Related:
ACLU,
AIDS pandemic,
Aaron Fricke,
Ableism,
Academic fields,
Activism,
Adam and Eve,
Adam and Steve,
Adelphopoiesis,
Adoption,
Adultcentrism,
Adultism,
Affection,
Affirmative action,
Afrocentrism,
Ageism,
Albanophobia,
All-women shortlists,
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,
Analogy,
Androcentrism,
Anglophobia,
Anita Bryant,
Anti-Americanism,
Anti-Arabism,
Anti-Armenianism,
Anti-Canadianism,
Anti-Catalanism,
Anti-Catholicism,
Anti-Christian sentiment,
Anti-Estonian sentiment,
Anti-Europeanism,
Anti-German sentiment,
Anti-Hinduism,
Anti-Igbo sentiment,
Anti-Iranian sentiment,
Anti-Irish racism,
Anti-Italianism,
Anti-Japanese sentiment,
Anti-Korean sentiment,
Anti-Malay racism,
Anti-Mexican sentiment,
Anti-Mormonism,
Anti-Polish sentiment,
Anti-Protestantism,
Anti-Quebec sentiment,
Anti-Romanian discrimination,
Anti-Russian sentiment,
Anti-Scottish sentiment,
Anti-Turkism,
Anti-Ukrainian sentiment,
Anti-bias curriculum,
Anti-gay,
Anti-gay violence,
Antipathy,
Antisemitism,
Antiziganism,
Appeal to authority,
Armed force,
Assault,
Attitude (psychology),
Ban (law),
Be Like Others,
Bias,
Bigotry,
Biology and sexual orientation,
Biphobia,
Bisexual,
Bisexual chic,
Bisexuality,
Black Legend,
Black people,
Blood libel,
Bowers v. Hardwick,
British Psychological Society,
Bullying,
Capital punishment,
Caste,
Censorship,
Chris Morris (activist),
Civil and political rights,
Civil rights,
Civil union,
Classism,
Closeted,
Colorism,
Columbia University Press,
Coming out,
Content-control software,
Conventional wisdom,
Corrective rape,
Critical theorists,
Cronyism,
Cultural relationship between the Welsh and the English,
Culture war,
Damnatio memoriae,
Death threats,
Defense of Marriage Act,
Demographics of sexual orientation,
Desegregation,
Desegregation busing in the United States,
Deviant behavior,
Dichotomy,
Discourse,
Discrimination,
Discrimination against the homeless,
Diversity (politics),
Diversity training,
Dogma,
Don't ask, don't tell,
Drag king,
Drag queen,
Economic discrimination,
Education,
Elitism,
Emancipation,
Employment,
Employment equity (Canada),
Environment and sexual orientation,
Equal opportunity,
Erotic,
Essentialist,
Ethnic cleansing,
Ethnocentrism,
Ethnocide,
Eudy Simelane,
Eugenics,
Evil,
Fads and trends,
Fag (slang),
Faith,
Fat acceptance movement,
Fear of youth,
Femaleness,
Femininity,
Folk devil,
Forced disappearance,
Forensic psychology,
Francophobia,
Gang rape,
Gay,
Gay Liberation,
Gay bar,
Gay bashing,
Gay community,
Gay icon,
Gay panic defense,
Gay pride,
Gay rights,
Gay rodeo,
Gay village,
Gender,
Gender equality,
Gender identity,
Gender role,
Gender studies,
Gender theory,
Gendercide,
Genocide,
Genocides in history,
Gerontophobia,
Ghetto benches,
Gregory M. Herek,
Harassment,
Hate crime,
Hate mail,
Hate speech,
Health care,
Heightism,
Heteronormativity,
Heterophobia,
Heterosexual-homosexual continuum,
Heterosexual privilege,
Heterosexuality,
Hispanophobia,
History of Christianity and homosexuality,
History of lesbianism,
History of same-sex unions,
Homonegativity,
Homophobia,
Homosexual agenda,
Homosexual recruitment,
Homosexuality,
Homosexuality and psychology,
Homosexuality in ancient Egypt,
Homosexuality in ancient Greece,
Homosexuality in ancient Peru,
Homosexuality in ancient Rome,
Homosexuality in children's literature,
Homosexuality laws of the world,
Identity politics,
Ideology,
Illness,
Indophobia,
Injustices,
International Standard Book Number,
Internment,
Intersectionality,
Intersexuality,
Intolerance,
Iran,
Islamic Republic,
Islamophobia,
Jenny lives with Eric and Martin,
Kinsey scale,
Klein Sexual Orientation Grid,
LGBT,
LGBT-affirming Christian denominations,
LGBT-affirming religious groups,
LGBT adoption,
LGBT culture,
LGBT history,
LGBT literature,
LGBT parenting,
LGBT rights by country or territory,
LGBT rights in Africa,
