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Gay Rights Advocates
A list of notable LGBT rights activists who have worked to advance LGBT rights by political change, legal action or publication. Ordered by country, alphabetically. Argentina * Claudia Castrosín Verdú, she and her partner were the first lesbian couple to form a civil union in Latin America; vice president of FALGBT *María Rachid, politician and LGBT rights activist, partner of Claudia Castrosín Verdú *Diana Sacayán, board member of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association and a leader of the Antidiscrimination Liberation Movement Australia * Ron Austin * Peter Bonsall-Boone * Bob Brown * Lyle Chan, member of ACT UP * Rodney Croome * Peter De Waal * Craig Johnston (politician) * Julie McCrossin *Michael Kirby (judge), Justice of the High Court of Australia * Caroline Elisabeth Cull Austria * Helmut Graupner * Gery Keszler, organiser of the Life Ball * Alex Jürgen * Ulrike Lunacek Bangladesh * Xulhaz Mannan Belize * Derricia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBT Social Movements
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements are social movements that advocate for LGBT people in society. Some focus on equal rights, such as the ongoing movement for same-sex marriage, while others focus on liberation, as in the gay liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Earlier movements focused on self-help and self-acceptance, such as the homophile movement of the 1950s. Although there is not a primary or an overarching central organization that represents all LGBT people and their interests, numerous LGBT rights organizations are active worldwide. The earliest organizations to support LGBT rights were formed in the early 20th century. A commonly stated goal among these movements is social equality for LGBT people, but there is still denial of full LGBT rights. Some have also focused on building LGBT communities or worked towards liberation for the broader society from biphobia, homophobia, and transphobia. There is a struggle for LGBT rights today. LGBT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gery Keszler
The Life Ball in Vienna is the biggest charity event in Europe supporting people with HIV or AIDS. The event is organized by the nonprofit organization AIDS LIFE, which was founded in 1992 by Gery Keszler and Torgom Petrosian. AIDS LIFE supports aid organizations devoted to helping people who are HIV-positive or have AIDS. The team entrusted with the allocation of funds thoroughly examines each petition. Moreover, it is an explicit goal of AIDS LIFE to raise public awareness. The event The Life Ball—one of the biggest annual charity events in the world—has attracted strong international interest and attention. The main priority of the Ball is, however, not only the celebration of the party people live acts, but the fight against AIDS. To ensure that the meaning of this major event is not forgotten, the opening ceremony on Vienna's city hall square includes moments of silence and speeches by international stars and partners, which focus on raising awareness for AIDS. Since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Gustave Nana Ngongang , a community in the United States
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Joel or Yoel is a name meaning "Yahweh Is God" and may refer to: * Joel (given name), origin of the name including a list of people with the first name. * Joel (surname), a surname * Joel (footballer, born 1904), Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Brazilian football goalkeeper * Joel (footballer, born 1980), Joel Bertoti Padilha, Brazilian football centre-back * Joel (prophet), a prophet of ancient Israel ** Book of Joel, a book in the Jewish Tanakh, and in the Christian Bible, ascribed to the prophet * Joel, Georgia, a community in the United States * Joel, Wisconsin The Town of Clayton is located in Polk County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 571 at the 2000 census. The Village of Clayton and the unincorporated communities of Joel and Richardson are located in the town. History The village o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desislava Petrova
Desislava Dobreva Petrova (Bulgarian: Десислава Добрева Петрова; born 12 December 1980) is a Bulgarian gay rights activist and former president of BGO Gemini - Bulgaria's largest LGBT rights organization. She has struggled for equal rights for LGBT people since 2000. As Chair of the Bulgarian gay organization Gemini, the oldest and only national membership LGBT rights-based NGO in Bulgaria, Petrova has been responsible for the overall management of the organization. Her personal dedication and efforts to the LGBT community have driven the organization towards its development as a national LGBT rights defender. On 19 January 2001 she came out as a lesbian on the central news on the ''Bulgarian National Television The Bulgarian National Television ( Bulgarian: Българска национална телевизия, ''Balgarska natsionalna televizia'') or BNT (БНТ), stylized as ·Б·Н·Т· since 2018, is a public television broadcaster of Bulgari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Míriam Martinho
Míriam Martinho (born 1954) is one of the leading feminists in Brazil and part of the second generation of feminist journalists, who emerged in the 1980s. She was one of the first people to bring lesbianism openly into the fold of feminism and founded one of the first Lesbian-Feminist organizations in the country. She and Rosely Roth gained recognition for staging a protest, known at the "Brazilian Stonewall" at Ferro's Bar in 1983. She has written for numerous LGBT and feminist journals and has submitted expert testimony on the state of the LGBT community in Brazil. Biography Míriam Martinho was born in 1954 in Rio de Janeiro and grew up in the city of São Paulo. She is one of the pioneering figures of feminism in Brazil and the Brazilian Homosexual Movement. The feminist movement in Brazil, became fairly active in 1975. After the II Congress of the Paulista Women there was a split between leftist leaders and feminists. At that time, feminists were supporting the concept o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Silvério Trevisan
