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LGBTQ movements
LGBTQ movements are social and political campaigns for LGBTQ rights, from the 1924 Society for Human Rights and 1950s homophile groups through Stonewall, ACT UP, Obergefell, and today's global ILGA-era movement.
LGBTQ people
LGBTQ people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning; variants LGBT, LGBTQIA, LGBTI) are sexual and gender minorities defined by sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, and sex characteristics; 63 countries criminalize same-sex acts while 33 have marriage equality.
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.
Lhotshampa people
Lhotshampa, also Lhotsampa, "people of the south": Nepali-speaking Hindu inhabitants of southern Bhutan, about 30% of the population, over 100,000 of whom were denationalized and expelled in the early 1990s.
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.
Liberal elite
Liberal elite, also called the liberal establishment or limousine liberals: educated, often urban advantaged people with liberal views, portrayed as out of touch; rooted in elite theory and central to populist people-versus-elite rhetoric.
Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees in Guinea
Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees in Guinea were people displaced by the two civil wars who made Guinea one of Africa's largest refugee hosts in the 1990s.
Liberian refugee crisis
The Liberian refugee crisis was the mass displacement of Liberian civilians during the civil wars of 1989 to 2003, which drove hundreds of thousands into neighboring West African countries.
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.
Life skills
Life skills are adaptive, positive psychosocial and interpersonal abilities for handling everyday demands, defined by WHO and also called transferable or soft skills; organized in three WHO categories and various 12-skill frameworks, and taught in schools worldwide.
Lifespring
Lifespring, Inc. was a large group awareness training company founded by John Hanley Sr. in San Francisco, incorporated 1974; its five-day basic trainings drew thousands and dozens of lawsuits before the mid-1990s shutdown.
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.
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878–1972), American industrial psychologist and engineer, 'Mother of Modern Management,' co-developer of time-and-motion study with Frank Gilbreth, first female NAE member and Purdue engineering professor, kitchen designer.
Limerence
Limerence is a psychological state of involuntary, obsessive attachment to one person, with intrusive thoughts and a strong desire for reciprocation, coined in 1979 by psychologist Dorothy Tennov.
Linda Carroll
Linda Carroll (MS, LMFT, BCC) is an American marriage and family therapist and author, not the namesakes in library catalogs. Licensed since 1981, known for Love Cycles (2014), Love Skills, the memoir Her Mother's Daughter about daughter Courtney Love, and The Concussion Crisis.
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.
Lions Clubs International
Lions Clubs International (LCI), founded 1917 by Melvin Jones in Chicago, is a service club organization with 1.4 million Lions in 50,000 clubs across 200 countries, known for vision service, LCIF grants, and the MISSION 1.5 growth goal.
Lipka Tatars
Lipka Tatars, also called Lithuanian-Polish Tatars, are a Slavic-speaking Sunni Muslim minority in Lithuania, Belarus, and Poland, descended from Golden Horde settlers invited by Grand Duke Vytautas from 1397, serving as cavalry since Grunwald 1410 while keeping Islam but losing their Turkic language.
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.
Lisa
Lisa: feminine given name, short form of Elisabeth/Elizabeth (also from Alice or Louisa); US top girls' name 1962–1969, peak 60,271 births in 1965, now 987th (2025); Nordic name days and registers.
Lisa Hayden-Johnson
Lisa Hayden-Johnson is a British woman from Brixham, Devon, jailed in 2010 for fabricating illness in her healthy son, a leading British case of fabricated or induced illness.
List of African-American journalists
African-American journalists, from Freedom's Journal editors Cornish and Russwurm (1827) through Douglass, Mitchell, Thompson, the Bateses, Hunter-Gault, and Capital B's founders, built the Black Press and later mainstream careers.
List of Afrikaners
List of Afrikaners: notable members of the Afrikaans-speaking white South African ethnic group, descendants of 17th-century Dutch, German, and French Cape settlers, from political leaders to rugby, art, and literature figures.
List of American Muslims
List of American Muslims: roster of notable Muslim Americans including Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Mehmet Oz, Abdul El-Sayed, and Zohran Mamdani, with early African Muslims and Nation of Islam history.
List of Ashkenazi Jewish surnames
The List of Ashkenazi Jewish surnames refers to hereditary family names used by Jews of Central and Eastern European descent, adopted under government decree starting in 1787.
List of barefooters
List of barefooters covers notable people who go barefoot as a public identity or lifestyle (barefooters, Society for Barefoot Living) and the separate water-skiing sense of the word, cataloging runners, musicians, athletes, and outdoor figures.