Editing LGBTQ movements (section)

==== 1987–2000 ====
[[File:Gay flag.svg|thumb|The [[Rainbow flag (gay movement)|rainbow flag]]]]

===== AIDS pandemic =====
{{main|AIDS pandemic|AIDS activism}}
Some historians posit that a new era of the gay rights movement began in the 1980s with the emergence of [[AIDS]]. As gay men became seriously ill and died in ever-increasing numbers, and many lesbian activists became their caregivers, the leadership of many organizations was decimated. Other organizations shifted their energies to focus their efforts on AIDS.<ref name="before" /> 

This era saw a resurgence of militancy with [[direct action]] groups like [[AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power]] (ACT UP), formed in 1987, as well as its offshoots [[Queer Nation]] (1990) and the [[Lesbian Avengers]] (1992). Some younger activists, seeing ''gay and lesbian'' as increasingly normative and politically conservative, began using ''[[queer]]'' as a defiant statement of all [[sexual minority|sexual minorities]] and [[gender variant]] people—just as the earlier liberationists had done with ''gay''. Less confrontational terms that attempt to reunite the interests of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people also became prominent, including various [[Acronym and initialism|acronyms]] like ''[[LGBT]]'', ''LGBTQ'', and ''LGBTI'', where the ''Q'' and ''I'' stand for ''[[queer]]'' or ''[[Questioning (sexuality and gender)|questioning]]'' and ''[[intersex]]'', respectively.

===== Warrenton "War Conference" =====
A "War Conference" of 200 gay leaders was held in Warrenton, Virginia, in 1988.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/02/27/Gay-rights-leaders-gather-in-Virginia/5403572936400/?spt=su |publisher=United Press International |title=Gay rights leaders gather in Virginia |date=February 27, 1988 }}</ref> The closing statement of the conference set out a plan for a media campaign:<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/09/19/gay-activists-divided-on-whether-to-bring-out-politicians/5ddd8954-c65b-4c3e-8e99-c1b46f8b154a/ |date=September 19, 1989 |newspaper=Washington Post |author=Weiser, Benjamin |title=Gay Activists Divided on Whether to "Bring Out" Politicians}}</ref><ref name="warrentonpaper">{{cite web |url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/HRC/exhibition/stage/REX023_164.pdf |title=Final Statement of the War Conference, Airlie House, Warrenton, VA |date=February 28, 1988 |website=Cornell University Library}}</ref>{{Blockquote |First, we recommend a nation-wide media campaign to promote a positive image of gays and lesbians. Every —national, state, and local—must accept the responsibility. We must consider the media in every project we undertake. We must, in addition, take every advantage we can to include public service announcements and paid advertisements, and to cultivate reporters and editors of newspapers, radio, and television. To help facilitate this we need national media workshops to train our leaders. And we must encourage our gay and lesbian press to increase coverage of the national process. Our media efforts are fundamental to the full acceptance of us in American life. But they are also a way for us to increase the funding of our movement. A media campaign costs money, but ultimately it may be one of our most successful fund-raising devices.|author=|title=|source=}} 
The statement also called for an annual planning conference "to help set and modify our national agenda."<ref name="warrentonpaper"/> The [[Human Rights Campaign]] lists this event as a milestone in gay history and identifies it as where [[National Coming Out Day]] originated.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hrc.org/resources/the-history-of-coming-out | publisher=Human Rights Campaign | title=The History of Coming Out | date=September 26, 2017 | access-date=October 3, 2017 | archive-date=June 4, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604021926/https://www.hrc.org/resources/the-history-of-coming-out }}</ref>

On June 24, 1994, the first Gay Pride march was celebrated in Asia in the Philippines.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fridae.asia/gay-news/2009/06/08/8419.the-first-gay-pride-march-in-asia|title=The first gay pride march in Asia|website=fridae.asia|language=en|access-date=January 15, 2019}}</ref> In the Middle East, LGBT organizations remain illegal, and LGBT rights activists face extreme opposition from the state.<ref>{{cite news |last1=AL |title=How homosexuality became a crime in the Middle East |url=https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/06/06/how-homosexuality-became-a-crime-in-the-middle-east |newspaper=The Economist |date=June 6, 2018 }}</ref> The 1990s also saw the emergence of many LGBT youth movements and organizations such as LGBT youth centers, [[gay–straight alliance]]s in high schools, and youth-specific activism, such as the [[National Day of Silence]]. Colleges also became places of LGBT activism and support for activists and LGBT people in general, with many colleges opening LGBT centers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collegeequalityindex.org/list-colleges-lgbt-center |title=List of Colleges with a LGBT Center |website=College Equality Index |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726161842/http://www.collegeequalityindex.org/list-colleges-lgbt-center |archive-date=July 26, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The 1990s also saw a rapid push of the [[transgender]] movement, while at the same time a "sidelining of the identity of those who are transsexual." In the English-speaking world, [[Leslie Feinberg]] published ''Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come'' in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.workers.org/book/transgender-liberation-a-movement-whose-time-has-come/|title=Transgender Liberation: A movement whose time has come|last=Feinberg|first=Leslie|website=Workers World|language=en-US|access-date=January 28, 2019}}</ref> Gender-variant peoples across the globe also formed minority rights movements. [[Hijra (South Asia)|Hijra]] activists campaigned for recognition as a [[third gender|third sex]] in India and [[Travesti (gender identity)|Travesti]] groups began to organize against police brutality across Latin America while activists in the United States formed direct-confrontation groups such as the [[Transexual Menace]].