LGBT rights in Asia,
LGBT rights in Europe,
LGBT rights in Iran,
LGBT rights in Oceania,
LGBT rights in Poland,
LGBT rights in the Americas,
LGBT rights opposition,
LGBT slang,
LGBT slogans,
LGBT social movements,
LGBT stereotypes,
LGBT symbols,
LGBT tourism,
La pensée straight,
Labeling theory,
Lavender linguistics,
Lawrence v. Texas,
Lech Kaczyński,
Legal aspects of transsexualism,
Lesbian,
Lesbian feminism,
Lesbian utopia,
Lesbophobia,
Lifestyle,
Linguicism,
List of LGBT-related organizations,
List of LGBT periodicals,
List of LGBT rights activists,
List of LGBT rights articles by region,
List of LGBT rights organizations,
List of academic disciplines,
Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium,
Lookism,
Lusophobia,
Lynching,
Machismo,
Maleness,
Marc Hall v. Durham Catholic School Board,
Marginalization,
Marginalized,
Marital status,
Marriage,
Marriage Protection Act,
Masculinity,
Mauritania,
Mental disorder,
Military of the United States,
Mindset,
Minority group,
Minority rights,
Misandry,
Misogyny,
Missing white woman syndrome,
Mobbing,
Molly house,
Monique Wittig,
Monosexism,
Moral absolutism,
Moral panic,
Multiculturalism,
Murder,
Murder Music,
Natalism,
Neologism,
Nepotism,
Neuroscience and sexual orientation,
News media,
Non-heterosexual,
Norm,
Norm (sociology),
Numerus clausus,
Obscene,
Opposition to cults and new religious movements,
Ostracism,
Paragraph 175,
Passing (sexual orientation),
Pederasty,
Pedophilia,
Persecution,
Persecution of Bahá'ís,
Persecution of Shia Muslims,
Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust,
Person of color,
Persona non grata,
Pogrom,
Police brutality,
Political correctness,
Pornographic,
Portmanteau,
Postal censorship,
Prejudice,
Pride parade,
Prison,
Privilege,
Prom,
Queer,
Queer studies,
Queer theory,
Race war,
Racial integration,
Racial quota,
Racial segregation,
Racialism,
Racism,
Racism in the LGBT community,
Redlining,
Religion and homosexuality,
Religious antisemitism,
Religious intolerance,
Religious persecution,
Religious segregation,
Religious views on transgender people,
Reparation (legal),
Reservation in India,
Reverse discrimination,
Romanovsky and Phillips,
Same-sex,
Same-sex marriage,
Same-sex relationship,
Same sex,
Saudi Arabia,
Scapegoating,
Sea queens,
Second-class citizen,
Serbophobia,
Sex reassignment surgery,
Sex segregation,
Sexism,
Sexual attraction,
Sexual identity,
Sexual inversion (sexology),
Sexual orientation,
Sexual orientation and medicine,
Sexual orientation and military service,
Shunning,
Sin,
Sinophobia,
Slavery,
Slogans of anti-gay ideology,
Social attitudes toward homosexuality,
Social control,
Social equality,
Social hierarchies,
Social rejection,
Social solidarity,
Social stigma,
Societal attitudes toward homosexuality,
Societal collapse,
Sociobiology,
Sodomy law,
South Africa,
South Africa under apartheid,
South Africa women's national football team,
Special rights,
Speciesism,
Status of same-sex marriage,
Stereotypes,
Stereotyping,
Stonewall riots,
Sudan,
Tanaz Eshaghian,
Tenet,
Terms of disparagement,
The Advocate,
The Guardian,
The new black,
Third gender,
Timeline of LGBT history,
Timeline of same-sex marriage,
Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine,
Toleration,
Transfeminism,
Transgender,
Transgenderism and religion,
Transphobia,
Transsexualism,
Triumphalism,
Two-Spirit,
UK Gay Liberation Front 1971 Festival of Light action,
University of California at Davis,
University of Pretoria,
Uranian,
Value system,
Violence,
Violence against LGBT people,
Webster's Dictionary,
White Night riots,
White people,
White privilege,
Xenophobia,
Youth,
