Event class: women, rights, gay, national, political, movement, became, campaign, organization, group

Events with high posterior probability

Linda Bellos	Bellos is a revolutionary feminist and was the first mixed-race lesbian to join the Spare Rib feminist collective in 1981.
Alva Belmont	In 1909, she founded the Political Equality League to get votes for suffrage-supporting New York State politicians, and wrote articles for newspapers.
Susan Brownmiller	Brownmiller also participated in civil rights activism, joining CORE and SNCC during the sit-in movement and volunteering for Freedom Summer in 1964, wherein she worked on voter registration in Meridian, Mississippi.
Elizabeth Furse	Moving to Seattle, Washington, in 1968, she became involved in American Indian/Native American rights causes including fishing and treaty rights.
Catherine Waugh McCulloch	She was the legal adviser for the National American Woman Suffrage Association (which became the League of Women Voters in 1920 after passage of the 19th Amendment) and was its first vice president.
Stewart Sukuma	In 1995 Stewart Sukuma was the first Mozambican musician to become an activist in the fight against HIV / AIDS joining national level artists from all sections and with some success in favor of a campaign to combat this disease of the century.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton	Despite her opposition to giving African-American men the right to vote without enfranchising all women and the derogatory language she had resorted to in expressing this opposition, Stanton had no objection to interracial marriage and wrote a congratulatory letter to Frederick Douglass upon his marriage to Helen Pitts, a white woman, in 1884.
Wendell Phillips	In 1854, Phillips helped Stone call a New England Woman's Rights convention to expand suffrage petitioning into the other New England states.
Pete Seeger	The Almanac Singers, which Seeger co-founded in 1941 with Millard Lampell and Arkansas singer and activist Lee Hays, was a topical group, designed to function as a singing newspaper promoting the industrial unionization movement, racial and religious inclusion, and other progressive causes.
Robert E. Powell	In 1990, Powell formed an alliance with the African-American clergyman Roosevelt Wright of the New Tabernacle Baptist Church to establish the'' African American Heritage Drama'' presented each February during Black History Month.
Charles Colson	In 1983, Colson founded Justice Fellowship, using his influence in conservative political circles to push for bipartisan, legislative reforms in the U. S. criminal justice system.
Andrea Horwath	In March 2012, Horwath received the EVE award which is sponsored by Equal Voice, a non-profit organization focused on promoting women in politics.
Doris Stevens	Stevens parted ways with the NWP in 1947 and turned instead to activity in the Lucy Stone League, a women's rights organization based on Lucy Stone's retention of her maiden name after marriage.
Jaime Soto	In 2008, Soto shocked attendees at a conference for the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries with an address insisting that the'' homosexual lifestyle'' is sinful.
Lucy Randolph Mason	After 1944, Mason worked with the CIO Political Action Committee in the South, helping to register union members, black and white, and working for the elimination of the poll tax.
Lucy Stone	Stone and Blackwell had one daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, born September 14, 1857, who became a leader of the suffrage movement and wrote the first biography of her mother, Lucy Stone : Pioneer Woman Suffragist.
Josephine Turpin Washington	Writing in 1904 for the Colored American Magazine on the sixth annual meeting of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, held in Mobile, Alabama, Washington reported not only on the delegate's focus on black womanhood, standards of morality, and the setting up of a youth reformatory but also on the pervasive effects of segregation and racial prejudice within the city itself.
Margaret Cho	After same-sex marriage became legal in California in May 2008, Cho was deputized by the City of San Francisco to perform marriages there.
Sylvester (singer)	Despite increasing mainstream success, Sylvester continued to reaffirm his connection to the gay community of San Francisco, performing at the main stage at the 1979 Gay Freedom Day parade.
David M. Halperin	In 2003, the Michigan chapter of the American Family Association tried to ban his course' How to Be Gay : Male Homosexuality and Initiation.'
Laurence Overmire	An advocate for peace, social justice, the environment, civil rights, human rights, and animal rights, Overmire was the Poet In Residence on The Jeff Farias Show in 2010, where during a weekly segment he would read poetry and discuss the political and social issues of the day.
Sonia Johnson	Johnson began speaking out in support of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 1977 and co-founded, with three other women, an organization called Mormons for ERA.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton	In 1866, Stanton, Anthony, and several other suffragists drafted a universal suffrage petition demanding that the right to vote be given without consideration of sex or race.
Emily Bissell	In 1900, she testified before the United States Senate Committee on Woman's Suffrage, arguing that women had no place in politics.
Martina Navratilova	In 1993, she spoke before the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.
Grace Towns Hamilton	Hamilton and Thompson organized a voter registration drive in 1946 that registered 24,137 new black voters in Atlanta.
