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Venus Xtravaganza (1,180 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Venus Pellagatti Xtravaganza (May 5, 1965 – December 21, 1988) was an American transgender woman and performer associated with New York City's ball culture

TruNews (1,946 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

TruNews is an American far-right fake news website and channel owned and hosted by Rick Wiles. TruNews frequently publishes conspiracy theories in addition

2006 Colorado Amendment 43 (612 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Colorado Amendment 43 was a referendum approved by the voters in 2006 that added a new section to Article II of the Colorado Constitution to define marriage

Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2,010 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Boy Scouts of America et al. v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, decided on June 28, 2000, which held that

Suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer (1,431 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James T. Rodemeyer (March 21, 1997 – September 18, 2011) was an American teenager from Amherst, New York who was known for his activism against homophobia

Eric Rudolph (3,452 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist convicted of a series of bombings

2008 Arkansas Act 1 (264 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arkansas Proposed Initiative Act No. 1 (2008) is an initiated state statute that was approved on November 4, 2008, election in Arkansas. This measure makes

Killing of Nina Pop (850 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In May 2020, Nina Pop, a young transgender woman of color, was stabbed to death in her Missouri apartment. The Human Rights Campaign stated that Pop's

2004 Oklahoma State Question 711 (394 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Oklahoma Question 711 of 2004, was an amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman, thus rendering recognition

Suicide of Jadin Bell (1,005 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jadin Robert Joseph Bell (June 4, 1997 – February 3, 2013) was an American teenager known for his suicide, which raised the national profile of youth bullying

Chick tract (2,422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Chick tracts are short gospel tracts in a comic book format, originally created by American cartoonist Jack Chick in the 1960s. His company Chick Publications

Executive Order 10450 (1,931 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10450 on April 27, 1953. Effective May 27, 1953, it revoked President Truman's Executive Order 9835

Murder of Tanya Moore and Tina Rodriguez (702 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tanya Moore and Tina Rodriguez were two transgender women and sex workers. The pair disappeared on June 30, 1986 from 13th Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1978 California Proposition 6 (1,864 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

California Proposition 6, informally known as the Briggs Initiative, was an unsuccessful ballot initiative put to a referendum on the California state

Death of Layleen Polanco (1,270 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco was a 27-year-old Afro-Latina transgender woman who died at Rikers Island, New York City's main jail complex, on

Lonesome Cowboys police raid (1,208 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On August 5, 1969, the Atlanta Police Department led a police raid on a screening of the film Lonesome Cowboys at a movie theater in Atlanta, Georgia,

Pork Chop Gang (753 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Pork Chop Gang was a group of twenty Democratic Party legislators from rural areas of North Florida who worked together to dominate the Florida legislature

Bowers v. Hardwick (3,575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld, in a 5–4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia

Groypers (7,253 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Groypers are a far-right group loosely defined as followers, fans, or associates of the American far-right political activist Nick Fuentes. They are

Murder of Barry Winchell (1,887 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On July 6, 1999, Barry Winchell, a 21-year-old infantry soldier in the United States Army, was murdered while he slept outside of his barracks by fellow

Anita Bryant (5,623 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Anita Jane Bryant (March 25, 1940 – December 16, 2024) was an American singer and anti-gay-rights activist. She had three top 20 hits in the United States

Nick Bougas (1,070 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nicholas Bougas is an American documentary film director, illustrator, video and record producer. As a cartoonist, he has used the pen name A. Wyatt Mann

Hays Code (7,095 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released

Suicide of Tyler Clementi (6,069 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tyler Clementi (December 19, 1991 – September 22, 2010) was an American student at Rutgers University–New Brunswick who jumped to his death from the George

William J. Knight (1,504 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William John "Pete" Knight (November 18, 1929 – May 7, 2004) (Col, USAF) was an American aeronautical engineer, politician, Vietnam War combat pilot, test

Murder of Shanda Sharer (5,982 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shanda Renee Sharer (6 June 1979 – 11 January 1992) was an American girl who was tortured and burned to death in Madison, Indiana, by four teenage girls

Louis Farrakhan (9,300 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, later Louis X; May 11, 1933) is an American religious leader who has been the head of the Nation of Islam since

Sodomy in the United States military (622 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

From February 4, 1921 to December 26, 2013, in Title 10 of the United States Code, the dual-numbered section "§ 925 - Article 125" (part of the Uniform

