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Gavril Krastevich
Gavril Krastevich (Гаврил Кръстевич, 1817–1898) was a Bulgarian National Revival jurist, historian, and church activist, and the second General Governor of Eastern Rumelia from 1884 until the Bulgarian Unification of 1885.
Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip (1894–1918), Bosnian Serb South Slav nationalist and Young Bosnia member, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914; sentenced to 20 years, died of tuberculosis in prison; his memory remains contested between Serbia and Bosnia.
Gavroche
Gavroche, the abandoned Thénardier son in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables (1862), a Parisian street urchin of the June 1832 Rebellion who dies collecting cartridges on the barricade; his name became the French common noun gavroche.
Gavurkale
Gavurkale (Gavurkalesi), Turkish for "Infidel's Castle," is a Hittite rock-relief and hilltop sanctuary of the Late Bronze Age near Ankara, Turkey, with three carved deities and a stone chamber on its summit.
Gawain
Gawain (Gwalchmai, Gauvain) is King Arthur's nephew, son of Lot of Orkney and Morgause, and the most frequently featured knight of Arthurian romance, hero of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Gawain Poet
The Gawain Poet, also called the Pearl Poet, is the anonymous author of four Middle English poems, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, written in the late 1300s.
Gawdawpalin Temple
Gawdawpalin Temple (ဂေါတော့ပလ္လင်) is a large two-storey Theravada Buddhist temple in Old Bagan, Myanmar, begun by King Narapatisithu in the late 12th century and completed by his son Htilominlo.
Gawdland
Gawdland (ก็อดแลนด์), stage name of Thai drag performer Tharathep Thaweephon born 2002, won RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs the World Season 3, becoming the first Thai, Asian, and non-English-speaking-country winner, after placing third on Drag Race Thailand season 3.
Gawęda
Gawęda is a Polish prose genre imitating a relaxed oral tale told by a first-person narrator, rooted in noble tradition and popular in the Romantic era.
Gawhar Shad
Gawhar Shad (گوهرشاد بیگم) was the wife of the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh. She was highly influential in state affairs and active in the succession struggle after 1447.
Gawilgarh Fort
Gawilgarh Fort (गाविलगढ़) is a hill fortress in Berar, present-day Maharashtra, built by the Bahmani Sultanate in 1425-26 and later the capital of the Imad Shahi dynasty of Berar.
Gawker
Gawker, also known as Gawker.com, was a New York-based gossip and media-criticism website founded by Nick Denton in 2002, closed in 2016 after a $140 million judgment.
Gawker Media
Gawker Media, also known as the Gawker Media Network, was a New York media company founded by Nick Denton in 2002 that ran Gawker, Gizmodo, Deadspin, and Jezebel.
Gawn Grainger
Gawn Grainger (1937-2025), Scottish actor, playwright and screenwriter; National Theatre stalwart under Laurence Olivier from 1972, Broadway in There's a Girl in My Soup and The Misanthrope, TV roles in Doctor Who and Private Schulz, husband of Zoë Wanamaker.
Gawne
Gawne (Luke Gawne), born 1997 in Oak Park, Illinois, is an independent Midwest rapper; solo albums Gawne Lane through Rainy Days, collaborations with Shaquille O'Neal, Tech N9ne, Atlus.
Gay
Gay describes attraction to the same sex or gender, most often applied to men; about 4% of people identify with a same-sex orientation. Covers terminology, science, Stonewall-era history, and global legal status.
Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands
The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands, or Gay Kingdom, was an unrecognized Australian micronation proclaimed on Cato Island on 14 June 2004 by gay rights activists protesting the Marriage Act amendment, led by Emperor Dale Parker Anderson, and dissolved 17 November 2017 after same-sex marriage was legalized.
Gay bar
Gay bar: LGBTQ+ drinking establishment, also called queer bar, historically central to gay social life. Known for police raids, the 1966 sip-in, Stonewall 1969, mafia ownership, and modern closures driven by gentrification, COVID-19, and rising rents.
Gay bathhouse
Gay bathhouse: commercial venue, also called baths, saunas, or sex clubs, where gay and bisexual men socialize and meet for sex. Traces Bérubé's four-phase history, the Continental Baths, 1984–85 AIDS-era closures, and HIV prevention roles.
Gay bomb
The "gay bomb" was a proposed 1994 US Air Force chemical weapon meant to make enemy soldiers sexually attracted to each other; it was never built.
Gay Byrne
Gay Byrne (Gabriel Mary Byrne, 1934–2019), Irish broadcaster nicknamed Gaybo, hosted RTÉ's The Late Late Show from 1962 to 1999 and The Gay Byrne Hour/Show on Radio 1 from 1973 to 1998, pioneering Irish confessional radio.
Gay chicken
Gay chicken is an informal dare game where two same-sex participants move toward a kiss and the first to pull away loses; documented by sociologist Eric Anderson and used as a slash-fiction plot device.
Gay Games
The Gay Games is a quadrennial LGBTQ+ sport and culture event founded by Tom Waddell as the Gay Olympics in San Francisco in 1982, renamed after a USOC lawsuit, run by the Federation of Gay Games, most recently Hong Kong and Guadalajara 2023 and València 2026.
Gay icon
Gay icon: a celebrity, usually a female star like Judy Garland, Madonna, or Lady Gaga, embraced by gay communities as a fantasy figure and shared subcultural reference, tied to camp aesthetics and a contested canon.
Gay liberation
Gay liberation: radical 1970s phase of LGBT rights activism launched after the June 1969 Stonewall uprising, organized through Gay Liberation Fronts in New York, London, and elsewhere, promoting coming out, anti-capitalist politics, and Pride marches.
Gay Liberation Front
Gay Liberation Front (GLF): radical LGBT organization founded in New York, July 1969, after Stonewall; name modeled on the Vietnamese NLF; organized the first Pride march (June 28, 1970); London branch founded October 1970 at LSE; active 1969–1972.
Gay literature
Gay literature: writing by, about, and for gay men and queer people, from ancient Greece to the modern gay literary explosion; includes queer literary criticism, Cart and Jenkins' YA categories, censorship history, and the Stonewall and Lambda awards.
Gay male speech
Gay male speech: speech features and listener perceptions associated with gay men, studied in lavender linguistics. Key markers include F0, hyperarticulated /s/, and vowel formants; features vary widely and stereotypes lack accuracy.
Gay men
Gay men are men whose primary attractions are toward other men. They reported more severe psychological distress than heterosexual men in 2013-2014, and 65 countries still criminalize same-sex relations.
Gay Nigger Association of America
Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA), internet trolling collective founded circa 2002, named after the 1992 Danish film Gayniggers from Outer Space; known for pranks on MacRumors and Wikipedia, weev's presidency, and the Goatse Security offshoot.