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Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005), American radical feminist writer and activist, author of Woman Hating, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, and Intercourse; with Catharine MacKinnon drafted the 1983 Minneapolis anti-pornography civil rights ordinance struck down in Hudnut.
Andrew Cray
Andrew Cray (died 2014) was an American trans man and LGBTQ health policy advocate at the Center for American Progress who co-founded Out2Enroll, advanced transgender-inclusive insurance coverage, and married Sarah McBride days before dying of oral cancer at 28.
Androgyny
Androgyny describes a single person who combines masculine and feminine traits in gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, and may also denote a third gender category.
Androphilia and gynephilia
Androphilia and gynephilia are behavioral-science terms for sexual attraction to adult males and to adult females respectively; ambiphilia denotes both. They classify attraction by its object, independent of the person's own sex or gender identity, and are preferred over homosexual/heterosexual for cross-cultural and transgender research.
Andy Ngo
Andy Ngo, also known as Andy Cuong Ngô, is an American conservative journalist, photographer, and author known for covering antifa and for his 2021 bestseller Unmasked.
Angie Xtravaganza
Angie Xtravaganza, original mother of the House of Xtravaganza, the first Latinx ballroom house, and a star of Paris Is Burning (1990). Led the house until her death from AIDS-related liver disease in 1993, aged 27.
Anglican Use
Anglican Use: Catholic liturgical use for former Episcopalians created by the 1980 Pastoral Provision of John Paul II, using the Book of Divine Worship; a use of the Roman Rite, succeeded by Divine Worship in the Personal Ordinariates.
Angolan post-war urban migration
Angolan post-war urban migration is the continued movement of people from rural Angola into cities after the civil war ended in 2002, especially into the capital Luanda.
Angry black woman
Angry black woman: an American racial stereotype, modern form of the Sapphire caricature from Amos 'n' Andy, portraying Black women as hostile and aggressive; a Collins controlling image with documented workplace, media, and mental health effects.
Angry white male
Angry white male: a stereotype of middle-aged white men resentful of social change, popularized by a 1994 USA Today headline after the GOP midterm win, analyzed academically via Michael Kimmel's aggrieved entitlement.
Anita Bryant
Anita Bryant, American singer, Miss Oklahoma 1958, and Florida orange juice spokeswoman, led the 1977 Save Our Children campaign that repealed Dade County's gay-rights ordinance, triggering a national orange juice boycott; died 2024 at 84.
Ann Atwater
Ann Atwater (1935–2016) was a Durham, North Carolina civil rights and housing activist who co-chaired the 1971 school desegregation charrette with Klansman C.P. Ellis, converting him into a lifelong friend and civil rights ally.
Ann Dunham
Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995), American economic anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama; PhD from University of Hawaii, 1,043-page dissertation on Javanese blacksmithing, Ford Foundation and Bank Rakyat Indonesia microfinance consultant.
Ann Eliza Young
Ann Eliza Young, born Ann Eliza Webb (1844-1917), was a plural wife of Brigham Young who divorced him, sued for alimony, lectured against polygamy, and wrote Wife No. 19.
Ann Rockefeller Roberts
Ann Rockefeller Roberts (1934–2024), eldest daughter of Nelson Rockefeller, was a Native American rights activist, founder of the Fund of the Four Directions, first funder of Women's World Banking, and author of Mr. Rockefeller's Roads.
Anna Hazare
Anna Hazare (Kisan Baburao Hazare, born 1940) is an Indian Gandhian social activist from Ralegan Siddhi, Maharashtra, whose 2011 hunger strikes against corruption led to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013.
Anna J. Cooper
Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964), born enslaved in Raleigh, NC, was an educator, Black feminist author of A Voice from the South (1892), M Street High School principal, and 1925 Sorbonne PhD, fourth African American woman doctorate holder.
Anne Marie Hochhalter
Anne Marie Hochhalter, Columbine High School shooting survivor paralyzed in the April 20, 1999 attack; forgave Sue Klebold in a 2016 letter; died February 16, 2025 of sepsis, ruled a homicide, raising Columbine's death toll to 14.
Annie Glenn
Annie Glenn (Anna Margaret Castor Glenn, 1920-2020), wife of astronaut-senator John Glenn for 73 years and American advocate for people with communication disorders, overcame a severe 85% stutter via Hollins therapy in 1973 and became an Ohio State adjunct speech pathology professor.
Annulment
Annulment, or nullity, is a court declaration that a marriage or other legal act was never valid, unlike divorce which ends a valid marriage; covers void and voidable grounds, financial effects, religious annulment, and EU and arbitration uses.
Anthony Shriver
Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver (born 1965), son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, American social entrepreneur who founded Best Buddies International in 1989; its founder, Chairman & CEO, living in Miami Beach.
Anti-abortion violence
Anti-abortion violence: murders, bombings, arsons, clinic invasions, and harassment targeting US abortion providers since the 1970s; 11 murders and 42 bombings since 1977, addressed by the 1994 FACE Act.
Anti-African sentiment
Anti-African sentiment, also called Afrophobia, is prejudice and discrimination against Africans, people of African descent, and African migrants, rooted in slavery and colonialism, documented by UN bodies, and addressed through reparations and anti-racism frameworks.
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism is hostility toward the United States, its policies, culture, or people, measured mainly through surveys like Pew's Global Attitudes Project. Key figures: the 2003 Iraq War collapse in favorability and the sharp 2025 decline under Trump.
Anti-Apartheid Movement
The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), 1959–1994, campaigned through boycotts, sanctions, sports embargoes, and prisoner campaigns to isolate apartheid South Africa; founded from the 1959 boycott committee, renamed after Sharpeville in 1960, its archive is at Oxford's Bodleian Library.
Anti-Black racism in the Arab world
Anti-Black racism in the Arab world: prejudice against Black people in Arabic-speaking MENA societies, rooted in precolonial slavery and ninth-century race-thinking, examined via Arab Barometer surveys, Kadhem's 2004 study, and the Arab-Islamic slavery terminology debate.
Anti-Chinese sentiment
Anti-Chinese sentiment, also called Sinophobia, is hostility toward Chinese people or China, spanning the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, COVID-19-era anti-Asian hate crimes, and spillover discrimination against Asian Americans.
Anti-Croat sentiment
Anti-Croat sentiment, also called Anti-Croatism, is prejudice against Croats. It is characterized by the collective labeling of Croats as "Ustasha" in Serbian media and politics.
Anti-gay purges in Chechnya
Anti-gay purges in Chechnya: waves of detention, torture, and honor-killing incitement against men presumed gay, begun February 2017 under Ramzan Kadyrov, denied by officials, and continuing through 2024-2026 with wartime blackmail.
Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe
Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe, also called anti-genderism or opposition to 'gender ideology', are mobilizations against LGBT rights, reproductive rights, and gender education, originating in 1990s Vatican reactions to UN conferences and now tied to right-wing populist parties and transnational funding networks.