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Hartini
Hartini (Siti Suhartini, 1924-2002), Indonesian fourth wife of President Sukarno, unofficial First Lady at Bogor Palace; married amid 1950s polygamy protests, mother of Taufan and Bayu, buried at Karet Bivak.
Hate group
Hate group: an organization whose beliefs or practices attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for immutable characteristics. Designated by private monitors like the SPLC and ADL, not a legal category; the FBI investigates only under force-threat conditions.
Hate speech
Hate speech: communication attacking people based on identity factors like race, religion, or gender. No universal legal definition; UN 2019 strategy, Rabat Plan threshold, EU criminalization, US First Amendment protection, platform moderation.
Haunani-Kay Trask
Haunani-Kay Trask (1949-2021), Native Hawaiian scholar, poet, and sovereignty activist; founding director of the UH Manoa Center for Hawaiian Studies, founder of Ka Lahui Hawaii, author of From a Native Daughter.
Hawaiian Renaissance
The Hawaiian Renaissance was a cultural and political movement of the 1960s and 1970s in which Native Hawaiians renewed interest in their language, dance, and voyaging traditions.
Hazel Massery
Hazel Bryan Massery (born 1942) is the white student shown shouting at Elizabeth Eckford in Will Counts's iconic September 4, 1957 photograph of the Little Rock Nine; she later apologized, reconciled briefly with Eckford, and is the subject of Margolick's Elizabeth and Hazel.
Heather Mills
Heather Mills (born 1968) is an English campaigner, former model, and vegan business owner (VBites), distinct from Heather McCartney, Paul McCartney's adopted daughter. Known for her 1993 leg amputation, landmine charity work, 2002-2008 marriage to McCartney, and 166.84 km/h speed skiing record.
HeForShe
HeForShe is UN Women's solidarity movement for gender equality, launched 20 September 2014 by Ban Ki-moon and Emma Watson, engaging men and boys through pledges, the IMPACT 10x10x10 program, and the HeForShe Alliance.
Hegemonic masculinity
Hegemonic masculinity, coined by Carrigan, Connell and Lee in 1985 and reformulated by Connell and Messerschmidt in 2005, is the culturally idealized masculinity legitimizing men's dominance over women and some men over others, part of a hierarchy including complicit, subordinated, and marginalized masculinities.
Height discrimination
Height discrimination (heightism) is prejudice or unequal treatment based on stature, affecting wages, employment, healthcare, and dating. Key facts: Feldman coined the term in the 1970s; measured wage premiums of about 6% per 10 cm in China; partial legal protection in New York City since 2023.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller (1880–1968), American deafblind author and activist; first deafblind person to earn a BA (Radcliffe, 1904); Socialist Party member from 1909, IWW supporter, ACLU co-founder in 1920; wrote The Story of My Life with teacher Anne Sullivan.
Henry Dunant
Henry Dunant (Jean-Henri Dunant, 1828-1910), Swiss businessman and founder of the ICRC; witnessed Solferino 1859, wrote A Memory of Solferino (1862), initiated the first Geneva Convention (1864), won the first Nobel Peace Prize (1901).
Herbivore men
Herbivore men (草食系男子, sōshoku-kei danshi), also called sōshoku danshi, are Japanese men uninterested in pursuing romance, sex, and conventional career ambition. Coined by Maki Fukasawa and popularized in 2008–2009, the term contrasts with "carnivore" men and is linked to Japan's declining marriage and birth rates.
Heteroflexibility
Heteroflexibility (also heteroflexible) is occasional same-sex attraction or behavior in an otherwise heterosexual orientation. Coverage includes the term's origins, the M-SOCS four-class system, prevalence estimates, sex differences, and critiques.
Heteronormativity
Heteronormativity, coined by Michael Warner in 1991, is the assumption that heterosexuality and binary gender are the natural, normative standard. It differs from heterosexism (institutional privileging) and underlies health, education, and legal inequities for LGBTQ+ people.
Heterosexism
Heterosexism: ideological system denying and stigmatizing nonheterosexual behavior, identity, and relationships; analogous to sexism and racism; distinct from individual homophobia; also called institutional antigay prejudice.
Heterosexuality
Heterosexuality, also called being straight, is the sexual orientation of enduring attraction to the other sex or another gender; the most common self-reported orientation, with a history as a concept and links to heterosexism.
High priest
High priest (Hebrew kohen ha-gadol): chief priest of a temple, especially the Jerusalem Temple. Aaronic-hereditary office; alone entered the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur; gained civil power only with the Hasmoneans.
Hijab in Iran
Compulsory hijab in Iran: mandatory veiling since the 1979 revolution, reversed Reza Shah's 1936 unveiling, enforced by morality police, contested by 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests after Mahsa Amini's death.
Hikikomori (ひきこもり)
Hikikomori (ひきこもり), pathological social withdrawal, is at least six months of home isolation with impairment, coined by Saitō Tamaki in 1998; Japan estimates about 1.15 million affected, and pooled global prevalence is 8.0%.
Hilton family
The Hilton family: American dynasty of hotelier Conrad N. Hilton (1887–1979), founder of Hilton Hotels and the Hilton Foundation; son Barron sold the hotel business to Blackstone in 2007; Paris Hilton is a great-granddaughter.
Himbo
Himbo is slang for an attractive but unintelligent or vacuous man, a blend of "him" and "bimbo" first recorded in 1988 and often used affectionately.
Hindu joint family
Hindu joint family: a patrilineal Hindu household and legal entity holding coparcenary property under Mitakshara and Dayabhaga law, reformed by the Hindu Succession Acts of 1956 and 2005.
Hindu wedding
Hindu wedding (vivaha): Hindu marriage ceremony centered on the sacred fire (Agni) and saptapadi, seven steps with vows from the Gṛhya Sūtras; legally complete at the seventh step under India's Hindu Marriage Act 1955, with wide regional variation.
Hinge (app)
Hinge is a mobile dating app founded in 2012 by Justin McLeod, branded "the dating app designed to be deleted" for relationship-focused dating with prompt-based profiles. Owned by Match Group since 2018; led by CEO Jackie Jantos since December 2025.
Hippie
Hippies were members of a 1960s-1970s countercultural movement rejecting mainstream American mores, centered on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the 1967 Summer of Love, psychedelic music, communes, and opposition to the Vietnam War.
History of Christianity and homosexuality
History of Christian attitudes toward homosexuality: patristic condemnation, Boswell's 1980 tolerance thesis and its critics, medieval law and adelphopoiesis, and modern denominational positions from Catholic doctrine to the 2024 United Methodist reversal.
History of dating services
The history of dating services covers paid matchmaking from matrimonial ads in late 17th-century British newspapers, through 1960s computer dating, to the first online site in 1994.
History of feminism
History of feminism: organized movements for equality of the sexes, told as waves from 1848 Seneca Falls suffrage campaigning through 1960s women's liberation, 1990s third-wave intersectionality, and digital #MeToo fourth wave.
History of homosexuality
History of homosexuality: the record of same-sex desire and relationships across cultures, from ancient Greece and imperial China to European criminalization, 19th-century sexology, Foucault's modern homosexual, DSM/ICD depathologization (1973, 1990), and global law reform.