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Garo people
The Garo people (A'chik, Mande) are a Sino-Tibetan-speaking matrilineal ethnic group of Meghalaya's Garo Hills, Assam, and Mymensingh, Bangladesh, known for Nokna heiress inheritance, the Songsarek religion, widespread Christianity, and the Wangala harvest festival.
Garrick Club
The Garrick Club, a London private members' club founded in 1831 and named after actor David Garrick, holds major theatrical art and library collections; it admitted its first women members, including Judi Dench, in 2024 after 193 years as men-only.
Gary Chapman (author)
Gary Chapman, American Baptist pastor and marriage counselor from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, author of The 5 Love Languages (1992), which proposes five ways of expressing love; a bestseller with over 20 million copies sold whose core assumptions lack strong empirical support.
Gary Webb
Gary Webb (1955–2004) was an American investigative journalist whose 1996 San Jose Mercury News series "Dark Alliance" linked Contra cocaine trafficking to the Los Angeles crack epidemic, triggering a media backlash and government investigations.
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is psychological manipulation that makes a victim doubt their own reality, memory, and sanity. Derived from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gas Light, first studied academically in 1969, and Merriam-Webster's 2022 word of the year.
Gate control theory
Gate control theory of pain, proposed by Melzack and Wall in 1965 in Science, holds that spinal dorsal horn gating of large versus small afferent fiber activity modulates pain perception; details later revised, inspiring TENS and the neuromatrix theory.
Gaucho
Gaucho: nomadic horseman and cattle herder of the Argentine pampas, Uruguay, and southern Brazil (17th–19th centuries), counterpart of the vaquero; famous for the facón, boleadoras, mate, and the poem Martín Fierro, and now a national symbol kept alive by festivals and traditionalist centers.
Gaurav Tiwari (गौरव तिवारी)
Gaurav Tiwari (गौरव तिवारी), 1984–2016, Indian paranormal investigator who founded the Indian Paranormal Society in 2009, appeared on Bhoot Aaya and MTV Girls Night Out, and died in Delhi in July 2016, a death police ruled suicide.
Gauravi Kumari
Gauravi Kumari (born 1999), Jaipur royal, daughter of Rajasthan Deputy CM Diya Kumari and sister of Maharaja Padmanabh Singh; PDKF General Secretary, PDKF Store co-founder, Jimmy Choo ambassador, Met Gala 2026 debutant.
Gauri Lankesh (ಗೌರಿ ಲಂಕೇಶ್)
Gauri Lankesh (ಗೌರಿ ಲಂಕೇಶ್), Kannada journalist and activist, editor of Lankesh Patrike and Gauri Lankesh Patrike, critic of right-wing politics, shot dead in Bengaluru on 5 September 2017; trial ongoing, no convictions as of 2025.
Gay
Gay describes attraction to the same sex or gender, most often applied to men; about 4% of people identify with a same-sex orientation. Covers terminology, science, Stonewall-era history, and global legal status.
Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands
The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands, or Gay Kingdom, was an unrecognized Australian micronation proclaimed on Cato Island on 14 June 2004 by gay rights activists protesting the Marriage Act amendment, led by Emperor Dale Parker Anderson, and dissolved 17 November 2017 after same-sex marriage was legalized.
Gay bar
Gay bar: LGBTQ+ drinking establishment, also called queer bar, historically central to gay social life. Known for police raids, the 1966 sip-in, Stonewall 1969, mafia ownership, and modern closures driven by gentrification, COVID-19, and rising rents.
Gay bathhouse
Gay bathhouse: commercial venue, also called baths, saunas, or sex clubs, where gay and bisexual men socialize and meet for sex. Traces Bérubé's four-phase history, the Continental Baths, 1984–85 AIDS-era closures, and HIV prevention roles.
Gay icon
Gay icon: a celebrity, usually a female star like Judy Garland, Madonna, or Lady Gaga, embraced by gay communities as a fantasy figure and shared subcultural reference, tied to camp aesthetics and a contested canon.
Gay liberation
Gay liberation: radical 1970s phase of LGBT rights activism launched after the June 1969 Stonewall uprising, organized through Gay Liberation Fronts in New York, London, and elsewhere, promoting coming out, anti-capitalist politics, and Pride marches.
Gay Liberation Front
Gay Liberation Front (GLF): radical LGBT organization founded in New York, July 1969, after Stonewall; name modeled on the Vietnamese NLF; organized the first Pride march (June 28, 1970); London branch founded October 1970 at LSE; active 1969–1972.
Gay men
Gay men are men whose primary attractions are toward other men. They reported more severe psychological distress than heterosexual men in 2013-2014, and 65 countries still criminalize same-sex relations.
Gay Nigger Association of America
Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA), internet trolling collective founded circa 2002, named after the 1992 Danish film Gayniggers from Outer Space; known for pranks on MacRumors and Wikipedia, weev's presidency, and the Goatse Security offshoot.
Gay panic defense
The gay panic defense, also called the homosexual panic defense, is a courtroom strategy claiming a victim's sexual orientation or unwanted same-sex advance provoked violence.
Gay village
Gay village, also called gayborhood or gay enclave, an urban district with concentrated LGBTQ+ residents, businesses, and services; examples include the Castro, Greenwich Village, Soho, and Church Street, Toronto.
Gay-friendly
Gay-friendly describes businesses, destinations, policies, and spaces that welcome and protect LGBTQ people, from IGLTA-certified tourism and hotel certifications to workplace and healthcare inclusion, with pinkwashing as its main criticism.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (গায়ত্রী চক্রবর্তী স্পিভাক)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (গায়ত্রী চক্রবর্তী স্পিভাক) is an Indian literary theorist and feminist critic at Columbia University, known for "Can the Subaltern Speak?", her Derrida translation, and postcolonial feminism.
Gaydar
Gaydar is the folk idea of detecting sexual orientation from subtle cues; research debates whether it is perception or stereotyping, and Gaydar is also an LGBTQ+ dating app.
Gaza Solidarity Encampment (Columbia University)
The Gaza Solidarity Encampment was a pro-Palestinian student tent camp on Columbia University's South Lawn, April 17-30, 2024, organized by CUAD, SJP, and JVP to demand divestment, transparency, and amnesty; it sparked nationwide campus encampments and ended in NYPD clearances and over 100 arrests.
Gaza war protests at Columbia University
Gaza war protests at Columbia University: pro-Palestinian student campaign begun April 17, 2024 with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment (50 tents, CUAD), demanding ceasefire and divestment; NYPD clearances April 18 and April 30, Hamilton Hall occupation, and a national campus encampment movement.
Gaze
Gaze: in social cognition, the direction of another's visual attention, studied via the gaze-cueing paradigm introduced by Friesen and Kingstone (1998); in psychoanalytic theory, Lacan's gaze as object a of the scopic drive, distinct from Sartre's account.
Geert Hofstede
Geert Hofstede (1928-2020), Dutch social psychologist and Maastricht emeritus, creator of the IBM-based national culture dimensions model including Long-Term Orientation; widely cited in business research and heavily criticized for ecological fallacy and validity problems.
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft are Ferdinand Tönnies's paired sociological ideal types from his 1887 book: organic, kinship-based community versus rational, self-interested society, later adapted by Weber and Durkheim.
Gen Z stare
Gen Z stare (Zoomer Stare) is slang for the blank, expressionless look Gen Zers give instead of a greeting or small talk, common in customer service. First posted on TikTok July 29, 2024, viral mid-2025; contested between generations and partly debunked by 2026 survey data.