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Lesbians, Levis and Lipstick: The Meaning of Beauty in Our Lives (1st ed.). The Haworth Press. ISBN 0-7890-0661-8. Faderman, Lillian (1991). Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-Century America (1st ed.). Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231074889. Greenberg, David F. (2008). The Construction of Homosexuality ...
In 2012, Tammy Baldwin became the first openly lesbian or gay senator in American history. [356] Another first for lesbians in politics came that year when the first lesbian Super PAC, LPAC, was founded by lesbian Urvashi Vaid to represent the interests of lesbians in the United States, and to campaign on LGBT and women's rights issues.
The first time a lesbian was portrayed on network television was the NBC drama The Eleventh Hour in the early 1960s, in a teleplay about an actress who feels she is persecuted by her female director, and in distress, calls a psychiatrist who explains she is a latent lesbian who has deep-rooted guilt about her feelings for women. When she ...
Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia. New York, Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-3629-6. Lattas, Judy, "Queer Sovereignty: the Gay & Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands", Cosmopolitan Civil Societies journal, UTS September 2009; Miller, Neil (1995). Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New ...
Number of countries protecting core LGBT-rights The following is a timeline of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) history in the 20th century. 1900s 1901 – On 8 June 1901, two women, Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sanchez Loriga, attempted to get married in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain). To achieve it Elisa had to adopt a male identity: Mario Sánchez, as listed on the marriage ...
LGBTQ history dates back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love, diverse gender identities, and sexualities in ancient civilizations, involving the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer peoples and cultures around the world. What survives after many centuries of persecution—resulting in shame, suppression, and ...
It was the first mention of rights for gays and lesbians or use of the word gay in an inaugural address. [ 141 ] [ 142 ] On March 1, 2013, Obama, speaking about Hollingsworth v.
The first widely used term, homosexual, now a term used primarily in scientific contexts, has at times carried negative connotations in the United States. [5] Gay became a popular term in the 1970s. [6] As lesbians forged more public identities, the phrase gay and lesbian became more common. [7]