Village Station police raid (1,758 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Village Station police raid was a police raid that targeted the Village Station, a gay bar in Dallas, Texas, United States. The raid occurred on October

Ron Paul newsletters (2,095 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Beginning in 1978, for more than two decades, Ron Paul – American physician, libertarian activist, congressman, and presidential candidate – published

2006 Virginia Question 1 (942 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

2006 Virginia Question 1, the Marshall-Newman Amendment (also referred to as the Virginia Marriage Amendment) is an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (3,687 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (November 23, 1940 – May 3, 2021), commonly known as Glenn Miller or Frazier Glenn Cross, was an American domestic terrorist,

Snyder v. Phelps (3,424 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U.S. 443 (2011), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that speech made in a public

Castro Sweep (2,979 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Castro Sweep was a police riot that occurred in the Castro District of San Francisco on the evening of October 6, 1989. The riot, by about 200 members

Kansas House Bill 2453 (888 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kansas House Bill 2453, also known as the Religious Freedom Act, is a piece of legislation proposed in the state of Kansas that would allow people to refuse

2019 Dayton shooting (5,133 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On August 4, 2019, 24-year-old Connor Betts shot and killed nine people, including his brother, and wounded 17 others near the entrance of the Ned Peppers

2019 Dayton shooting (5,133 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On August 4, 2019, 24-year-old Connor Betts shot and killed nine people, including his brother, and wounded 17 others near the entrance of the Ned Peppers

Ku Klux Klan raid of La Paloma nightclub (588 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On November 15, 1937, about 200 Ku Klux Klan members stormed the popular LGBT-serving nightclub, La Paloma, in an unincorporated area of Dade County, Florida

America First Political Action Conference (2,840 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) is an annual far-right political conference. Founded in 2020 by political activist Nick Fuentes,

Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida (432 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, also known as the Purple Pamphlet, was an anti-homosexual propaganda pamphlet published in January 1964 by the

Bryan Kocis (1,674 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bryan Charles Kocis (May 28, 1962 – January 24, 2007), also known as Bryan Phillips, was a director of gay pornographic films and founder of Cobra Video

Nation of Islam (14,483 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. A centralized and hierarchical organization

Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1,457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 387 U.S. 118 (1967), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld Clive Michael

Dennis Shepard (611 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

what became one of the most high-profile hate crimes against LGBTQ people in the United States. He and his wife, Judy Shepard, are co-founders of the Matthew

Scout's Honor (2001 film) (1,926 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Scout's Honor is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Tom Shepard and written by Meg Moritz. Appearing as themselves in the documentary are Steven

Perversion for Profit (1,090 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Perversion for Profit is a 1963 Eastmancolor propaganda film financed by Charles Keating through Citizens for Decent Literature and narrated by news reporter

Robert Gottschalk (956 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert Gottschalk (March 12, 1918 – June 3, 1982) was an American camera technician, inventor, and co-founder of Panavision. Born to Gustav and Anna Gottschalk

Beating of Chrissy Lee Polis (1,320 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Chrissy Lee Polis is a transgender woman who was beaten in an anti-transgender motivated hate crime on April 18, 2011, at a McDonald's in Rosedale, Maryland

Religious freedom bill (6,577 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the United States, a religious freedom bill is a bill that, according to its proponents, allows those with religious objections to oppose LGBT rights

Stop Abuse for Everyone (281 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Stop Abuse For Everyone (SAFE) is a domestic violence organization started in 1996. It was formed in Portland, Oregon, and now is based out of Bakersfield

Death of Sean Kennedy (935 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sean W. Kennedy (April 8, 1987 – May 16, 2007) was a gay American man who was severely punched by a younger man, Stephen Andrew Moller as Kennedy was leaving

Danny Lockin (1,476 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Daniel Joseph Lockin (July 13, 1943 – August 21, 1977) was an American actor and dancer who appeared on stage, television, and film. He was best known

Gill Foundation (657 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) people in the United States. The foundation's mission is "to secure equal opportunities

Murder of Larry King (5,136 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lawrence Fobes King, also known as Latisha King (January 13, 1993 – February 14, 2008), was a 15-year-old student at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard

Atlanta Eagle police raid (5,519 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Atlanta Eagle police raid was a police raid targeting the Atlanta Eagle, a gay bar in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The raid occurred on September

Murders of Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner (1,416 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On August 18, 2021, the bodies of married American couple Kylen Schulte (September 5, 1996 – c. August 13, 2021) and Crystal Turner (December 30, 1982

