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Affair
Affair, also called infidelity, cheating, or non-consensual non-monogamy: hidden romantic or sexual involvement outside a committed relationship, defined by deception and lack of consent, a leading cause of divorce.
Affordable housing
Affordable housing is housing costing occupants no more than 30 percent of income, per HUD's benchmark. Covers cost burden categories, LIHTC, vouchers, public housing history, zoning effects, and the 2026 ROAD to Housing Act.
African-American family structure
African-American family structure, also called Black American family structure, describes the household and kinship arrangements of Black families in the United States, which changed markedly after 1960.
African-American LGBTQ community
African-American LGBTQ community: Black Americans identifying as LGBTQ or same-gender-loving. Known for Harlem Renaissance queer artists, Bayard Rustin, 1970s groups like the Association of Black Gays, and intersectional stigma research.
Aftercare (BDSM)
Aftercare (BDSM), also called post-scene care, is the negotiated physical and emotional support after a BDSM scene: hydration, warmth, reassurance, check-ins, and sub drop management, standardized in late-1970s leather communities.
Afzaa Fadini Abdul Aziz
Datin Paduka Seri Afzaa Fadini binti Dato' Abdul Aziz, consort of Tengku Amir Shah, Raja Muda of Selangor; married 2 October 2025, holds S.P.M.S., arborist and TRCRC project manager.
Agapia Stephanopoulos
Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos, born Anastasia Stephanopoulos, is an American ROCOR nun, sister of George Stephanopoulos, who served at the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem and now leads the Convent of Saint Nicholas of Myra in Owego, New York, advocating for Palestinian Christians.
Age disparity in sexual relationships
Age disparity in sexual relationships: the age gap between sexual or romantic partners. Also called age heterogamy or age-disparate partnerships; typically men are older, gaps average 2–3 years in high-income countries and shrink with development.
Ageism
Ageism is stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination based on age, a term coined by Robert Butler in 1969. It affects all ages, harms older people's health, and is combated through laws, education, and intergenerational programs.
Agender
Agender: a gender identity meaning "without gender", little or no connection to gender systems. Related to genderless, gender neutral, neutrois; placed under nonbinary and trans umbrellas; 15% of nonbinary youth in a 2021 US survey.
Ageplay
Ageplay (age play) is adult role play, usually within BDSM, in which participants assume ages other than their own; distinct from clinical age regression, adult-only, DSM-5 non-disorder, banned sexually in Second Life.
Aging in place
Aging in place is the ability to live in one's own home and community safely and independently regardless of age, income, or ability, a definition attributed to the CDC.
Ahmed Mansoor
Ahmed Mansoor (born 1969) is an Emirati engineer, poet, and human rights activist, 2015 Martin Ennals Award laureate and the "million-dollar dissident" targeted by NSO Pegasus spyware; imprisoned in the UAE since 2017.
Ahmed Mohamed clock incident
September 14, 2015 arrest of Ahmed Mohamed, 14, at MacArthur High School, Irving, Texas, after his homemade digital clock was mistaken for a bomb; no charges, #IStandWithAhmed, lawsuit dismissed 2017.
Ahoo Daryaei (آهو داریایی)
Ahoo Daryaei (آهو داریایی), the "Science and Research Girl," is an Iranian French-literature student who stripped in protest against compulsory hijab at Azad University, Tehran, on 2 November 2024, was detained, hospitalized psychiatrically, released without charge, and later alleged to face forced medication.
Ain't I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth's 1851 Akron, Ohio women's rights speech, also called "Ar'n't I a Woman?". Best-known text is Frances Gage's 1863 rewrite in fabricated slave dialect; Marius Robinson's 1851 Bugle transcription, in standard English without the refrain, is considered more accurate.
Air Force Amy
Air Force Amy is the professional name of an American legal courtesan and USAF veteran working in Nevada brothels since 1990, known for the Moonlite BunnyRanch and HBO's Cathouse series.
Akua Njeri
Akua Njeri, born Deborah Johnson, is an American activist and writer, a former Black Panther and the widow of Fred Hampton, killed in a 1969 police raid.
Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton is an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and MS NOW host who founded the National Action Network in 1991, led protests in cases such as Howard Beach, Diallo, Garner, and Floyd, and ran for president in 2004.
Alan Turing law
Alan Turing law: informal name for section 166 of the UK Policing and Crime Act 2017, which pardoned about 49,000 deceased men convicted of abolished same-sex offences; living men apply via the Home Office disregard process.
Alberta Gay
Alberta Gay, born Alberta Williams Cooper (1913–1987), was the mother of five children, including recording artists Marvin Gaye and Frankie Gaye, and witnessed Marvin's fatal 1984 shooting by his father.
Alberta Williams King
Alberta Williams King (1903–1974), mother of Martin Luther King Jr., organist and choir founder at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta; shot dead there June 30, 1974 by Marcus Wayne Chenault while playing the organ.
Alberto Rivera (activist)
Alberto Magno Rivera Romero (1935-1997), Spanish-born US anti-Catholic activist, source of Jack Chick's Vatican conspiracy comics; his Jesuit-priest claims were exposed as fraud by Cornerstone, Christianity Today, and the Christian Research Institute.
Alcohol in Indonesia
Alcohol in Indonesia (minuman beralkohol, miras) covers drinking culture and regulation in Muslim-majority Indonesia: 0.10 litres per capita, 88% abstainers, Aceh sharia caning, bootleg methanol deaths, Arak Bali.
Alejandra Silva
Alejandra Silva (Alejandra Gere), born 1983 in A Coruña, Spain, is a Spanish publicist, activist, and philanthropist; founder of Fundación Beautiful Life and wife of Richard Gere since 2018, with sons Alexander and James.
Alex Clark (commentator)
Alex Clark (Alexandra Clark) is an American conservative podcast host at Turning Point USA, hosting Culture Apothecary and formerly POPlitics, and a leading MAHA wellness influencer; distinct from Guardian and CBS journalists of the same name.
Alexis McGill Johnson
Alexis McGill Johnson (born 1972) is an American organizer and president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its Action Fund since 2020, after interim leadership from 2019; previously co-founded the Perception Institute.
Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner (Al Smith Dinner) is an annual white-tie New York charity gala founded in 1945 honoring the 1928 Catholic presidential nominee, famous for election-year presidential roast speeches and multimillion-dollar Catholic charity fundraising.
Ali Hewson
Ali Hewson (Alison Stewart), Irish businesswoman, Bono's wife since 1982; co-founded ethical fashion label Edun in 2005, took LVMH's 49% stake in 2009, and wound the loss-making brand down in 2018.
Alice Hathaway Roosevelt
Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861-1884), first wife of Theodore Roosevelt and mother of Alice Lee Roosevelt; married 1880, died of Bright's disease two days after childbirth, the same day Roosevelt's mother died.