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LGBTQ people and Islam
LGBTQ people and Islam: how Muslim scripture, Shari'a interpretation, and communities treat queer and gender-diverse people; Lot-story exegesis, mukhannathun and hijra history, reformist and conservative scholarship, and divergent laws and public opinion.
Li Na (李讷) (daughter of Mao Zedong)
Li Na (李讷), born August 1940 in Yan'an, is the only daughter of Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing. A Peking University history graduate, she ran the PLA Daily as "Xiao Li" in the Cultural Revolution, held Beijing-area party posts, and later served as a CPPCC member.
Libs of TikTok
Libs of TikTok is a conservative social media account and website created by Chaya Raichik that reposts LGBTQ+ and educator content with outrage framing; it shaped Republican messaging on LGBTQ+ issues and has been linked to harassment and bomb threats.
Lidiya Pereprygina (Лидия Платоновна Перепрыгина)
Lidiya Platonovna Pereprygina (Лидия Платоновна Перепрыгина), born 1900, Siberian peasant linked to Joseph Stalin during his 1914–1916 Kureika exile; mother by him, per 1956 KGB and party documents, of Alexander Davydov; details disputed.
Lightstick protests
Lightstick protests (eungwonbong siwi) are South Korean demonstrations, from December 2024 against Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law, where K-pop concert light sticks replaced candlelight vigil candles as symbols of nonviolent pro-democracy protest.
Lila Rose
Lila Rose, American anti-abortion activist, author, and podcast host; founded Live Action at 15 (2003), known for undercover Planned Parenthood videos, debates, the Baby Olivia video, and contested editing and misinformation criticisms.
Lilian Ngoyi
Lilian Masediba Ngoyi, known as Ma Ngoyi, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and trade unionist who led 20,000 women in the 1956 anti-pass march on the Union Buildings.
Linda Sarsour
Linda Sarsour (born 1980) is a Palestinian-American Muslim activist from Brooklyn, former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, co-founder of MPower Change, and national co-chair of the 2017 Women's March.
Lindsay Mills
Lindsay Mills, born 1985 in Laurel, Maryland, is an American acrobat, pole dancer, and photographer, the girlfriend and later wife of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who joined him in Russia in 2014.
Lipstick lesbian
Lipstick lesbian, slang for a feminine-presenting lesbian (a femme), first recorded 1980–85 and dated 1984 in the OED. Gained 1990s media visibility, criticized as fetishizing; largely replaced by femme or high femme.
List of Brigham Young's wives
List of Brigham Young's wives: the 55 women sealed to LDS president Brigham Young, also counted as 53, 56, or 59 by other sources; 16 bore his 57 children, with phases from Miriam Works (1824) to Hannah Tapfield King (1872).
List of child brides
Child brides are girls married or in union before age 18; about 650 million women alive today married as children. Article lists historical cases, prevalence, legal minimum ages, and interventions.
List of Christian denominational positions on homosexuality
Christian denominational positions on homosexuality: Catholic, Orthodox, mainline Protestant, evangelical, and Pentecostal official stances on same-sex marriage, gay clergy ordination, and blessings, including the 2024 United Methodist schism, ELCA and Presbyterian affirmations, and Fiducia Supplicans.
List of civil rights leaders
List of civil rights leaders, also called civil rights activists, covering American figures from NAACP founders (Wells, Du Bois, Ovington) through SCLC, the 1963 March on Washington, Ella Baker, Jesse Jackson, and present-day leaders like Patrisse Khan-Cullors.
List of conspiracy theories
List of conspiracy theories: catalogs of claims attributing events to secret small-group plots, covering Keeley's definition, QAnon, 5G COVID-19, anti-vaccine, election, and Illuminati entries, verdict systems, and motive meta-analysis findings.
List of disability-related terms with negative connotations
Disability-related terms with negative connotations: words like crippled, wheelchair bound, handicapped, deaf and dumb, differently abled, and spaz flagged by APA, NIH, CDC, UN, and Australian style guides, with preferred alternatives.
List of environmental organisations topics
The List of environmental organizations topics is a Wikipedia index page cataloging the subject areas on which environmental organizations focus, grouping several hundred topics under headings such as agriculture, climate change, energy, and wildlife.
List of feminists
List of feminists: notable feminists from Wollstonecraft, Stanton, Anthony, and Pankhurst through Friedan, Steinem, Greer, and Davis to Crenshaw, Walker, and Burke, organized by feminism's four waves.
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people
Lists of gay, lesbian or bisexual people, also called gay lists, compile famous individuals presented as same-sex oriented. They date to the mid-19th century, require public self-acknowledgment for living people, and face evidence and anachronism problems for historical figures.
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: A
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: A, an alphabetical reference list of notable surname-A people documented as gay, lesbian or bisexual, using self-identification for the living and documented or circumstantial evidence for historical figures, related to the Out List and Routledge Who's Who projects.
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: W–Z
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: W–Z, the final alphabetical section of a compiled reference list of notable gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, with entries giving lifetime, nationality, notability, and evidence notes, and a labeling caution for historical figures.
List of gender identities
List of gender identities: catalogs terms like non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, agender, hijra, two-spirit, fa'afafine, and X-gender, with WHO/APA definitions, terminology history, legal recognition, and survey prevalence data.
List of incidents of cannibalism
A list of notable incidents and sites of cannibalism documented by archaeological, historical, and forensic evidence, from 1.45-million-year-old hominin bones to the 1990s Snowtown killings.
List of Joseph Smith's wives
Joseph Smith's wives: 30 to 40 women sealed to him in plural marriage besides Emma Hale Smith, from Fanny Alger (mid-1830s) to wives aged 14 to 56, including Louisa Beaman and Helen Mar Kimball.
List of LGBTQ acronyms
LGBTQ acronyms (LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA+, 2SLGBTQI+, SOGIESC) are initialisms for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and related identities; variants differ by region, era, and institutional usage.
List of livestreamed suicides
Livestreamed suicides, or online broadcast suicidality, are real-time broadcasts of suicide acts on platforms like Periscope, Facebook Live, and Discord; documented cases include Océane (2016), Katelyn Nicole Davis, Nakia Venant, Samuel Hervey, and Brazil's 2026 Discord ban.
List of most expensive divorces
List of most expensive divorces, also ranked as biggest divorce settlements: Gates ($76B est., 2021), Bezos–Scott ($36B Amazon stock, 2019), Wildenstein, Murdoch, Rybolovlev, Chey Tae-won; figures disputed because terms are often private.
List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups
Annual SPLC census of US organizations designated hate groups: definition, Intelligence Project methodology, ideological categories such as anti-LGBTQ, chapter-counting disputes, defamation litigation, and 2024 to 2026 counts and controversies.
List of peace activists
List of peace activists: people who work against war through nonviolent action, advocacy, and organizing, from the 1816 Peace Society to Nobel Peace Prize laureates such as Dunant, Gandhi, King, Karman, Mohammadi, Machado, and Pillay.
List of people killed for being transgender
Lists of people killed for being transgender: memorial and tracking projects (Remembering Our Dead, TGEU's Trans Murder Monitoring, HRC tallies) documenting victims such as Rita Hester and Chanelle Pickett, their counts, and the data gaps that make all such lists undercounts.