Murders of Roxanne Ellis and Michelle Abdill (2,414 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Roxanne Ellis (November 4, 1942 – December 4, 1995) and Michelle Abdill (July 8, 1953 – December 4, 1995) were a lesbian couple, murdered in Medford, Oregon

Protests by Westboro Baptist Church (5,106 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Westboro Baptist Church carries out daily picketing in Topeka, Kansas, and travels nationally to picket the funerals of gay victims of crimes or anti-gay

Arizona SB 1062 (2,698 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arizona SB 1062 was an Arizona bill to amend an existing law to give any individual or legal entity an exemption from any state law if it substantially

Omar Mateen (9,251 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Omar Mir Seddique Mateen (Pashto: عمر مير صديق متين; born Omar Mir Seddique; November 16, 1986 – June 12, 2016) was an American mass murderer who killed

Department of Defense Instruction 1300.28 (3,088 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Directive-type Memorandum-19-004, "Military Service by Transgender Persons and Persons with Gender Dysphoria", was a memorandum issued by the United States

A. Lawrence Lowell (7,640 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abbott Lawrence Lowell (December 13, 1856 – January 6, 1943) was an American educator and legal scholar. He was president of Harvard University from 1909

Killing of Islan Nettles (370 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Islan Nettles was an African American transgender woman who was killed on August 17, 2013. Islan Nettles was beaten to death in Harlem just after midnight

Stormfront (website) (5,838 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Stormfront is a neo-Nazi Internet forum, and the Web's first major racial hate site. The site is focused on propagating white nationalism, Nazism, antisemitism

Nabozny v. Podlesny (2,221 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nabozny v. Podlesny, 92 F.3d 446 (7th Cir. 1996) was a case heard in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit regarding the protection

Violence against transgender people in the United States (1,851 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Violence against transgender people in the United States includes sexual and physical violence against transgender people, and which may, on occasion,

Joseph McCarthy (16,876 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until

A Special Agent (692 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A Special Agent: Gay and Inside the FBI is Frank Buttino's 1993 memoir, co-authored with his brother Lou. Buttino writes about his career as a special

Growing Up Coy (722 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Growing Up Coy is a 2016 documentary directed by Eric Juhola and produced by Still Point Pictures. The film documents a landmark 2013 case in which the

Boise homosexuality scandal (3,656 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Boise homosexuality scandal refers to a sweeping investigation of a supposed "homosexual underground" in Boise, Idaho that started in 1955. Beginning

Eugene Local Measure 51 (1,057 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Eugene Local Measure 51 was a 1978 petition calling for a referendum in Eugene, Oregon, to repeal Ordinance no. 18080, which prohibited sexual orientation

Transphobia in the United States (21,830 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Transphobia in the United States has changed over time. Understanding and acceptance of transgender people have both decreased and increased during the

Oklahoma Senate Bill 1100 (1,292 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Oklahoma Senate Bill 1100 (SB 1100) is a 2022 law in the state of Oklahoma which bans sex markers other than male or female on birth certificates. According

Murder of Pamela Walton (1,445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pamela Leigh Walton (died c. July–September 1988) was a transgender woman believed to have been murdered in Clermont, Florida, in 1988. Her remains remained

David Duke 1988 presidential campaign (3,479 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In 1988, David Duke unsuccessfully ran for the presidency of the United States. Duke, a perennial Democratic candidate and Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux

Tay-Bush Inn raid (313 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Tay-Bush Inn raid was a police raid on an all-night, one-room café in San Francisco, California, around 3 a.m. on September 14, 1961. There 103 LGBT

Murder of Mollie Olgin (1,116 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mollie Judith Olgin was a 19-year-old woman murdered on June 22, 2012, in Violet Andrews Park in Portland, Texas, after she and her girlfriend were attacked

Stop the Sexualization of Children Act (816 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Stop the Sexualization of Children Act was United States federal legislation introduced in the 117th Congress which would prohibit all federally funded

Florida Parental Rights in Education Act (8,374 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Parental Rights in Education Act (HB 1557), commonly referred to as the Don't Say Gay law, is a Florida statute passed in 2022 that regulates public

Murders of Lisa Fuillerat and Samara Routenberg (867 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On February 24, 2017, at around 6:30 a.m., Vincente Fuillerat, armed with a shotgun, murdered his wife, Lisa Fuillerat and her partner, Samara Routenberg