Kerry Healey	Healey chaired the PPP's Afghan Women Lawyers' Training Conference held in California and Washington, DC, and in 2010, she led the Afghan Defense Lawyer Training Program in Boston and Washington, DC.
Hal Turner	On April 4, 2008, Turner encouraged violence against Lexington, Massachusetts school superintendent Paul Ash for establishing a new curriculum supporting gay s and lesbian s. On his website, he stated :'' I advocate parents using FORCE AND VIOLENCE against Superintendent Paul B. Ash as a method of defending the health and safety of school children presently being endangered through his correct indoctrination into deadly, disease-ridden sodomite lifestyles.''
Grace Ross	In 2008, Ross helped found the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending, a coalition of over 30 community organizations, housing counseling agencies, legal services groups and others who have come together to work on the sub-prime foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts.
Alex Broun	10,000 beers was nominated for Best Stage Play in the 2012 AWGIES (Australian Writer's Guild Awards) Broun has worked extensively as an activist for refugee rights with the Refugee Action Coalition (RAC).
Fey (singer)	She was recognized by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in Miami in 2006 for supporting gay human rights.
Doug La Follette	Known as an environmentalist before running for public office, he was a Wisconsin organizer of the first Earth Day for Gaylord Nelson in 1970 and co-founded Wisconsin's Environmental Decade (now known as Clean Wisconsin) with Peter Anderson.
Jane L. Campbell	Soon after in 1979, she worked as National Field Director for ERAmerica in Washington, D. C., coordinating national support for state coalitions supporting the Equal Rights Amendment.
Chuck Fager	He was part of the 1965 voting rights campaign there organized and directed by James Bevel.
Hillary Rodham Clinton	Rodham's early political development was shaped most by her high school history teacher (like her father, a fervent anticommunist), who introduced her to Goldwater's classic The Conscience of a Conservative, and by her Methodist youth minister (like her mother, concerned with issues of social justice), with whom she saw and met civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., in Chicago in 1962.
Camille Paglia	In 1973, Paglia, a militant feminist and open lesbian, was working at her first academic job at Bennington College.
Matilda Joslyn Gage	Gage became involved in the women's rights movement in 1852 when she decided to speak at the National Women's Rights Convention in Syracuse, New York.
John Boswell	In 1987, Boswell helped organize and found the Lesbian and Gay Studies Center at Yale, which is now the Research Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies.
Whoopi Goldberg	Goldberg's high-profile support for LGBT rights and AIDS activism dates back to the 1987 March on Washington, where she was one of few celebrities participating.
Noreen Connell	She, Betty Friedan, and several others, for the White House Conference on Families (1980), did planning to emphasize the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and family and economic issues over what Betty Friedan identified as sexual issues, including abortion, and to associate abortion with ``` the choice to have children.
Lilian Lenton	Women were given equal voting rights to men including lowering the voting age to 21, by the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928 when she was 37.)
Lynne Williams	After receiving her Ph. D., Williams became a community and political organizer, working with tenant groups in California and as a fundraiser for the 1982 successful state legislative campaign of Tom Hayden.
Alyn Ware	He was a non-violence trainer for the anti-Springbok Tour protests (1981), was a member of Project Waitangi (an anti-racism education program), was active in the campaign to secure support from New Zealand for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and has served as an adviser to the American Indian Law Alliance on international legal remedies for violation of treaties between States and Indigenous nations.
Eliza Tibbets	After Luther left in 1870, Tibbets continued her activism, especially in the area of woman suffrage.
Arthur Powell Davies	In 1943 Davies was appointed minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, D. C., a church which he led to national prominence through his activist and principled ethical stands.
Lucy Stone	At the national convention of 1856, Stone presented a new strategy suggested by Antoinette Brown Blackwell to send a memorial to the various state legislatures signed by the officers of the National Woman's Rights Convention.
Dora Keen	After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1896, she held various positions in philanthropic organizations, in Philadelphia, including the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the American Society for Labor Legislation, and the Society for Organizing Charity, helping to bring about important reforms.
Mark Ritchie	In 2004, Ritchie took a leave of absence from the Institute to lead org / National Voice, a national coalition of non-partisan organizations from across the country made up of church, business, and community organizations.
Noreen Connell	She first joined the feminist movement through the August 26, 1970 New York City Women's Strike for Equality March and Rally and an autumn 1970 NYRF consciousness-raising group.
Michel Chebat	Beginning in 2011, Chebat began represented the Belize Association of Evangelical Churches and the Council of Churches as an interested party in United Belize Advocacy Movement and Caleb Orozco v Attorney General, a case concerning LGBT rights in Belize.
John P. Irish	During the 1916 campaign for women's suffrage in Iowa, Irish came to Iowa from California to speak against a referendum that would adopt it, but suffragists uncovered favorable comments he had written about votes for women in his early years and circulated them widely.
