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LGBTQ advocacy in the Gaza war
LGBTQ advocacy in the Gaza war: positions since October 2023 by ILGA World, Outright International, alQaws, Queers for Liberation, and Queers in Palestine, covering ceasefire demands, pinkwashing critiques, HRC protests, Tel Aviv Pride 2024, and Safebow evacuations.
LGBTQ history in the Soviet Union
LGBTQ history in the Soviet Union: decriminalization of male homosexuality after 1917 and in the 1922 RSFSR code, Stalin's 1934 recriminalization of muzhelozhstvo after the 1933 OGPU arrests, the 1965–75 decriminalization debate, and repeal in Russia in 1993.
LGBTQ movements
LGBTQ movements are social and political campaigns for LGBTQ rights, from the 1924 Society for Human Rights and 1950s homophile groups through Stonewall, ACT UP, Obergefell, and today's global ILGA-era movement.
LGBTQ people
LGBTQ people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning; variants LGBT, LGBTQIA, LGBTI) are sexual and gender minorities defined by sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, and sex characteristics; 63 countries criminalize same-sex acts while 33 have marriage equality.
LGBTQ people and Islam
LGBTQ people and Islam: how Muslim scripture, Shari'a interpretation, and communities treat queer and gender-diverse people; Lot-story exegesis, mukhannathun and hijra history, reformist and conservative scholarship, and divergent laws and public opinion.
Libs of TikTok
Libs of TikTok is a conservative social media account and website created by Chaya Raichik that reposts LGBTQ+ and educator content with outrage framing; it shaped Republican messaging on LGBTQ+ issues and has been linked to harassment and bomb threats.
Lipstick lesbian
Lipstick lesbian, slang for a feminine-presenting lesbian (a femme), first recorded 1980–85 and dated 1984 in the OED. Gained 1990s media visibility, criticized as fetishizing; largely replaced by femme or high femme.
List of Christian denominational positions on homosexuality
Christian denominational positions on homosexuality: Catholic, Orthodox, mainline Protestant, evangelical, and Pentecostal official stances on same-sex marriage, gay clergy ordination, and blessings, including the 2024 United Methodist schism, ELCA and Presbyterian affirmations, and Fiducia Supplicans.
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people
Lists of gay, lesbian or bisexual people, also called gay lists, compile famous individuals presented as same-sex oriented. They date to the mid-19th century, require public self-acknowledgment for living people, and face evidence and anachronism problems for historical figures.
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: A
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: A, an alphabetical reference list of notable surname-A people documented as gay, lesbian or bisexual, using self-identification for the living and documented or circumstantial evidence for historical figures, related to the Out List and Routledge Who's Who projects.
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: W–Z
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: W–Z, the final alphabetical section of a compiled reference list of notable gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, with entries giving lifetime, nationality, notability, and evidence notes, and a labeling caution for historical figures.
List of gender identities
List of gender identities: catalogs terms like non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, agender, hijra, two-spirit, fa'afafine, and X-gender, with WHO/APA definitions, terminology history, legal recognition, and survey prevalence data.
List of LGBTQ acronyms
LGBTQ acronyms (LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA+, 2SLGBTQI+, SOGIESC) are initialisms for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and related identities; variants differ by region, era, and institutional usage.
List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups
Annual SPLC census of US organizations designated hate groups: definition, Intelligence Project methodology, ideological categories such as anti-LGBTQ, chapter-counting disputes, defamation litigation, and 2024 to 2026 counts and controversies.
List of people killed for being transgender
Lists of people killed for being transgender: memorial and tracking projects (Remembering Our Dead, TGEU's Trans Murder Monitoring, HRC tallies) documenting victims such as Rita Hester and Chanelle Pickett, their counts, and the data gaps that make all such lists undercounts.
List of reportedly LGBTQ state leaders throughout history
Reportedly LGBTQ state leaders across history: Han emperors including Ai, William Rufus, Edward II, Richard I, James I, Frederick the Great, and James Buchanan, with historiographical cautions about applying modern identity labels to premodern rulers.
List of transgender people
List of transgender people: compilations of documented trans individuals from history and today, including Christine Jorgensen, Michael Dillon, Marsha P. Johnson, Andrea Jenkins, and Sarah McBride, with notes on sourcing and terminology limits.
Log Cabin Republicans
Log Cabin Republicans: organization of LGBT conservatives and allies within the U.S. Republican Party, founded in 1970s California against the Briggs Initiative, named for Lincoln, headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Logan Brown (activist)
Logan Brown, British transgender man and activist, documented his pregnancy as Up The Duff Man, appeared on Glamour UK's June 2023 Pride cover, and wrote the children's book In My Daddy's Belly (2023) with partner Bailey J Mills.
Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), German Jewish physician and sexologist, founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (1897), the first homosexual rights organization, and the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (1919), site of the first modern sex-change surgeries, destroyed by the Nazis in 1933.
Manvendra Singh Gohil (मानवेंद्र सिंह गोहिल)
Manvendra Singh Gohil (मानवेंद्र सिंह गोहिल), prince of the erstwhile state of Rajpipla, Gujarat, and 39th of the Gohil dynasty, came out in 2006 as India's first openly gay prince, was disowned by his family, and founded the Lakshya Trust.
Mark Ashton
Mark Ashton (1960–1987) was a Northern Irish communist and gay rights activist, co-founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners during the 1984–85 miners' strike and General Secretary of the Young Communist League, portrayed in the 2014 film Pride.
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30) is the UK law legalizing same-sex marriage in England and Wales. Royal Assent 17 July 2013; first marriages 29 March 2014; includes the quadruple lock religious protection.
Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson (1945–1992), born Malcolm Michaels Jr., was a New York drag performer, sex worker, and LGBTQ+ activist of the Stonewall uprising, co-founder of the Gay Liberation Front and, with Sylvia Rivera, of STAR; her 1992 Hudson River death remains unsolved.
Martin Ssempa
Martin Ssempa (born 1968) is a Ugandan Pentecostal pastor, founder of Makerere Community Church and its Prime Time student rallies, an abstinence-focused HIV prevention advocate who testified before the U.S. Congress, and one of Uganda's most prominent anti-homosexuality activists.
Mattachine Society
The Mattachine Society, founded by Harry Hay in Los Angeles in 1950, was the first sustained gay rights organization in the United States and a central homophile-movement group with national chapters.
Matthew Shepard
Matthew Shepard, also known as Matt Shepard, was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who died after a 1998 attack near Laramie.
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Shepard-Byrd Act), 18 U.S.C. § 249, is a 2009 federal law criminalizing bias-motivated violent bodily injury based on race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
Michael Glatze
Michael Glatze, American former gay-rights activist and founding editor of Young Gay America magazine, who renounced homosexuality in 2007, became an evangelical pastor in Wyoming, married Rebekah, and was portrayed by James Franco in I Am Michael (2015).
Misinformation about violence by transgender people
Misinformation about violence by transgender people: false claims of rising transgender mass shooters, contradicted by Gun Violence Archive data (five such shootings since 2013) and NCVS victimization data showing transgender people are over four times more likely to be victims.