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Randy Wicker, the Glossary

Randolfe Hayden "Randy" Wicker (born February 3, 1938) is an American author, activist, blogger, and archivist.^[1]

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ACT UP

AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic.

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Activism (or advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.

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Archivist

An archivist is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to records and archives determined to have long-term value.

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In legal discourse, an author is the creator of an original work, whether that work is in written, graphic, or recorded medium.

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Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).

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Craig Rodwell

Craig L. Rodwell (October 31, 1940 – June 18, 1993) was an American gay rights activist known for founding the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop on November 24, 1967 - the first bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors - and as the prime mover for the creation of the New York City gay pride demonstration. Randy Wicker and Craig Rodwell are American LGBT rights activists.

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Daughters of Bilitis

The Daughters of Bilitis, also called the DOB or the Daughters, was the first lesbian civil and political rights organization in the United States.

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Dolly (sheep)

Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell.

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Edward A. Lacey

Edward A. Lacey (1937-1995) at McMaster University Library.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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Flickr

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States.

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Front organization

A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, terrorist organizations, secret societies, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations.

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Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.

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Gay Activists Alliance

The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) was founded in New York City on December 21, 1969, almost six months after the Stonewall riots, by dissident members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF).

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Gay liberation

The gay liberation movement was a social and political movement of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s in the Western world, that urged lesbians and gay men to engage in radical direct action, and to counter societal shame with gay pride.

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Gay Liberation Front

Gay Liberation Front (GLF) was the name of several gay liberation groups, the first of which was formed in New York City in 1969, immediately after the Stonewall riots.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

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Head shop

A head shop is a retail outlet specializing in paraphernalia used for consumption of cannabis and tobacco and items related to cannabis culture and related countercultures.

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Homophile movement

The homophile movement is a collective term for the main organisations and publications supporting and representing sexual minorities in the 1950s to 1960s around the world.

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Human cloning

Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human.

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Intersectionality

Intersectionality is a sociological analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege.

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Jack O'Brian

John Dennis Patrick O'Brian (August 16, 1914 – November 5, 2000) was an American entertainment journalist best known for his longtime role as a television critic for New York Journal American.

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Jefferson Poland

John Jefferson Poland (July 12, 1942 – November 17, 2017), who sometimes went by Jefferson Fuck Poland and Jefferson Clitlick, was an activist, co-founder of the Sexual Freedom League, and convicted child molester. Randy Wicker and Jefferson Poland are American LGBT rights activists.

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Kay Lahusen

Katherine Lahusen (also known as Kay Tobin; January 5, 1930 – May 26, 2021) was an American photographer, writer and gay rights activist. Randy Wicker and Kay Lahusen are American LGBT rights activists.

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LGBT movements

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements are social movements that advocate for LGBT people in society.

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List of LGBT actions in the United States prior to the Stonewall riots

Although the Stonewall riots (also called the Stonewall uprising) on June 28, 1969, are generally considered the impetus of the modern gay liberation movement, a number of demonstrations of civil resistance took place prior to that date.

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Making Gay History

Making Gay History is an oral history podcast on the subject of LGBT history, featuring trailblazers, activists, and allies.

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Marsha P. Johnson

Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) was an American gay liberation"I've been involved in gay liberation ever since it first started in 1969", 15:20 into the interview, Johnson is quoted as saying this. Randy Wicker and Marsha P. Johnson are activists from New Jersey and LGBT people from New Jersey.

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Mattachine Society

The Mattachine Society, founded in 1950, was an early national gay rights organization in the United States, preceded by several covert and open organizations, such as Chicago's Society for Human Rights.

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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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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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New York Journal-American

The New York Journal-American was a daily newspaper published in New York City from 1937 to 1966.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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NYC Pride March

The NYC Pride March is an annual event celebrating the LGBTQ community in New York City.

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One Institute

Founded in 1952, One Institute (formerly One, Inc., and One Archives Foundation), is the oldest active LGBTQ+ organization in the United States, dedicated to telling LGBTQ+ history and stories through education, arts, and social justice programs.

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Out (magazine)

Out is an American LGBTQ news, fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine, with the highest circulation of any LGBTQ monthly publication in the United States.

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Philip Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.

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Picketing

Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called pickets or picketers) congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place.

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Plainfield, New Jersey

Plainfield is a city in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Podcast

A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.

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Radical Faeries

Radical Faeries are a loosely affiliated worldwide network and countercultural movement seeking to redefine queer consciousness through secular spirituality.

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Selective Service System

The Selective Service System (SSS) is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains a database of registered male U.S. citizens and other U.S. residents potentially subject to military conscription (i.e., the draft).

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Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking, (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.

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Stonewall National Monument

Stonewall National Monument is a U.S. national monument in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Stonewall riots

The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

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Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries

Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was a gay, gender non-conforming and transvestite street activist organization founded in 1970 by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, subculturally-famous New York City drag queens of color.

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The Advocate (magazine)

The Advocate is an American LGBT magazine, printed bi-monthly and available by subscription.

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The Daily Show

The Daily Show (TDS is an American late-night talk and satirical news television program.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Realist

The Realist was a magazine of "social-political-religious criticism and satire", intended as a hybrid of a grown-ups version of ''Mad'' and Lyle Stuart's anti-censorship monthly The Independent. Edited and published by Paul Krassner, and often regarded as a milestone in the American underground or countercultural press of the mid-20th century, it was a nationally-distributed newsstand publication as early as 1958.

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References

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

Also known as Homosexual League of New York, Randolfe Wicker.

, The Realist, United States, University of Texas at Austin, Variety (magazine), Vietnam War, WBAI, Zap (action).

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Activists from Maryland

Radical Faeries members

YouTubers from Baltimore

YouTubers from Florida

YouTubers from New Jersey

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