Ashanti (singer)	In 2008, Ashanti, along with others celebrities, taped a PSA to help stop violence and discrimination towards the LGBT community in response to the death of Lawrence King, an eighth-grader at E. O. Green Junior High School who was shot because of his sexual orientation and gender expression.
Nan Grogan Orrock	She has served since 1997 as President of the Women Legislators' Lobby, a national network of women state legislators launched by Women's Action for New Directions.
Susan Stanton	Stanton became the subject of national and international media attention in February 2007 after disclosing that she is transgender pursuing sex reassignment, leading Largo city commissioners to initiate the process of ending her contract as city manager, Susan Ashley (born Steven Bruce) Stanton grew up in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
Ron Sider	He brought together a network of similarly concerned evangelicals, which in 1973 became the Thanksgiving Workshop on Evangelical Social Concern.
Melissa Etheridge	Etheridge supported Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign and since her coming out has been famous as a gay rights activist.
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton	A former slave from Tennessee who escaped to freedom in 1846, he became a noted abolitionist, community leader, and spokesman for African-American civil rights.
Craig Chandler	In 1997, Chandler established a religious lobby group Concerned Christians Canada Inc. to rally support for Evangelical candidates, MPs and causes.
Aloe Blacc	In October 2013, Blacc released a video for the track, Blacc collaborating with the immigrant rights group, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the abc * Foundation's Healing Power of Music Initiative, director Alex Rivera, and a cast of actors including Hareth Andrade, a leader in the immigrant youth movement working to stop her own father's deportation, Agustin Chiprez Alvarez, a Los Angeles day laborer, and Margarita Reyes who was deported with her mother as a child despite being born in the US.
Susan Sarandon	Sarandon is noted for her active support of progressive and left-liberal political causes, ranging from donations to organizations such as EMILY's List, to participating in a 1983 delegation to Nicaragua sponsored by MADRE, an organization that promotes'' social, environmental and economic justice.''
Chick Corea	In 1998, Corea and fellow entertainers Anne Archer, Isaac Hayes, and Haywood Nelson attended the 30th anniversary of'' Freedom'' magazine, the Church of Scientology's investigative news journal, at the National Press Club in Washington, D. C., to honor 11 human rights activists.
Bob Basker	In 1965, he co-founded Mattachine Midwest, one of the first homosexual rights organizations in America, and was its first president under the assumed name Bob Sloane.
Meg Sneed	Meg Sneed (born 1982) is a LGBT activist from Phoenix who founded the Right to Marry : Arizona campaign and cofounded the H. E. R. O. (Human and Equal Rights Organizers) organization.
Sarah Schulman	In 1992, Schulman and five others co-founded the Lesbian Avengers, a direct action organization.
Molly McKay	McKay eventually left the organization in 2006 to rejoin Marriage Equality California's prior parent organization Marriage Equality USA.
Victoria Gray Adams	In the 1960 elections Adams taught classes in voter registration.
Chaz Bono	In April 1995, Bono came out as lesbian in an interview with The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian magazine.
Stephen Symonds Foster	One would almost think her specially commissioned to look after your rights, in your absence...'' In May 1850, Abby Kelley Foster went to Boston to take part in an annual Anti-Slavery Society meeting.
Nicholas Wyman	In July 2013, Nicholas co-founded a new employment initiative called Vote1 Jobs focused on unemployed citizens of Melbourne.
Rod Parsley	A few weeks before the 2004 elections, Parsley encouraged his congregation and television audience to vote for Ohio's state constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Orson Scott Card	In 2009 he joined the board of directors of the National Organization for Marriage, a group that campaigns against same-sex marriage.
Sanford R. Leigh	In January 1964, Leigh went to Hattiesburg, Mississippi to work on Freedom Day, a massive Voting Rights action in the town.
Leah Remini	In December 2005, she helped promote the gala opening of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights Psychiatry : An Industry of Death museum on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
Clare Boothe Luce	After a tour of Europe with her mother and stepfather, Dr. Albert E. Austin, whom Ann Boothe married in 1919, she became interested in the women's suffrage movement, and was hired by Alva Belmont to work for the National Woman's Party in Washington, D. C. and Seneca Falls, N. Y. Highly intelligent, ambitious, and blessed with a deceptively fragile blonde beauty, the young Clare Boothe soon abandoned ideological feminism for the safer advancement offered by marrying money.
Prescott Townsend	The Mid-Town Journal headline of January 29, 1943 reported,'' Beacon Hill' Twilight' Man Member of Queer Love Cult Seduced Young Man'' and one month later he was officially stricken from both the New York and Boston Social Register s. Townsend is believed to have been the first individual to organize a public conversation about homosexuality in the United States, and the first acknowledged homosexual to officially address the Massachusetts legislature, where he urged the lawmakers'' to legalize love.''
