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Fuji Television sexual harassment scandal
Fuji Television sexual harassment scandal (2024–2025): Masahiro Nakai (中居正広) assault allegations, sponsor exodus, executive resignations, third-party report, and Fuji TV's reforms and recovery.
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, is a Mormon fundamentalist denomination that practices plural marriage and split from the mainstream LDS Church after it renounced polygamy in 1890.
Funeral director
Funeral director, also called mortician or undertaker, is a licensed professional who arranges funerals, handles body care and legal paperwork, and coordinates burial or cremation; US licensing requires education, internship, and exams, while UK regulation remains largely voluntary outside Scotland.
Gabriel Ocasio-Cortez
Gabriel Ocasio-Cortez is the younger brother of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). In fall 2016 he nominated his sister to Brand New Congress, triggering her 2018 primary win over Joe Crowley.
Gandharva marriage (गान्धर्व विवाह)
Gandharva marriage (गान्धर्व विवाह), one of the eight classical Hindu marriage forms, is a union by mutual desire and consent of the couple, without parental arrangement. Traditionally an unapproved form, it was held lawful for Kshatriyas, required saptapadi rites for validity, and its famous example is Shakuntala and Dushyanta.
Gang bang
Gang bang (gangbang) is English slang for group sex with one person and several partners, or for street-gang activity; attested 1953 from gang + bang, earlier gang-shag (1927), with gang-fight and gang-rape senses.
Gang stalking
Gang stalking (gangstalking) is a persecutory belief system in which targeted individuals believe groups, including government, monitor and harass them; clinicians view it as delusional.
Gangubai Kothewali (गंगूबाई कोठेवाली)
Gangubai Kothewali (गंगूबाई कोठेवाली), born Ganga Harjeevandas Kathiawadi (1907–1977), was a Mumbai brothel madam and sex workers' rights figure in Kamathipura, later depicted in Bhansali's 2022 film Gangubai Kathiawadi.
Gary Chapman (author)
Gary Chapman, American Baptist pastor and marriage counselor from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, author of The 5 Love Languages (1992), which proposes five ways of expressing love; a bestseller with over 20 million copies sold whose core assumptions lack strong empirical support.
Gary Webb
Gary Webb (1955–2004) was an American investigative journalist whose 1996 San Jose Mercury News series "Dark Alliance" linked Contra cocaine trafficking to the Los Angeles crack epidemic, triggering a media backlash and government investigations.
Gauri Lankesh (ಗೌರಿ ಲಂಕೇಶ್)
Gauri Lankesh (ಗೌರಿ ಲಂಕೇಶ್), Kannada journalist and activist, editor of Lankesh Patrike and Gauri Lankesh Patrike, critic of right-wing politics, shot dead in Bengaluru on 5 September 2017; trial ongoing, no convictions as of 2025.
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 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 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 panic defense
The gay panic defense, also called the homosexual panic defense, is a courtroom strategy claiming a victim's sexual orientation or unwanted same-sex advance provoked violence.
Gay village
Gay village, also called gayborhood or gay enclave, an urban district with concentrated LGBTQ+ residents, businesses, and services; examples include the Castro, Greenwich Village, Soho, and Church Street, Toronto.
Gay-friendly
Gay-friendly describes businesses, destinations, policies, and spaces that welcome and protect LGBTQ people, from IGLTA-certified tourism and hotel certifications to workplace and healthcare inclusion, with pinkwashing as its main criticism.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (গায়ত্রী চক্রবর্তী স্পিভাক)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (গায়ত্রী চক্রবর্তী স্পিভাক) is an Indian literary theorist and feminist critic at Columbia University, known for "Can the Subaltern Speak?", her Derrida translation, and postcolonial feminism.
Gaydar
Gaydar is the folk idea of detecting sexual orientation from subtle cues; research debates whether it is perception or stereotyping, and Gaydar is also an LGBTQ+ dating app.
Gaza Solidarity Encampment (Columbia University)
The Gaza Solidarity Encampment was a pro-Palestinian student tent camp on Columbia University's South Lawn, April 17-30, 2024, organized by CUAD, SJP, and JVP to demand divestment, transparency, and amnesty; it sparked nationwide campus encampments and ended in NYPD clearances and over 100 arrests.
Gaza war protests at Columbia University
Gaza war protests at Columbia University: pro-Palestinian student campaign begun April 17, 2024 with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment (50 tents, CUAD), demanding ceasefire and divestment; NYPD clearances April 18 and April 30, Hamilton Hall occupation, and a national campus encampment movement.
Gender
Gender is the set of socially constructed characteristics, norms, and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl, or boy. These concepts vary across societies.
Gender and development
Gender and development (GAD) is a development approach focused on socially constructed gender relations, evolving from WID and WAD phases, anchored in the 1995 Beijing Platform, and tracked through SDG 5 indicators.
Gender bender
Gender bender: informal term, sometimes pejorative, for a person or performance that bends expected gender roles through androgyny, cross-dressing, or costume; also a manga genre of sex-changing characters such as Ranma ½.
Gender bias on Wikipedia
Gender bias on Wikipedia covers the male-dominated editor community (roughly 13-16% women historically, 87% male in a 2020 survey) and content gaps: only about 19% of biographies are of women, with disparities in length, images, titles, and deletion review.