Heterosexism is a term that applies to a system of negative attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships.[1] p. 13 It can include the presumption that everyone is heterosexual or that opposite-sex attractions and relationships are the only norm[2] and therefore superior. Although heterosexism is defined in the online editions of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary as anti-gay discrimination and/or prejudice "by heterosexual people"[3] and "by heterosexuals"[4], people of any sexual orientation can hold such attitudes and bias. Nonetheless, heterosexism as discrimination ranks gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals as second-class citizens with regard to various legal and civil rights, economic opportunities, and social equality in the majority of the world’s jurisdictions and societies.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) consists of two separate non-profit organizations: the ACLU Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization which focuses on litigation and communication efforts, and the American Civil Liberties Union, a 501(c)(4) organization which focuses on legislative lobbying.[2] The ACLU's stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States."[1][3] It works through litigation, legislation, and community education.[1] Founded in 1920 by Crystal Eastman, Roger Baldwin and Walter Nelles,[4] the ACLU was the successor organization to the earlier National Civil Liberties Bureau founded during World War I.[5] The ACLU reported over 500,000 members at the end of 2005.
Aaron Fricke is a gay rights activist. He was born January 25, 1962 in Providence, Rhode Island. He is best known for the pivotal case in which he successfully sued his high school for not allowing him to bring his boyfriend, Paul Guilbert[1], to the senior prom at Cumberland High School in Cumberland, Rhode Island.[1][2]
An academic discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge which is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined (in part), and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong.Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social, political, economic, or environmental change. This action is in support of, or opposition to, one side of an often controversial argument. Romeo Dellaire who helped in the Rwanda genocide is an example of a political activist in our generation.
Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם, ʼĀḏām, "dust; man; mankind"; Arabic: آدم, ʼĀdam) and Eve (Hebrew: חַוָּה, Ḥawwā, "living one"; Arabic: حواء, Ḥawwāʼ) were, according to the Book of Genesis of the Bible, the first man and woman created by God. They are also credited as the first man and woman according to the Quran."Adam and Steve" is a phrase that originated from a conservative Christian slogan "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve", intended to concisely summarize Judeo-Christian Bible-based arguments against homosexual practices and/or homosexuality.[1] Among other things, it implies that the natural way of life for humanity is illustrated by the Biblical account of the creation of human beings as a male-female pair.Adelphopoiesis, or adelphopoiia from the Greek ἀδελφοποίησις, derived from ἀδελφός (adelphos) "brother" and ποιέω (poieō) "I make", literally "brother-making" is a ceremony practiced at one time by various Christian churches to unite together two people of the same sex (normally men).[citation needed] It is argued by the historian John Boswell in his book Same-sex unions in pre-modern Europe, also published as The marriage of likeness, that the practice was to unite two persons in a marriage-like union. This is different from the information provided by the Greek Orthodox Church [1] where the practice is translated as "fraternization" and makes no mention or suggestion of anything sexual. The ceremony was mainly practised by the Eastern Orthodox Church - Boswell gives text and translation for a number of versions of this ceremony in Greek, and translation only for a number of Slavonic versions.