Jean O'Leary	In 1972, feeling that it was too dominated by the men of the movement, she left the GAA and founded Lesbian Feminist Liberation, one of the first lesbian activist groups in the women's movement.
Amelia Bloomer	In 1848, Bloomer attended the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention in the U. S.
Patti Ruffner Jacobs	In 1913, Jacobs spoke on behalf of Southern women's suffragists at the Annual Convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association in Washington D. C..
Rosa Parks	In February 1987 she co-founded, with Elaine Eason Steele, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, an institute that runs the'' Pathways to Freedom'' bus tours which introduce young people to important civil rights and Underground Railroad sites throughout the country.
William Lloyd Garrison	In 1873, he healed his long estrangements from Frederick Douglass and Wendell Phillips, affectionately reuniting with them on the platform at an AWSA rally organized by Abby Kelly Foster and Lucy Stone on the one hundredth anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
Don Gorton	Since 2008, he has been active in the youth-led LGBT equality movement dubbed by the New York Times as'' Stonewall 2.
Tully Satre	In 2006 Satre founded The Voice Project for LGBTQI Equality, Support & Inclusion, an internet outreach program for GLBT/Q youth which also promotes civic participation among teens for equality.
Sal Guarriello	As a resident of West Hollywood and longtime fixture on the Sunset Strip with his friend, the legendary Dean Martin, Guarriello joined the Coalition for Economic Survival (CES), the leading renters' rights organization in 1983.
Richard H. Bassett	In 1906 the family moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, after John Spencer Bassett published a controversial article supporting equal rights of African American s and was forced by pressure from politicians to resign his position.
Louise Meriwether	Meriwether has over the years been involved with various organized black causes, including the founding, with John Henrik Clarke, of the anti-Apartheid group Black Concern (originally the Committee of Concerned Blacks), the Harlem Writers Guild, and (with Vantile Whitfield) the Black Anti-Defamation Association (BADA ; also known as Association to End Defamation of Black People) that was formed to prevent Twentieth Century Fox's producer David L. Wolper from making a film of William Styron's controversial 1967 novel The Confessions of Nat Turner, which misinterpreted African-American history.
Freda Kirchwey	After 1955, Kirchwey became involved with a collection of civil rights and pacifist organizations, most notably the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Zorica Mrsevic	In 2011 Zorica Mrsevic has become a member of Gender Equality Council to Government of Serbia and she is participating in counselling activities as well as a member of Observatory -- independent body for monitoring violence against women where she has been working on researching on Media representation of violence against women.
Larry Kramer	His political activism continued with the founding of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, an influential direct action protest organization.
Larry Kramer	In 2001, Arthur gave Yale a $ 1 million grant to establish the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies, a program focusing on gay history.
Arthur Evans (author)	On December 21, 1969, Evans, Marty Robinson, and several others met to found the early gay rights group Gay Activists Alliance.
Rudi Bakhtiar	In 2008, Bakhtiar switched careers to became the first Director of Public Relations for the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans, an organization dedicated to building an inclusive and representative voice in the public and political arena for Iranian Americans.
Jerry Falwell	Falwell supported Anita Bryant's 1977'' Save Our Children'' campaign to overturn a Florida ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and a similar movement in California.
Barbara Gittings	In 1958, Martin and Lyon asked Gittings to start a chapter in New York City, which she did when less than a dozen women responded to her notice in the Mattachine Society newsletter asking for'' all women in the New York area who are interested in forming a chapter of the DOB'' on September 20, 1958.
Mark Denbeaux	He also marched in Selma, Alabama for voting rights in 1965.
Patricia Ireland	On December 17, 1991 she gave an interview with The Advocate, a gay national publication, in which she stated that she was bisexual and had a husband and a female partner, Pat Silverthorn, a longtime activist in the Socialist Workers Party.
Etan Thomas	In September 2005, Thomas was one of several celebrities to speak at an anti-war rally in Washington D. C..
Maria W. Stewart	on September 21, 1832, at Franklin Hall, Boston, to the New England Anti-Slavery Society : Stewart continues in her lecture by demanding equal rights for African-American women : Stewart is honored together with William Lloyd Garrison with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on December 17.
Molly Yard	In April 1989, she helped to carry the banner for the March for Women's Equality / Women's Lives, which drew 600,000 marchers to Washington in support of abortion rights and the ERA.
Chris Mason (activist)	Later in 2004, Mason began working as a field organizer for MassEquality, the Boston-based organization created to lead the legislative battle to keep same-sex marriage legal in Massachusetts.
Margaret Heckler	In 1978, she launched and became co-chair of the Congresswoman's Caucus, a bipartisan group of 14 members focused on equality for women in Social Security, tax laws, and related areas.