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Berkeley — Pacific Center for Human Growth; Los Angeles — Los Angeles LGBT Center; San Diego — The San Diego LGBT Community Center; Oakland — Oakland LGBTQ Community Center; San Francisco — SF LGBT Center; San Francisco — Queer Cultural Center; San Jose — Billy DeFrank Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center
National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) 2002: Active National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) 1990: Active National LGBTQ Task Force (The Task Force) 1973: Active National Transgender Advocacy Coalition: 1999: NOH8 Campaign: 2009: Prop. 8: North American Conference of Homophile Organizations (NACHO) 1966: Dissolved in 1970
On March 20, 1990, sixty LGBT people gathered at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center in New York's Greenwich Village to create a direct action organization. The goal of the unnamed organization was the elimination of homophobia , and the increase of gay, lesbian and bisexual visibility through a variety of tactics.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer related organizations and conferences range from social and support groups to organizations that are political in nature. Some groups are independent, while others are officially recognized advocacy groups within mainstream religious organizations.
In the Middle East, LGBT organizations remain illegal, and LGBT rights activists face extreme opposition from the state. [96] The 1990s also saw the emergence of many LGBT youth movements and organizations such as LGBT youth centers, gay–straight alliances in high schools, and youth-specific activism, such as the National Day of Silence ...
"The global LGBT community has used Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other platforms to shape people's attitudes towards LGBT issues," according to a recent paper published by the University of ...
The history of Christianity and homosexuality has been much debated. [2] The Hebrew Bible and its traditional interpretations in Judaism and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality; [3] [4] throughout the majority of Christian history, most Christian theologians and denominations have considered homosexual behavior ...
The group Dyketactics was the first LGBT group in the U.S. to take the police to court for police brutality in the case Dyketactics vs. The City of Philadelphia . [ 61 ] Members of Dyketactics who took the police to court, now known as "The Dyketactics Six," were beaten by the Philadelphia Civil Defence Squad in a demonstration for LGBT rights ...