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The International Imperial Court System (IICS) also known as the International Court System is one of the oldest and largest LGBT organizations in the world.[1]

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  1. 102 relations: Alameda County, California, Alaska, Ball culture, Baron, Bisexuality, Board of directors, Breast cancer, By-law, California, Camp (style), Canada, Chancellor, Chicago metropolitan area, Club (organization), Connecticut, Coronation, Cosplay, Costume jewelry, Count, Cross-dressing, Cross-dressing ball, Crown, Crown prince, Domestic violence, Drag pageantry, Drag queen, Duchy, Duke, Emperor Norton, Europe, Federal government of the United States, Fount of honour, Fraternities and sororities, Fraternity, Fundraising, Garage sale, Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco, Grand duke, Greater Boston, Hartford, Connecticut, Hawaii, Heir apparent, Heterosexuality, Historical reenactment, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Homosexuality, House of Xtravaganza, International Mr. Leather, Investiture, ... Expand index (52 more) »

  2. Ball culture
  3. Drag events
  4. LGBT organizations based in Canada

Alameda County, California

Alameda County is a county located in the U.S. state of California.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Ball culture

The Ballroom scene (also known as the Ballroom community, Ballroom culture, or just Ballroom) is an African-American and Latino underground LGBTQ+ subculture.

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Baron

Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females (gender binary), to more than one gender, or to both people of the same gender and different genders.

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Board of directors

A board of directors is an executive committee that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency.

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Breast cancer

Breast cancer is a cancer that develops from breast tissue.

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By-law

A by-law (bye-law, by(e)law, by(e) law), also known in the United States as bylaws, is a set of rules or law established by an organization or community so as to regulate itself, as allowed or provided for by some higher authority.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Camp (style)

Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of perceived bad taste and ironic value.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Chancellor

Chancellor (cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many countries.

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Chicago metropolitan area

The Chicago metropolitan area, also referred to as the Greater Chicago Area and Chicagoland, is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the Midwest, containing the City of Chicago along with its surrounding suburbs and satellite cities.

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Club (organization)

A club is an association of people united by a common interest or goal.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Coronation

A coronation is the act of placement or bestowal of a crown upon a monarch's head.

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Cosplay

Cosplay, a portmanteau of "costume play", is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character.

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Costume jewelry

Costume or fashion jewelry includes a range of decorative items worn for personal adornment that are manufactured as less expensive ornamentation to complement a particular fashionable outfit or garmentBaker, Lillian.

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Count

Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility.

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Cross-dressing

Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender.

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Cross-dressing ball

Gay balls, cross-dressing balls, pansy balls, or drag balls were (depending on the place, time, and type) public or private balls that were celebrated mainly in the first third of the 20th century, where cross-dressing and ballroom dancing with same-sex partners was allowed. Imperial Court System and cross-dressing ball are ball culture.

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Crown

A crown is a traditional form of head adornment, or hat, worn by monarchs as a symbol of their power and dignity.

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Crown prince

A crown prince or hereditary prince is the heir apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy.

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Domestic violence

Domestic violence is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation.

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Drag pageantry

Drag pageantry is a developed form of pageantry for female impersonators, drag queens, and trans women, styled after traditional beauty pageants or contests for cisgender women.

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Drag queen

A drag queen is a person, usually male, who uses drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes.

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Duchy

A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or queen in Western European tradition.

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Duke

Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility.

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Emperor Norton

Born in England and raised in South Africa, Joshua Abraham Norton (18181880) was an immigrated resident of San Francisco, California, who in 1859 proclaimed himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States." Commonly known as Emperor Norton, he took the secondary title "Protector of Mexico" in 1863, after Napoleon III invaded Mexico.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.

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Fount of honour

The fount of honour (fons honorum) is a person, who, by virtue of their official position, has the exclusive right of conferring legitimate titles of nobility and orders of chivalry on other persons.

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Fraternities and sororities

In North America, fraternities and sororities (fraternitas and sororitas|lit.

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Fraternity

A fraternity (whence, "brotherhood") or fraternal organization is an organization, society, club or fraternal order traditionally of men but also women associated together for various religious or secular aims.

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Fundraising

Fundraising or fund-raising is the process of seeking and gathering voluntary financial contributions by engaging individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies.

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Garage sale

A garage sale (also known as a yard sale, tag sale, moving sale and by many other namesSome rarely used names include "attic sale", "basement sale", "rummage sale", "thrift sale", "patio sale", "lawn sale", and "jumble sale".) is an informal event for the sale of used goods by private individuals, in which sellers are not required to obtain business licenses or collect sales tax (though, in some jurisdictions, a permit may be required).

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Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco

The Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco, Inc., is a predominantly gay 501(c)(3) nonprofit fund raising organization. Imperial Court System and Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco are community organizations, drag events and LGBT organizations based in the United States.

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Grand duke

Grand duke (feminine: grand duchess) is a European hereditary title, used either by certain monarchs or by members of certain monarchs' families.

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Greater Boston

Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England, and its surrounding areas.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Heir apparent

An heir apparent (heiress apparent) or simply heir is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person.

