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SETA (Seksuaalinen Tasavertaisuus RY, Sexual Equality) is the main GLBT rights organisation in Finland. The current President of Finland, Tarja Halonen was a chairwoman of SETA before her presidency. This caused few confusions about her sexual orientation, even leading to one run-in with the Westboro Baptist Church. However, SETA was not established as a "gay organization", but as a "organization for gay rights", and the human rights lawyer Halonen, despite being bisexual, was a natural choice for the chair.

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setae of a Uroplatus
A seta is a stiff hair, bristle, or bristle-like process or part of an organism. The plural form is setae.

In plants (i.e., botanical terminology), "seta" is synonymous with bristle—a stiff, strong hair or trichome. The term can also be applied to a modified hair-like structure, such as a pappus: a modified calyx in the Asteraceae.

Setae on their footpads are responsible for the gecko's ability to cling to vertical surfaces.

Setae help earthworms attach to the surface and prevent backsliding during peristaltic motion. These hairs are what make it difficult to pull a worm straight from the ground.

Setae on the legs of krill help them to gather phytoplankton.

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LGBT social movements share related goals of social acceptance of homosexuality, bisexuality, or transgenderism. LGBT refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and their movements include the Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement
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Civil Unions: Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New Hampshire (from January 2008). Domestic partnerships: California, Maine, Oregon (from January 2008), Washington, District of Columbia, and Hawaii.
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Discrimination

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Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Ageism
Antisemitism
Islamophobia
Ableism

Manifestations
Slavery · Racial profiling
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LGBT history refers to the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender cultures around the world, dating back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality within ancient civilizations.
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Here is a list of gay-rights organizations around the world. Note that some organizations support certain gay rights while opposing others.

International

  • Gay Straight Alliance Network International (GSANI)
  • International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA)

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A list of LGBT rights activists by country, in alphabetical order.

Australia

  • Rodney Croome

Canada

Germany

  • Volker Beck
  • Heinrich Himmler [1]
  • Magnus Hirschfeld
  • Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

Ireland


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Declaration of Montreal on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Human Rights is a document adopted in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on July 29, 2006, by the International Conference on LGBT Human Rights which formed part of the first World Outgames.
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A Same-sex union refers to an enduring relationship between two people of the same gender.

Literary, historical, and archaeological evidence of such unions has been found for a number of diverse cultures as early as 2400 B.C.
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LGBT adoption refers to the adoption of children by lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered people.

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LGBT rights opposition refers to various movements or attitudes which oppose the extension of certain rights to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. The specific rights that are opposed may include rights to social equality, marriage or civil unions, adoption,
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Heterosexism is a term used to describe the presumption that everyone is heterosexual, and/or the belief that heterosexuals are naturally superior to homosexuals and bisexuals.
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Violence against LGBT people, queer identifying and the same-sex attracted are hate crimes which may occur either at the hands of individuals or groups, or as part of governmental enforcement of laws targeting people who are perceived to violate heteronormative rules and who
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Anthem
Maamme   (Finnish)
Vårt land   (Swedish)
Our Land
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Tarja Kaarina Halonen (IPA: ] (help info ) ) (born December 24, 1943, in Helsinki, Finland) is the eleventh and current President of Finland.
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1889 Homosexuality was a crime in the new penal code and punishable by a maximum of two years in prison.
  • 1971 Homosexuality was decriminalized, but "promotion" of it remained illegal.
  • 1981 Homosexuality was removed from the illness classification list.
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    • Hair is a filamentous outgrowth of protein, found only on mammals. It projects from the epidermis, though it grows from hair follicles deep in the dermis. Although many other organisms, especially insects, show filamentous outgrowths, these are not considered "hair".
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    In anatomy, a process (Latin: processus) is a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body.

    Examples

    Examples of processes include:
    • the mastoid process
    • the xyphoid process

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    Plantae
  • Chromalveolata
  • Heterokontophyta
  • Haptophyta
  • Cryptophyta
  • Alveolata

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    • Plantae
    Haeckel, 1866[1]

    Divisions

    Green algae
    • Chlorophyta
    • Charophyta
    Land plants (embryophytes)
    • Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)

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    Botany is the scientific study of plant life. As a branch of biology, it is also called plant science(s), phytology, or plant biology. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study plants, algae, and fungi including: structure, growth,
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    Hair is a filamentous outgrowth of protein, found only on mammals. It projects from the epidermis, though it grows from hair follicles deep in the dermis. Although many other organisms, especially insects, show filamentous outgrowths, these are not considered "hair".
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    Trichomes, from the Greek meaning "growth of hair", are fine outgrowths or appendages on plants and protists. These are of diverse structure and function. Examples are hairs, glandular hairs, scales, and papillae.
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    Pappus, in a composite flower, is the element of the individual disk and ray flowers that surrounds the flower structure, in the same manner at the base as calyx does in a non-compound flower.
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    sepal (from Latin separatus "separate" + petalum "petal") is a part of the flower of angiosperms or flower plants. Sepals in a "typical" flower are green and lie under the more conspicuous petals.
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    Gekkonidae
    Gray, 1825

    Subfamilies

    Aeluroscalabotinae
    Eublepharinae
    Gekkoninae
    Teratoscincinae
    Diplodactylinae

    Geckos are small to average sized lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae
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    Lumbricina

    Families

      Acanthodrilidae
      Ailoscolecidae
      Alluroididae
      Almidae
      Criodrilidae
      Eudrilidae
      Exxidae
      Glossoscolecidae
      Lumbricidae
      Lutodrilidae
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    Peristalsis is the rhythmic contraction of smooth muscles to propel contents through the digestive tract. The word is derived from New Latin and comes from the Greek peristaltikos, peristaltic, from peristellein, "to wrap around," and stellein
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    Euphausiacea
    Dana, 1852

    Families
    • Euphausiidae
    • Euphausia Dana, 1852
    • Meganyctiphanes Holt and W. M.

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    Phytoplankton are the autotrophic component of plankton. The name comes from the Greek terms, phyton or "plant" and πλαγκτος ("planktos"), meaning "wanderer" or "drifter".
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