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Molly house
Molly houses were 18th- and early 19th-century English taverns, coffee houses, and back rooms where queer men called mollies met, cross-dressed, and held mock weddings, despite the 1533 Buggery Act; the 1726 raid on Mother Clap's Holborn house is the best-known persecution.
Moms for Liberty
Moms for Liberty (M4L): conservative American parental-rights organization founded January 2021 in Florida by Tina Descovich, Tiffany Justice, and Bridget Ziegler; known for school board endorsements, book challenges via BookLooks, and the SPLC 'extremist' designation dispute.
Murder of Blaze Bernstein
Murder of Blaze Bernstein: 2018 hate-crime killing of gay Jewish UPenn student Blaze Bernstein by former classmate Samuel Woodward, an Atomwaffen Division member, convicted July 2024 and sentenced to life without parole.
Murder of Gwen Araujo
The murder of Gwen Araujo was the 2002 killing of Gwen Amber Rose Araujo, a 17-year-old transgender girl beaten and strangled by four men in Newark, California.
Murder of Larry King
Murder of Lawrence "Larry" King, a 15-year-old student shot by classmate Brandon McInerney on February 12, 2008 at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, California; prosecuted as a hate crime and later reframed as the killing of trans girl Latisha King.
Nancy Heche
Nancy Heche (Nancy Abigail Baker Heche, born March 10, 1937) is an American Christian author and speaker on same-sex attraction, mother of Anne Heche; author of The Truth Comes Out (2006) and a 2009 guide with Joe Dallas.
Nathan Phelps
Nathan Phelps, known as Nate Phelps, is a Canadian-based American writer, LGBTQ and atheist activist, and an estranged son of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps.
National Coming Out Day
National Coming Out Day, October 11, founded 1988 by Jean O'Leary and Robert Eichberg after the 1987 March on Washington; now organized by HRC, observed in the US and Canada, celebrating coming out and living openly.
National Organization for Marriage
National Organization for Marriage (NOM), founded 2007, a 501(c)(4) group opposing same-sex marriage, led by Brian S. Brown, with a 501(c)(3) Education Fund and disclosure litigation history.
Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India
Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018): Supreme Court of India five-judge bench decision that read down Section 377 IPC, decriminalizing consensual same-sex relations among adults and overruling Suresh Koushal (2013).
Neuroqueer theory
Neuroqueer theory: a critical framework joining queer theory and neurodiversity, coined publicly around 2014 by Walker, Yergeau, Michaels-Dillon, and Grace, treating queerness and neurodivergence as inseparable and critiquing neuronormativity.
NOH8 Campaign
NOH8 Campaign, a photographic silent protest founded by Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley in 2008 against California Proposition 8; duct-taped mouths, NOH8 cheek paint, 56,000+ portraits, 501(c)(3).
Non-binary gender
Non-binary gender (nonbinary): umbrella term for gender identities outside or between male and female, covering both, fluid, or no gender identities. Covers terminology, prevalence (about 20% of trans people; 5% of US young adults), ICD-11 changes, health, and legal recognition status.
Obergefell v. Hodges
Obergefell v. Hodges, formerly Obergefell v. Wymyslo, is the June 2015 US Supreme Court decision, 5 to 4, requiring states to allow and recognize same-sex marriage.
Outing
Outing is the non-consensual public disclosure of a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. Known from the 1990 OutWeek Malcolm Forbes controversy, outing raises journalism-ethics, legal, school, and digital-privacy issues distinct from voluntary coming out.
Pansexuality
Pansexuality is a sexual orientation in which attraction to others is not limited by sex or gender, so pansexual people can be attracted to any gender identity.
Pepe Julian Onziema
Pepe Julian Onziema (born 1980) is a Ugandan transgender human rights activist, Programs Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, and the activist from the viral 2012 "Why are you gay?" NBS interview.
Pepper LaBeija
Pepper LaBeija, born William Jackson, died 2003, was Mother of the House of LaBeija, the first ballroom house, for about 30 years and a featured figure of the documentary Paris Is Burning (1990).
Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany
The persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany was the regime's 1935 to 1945 campaign against men under Paragraph 175; about 100,000 were arrested and 5,000 to 15,000 sent to concentration camps.
Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration
Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration: federal executive orders (EO 14168, 14187, 14183, 14201) from January 2025 restricting gender-affirming care, military service, passports, and recognition, plus litigation including Skrmetti, PFLAG v. Trump, and Orr v. Trump.
Pink triangle
The pink triangle (Rosa Winkel) was the badge Nazi concentration camps used to identify gay male prisoners, later reclaimed as an LGBTQ+ symbol of remembrance and pride.
Plurisexuality
Plurisexuality, also called bi+, is an umbrella research term for sexual identities involving potential attraction to more than one sex or gender, including bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, queer, and fluid identities, distinct from monosexual identities.
Pride flag
Pride flag, or rainbow flag: six-stripe LGBTQ+ symbol created by Gilbert Baker in 1978 for San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day Parade, first flown June 25, 1978; variants include the 2018 Progress Pride flag by Daniel Quasar.
Pride Month
Pride Month, the annual June LGBTQ+ commemoration honoring the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, marked by parades, marches, and memorials worldwide, originating in the 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day marches in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.
Pride parade
Pride parade: annual LGBTQ+ commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall riots; first held June 28, 1970 as Christopher Street Liberation Day in New York, with same-year marches in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco; now 300+ parades in 60+ countries.
Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act
Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act (North Carolina House Bill 2, SL 2016-3), 2016 statute requiring multiple-occupancy restrooms by birth-certificate sex and preempting local LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances; challenged federally, replaced by House Bill 142 in 2017.
Queer
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions outside societal norms, and shorthand for the LGBTQ community. Once a pejorative, it was reclaimed during the 1980s-1990s AIDS crisis and underpins queer theory.
Queerbaiting
Queerbaiting: a fan-coined pejorative for media producers hinting at or advertising queer content to attract LGBTQ audiences without delivering it. Known in Sinophone fandom as maifu; debated around authorial intent, celebrity personas, and Thai Y-series.
Questioning (sexuality and gender)
Questioning (sexuality and gender), the Q in LGBTQ, is the process of exploring one's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. Covers definitions, identity-development timing, SOGI survey measurement, and youth mental health.
Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe
Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe covers marriage, registered partnerships, civil unions, and cohabitation statuses. Denmark pioneered registered partnerships in 1989; the Netherlands led on marriage in 2001; the ECtHR (Fedotova) and CJEU (Coman, C-713/23) drive cross-border recognition.