João Silvério Trevisan (born June 23, 1944 in Ribeirão Bonito, São Paulo) is Brazilian author, playwright, journalist, screenwriter and film director. In his much-diversified oeuvres, he has published eleven books, among them great works of fiction, essays, short stories, and screenplays. Trevisan has been influential as a literary and cultural critic, particularly on gay and lesbian issues and his works have been translated into English, Spanish, and German. Career Early in his career in 1970, Trevisan wrote and directed a feature film, ''Orgia ou o Homem que Deu Cria'', which was censured by the Brazilian military regime for almost ten years. In 1976, however, Trevisan wrote his first book, ''Testamento de Jônatas Deixado a Davi'', and in 1983, ''Em Nome do Desejo''. He subsequently emerged as one of Brazil's more important literary figures due to the enormous quantity and quality of work produced over the course of his career on a variety of topics. In 2010, one of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Reis
Toni Reis (born in 1964) is the president of the Brazilian LGBT organisation called Grupo Dignidade, the general secretary of the national association of Gays, Lesbians and Transsexuals in Brazil ( Associação Brasileira de Gays, Lésbicas e Transgêneros/ ABGLT) of which he was a founding president in 1995, and a member of the international council of the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation. He is a teacher and specialist in human sexuality and group dynamics. He possesses a master's degree of philosophy in ethics and sexuality. Toni Reis is also the Latin American coordinator for ASICAL (Association for Integral Health and Citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean). Work In 1998 Toni Reis described the situation in his country: "1,600 homosexuals have been murdered in the last ten years, of these 350 transvestites and 61 lesbians." In 2006 he spoke before the Brazilian parliament, where he stated that 250 homosexuals per year are murdered in Brazil. In 2007 he addressed the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Wyllys
Jean Wyllys (born Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos on 10 March 1974 in Alagoinhas, Bahia, Brazil) is a Brazilian lecturer, journalist and politician who rose to fame after winning the fifth season of ''Big Brother Brasil''. He was also notable as being Brazil's second openly gay member of parliament and the first congressman who was a gay-rights activist.''Jean Wyllys, Brazil's first openly gay MP, takes fight to the religious right'' Guardian, retrieved 27 January 2012 He has been compared to for his work. In 2019, citing death threats, he gave up on his Congress seat. Life W ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luiz Mott
Luiz Roberto de Barros Mott or Luiz Mott (born 6 May 1946) in São Paulo (city), São Paulo, is an anthropologist and a gay rights activist in Brazil. Early life Luiz Mott graduated in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP) during the military regime, obtained a master's degree in Ethnography from the University of Paris, Sorbonne and a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Campinas in São Paulo. Career Luiz Mott is professor emeritus of the Department of Anthropology of the Universidade Federal da Bahia, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). In his work Mott has traced homosexual desire in a number of indigenous Brazilian tribes such as the Bororo, Guató people, Guató, Trumai people, Trumai, Tupinambá people, Tupinambá, Wai-wai people, Wai Wai and Xavante. He has also explored intimate partner violence between gay, transsexual and transgender people in Salvador, Bahia, Salvador, the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In 1995, he declared th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleb Orozco
Caleb Orozco (born 1973) is an LGBT activist in Belize. He was the chief litigant in a case successfully challenging the anti-sodomy laws of Belize and the co-founder of the only LGBT advocacy group in the country. Biography Orozco became politically active when he was 31, after attending a workshop in Belize City for gay men and for people living with HIV. Orozco co-founded the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) in 2006, and later became the president. UNIBAM is the country's only LGBT advocacy group and has been using the legal system to challenge the anti-sodomy laws in Belize. UNIBAM is run out of Orzoco's home. In 2009, Orozco attended an HIV conference in Jamaica where he met two law professors from the University of the West Indies Rights Advocacy Project. The two professors identified Belize as an ideal case for challenging bans on same-sex relationships. In Belize, there was a law that specified a 10-year prison sentence for sodomy. In 2011, Orozco and UNIBA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derricia Castillo-Salazar
Derricia Castillo-Salazar (born 1988), also known as Derricia Jael Castillo, is a Belizean military officer, aircraft maintenance officer of the Belize Defence Force (BDF) and LGBT activist. She is the co-founder and president of Our Circle (Belize), an organization dedicated to the inclusion of the LGBT community. Biography After a year-long training to learn how a rotorcraft operates, she is among 13 trained technicians in charge of keeping in deployment conditions three helicopters of the Belize Defence Force, as well as the first helicopter maintenance personnel of the BDF after the British Arm Training and Support Unit Belize scaled down their operations in 2011. Since Castillo co-founded the voluntary organization Our Circle in 2014, it has engaged approximately 200 members of the LGBT community, as well as provided safe spaces to educate, empower and build the community in Belize. She has assisted in the creation and implementation a Belize Defence Force HIV Respon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xulhaz Mannan
Xulhaz Mannan ( bn, জুলহাজ মান্নান; 12 October 1976 – 25 April 2016) was an employee of the United States embassy in Dhaka and the founder of Bangladesh's first and only LGBT-themed magazine, '' Roopbaan''. He was killed in his apartment along with another LGBT activist Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in a machete attack by Islamist extremists. Early life and education Mannan's mother is a retired education ministry officer, and his father, who died several years ago was actively involved with the Bangladeshi independence movement in 1971. Mannan was born on 12 October 1976. He completed his SSC and HSC (1993) at Dhaka Residential Model College. He was involved in cultural activities from junior school. He then completed his B.Com at City College, Dhaka. Later he studied at Dhaka University and finished with honors in International Relations. In 2003 he received a master's degree of Social Sciences in Peace and Conflict Studies. Career He started his career in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
