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Folsom Street Fair
Folsom Street Fair is an annual adult leather, kink, and fetish street festival in San Francisco's SoMa, held the last Sunday of September since 1984, when it was founded as Megahood by Kathleen Connell and Michael Valerio as an anti-gentrification organizing tool; it is the world's largest leather event.
Foot fetishism
Foot fetishism, also called foot worship or podophilia, is a sexual interest focused on feet, one of the most common fetishes directed at a non-genital body part.
Forbidden knowledge
Forbidden knowledge: knowledge considered too sensitive, dangerous, or taboo to produce, a concept in sociology of science from Kempner, Merz, and Bosk's 2011 interview study, related to agnotology and undone science.
Forced assimilation
Forced assimilation is coerced absorption of minorities into a dominant culture, chiefly via boarding and residential schools. Key cases: US Indian boarding schools (1819-1969, 417 schools), Canadian residential schools, and China's Tibetan schooling policies.
Forced displacement in Colombia
Forced displacement in Colombia, known in Spanish as desplazamiento forzado, is the forced internal migration driven by armed conflict, with over 9 million registered victims since 1985.
Forced marriage
Forced marriage: a marriage without full, free, informed consent of one or both spouses, secured by violence, threats, deception or financial pressure. Covers UN definitions, UK law (ASBCPA 2014, minimum age 18), SDG 5.3, and interventions.
Foreplay
Foreplay is sexual activity such as kissing, touching, and caressing before or as preparation for intercourse; it increases arousal and lubrication, raises consent and communication considerations, and is debated in sexual-script research.
Fornication
Fornication, also called premarital sex, is sexual intercourse between unmarried people. Distinguished from adultery; rooted in Latin fornix and Greek porneia; unenforceable in US law after Lawrence v. Texas (2003).
Foster care
Foster care is the temporary placement of children with trained foster families when parents cannot care for them, aiming at reunification, adoption, or guardianship. Rooted in 19th-century placing-out systems, it is studied as outperforming institutional care and faces carer shortages in England and reforms in the US and Australia.
Foursome (group sex)
Foursome: a four-person group sex encounter, positioned between a threesome and larger group sex or orgy; commonly two couples in swinging (soft swap or full swap), with US lifetime prevalence of about 11.5% of men and 6.3% of women.
Fourteen Words
Fourteen Words (14, 14/88) is the white supremacist slogan "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children," coined by The Order member David Lane; the number 14 and the combined code 1488 serve as movement shorthand.
Fourth-wave feminism
Fourth-wave feminism: proposed current feminist phase from the early 2010s, defined by digital and hashtag activism (#MeToo, #EverydaySexism), intersectionality, and backlash from the online manosphere; distinct from third-wave feminism by its online character.
Framing (social sciences)
Framing (social sciences): selection and salience in constructing meaning, from Goffman's Frame Analysis to social movement framing (diagnostic, prognostic, motivational tasks; Snow and Benford) and media framing effects research.
Frances Shand Kydd
Frances Shand Kydd, born Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004), mother of Diana, Princess of Wales; married the 8th Earl Spencer then Peter Shand Kydd, converted to Catholicism, and died on Seil Island, Scotland.
Frank Kameny
Frank Kameny (Franklin Edward Kameny, 1925–2011), American astronomer and gay rights pioneer. Fired in 1957 from the Army Map Service during the Lavender Scare, he brought the first sexual-orientation civil rights claim to the Supreme Court (Kameny v. Brucker, denied 1961), co-founded the Mattachine Society of Washington, led the first White House gay rights picket in 1965, coined "Gay is Good," and helped win the 1973 APA delisting of homosexuality and the 1975 end of the federal employment ban.
Fred Hampton Jr.
Fred Hampton Jr. (born 1969) is a Chicago activist, son of slain Illinois Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton and Akua Njeri. He leads the Black Panther Party Cubs, founded the Prisoners of Conscience Committee, served nine years in prison, and consulted on Judas and the Black Messiah.
Fred Phelps
Fred Waldron Phelps (1929–2014), American pastor and disbarred lawyer, founded Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, led anti-gay "God Hates Fags" funeral picketing, filed some 400 suits, and won Snyder v. Phelps (2011, 8–1).
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was an American abolitionist, orator, and publisher who escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1838 and became a leading spokesman for abolition.
Free love
Free love is a social movement originating in the mid-nineteenth century that holds love, sex, and marriage should follow personal choice, not state or religious regulation.
Free software movement
The free software movement, launched by Richard Stallman's 1983 GNU Project and the 1985 Free Software Foundation, campaigns for users' four essential freedoms to run, study, redistribute, and modify software, distinct from the 1998 open source movement.
Free the nipple
Free the nipple (#FreeTheNipple) is a fourth-wave feminist campaign for gender-equal rights to appear topless in public and against social media censorship of female nipples, founded around Lina Esco's 2012 film.
Freemasonry and women
Freemasonry and women: women's participation in Freemasonry despite male-only constitutions of 1723. Covers Elizabeth Aldworth, French Lodges of Adoption (1740s), Le Droit Humain co-Masonry (1893), British Order of Women Freemasons (1908), and recognition debates.
Freikörperkultur
Freikörperkultur (FKK), or free body culture, is the German movement and practice of nude bathing and recreation in nature, arising around 1900 with Lebensreform, mass-based in the GDR, and organized today by the DFK with declining membership.
Frenemy
Frenemy (also frienemy), a blend of friend and enemy, is an informal term for a person or group that acts friendly for benefit while harboring rivalry; first recorded 1950-55, studied in workplace ambivalence research.
Freud family
The Freud family, the Central European Jewish family of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856–1939): Galician-Moravian merchant origins, Vienna household with Martha Bernays, Minna Bernays, and six children, the 1938 flight to London, Holocaust losses, and the family's archives and museum legacy.
Freya Leach
Freya Leach is an Australian conservative political commentator and director of the Centre for Youth Policy at the Menzies Research Centre. She was a Liberal Party candidate in 2023.
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1922). First League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; creator of the Nansen passport; first to cross Greenland's inland ice; Fram expedition record at 86° 14′ N.
Friend of Dorothy
Friend of Dorothy (FOD) was mid-twentieth-century coded slang for a gay man, usually traced to Judy Garland's Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. It let strangers identify each other deniably; the US Navy famously searched for a nonexistent Dorothy in the 1980s.
Friendship
Friendship: a voluntary, reciprocal, informal close relationship, also called philia in Aristotle's three-tier theory. Distinguished from family and romance by its six functions (companionship, support, security, alliance, self-validation, intimacy) and strong links to wellbeing.
Frot
Frot is slang for non-penetrative genital-to-genital rubbing, mainly between men; a shortened form of frottage (French frotter, "to rub"). Distinct from frotteurism, the clinical term for nonconsensual rubbing.