Roy Early Blick (684 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Roy Early Blick (December 21, 1899 – June 18, 1972) was the director of the Morals Division (the vice squad) of the Metropolitan Police Department of the

Luigi's Restaurant shooting (655 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On August 6, 1993, 22-year-old Fort Bragg soldier Kenneth Junior French, armed with two shotguns and a rifle, opened fire inside a Luigi's restaurant in

List of U.S. ballot initiatives to repeal LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws (1,847 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ballot initiatives to repeal LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws in the United States (U.S.) have been a recurring political strategy aimed at overturning legal

High Tech Gays v. Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (634 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

High Tech Gays, et al. v. Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office, et al., 895 F.2d 563 (9th Cir. 1990) was a lawsuit decided by the United States

Michigan Religious Freedom Restoration Act (517 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

House Bill 5958, also known as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, is a pending piece of legislation in Michigan that, opponents assert, may allow for

Atomwaffen Division (17,775 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Atomwaffen Division (Atomwaffen meaning "atomic weapons" in German), also known as the National Socialist Resistance Front, was an international far-right

Alt-right (22,886 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The alt-right (abbreviated from alternative right), or dissident right, is a far-right, white nationalist movement. A largely online phenomenon, the alt-right

Virginia House Bill 1414 (378 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Virginia House Bill 1414 was a proposed legislation introduced into the Virginia General Assembly on January 14, 2015, by Bob Marshall. The bill didn't

Township High School District 211 transgender student locker room access controversies (4,625 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Since 2015,[update] Township High School District 211, a public school district of the Chicago suburbs, has been the epicenter of multiple controversies

Jesse Helms (20,118 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. (October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was an American politician, journalist, and Navy veteran. A leader in the conservative and

New Jersey v. Dharun Ravi (9,536 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

State of New Jersey vs. Dharun Ravi was a criminal trial held in Middlesex County, New Jersey, Superior Court from February 24, 2012, to March 16, 2012

Bruce Alan Davis (1,362 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bruce Alan Davis (September 3, 1948 – December 12, 1988) was an American serial killer who was convicted of killing three people in Illinois and the District

Tennessee House Bill 878 (441 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tennessee House Bill 878 is a state law in the U.S. state of Tennessee, granting an individual the right to refuse to solemnize a marriage if the individual

Indiana HB 1608 (615 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Indiana HB 1608 (also called the "Education Matters Bill") is a bill that prohibits any person, entity, or vendor working in an official school capacity

FURRIES Act (1,099 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The FURRIES Act (full name: Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education Act) is a proposed bill in Texas that seeks to ban animal-like

Koko Da Doll (926 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rasheeda Williams (1987 or 1988 – April 18, 2023), also known as Koko Da Doll and Hollywood Koko, was an American performance artist. She is known for

Florida Senate Bill 254 (2023) (1,316 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Florida Senate Bill 254 (SB 254) is a law that prohibits gender-affirming care for anyone under the age of 18 and also places restrictions on adult patients

Village Hearth (209 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Carolina. It is one of the first cohousing developments for LGBTQ+ people in the United States. Village Hearth was established in 2019 by Margaret Roesch

Murders of Hattie Mae Cohens and Brian Mock (1,282 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On September 26, 1992, Hattie Mae Cohens and Brian Mock were killed by a firebomb attack at their apartment in Salem, Oregon. As Cohens was a lesbian,

LGBTQ people in prison (16,867 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

they are housed with the general population. Historically, LGBTQ people in the United States have been socially and economically vulnerable due to their

Aryan Freedom Network (837 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Aryan Freedom Network (AFN) is an American neo-Nazi group based in Texas with chapters in 40 U.S. states. AFN maintains its activities by holding private

Durham, North Carolina (11,208 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

one of the first co-housing developments exclusively for LGBTQ people in the United States opened in northern Durham. In recent years the city of Durham

Rural diversity (2,297 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

into their communities. About fifteen to twenty percent of LGBTQ+ people in the United States live in rural and urban areas. However, residents of rural

New York City Gay Rights Bill of 1986 (3,270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

its kind to provide protections against discrimination for LGBTQ people in the United States. The bill barely made it out of the City Council’s General

Executive Order 14168 (8,220 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

reasonable fear of persecution" under present conditions for LGBTQ+ people in the United States. Law portal LGBTQ portal Politics portal United States portal