of African Lesbians is a lesbian rights nonprofit organisation based in South Africa that has existed since 2003.

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Coming out

Coming out of the closet, or simply coming out, is a metaphor for LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation or of their gender identity.

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David Pakman

David Pakman (born February 2, 1984) is an Argentinean-American television and radio host, political commentator, college instructor, and Internet personality.

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Delhi Queer Pride Parade

Delhi Queer Pride Parade is organised by members of the Delhi Queer Pride Committee every last Sunday of November since 2008.

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Fight OUT Loud

Fight OUT Loud is a United States 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 2007 to empower lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals, and their allies to fight discrimination and hate.

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Gamma Rho Lambda

Gamma Rho Lambda (ΓΡΛ) is a social, college-based sorority for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, and allied students.

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Gay bashing

Gay bashing and gay bullying is verbal or physical abuse against a person who is perceived by the aggressor to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, including persons who are actually heterosexual.

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Gay Christian Network

The Gay Christian Network (GCN) is a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight ally organization and ecumenical Christian ministry founded in 2001 by Justin Lee and administered from Raleigh, North Carolina in the United States.

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Gay day

A gay day or gay night is a scheduled time at an establishment dedicated to attracting and catering to the gay community.

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Gay–straight alliance

A gay–straight alliance (GSA) is a student-led or community-based organization, found in middle schools and high schools as well as colleges and universities, primarily in the United States and Canada, that is intended to provide a safe and supportive environment for LGBT youth (or those who are perceived as such) and their heterosexual and cisgender allies.

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Growing American Youth

Growing American Youth is a social support organization for youth who live in or near St. Louis, Missouri and who are 21 and under and identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, or who are questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Hamburg Pride

The Hamburg Pride Celebration, usually known as CSD Hamburg, is a parade and festival held at the end of July each year in Hamburg to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies, as part of international LGBTQ pride and Christopher Street Day festivities.

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Homophile

The words homophile and homophilia are dated terms for homosexuality.

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Houston GLBT Community Center

The Houston GLBT Community Center was a community center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their allies in the Houston metropolitan area and southeast Texas.

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Hudson Taylor (wrestler)

Hudson Taylor (born Herbert Hudson Taylor IV) is the founder and executive director of Athlete Ally, a former wrestling coach at Columbia University and a prominent straight ally and civil rights activist of LGBT rights.

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Integrity USA

Integrity USA is a nonprofit organization working in the Episcopal Church in the United States (TEC) for the full inclusion of members and their allies.

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Jacksonville Pride

Jacksonville Pride, officially known as River City Pride, is an annual weekend-long parade and festival in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Kreuzberg Pride

The Kreuzberg Pride, usually known as Transgenialer CSD, is a parade and festival held in June each year in Kreuzberg, Berlin to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies.

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Lambda 10 Project

The Lambda 10 Project is a national clearinghouse of information pertaining to LGBT issues in American fraternities and sororities.

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Lara Fabian

Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert (born January 9, 1970), better known as Lara Fabian, is a Canadian-Belgian singer.

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Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States.

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LGBT

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

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LGBT movements in the United States

LGBT movements in the United States comprise an interwoven history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied movements in the United States of America, beginning in the early 20th century and influential in achieving social progress for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual people.

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LGBT people in prison

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) prisoners often face additional challenges compared to heterosexual and cisgender prisoners.

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List of LGBT rights organizations in the United States

This is a list of LGBT rights organizations in the United States.

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Matthew Shepard Foundation

The Matthew Shepard Foundation is an LGBT nonprofit organization, headquartered in Casper, Wyoming, which was founded in December 1998 by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their son, Matthew.

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Milano Pride

The Milano Pride is a parade and festival held at the end of June each year in Milan, Italy, to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies.

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Misterb&b

misterb&b is a travel and social networking website that provides rented lodging primarily to gay men.

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Moonlight (2016 film)

Moonlight is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.

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Moral courage

Moral courage is the courage to take action for moral reasons despite the risk of adverse consequences.

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Orange City LGBT Pride March

Orange City LGBT Pride March or Nagpur Pride March is the pride parade of Nagpur, Maharashtra, which started in the year 2016.

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Paris Pride

The Paris Pride or Marche des Fiertés LGBT, is a parade and festival held at the end of June each year in Paris, France to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies.

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Phoenix Pride

Phoenix Pride (formerly known as Phoenix Pride March & Rally, Desert Pride, Arizona Central Pride, and Phoenix Pride Festival) is a parade and festival held each year in Phoenix, Arizona to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies.

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Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians

The Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians (PLAGAL) is a United States-based interest group opposed to legalized elective abortion and supportive of alternatives to abortion.

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Rainbow flag (LGBT movement)

The rainbow flag, commonly known as the gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag, is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride and LGBT social movements.

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Safe space

The term safe space refers to an autonomous space created for individuals who feel marginalized to come together to communicate regarding their experiences with marginalization, most commonly located on university campuses in the western world, but also at workplaces, as in the case of Nokia.

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Saks Fifth Avenue

Saks Fifth Avenue is an American luxury department store owned by the oldest commercial corporation in North America, the Hudson's Bay Company.

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San Francisco Pride

The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration, usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a parade and festival held at the end of June each year in San Francisco, California, to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies.

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Spectrum Center (community center)

The Spectrum Center is an office at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor that is dedicated to providing education, outreach, and advocacy for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and allied (LGBTQA) community.

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Team New York Aquatics

Team New York Aquatics (also referred to as TNYA) is a Masters level swim, water polo and diving team based in New York City to foster aquatic sports amongst gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender athletes and their heterosexual allies.

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The EndUp

The EndUp is a nightclub in San Francisco, California.

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Theta Pi Sigma

Theta Pi Sigma (ΘΠΣ), formerly known as Delta Lambda Psi (ΔΛΨ), was started by Marc Garcia in 2005 at UC Santa Cruz.

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Transcending Boundaries Conference

The Transcending Boundaries Conference (TBC) is a Northeast American convention for bisexual + other middle sexualitites; genderqueer; transgender; intersex; polyamorous and other people who do fall outside strict binaries as well as their family, friends, and straight allies.

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Tucson Pride

Tucson Lesbian and Gay Alliance (dba: Tucson Pride) is Arizona's first and oldest LGBT pride organization and one of the oldest LGBT pride organizations in the nation.

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Woke

Woke is a political term of African American origin that refers to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice.

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References

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

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