List of LGBT rights activists
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A list of LGBT rights activists by country, in alphabetical order.
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Australia
Canada
Germany
- Volker Beck
- Heinrich Himmler [1]
- Magnus Hirschfeld
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Ireland
Italy
People's Republic of China
Romania
- Florin Buhuceanu
- Romaniţa Iordache
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Taiwan
United Kingdom
United States of America
- Gary Bauer national activist on issues of LGBT rights
- Chastity Bono (born 1969), daughter of Sonny Bono and Cher.
- David P. Brill (1955–1979), Boston-based journalist.
- Anita Bryant activist on LGBT rights in Florida
- Margarethe Cammermeyer (born 1942), former colonel in the Washington state National Guard whose coming out story was made into the 1995 movie Serving in Silence, starring Glenn Close.
- Ward Connerly, republican, anti-racial quota activist, who has spoken out in favor of domestic partnership rights
- Matt Foreman (born 1953), Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF).
- Barney Frank (born 1940), member of the Democratic Party who has served as a member of Congress from Massachusetts since 1981.
- Aaron Fricke (born 1962), who successfully sued the Cumberland, Rhode Island school system in 1980 for the right to bring his boyfriend to the senior prom.
- Barbara Gittings (1932–2007), founder of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis who also pushed for the American Psychological Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).
- Harry Hay (1912–2002), founder of the Mattachine Society, the first gay rights group in the United States.
- Brenda Howard (1946–2005), an instrumental figure in the immediate post-Stonewall era in New York City.
- Cheryl Jacques (born 1962), former member of the Massachusetts State Legislature and the president of the Human Rights Campaign from January through November 2004. She resigned from this post less than a month after the passage of 11 state constitutional amendments banning gay marriage.
- Frank Kameny (born 1925), participant in many gay rights rallies of the 1960s and 1970s, most notably the push in 1972-1973 for the American Psychological Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).
- Morris Kight (1919–2003), founder of Los Angeles' Gay and Lesbian Front and Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
- Larry Kramer (born 1935), author and playwright who helped form the prominent gay rights organizations Gay Men's Health Crisis and AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP).
- Scott Long (born 1963), Executive Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch.
- Phyllis Lyon (born 1924), lesbian activist who co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis with longtime partner Del Martin.
- Del Martin (born 1921), lesbian activist who co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis with longtime partner Phyllis Lyon.
- Harvey Milk (1930–1978), openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California who was assassinated (along with mayor George Moscone) in 1978.
- Gavin Newsom (born 1967), heterosexual mayor of San Francisco, California who directed his office to issue wedding licenses to same-sex couples in February 2004. This process was halted the next month by the California Supreme Court.
- Jean O'Leary (1948–2005), former Roman Catholic nun who helped found National Coming Out Day in 1987.
- Fred Phelps activist at a national level on LGBT rights from a religious perspective
- Elisia & Carrie Ross-Stone (a.k.a. The Rainbow Grannies) (born 1954 & 1955 respectively), Founders of Rainbow Law, the first online LGBTQ free legal document preparation service. The Grannies twice rode their bicycles across the US (in 2003 and 2004) to advocate for marriage equality and are featured in the documentary, ''Lesbian Grandmothers from Mars.
- Tully Satre (born 1989), blogger who gained fame in March 2006 for challenging then-Senator George Allen at a political meeting in Culpeper, Virginia.
- Dan Savage (born 1964), columnist of Savage Love and author. Editor of the Seattle weekly, The Stranger.
- Ruth Simpson Founder of the first lesbian community center. Former President of Daughters of Bilitis New York. Author of From the Closet to the Courts.
- Joe Solmonese (born 1965), former political fundraiser and current (as of March 2007) president of the Human Rights Campaign.
- Merle Woo, openly lesbian Asian American socialist feminist and writer.
See also
References
1. ^ The Holocaust Chronicle, Publications International Ltd., p. 108.
2. ^ 《同性恋亚文化》(Subculture of Homosexuality),China Today Press,1998.
3. ^ Ho's personal website
2. ^ 《同性恋亚文化》(Subculture of Homosexuality),China Today Press,1998.
3. ^ Ho's personal website
Discrimination
Major forms
Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Ageism
Antisemitism
Islamophobia
Ableism
Manifestations
Slavery · Racial profiling
Hate speech · Hate crime
Genocide · Ethnocide · Holocaust
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Major forms
Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Ageism
Antisemitism
Islamophobia
Ableism
Manifestations
Slavery · Racial profiling
Hate speech · Hate crime
Genocide · Ethnocide · Holocaust
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Rodney Croome is the spokesperson for the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group, and one of the founders of the Australian Coalition for Equality (ACE).
