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Bast Bast
BAST Inviolable sanctuaries in Iran used to seek protection from political or religious persecution. Bast means sanctuary or asylum. Mosques, holy shrines, and foreign embassy compounds have most frequently been used as bast. Although the period of the Constitutional Revolution (1905 Read more
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) is a nonprofit organization that supports grassroots organizing and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights. Founded in 1973, NGLTF works to strengthen the gay and lesbian movement at the state... Read more
asylum asylum
asylum , extension of hospitality and protection to a fugitive and the place where such protection is offered. The use of temples and churches for this purpose in ancient and medieval times was known as sanctuary . In modern international law, the granting of asylum to refugees from other lands is... Read more
Romer v. Evans Romer v. Evans
ROMER V. EVANS Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620, 116 S. Ct. 1620, 134 L. Ed. 2d 855 (1996), is a landmark and controversial decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional an amendment to the Colorado state constitution that prohibited state and local governments from enacting any... Read more
Lawrence v. Texas Lawrence v. Texas
LAWRENCE V. TEXAS The Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S., 123 S.Ct. 2472, 156 L.Ed.2d 508 (2003), striking down state sodomy laws as applied to gays and lesbians. In the 6–3 decision, five justices overturned a 1986 ruling that had given states the right... Read more
sanctuary sanctuary
sanctuary sacred place, especially the most sacred part of a sacred place. In ancient times and in the Middle Ages, a sanctuary served as asylum , a place of refuge for persons fleeing from violence or from the penalties of the law. To injure a person in sanctuary or to remove him from it forcibly... Read more
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queer queer
queer Queer Nation the name of a campaigning lesbian and gay rights organization founded in the US in 1990, reflecting a militant form of gay activism which set out deliberately to reclaim the contemptuous slang use of queer to mean a homosexual by transmuting what was originally regarded as... Read more
Zionism Zionism
Zionism modern political movement for reconstituting a Jewish national state in Palestine. Early Years The rise of the Zionist movement in the late 19th cent. was influenced by nationalist currents in Europe, as well as by the secularization of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, which led many... Read more
lesbianism lesbianism
lesbianism Term for female homosexuality... Read more

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Jamaica's gays finding refuge by applying for U.S. asylum
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