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Heterosexuality

Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between people of the opposite sex or gender.

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Historical reenactment

Historical reenactments (or re-enactment) is an educational or entertainment activity in which mainly amateur hobbyists and history enthusiasts dress in historic uniforms and follow a plan to recreate aspects of a historical event or period.

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HIV/AIDS

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.

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Homelessness

Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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House of Xtravaganza

Founded in 1982, the House of Xtravaganza is one of the most publicly recognized "houses" to emerge from the New York City underground ballroom scene and among the longest continuously active.

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International Mr. Leather

International Mr.

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Investiture

Investiture (from the Latin preposition in and verb vestire, "dress" from vestis "robe") is a formal installation or ceremony that a person undergoes, often related to membership in Christian religious institutes as well as Christian knighthoods or damehoods, in addition to government offices.

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Iowa

Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Jester

A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during royal court.

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José Sarria

José Julio Sarria (December 13, 1922 – August 19, 2013), also known as The Grand Mere, Absolute Empress I de San Francisco, and the Widow Norton, was an American political activist from San Francisco, California, who, in 1961, became the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States.

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Leather subculture

Leather subculture denotes practices and styles of dress organized around sexual activities that involve leather garments, such as leather jackets, vests, boots, chaps, harnesses, or other items.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) related organizations and conferences range from social and support groups to organizations that are political in nature.

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Livery collar

A livery collar or chain of office is a collar or heavy chain, usually of gold, worn as insignia of office or a mark of fealty or other association in Europe from the Middle Ages onwards.

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Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Marquess

A marquess (marquis) is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies.

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Master of ceremonies

A master of ceremonies, abbreviated MC or emcee, is the official host of a ceremony, staged event, conference, convention, or similar performance.

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The Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), also known as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC), is an international LGBT-affirming mainline Protestant Christian denomination.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Monarch

A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nicole Murray-Ramirez

Nicole Murray-Ramirez (born 1945) is an LGBT activist and frequent San Diego city committee appointee known as "Empress Nicole the Great, Queen Mother of the Americas" within the Imperial Court System of which she is the titular leader.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy.

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Order of precedence

An order of precedence is a sequential hierarchy of nominal importance and can be applied to individuals, groups, or organizations.

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Order of succession

An order, line or right of succession is the line of individuals necessitated to hold a high office when it becomes vacated, such as head of state or an honour such as a title of nobility.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Paris Is Burning (film)

Paris Is Burning is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston.

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Peerage

A peerage is a legal system historically comprising various hereditary titles (and sometimes non-hereditary titles) in a number of countries, and composed of assorted noble ranks.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Pride parade

A pride parade (also known as pride event, pride festival, pride march, or pride protest) is an event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social and self-acceptance, achievements, legal rights, and pride.

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Raffle

A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each of which has the chance of winning a prize.

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Raja

Raja (from, IAST) is a royal Sanskrit title that was historically used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

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Regalia

Regalia is the set of emblems, symbols, or paraphernalia indicative of royal status, as well as rights, prerogatives and privileges enjoyed by a sovereign, regardless of title.

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Regina Leader-Post

The Regina Leader-Post is the daily newspaper of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and a member of the Postmedia Network.

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Regional Municipality of Niagara

The Regional Municipality of Niagara, also colloquially known as the Niagara Region or Region of Niagara, is a regional municipality comprising twelve municipalities of Southern Ontario, Canada.

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Reno, Nevada

Reno is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada–California border.

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Royal court

A royal court, often called simply a court when the royal context is clear, is an extended royal household in a monarchy, including all those who regularly attend on a monarch, or another central figure.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Scholarship

A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Society for Creative Anachronism

The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international living history group with the aim of studying and recreating mainly Medieval European cultures and their histories before the 17th century.

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Sultan

Sultan (سلطان) is a position with several historical meanings.

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Ted northe

ted northe (September 13, 1939 – March 30, 2014) was a Canadian drag queen and gay civil rights activist.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Transgender

A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.

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Trophy

A trophy is a tangible, durable reminder of a specific achievement, serving as recognition or evidence of merit.

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Tsarina

Tsarina or tsaritsa (also spelled csarina or csaricsa, tzarina or tzaritza, or czarina or czaricza; tsaritsa; царица / carica; tsaritsa) is the title of a female autocratic ruler (monarch) of Bulgaria, Serbia or Russia, or the title of a tsar's wife.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Viscount

A viscount (for male) or viscountess (for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status.

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Vogue (dance)

Vogue, or voguing, is a highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s. Imperial Court System and vogue (dance) are ball culture.

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Volunteering

Volunteering is a voluntary act of an individual or group freely giving time and labor, often for community service.

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Washington metropolitan area

The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States.

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501(c) organization

A 501(c) organization is a nonprofit organization in the federal law of the United States according to Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)) and is one of over 29 types of nonprofit organizations exempt from some federal income taxes.

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See also

Ball culture

Drag events

LGBT organizations based in Canada

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Court_System

Also known as Imperial Court System (charitable organization), International Court System, International Imperial Court System, The Imperial Sovereign Rose Court of Oregon.

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