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Welcome to the LGBT portal!

The Castro, a historic gay village in San Francisco

LGBT (also GLBT) and variations are initialisms used to refer collectively to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and queer-identified people. Variations that are sometimes used include—but are not limited to—adding "Q" for queer or questioning, "I" for intersex, or "S" (or "A") for straight allies. While LGBT is often used as a short way to refer to the various LGBT demographic groups, LGBT individuals themselves usually identify by other labels (such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer), or by no label at all.

Around the world, government policies regarding LGBT people range from the death penalty for sexual acts to civil marriages or partnerships for same-sex couples. Living conditions around the world also range from near-unanimous acceptance of public displays of affection to total discrimination in all areas such as housing or employment.

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Save Our Children, Inc. was a political coalition formed in 1977 in Miami, Florida to overturn a recently legislated county ordinance that banned discrimination in areas of housing, employment, and public accommodation based on sexual orientation. The coalition was publicly headed by celebrity singer Anita Bryant, who claimed the ordinance discriminated against her right to teach her children biblical morality.

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Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"

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—Jon Stewart

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Current events

May 18: Disco diva Donna Summer dies at 63
May 12: Obama's new stance on same-sex marriage earns donations
April 28: Wikinews interviews Fred Karger, U.S. Republican Party presidential candidate
April 13: Kentucky men plead not guilty in gay hate crime case
April 5: Former US Sheriff of the Year jailed in drugs-for-sex case

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This 1908 painting by German artist Paul Höcker depicts Nino Cesarini, the Italian lover of Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen. Fersen had fled from France after a sex scandal and built a mansion on Capri, Villa Lysis, where he lived together with Cesarini. The two edited a short-lived literary magazine together, Akademos, which was partly a discreet defense of homosexual love. A romanticized account of their relationship is given by Roger Peyrefitte in his 1959 novel L'Exilé de Capri ("The Exile of Capri").

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Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939), is an English actor of stage and screen, the recipient of the Tony Award and two Academy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is known to many for roles such as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and as Magneto in the X-Men films.

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This month's birthdays

4 – Keith Haring (1958–1990), American artist
7 – Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), Russian composer
8 – Tom of Finland (1920–1991), Finnish artist
13 – Armistead Maupin (1944–), American writer
14 – Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935), German physician and gay rights advocate
16 – Liberace (1919–1987), American entertainer and pianist
18 – Charles Trenet (1913–2001), French singer and songwriter
18 – Don Bachardy (1934–), American portrait artist
21 – Raymond Burr (1917–1993), Canadian actor
22 – Harvey Milk (1930–1978), American politician
25 – Sir Ian McKellen (1939–), English actor
27 – Chris Colfer (1990–), American actor
29 – Rupert Everett (1959–), English actor
31 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982), German movie director and screenwriter

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Did you know…

...that Mohamed Camara's 1997 film Dakan was the first West African film to explore homosexuality?
... that for the 1967 television documentary CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, the network concealed the identity of one of the gay interview subjects by seating him behind a potted palm tree?
... that Vanessa Redgrave's portrayal of transsexual Renée Richards in the 1986 biopic Second Serve was praised as embodying "every internal contradiction of the polymorphously perverse"?
... that the author of Hollywood Undercover posed as an aspiring gay actor while investigating claims of a Church of Scientology "cure" for homosexuality?