Queer Nation is an LGBTQ activist organization founded in March 1990 in New York City, by HIV/AIDS activists from ACT UP. The four founders were outraged...
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Queer is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or are not cisgender. Originally meaning 'strange' or 'peculiar', queer came to be used...
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Queer radicalism can be defined as actions taken by queer groups which contribute to a change in laws and/or social norms. The key difference between...
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1990 with the establishment of Queer Nation, a radical organization best known for its slogan "We're here. We're queer. Get used to it". In 1969, gay...
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1990s, with Queer Nation's use of "queer" in their protest chants, such as "We're here! We're queer! Get used to it!" Other early queer theorists include...
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Queering (also called queer reading) is a technique used to challenge heteronormativity by analyzing places in a text that use heterosexuality or identity...
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the term for common usage (as was done by the organization Queer Nation with the word queer). Adoptee rights Canadian Council of Natural Mothers I Don't...
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Zap (action) (section ACT UP and Queer Nation)
of HIV. Queer Nation formed in 1990 and adopted the militant tactics of ACT UP and applied them more generally to LGBT issues. Queer Nation members were...
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The Arsenio Hall Show (section Queer Nation incident)
called "Posse". During a December 1990 taping, three or four members of Queer Nation, seated in the back row in different sections of the audience, interrupted...
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Identity politics (section Queer critique)
responds to the emergence of queer politics in the late 1980s, exemplified by the group Queer Nation. Scholars have identified queer politics as the opposite...
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express support for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities and LGBTQ rights. Gay pride Pride parade LGBTQ symbols...
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is an anonymously written essay about queer identity. It was originally circulated by members of Queer Nation as a pamphlet at the June 1990 New York...
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Drag queen (redirect from Drag queer)
"Lick Slick Willie in '96!" In each of these campaigns Smith ran on the Queer Nation Party ticket. In June 2019, a play based on Smith's 1992 presidential...
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comprise an interwoven history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer social movements in the United States of America, beginning in the early...
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found or be active in groups including ACT UP, the Lesbian Avengers, Queer Nation, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and Stonewall. The United States Gay...
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civilian patrol group based in New York City, founded by members of Queer Nation in the summer of 1990 in order to combat anti-LGBT violence in Manhattan's...
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school reversed its decision. Street Patrol, a 1990s queer self-defense group affiliated with Queer Nation/San Francisco, used as its logo a coiled snake over...
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Franca Arena (section Queer nation)
and scorn after becoming the target of militant homosexual activists Queer Nation. At the time, Arena was the head of a parliamentary enquiry into financial...
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Michelangelo Signorile (redirect from Queer in America)
with three other ACT UP members, of the in-your-face activist group Queer Nation. In May 2017, Signorile was criticized for an article that appeared on...
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Gay rights law through the City Council in 1986 as well as ACT UP and Queer Nation. Howard's activism included participation in the 1987 March on Washington...
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"New queer cinema" is a term first coined by the academic B. Ruby Rich in Sight & Sound magazine in 1992 to define and describe a movement in queer-themed...
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Political Coalition Equality Texas Houston GLBT Political Caucus (HGLBTPC) Queer Liberaction Austin Black Pride (defunct) Equality Utah Stonewall Shooting...
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Christian Church, following the name of a Christian saint who was a Queen Queer Nation (QN), a United States LGBT social movement Quintillion (qn), a large...
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Queer Eye is an American reality television series, initially released February 7, 2018 on Netflix. A reboot of the original 2003 series produced by Bravo...
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(13th). Several days before the ceremony, LGBT activist groups such as Queer Nation and Out in Film announced plans to stage a protest outside the Dorothy...
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August 23, 2023. "5ninthavenueproject - YouTube". YouTube. "Queer Nation NY History". Queer Nation NY. Retrieved November 19, 2020. Crawford-Lackey, Katherine;...
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on Kinison's career in the Los Angeles Times. For example, the group Queer Nation Nebraska demonstrated on a sidewalk in front of a Kinison show in Lincoln...
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LGBTQ (redirect from Lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer)
LGBTQIA+) is an initialism for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning. It is an umbrella term, broadly referring to all sexualities...
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Avengers, a coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and a member of Queer Nation. Wolfe is currently a Professor Emerita of Women's and Gender Studies...
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UP slogan "ACT UP! Fight Back! Fight AIDS!" and the Queer Nation slogan "We're here. We're queer. We're fabulous. Get used to it." Some marchers chanted...
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