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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    "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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  • 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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    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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    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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