He fronted the successful campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Tasmania, which until May 1, 1997 was a criminal
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He fronted the successful campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Tasmania, which until May 1, 1997 was a criminal
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Volker Beck (born 12 December, 1960 in Stuttgart) is a German politician, specifically a Green Party representative in the Bundestag first as their Speaker for Legal Affairs (1994-2002) and now as the Green Party whip.
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Magnus Hirschfeld (May 14, 1868 - May 14, 1935) was a German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate.
He was born in Kolberg (modern Kołobrzeg) in a Jewish family, the son of a well-beloved physician and 'Medizinalrat', Hermann Hirschfeld.
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He was born in Kolberg (modern Kołobrzeg) in a Jewish family, the son of a well-beloved physician and 'Medizinalrat', Hermann Hirschfeld.
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Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs (Aurich, 28 August 1825 – L'Aquila, 14 July 1895), is seen today as a pioneer of modern lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movements.
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Tonie Walsh (born December 25, 1960) in Dublin, Ireland is a gay rights activist, journalist, DJ and founder of Irish Queer Archives.
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Li Yinhe (Traditional Chinese: 李銀河; Simplified Chinese: 李银河; Pinyin: Lǐ Yínhé
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Florin Buhuceanu (born in 1971) is a Romanian gay rights activist and the former executive director of ACCEPT, Romania's largest LGBT rights organisation. He is currently the vice-president of ACCEPT.
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Fannyann Eddy (1974 - 2004) was an activist for lesbian and gay rights in her native Sierra Leone and throughout Africa. She founded Sierra Leone's first Lesbian and Gay Association and she traveled widely, addressing the United Nations and other international groups.
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Joël Gustave Nana Ngongang (born 1982), frequently known as Joel Nana, is a leading African LGBT human rights advocate and HIV/AIDS activist. Nana's career as an activist and journalist has spanned numerous African countries, including Nigeria and South Africa, in addition
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- For the Hong Kong singer and actress, see Josie Ho.
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Jeremy Bentham (IPA: ['benθəm]) (26 February [O.S. 15 February 15] 1748) – June 6, 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer.
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Sir Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen at the premiere of in Wellington, New Zealand, December 1, 2003.
Born May 25 1939
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Ian McKellen at the premiere of in Wellington, New Zealand, December 1, 2003.
Born May 25 1939
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Bob Mellors (b.1950 d.24 March 1996 in Warsaw) was a British gay rights activist.
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Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is an Australian-British human rights activist, who is best known internationally for his attempts to perform a citizen's arrest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 1999 and 2001, on charges of torture and other human rights abuses.
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Gary L. Bauer (born May 4 1946, Covington, Kentucky)[1] is a conservative American politician notable for his ties to several evangelical Christian groups and campaigns. In 1973, Bauer received a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University.
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Chastity Sun Bono (born March 4, 1969) is an American writer and activist in the LGBT movement. She is also known as the daughter of entertainers Sonny and Cher and the half sister of musician Elijah Blue Allman.
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In office
1995–1998
Final term completed by widow Mary Bono
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Born January 16 1935
Detroit, Michigan
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1995–1998
Final term completed by widow Mary Bono
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Born January 16 1935
Detroit, Michigan
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Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre (better known as Cher) (born on May 20, 1946)[1] is an American singer, actress, songwriter, author and entertainer. Among her many accomplishments in music, television and film, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy
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David P. Brill (b. 1955 - d. 1979) was a Boston-based gay rights activist and investigative journalist.[1]
Brill studied political science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
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Brill studied political science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
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Boston, Massachusetts
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Location in Suffolk County in Massachusetts, USA
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Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma) is an American singer. In the 1970s she became the spokesperson for Florida orange juice, making a series of television commercials for them.
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Margarethe "Grethe" Cammermeyer (born March 24 1942) is a former colonel in the Washington National Guard and a gay rights activist. Born in Oslo, Norway, she became a United States citizen in 1960. In 1961 she joined the Army Student Nurse Program. She received a B.S.
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Wardell Connerly (born June 15, 1939) is a political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent. He is also the founder and the chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, a national non-profit organization in opposition to racial and gender preferences.
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Matt Foreman is an American gay and lesbian rights (LGBT) activist. Foreman has been Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force since May, 2003, and has worked for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights for over 25 years.
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National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force logo
Formation 1973
Headquarters Washington, DC
Executive Director Matt Foreman
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