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Gray asexuality
Gray asexuality (graysexual, Gray-A) is an ace-spectrum identity for people with rare, weak, or situational sexual attraction, between asexual and allosexual; coined on AVEN in 2006, about 10% of ace individuals identify with it.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace: global environmental campaigning network founded 1971 in Vancouver, coordinated by Greenpeace International (Dutch stichting, Amsterdam), 25 independent organizations in over 50 countries, individual-donor funded, known for nonviolent direct action and the Energy Transfer SLAPP litigation.
Grindr
Grindr is a location-based dating and social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people, founded by Joel Simkhai in 2009, listed on NYSE as GRND, led by CEO George Arison, with 1.3 million average paying users in 2025.
Groomsman
A groomsman is one of several men attending the bridegroom at a wedding, including the best man; in the UK the role is usually called an usher.
Group marriage
Group marriage is a marriage form in which multiple men and multiple women form one recognized marital household, distinct from polygyny and polyandry. Best-known case: the Oneida Community's complex marriage (1848–1881). Rare cross-culturally; defined in classic ethnography and Constantine's 1971 glossary.
Group sex
Group sex: sexual encounters involving three or more participants, also called collective or group sexual activity. Distinct from swinging, polyamory, and chemsex; US lifetime prevalence under 8%; studied mainly as an HIV/STI risk environment.
Guide dog
Guide dog: also called seeing eye dog, a dog trained to help blind or low-vision people navigate, with origins in 1916 Oldenburg, IGDF standards, and robotic guide dog research.
Guinness family
The Guinness family, an Anglo-Irish Protestant brewing dynasty founded by Arthur Guinness (1725–1803), who leased Dublin's St. James's Gate Brewery in 1759; seven generations led the brewery before the 1997 Diageo merger, while gaining earldoms and philanthropic fame.
Guy Strait
Guy Strait (Elmer Guy Strait, 1920-1987), "The Porno King," was a San Francisco gay activist and publisher who founded the League for Civil Education, launched the city's first gay newspaper LCE News in 1961, and was later imprisoned in Illinois in the 1970s on charges involving minors.
Gynocentrism
Gynocentrism: a dominant or exclusive focus on women in theory or practice; counterpart to androcentrism. Used in feminist philosophy (gynocentric feminism, Iris Young) and men's rights discourse.
Gynophillic attraction in straight women
Gynephilia (gynophilia, gynophillic) is attraction to adult females; in straight-identified women it appears as mostly heterosexual or fluid same-sex attraction, documented in Diamond's 10-year longitudinal studies of female sexual fluidity.
H. Rap Brown
H. Rap Brown, also known as Hubert Gerold Brown, was an American civil rights and Black Power activist. He served as the fifth SNCC chairman and later converted to Islam.
Haben Girma
Haben Girma (born 1988) is an American disability rights lawyer, author, and speaker, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School (2013), winner of NFB v. Scribd, and author of the 2019 memoir Haben.
Hacktivism
Hacktivism, from hacking plus activism, is the use of hacking techniques to promote political agendas. Coined by Cult of the Dead Cow; known for DDoS, defacement, doxing, and conflict-driven state-aligned campaigns.
Hair fetishism
Hair fetishism, or trichophilia, is sexual arousal focused on human hair or hairstyles; a body-part fetish classified under fetishism/partialism, diagnosable as a disorder only with distress or impairment.
Haitian migration to the Bahamas
Haitian migration to the Bahamas: long-standing, largely irregular movement of Haitians to the Bahamian archipelago, 30,000-60,000 residents of Haitian descent, known historically as "The Haitian Problem" since Marshall's 1979 study.
Half-caste
Half-caste is an offensive term for a person of mixed racial parentage, first recorded 1785–95 as Anglo-Indian from half plus Portuguese-derived caste; once a colonial administrative label, now replaced by mixed-race.
Hamida al-Attas (حميدة العطاس)
Hamida al-Attas (حميدة العطاس), Syrian-born mother of Osama bin Laden; married Mohammed bin Laden in Latakia in 1956, divorced, remarried Muhammad al-Attas, and raised Osama in her second household.
Hamilton family
The Hamilton family is an American family of Scottish origin best known for Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father and the first Secretary of the Treasury.
Hampstead hoax
The Hampstead hoax, also called the Hampstead satanic ritual abuse case, was a 2014 fabricated allegation that about 175 Hampstead people ran a satanic paedophile ring; children recanted, a 2015 High Court judgment found the claims fabricated, and the conspiracy spread online.
Hand fetishism
Hand fetishism is sexual arousal focused on hands, a nongenital body-part fetish related to glove fetishism. Less common than foot fetishism; classified under fetishism/partialism in DSM and ICD, a disorder only with distress.
Handkerchief code
Handkerchief code, also called hanky code, bandana code, or flagging: a 1970s American gay leather subculture system of colored handkerchiefs in back pockets signaling sexual interests, left pocket for top, right for bottom, with no universal color list.
Handmaiden
Handmaiden (also handmaid): an old-fashioned English word for a female servant, and in formal use a thing that supports something else, as in mathematics the handmaiden of the sciences; also the title of Park Chan-wook's 2016 film adapted from Fingersmith.
Hands Across America
Hands Across America was a May 25, 1986 USA for Africa fundraiser in which about 5 million people held hands along a 4,125-mile route from New York to Los Angeles, raising roughly $15-34 million for US hunger and homelessness relief.
Harassment
Harassment is unwelcome conduct based on protected characteristics or sexual aims that creates hostile, intimidating environments. Covers US Title VII legal standards, the 1975 coining of sexual harassment, ILO Convention 190, underreporting, and prevention evidence.
Hardik Patel (હાર્દિક પટેલ)
Hardik Patel (હાર્દિક પટેલ) is an Indian politician from Gujarat who rose to prominence leading the 2015 Patidar quota agitation and now serves as a BJP MLA from Viramgam.
Harem (حريم)
Harem (حريم, ḥarīm), from Arabic for something forbidden or sacred: the women of a Muslim household and the secluded quarters reserved for them; also the Ottoman imperial harem, a powerful political and training institution ended by the Turkish Republic.
Harilal Gandhi
Harilal Mohandas Gandhi (June 1888 – 18 June 1948), eldest son of Mahatma and Kasturba Gandhi, satyagraha leader in South Africa, estranged from his father, converted to Islam as Abdulla in 1936, died of tuberculosis in Bombay.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross, was an American abolitionist who escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and then made about 13 return trips to rescue others.
Harry Hay
Harry Hay (1912–2002), British-born American activist, Communist Party member, and founder of the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles in 1950; later co-founded the Radical Faeries in 1979.