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American Veterans for Equal Rights

It was founded by several lgbt veterans including St. Sgt. (Army Reserve-Rtd.) Miriam Ben-Shalom in 1990 as the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans of America, the oldest organization of LGBT veterans.

Anne E. DeChant

Examples include Girls and Airplanes (gender equality), Green Hand (supporting troops post-war), Swastika (Holocaust denial), 25 (imbalance in economic status), and Second Class Citizen (prejudice and intolerance toward the gay community).

Aurin Squire

He has written and produced a viral video series for the gay social and dating app Mister.

Barry Duke

In 1979, Duke was a founding member of the Gay Humanist Group, (now Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association) after Mary Whitehouse began a private prosecution for blasphemous libel against Gay News (see Whitehouse v Lemon.

BB Gandanghari

Gandanghai appeared in the film version of the comic book Zsazsa Zaturnnah (her first film role as a gay man) as the gay salon owner Ada (Adrian), alter ego of Zsazsa Zaturnnah, in TV series La Vendetta via GMA 7 and movie Happy Hearts.

Be My Lover

It can be vaguely heard in the background in the "World's Greatest Dick" episode of the 3rd Rock from the Sun, in the Gay Bar that Sally and Harry walk into at the beginning of the episode.

Bo White

Bo White is an American actor who appeared in Christopher Larkin's 1974 groundbreaking film, A Very Natural Thing, the gay alternative to Love Story (1970).

Bureau de change

The 1994 news parody The Day Today featured a spoof soap opera called The Bureau, set in "a 'high class' bureau de change" and run by soap-opera stereotypes (the arrogant boss, the gay man, etc.).

Christopher Lee Nutter

He has been Called “the gay Dr. Phil” by Gay Web Monkey magazine, "a new voice in the great American debate about values" by the San Francisco Chronicle, and endorsed by GLAAD and Gary Zukav.

Dale Jennings

This organization became the dominant organization in Los Angeles and with the financial assistance of Jennings' sister Elaine and her husband James Porter its magazine became, for a period of time, the voice of the gay and lesbian movement.

Dirty Gay Hits

Dirty Gay Hits is the debut album by singer/comedian Jonny McGovern (a.k.a. "The Gay Pimp").

Elliott Kalan

He was instrumental in putting together the "gay cowboy" montage (a comedic series of clips from classic westerns, illustrating that the gay content in Brokeback Mountain is nothing new), when Jon Stewart hosted the 78th Academy Awards.

Fight OUT Loud

In 2007 Fight OUT Loud became a leader in the effort to address Fort Lauderdale, Florida Mayor Jim Naugle's comments about the gay community.

Flagging

Handkerchief code, a use of color-coded bandannas in the gay and BDSM communities

Gay Ghost

The Gay Ghost appeared in Sensation Comics #1–13, 15–33, and 38, his last appearance until Secret Origins Vol.

Gay Left

Andrew Britton challenged ‘Camp’ (GL 6), and there were pioneering articles on ‘Gay Art’, the gay singer, Tom Robinson and the theatre group Gay Sweatshop (GL 7).

George Nader

According to Variety Magazines Army Archerd, Nader had completed a book called The Perils of Paul, about the gay community in Hollywood, which he did not want published until after his death.

Hank Wilson

With Tom Ammiano and Ron Lanza, Wilson co-founded the Gay Teachers Coalition in 1975 and lobbied against discrimination for gay teachers in the San Francisco schools.

Heinz Heger

Erik Jensen, writing in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, identifies the publication of Kohout's memoir as a turning point in the history of the gay community, when the activists of the 1960s and 70s began to take account of the perspectives of the preceding generation and to embrace the pink triangle as a symbol of gay identity.

Houston GLBT Community Center

Numerous Houston organizations have previously had office space at the Center, including H.A.T.C.H.; Houston chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG); Pride Committee of Houston; Q-Patrol; Greater Houston GLBT Chamber of Commerce; Houston GLBT Political Caucus; the Black Lesbian and Gay Coalition; the Texas Human Rights Foundation; Southern Poverty Law Center; and the Gay and Lesbian Switchboard.

Jim Kepner

In a review of Kepner’s 1998 book, Rough News, Daring Views: 1950s' Pioneer Gay Press Journalism, historian William Armstrong Percy III wrote, "the Gay rights movement had three remarkable pioneers. Two—Harry Hay and Dorr Legg—have long been recognized, whereas the contribution of the third—Jim Kepner—has never been adequately documented…" Percy goes on to say “Kepner’s articles (in the book) record not only the past of the gay rights movement but also its soul.”

Jonny McGovern Presents: This is NYC, Bitch! The East Village Mixtape

The East Village Mixtape is an album by singer/comedian Jonny McGovern (a.k.a. "The Gay Pimp").

Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

The foundation was also the first to exhibit the gay erotica of renowned commercial illustrator Bob Ziering.

LGBT culture in Liverpool

Homotopia also represents the gay community with its own float in Liverpool's annual Lord Mayor's Parade, along with other communities in the city.

Lipstick lesbian

In 1990, the gay newspaper OutWeek covered the Lesbian Ladies Society, a Washington, D.C.–based social group of "feminine lesbians" that required women to wear a dress or skirt to its functions.

Lorri

Lorri Jean, a leader in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender ("GLBT") civil rights movement in America

Mary Cheney

During Mary Cheney's May 19, 2006, appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, Letterman addressed some of the issues raised by the gay community.

Matt Cedeño

He guest-starred in the one hundredth episode of Desperate Housewives as Umberto Roswell, the gay husband of Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan).

Philip Gambone

He drew his 44 subjects from every corner of the gay community, including, for example, composer Jennifer Higdon, Star Trek's George Takei, and anti-war activist Mandy Carter.

Pink Apple

In 1997 the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Pink Apple was founded by a handful of film enthusiasts in Frauenfeld, a small city in the Canton of Thurgau in Eastern Switzerland.

Quiet Night In

Richard Lambeth had previously made appearances in the cult TV series Atlantis High and Being Eve, Lucy Gay, Brian McKay and Christopher Banks starred in the gay film festival film All About Reinalda, and Brian Moore appeared as Monat in the TV adaptation of the Riverworld novels.

Run Barbi Run

Seeing an opportunity to escape from being hounded by different personalities involved in the investigation of the crime he witnessed, he disguised himself as Barbi, the gay impersonator of Barbra Streisand.

Scott Sherman

The Gay Parenting Show featured personal commentary and interviews with experts in the field of gay parenting, including Dan Savage, author and activist Wayne Besen and Evan Wolfson of the Freedom to Marry Coalition.

Shannon, Mississippi

From 1998 until 2007, Shannon was home to Rumors, the gay bar featured in the Kevin Smith/Malcolm Ingram film Small Town Gay Bar.

Singapore gay documentaries

The programme was thought to have been produced to give an opportunity for the gay community to vent its concerns after an official clampdown on gay parties like Nation.04 and Snowball in 2004, presumably as part of a conservative backlash against the rampant spread of HIV infection within the community.

South of Broad

After a series of embarrassing moments and behavior for Sheba during which time Leo's old high school friends unite together, Sheba reveals that she has lost contact with her brother Trevor, whom she suspects is dying of AIDS in San Francisco at the height of its outbreak among the gay community.

South San Francisco High School

or Leadership, The Hermanos Club, Drama Club/Thespians Troupe, ASB or Leadership, Journalism (which produces the school newspaper, the Warrior), Chess Club, Mock Trial, California Scholarship Federation, and the GSA.

Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act

The United States Olympic Committee has used the law to force the "Gay Olympics" to change their name to the Gay Games.

The Best Awful There Is

It is also said to fictionalize the story of her relationship with the gay agent Bryan Lourd, father of her daughter, Billie Lourd.

The Female Marine

A unidentified newspaper reference (found in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society) at the time suggests that Coverly “kept a poet, or ready writer, who manufactured for him all prose and verse articles which were called for by the occasions of the time.” This author, Mr. Nathaniel Hill Wright, was described as “a comical genius, who could do the grave or the gay, as necessity demanded, and with equal facility.”

The Gay Marriage Thing

The Gay Marriage Thing includes interviews with United Church of Christ Reverend Richard Wiesenbach, Massachusetts State Representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein, Unitarian Universalist Reverend Carlton Smith, as well as the featured couple and a multitude of man-on-the-street interviews.

Tribal house

Specific to the gay circuit party scene, some disc jockeys that specialize in this type of music include Offer Nissim, Cajjmere Wray, Hector Fonseca, Tony Moran, Joe Gauthreaux and Rosabel.

Tyrone Giordano

Giordano remained with Big River for most of its year-long national tour (June 2004-June 2005) as well as its run in Japan, leaving only to complete filming on The Family Stone, in which he plays the gay deaf brother of lead actor Dermot Mulroney.

Village Care of New York

During the late 1970s when HIV was only spoken about in whispers and called the "gay cancer" the same core group that helped to purchase the nursing home decided to split their focus and to start caring for the residents of Greenwich Village that were afflicted with HIV/AIDS.

William Crawley

Other TV presenting roles include the weekly late-night television interview series "William Crawley Meets ...", face-to-face interviews of 30 minutes in duration with leading thinkers and social reformers from across the world, including the philosopher Peter Singer, the scientist Richard Dawkins, the writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, and the gay bishop Gene Robinson.