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David Thorstad
David Thorstad (1941–2021), American gay liberation activist, co-author of The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864–1935), SWP critic, Gay Activists Alliance president, and NAMBLA founding member; distinct from the contemporary philosopher of the same name.
Deadnaming
Deadnaming is calling a transgender person by their birth name instead of their chosen name, intentionally or accidentally. Covers effects, identity documents, media style guides (AP, Reuters, Trans Journalists Association), and US and UK legal treatment.
Death of Hedviga Golik
Death of Hedviga Golik: Croatian nurse (born 1924, Rijeka) who died alone in her Zagreb attic apartment, found mummified on her bed in May 2008, 35–42 years later; cause undetermined, TV legend false.
Death of Jay Slater
Death of Jay Slater: 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle who vanished in Tenerife on 17 June 2024 after the NRG festival and was found dead in the Juan López ravine near Masca; a 2025 inquest ruled accidental fall.
Death of Nex Benedict
Nex Benedict (Dagny Benedict), 16, a nonbinary Choctaw sophomore, died February 8, 2024, one day after a restroom fight at Owasso High School, Oklahoma. Ruled a suicide; federal OCR found Title IX violations; family lawsuit pending.
Death of Parker Wells
Death of Parker Wells: 11-year-old non-verbal autistic Calgary boy who vanished from a day home July 16, 2026, found dead July 29 in a Deerfoot Trail stormwater pipe; death ruled non-criminal, prompting a 911 dispatch review and Alberta Amber Alert criteria review.
Death of Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston, an American singer, died on February 11, 2012, in Beverly Hills. The cause was ruled accidental drowning, with heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors.
Deaths of Divine Adili and Rene Baterbonia
Deaths of Divine Adili and Rene Baterbonia: June 8, 2026 drownings of two Ateneo Blue Eagles players, ages 21 and 18, at Dipaculao, Aurora, Philippines, followed by homicide complaints and viral misinformation.
Deborah Read
Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1707/1708-1774) was Benjamin Franklin's common-law wife from 1730 and a Philadelphia businesswoman who managed the Franklin shops, printing operations, and post office affairs during his long absences in Europe; she died of a stroke in December 1774.
Declaration of nullity
Declaration of nullity (annulment, decree of nullity): a court or tribunal ruling that a marriage or other legal act was never valid from the outset; covers void vs voidable marriages in civil law and declarative nullity judgments in Catholic canon law.
Declaration of Sentiments
Declaration of Sentiments: 1848 women's rights statement drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Ann M'Clintock for the Seneca Falls Convention, modeled on the Declaration of Independence, signed by 68 women and 32 men, demanding suffrage and equal rights.
Decree nisi
Decree nisi: provisional divorce order (now "conditional order" in England and Wales since 6 April 2022) showing the court sees no bar to divorce; parties stay married until the decree absolute (final order), applyable 43 days later.
Defense of Marriage Act
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), 1996 U.S. federal law, P.L. 104-199, defining marriage for federal purposes as one man and one woman; Section 3 struck down by United States v. Windsor (2013) and repealed by the Respect for Marriage Act (2022).
Dehumanization of Jews and Israelis in Palestinian discourse
Dehumanization of Jews and Israelis in Palestinian discourse refers to documented animal comparisons, disease metaphors, and eliminationist language in Palestinian Authority media, Hamas communications, and school materials.
Dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli discourse
Dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli discourse: documented animalistic and subhuman rhetoric by Israeli officials and media, notably Gallant's 'human animals' and Netanyahu's Amalek references, analyzed by scholars, NGOs, and UN bodies.
Delano family
Delano family, American lineage from Philippe de Lannoy (de la Noye), a 1621 Fortune Pilgrim; rose via New Bedford whaling and the Canton China trade; Sara Delano was FDR's mother.
Demisexuality
Demisexuality, also called being demisexual, is a sexual orientation on the asexual spectrum in which sexual attraction arises only after a strong emotional bond forms, distinct from celibacy and from asexuality and graysexuality.
Demographics of online dating
Demographics of online dating describes who uses dating sites and apps, measured by age, gender, sexual orientation, education, and geography, together with research on the relationships they produce.
Demographics of sexual orientation
Demographics of sexual orientation: statistical measurement of attraction, behavior, and identity in populations. Covers the three-component consensus, NHIS/ONS prevalence figures, national survey designs, and global concealment estimates.
Denial of the October 7 attacks
Denial of the October 7 attacks: claims denying or minimizing the 2023 Hamas-led assault (around 1,200 killed, 251 abducted), including staged-image, false flag, and sexual-violence denial narratives documented by ADL, CyberWell, ISD, and NewsGuard.
Denis Kearney
Denis Kearney (c. 1847-1907), Irish-born San Francisco agitator, founded the Workingmen's Party of California in 1877 and led anti-Chinese agitation with the slogan "The Chinese must go!"
Denmark Vesey
Denmark Vesey (c. 1767–1822), also known as Telemaque, was a free Black Charleston carpenter hanged in 1822 for allegedly plotting a large slave insurrection set for Bastille Day; 35 were executed, and historians still dispute whether the plot was real.
Denys Finch Hatton
Denys Finch Hatton (1887–1931), Hon. Denys George Finch Hatton, English aristocrat, farmer and white hunter in Kenya; Karen Blixen's lover, model for Out of Africa, killed in a Gipsy Moth crash near Voi.
DeRay Mckesson
DeRay Mckesson (born 1985, Baltimore) is a civil rights activist, former school administrator, and co-founder of Campaign Zero who rose to prominence during the 2014 Ferguson protests, hosted Pod Save The People, and ran sixth in Baltimore's 2016 mayoral primary.
Development communication
Development communication, or Communication for Development (C4D), is the strategic use of communication technologies and processes to promote social change. Coined by Nora Quebral in the 1970s, it spans diffusion and participatory models used by FAO, the World Bank, UNICEF, and UNESCO.
Deviance (sociology)
Deviance in sociology is the violation of social norms, folkways, mores, or law (Sumner); unlike crime, it depends on social reaction. Main theories: Durkheim's functionalism, Merton's strain, conflict theory, and Becker's labeling theory.
Dexter King
Dexter Scott King (1961-2024), younger son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King; chaired the King Center, led the King estate's intellectual property, met James Earl Ray, and died of prostate cancer.
Diana Fox Carney
Diana Fox Carney (born 1965), British-Canadian development and climate economist, wife of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney; Oxford-educated, hockey player, ex-Canada 2020, IPPR, Pi Capital, Eurasia Group senior advisor.
Diane Nash
Diane Judith Nash (born 1938, Chicago) is an American civil rights leader, SNCC co-founder, and Nashville sit-in chair who coordinated the 1961 Freedom Rides and co-planned the Selma voting-rights campaign; awarded the 2022 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Diane Rodríguez
Diane Rodríguez, an Ecuadorian trans activist, led campaigns for legal gender recognition and founded the Asociación Silueta X in 2008. She was the first trans woman to sit in the National Assembly.