text: Lavender Graduation is an event that occurs annually at many colleges and universities where LGBT students get their own graduation ceremony to celebrate their identities and achievements.
  The study of language used specifically by LGBT speakers is known as lavender linguistics.
  The LGBTQIA caucus of the Green Party of the United States is the Lavender Greens.
  The lavender scare refers to the fear and persecution of homosexuals in the 1950s in the United States, which paralleled the anti-communist campaign known as McCarthyism.
  Lavender is the name of an 2019 American short LGBT romantic drama film directed by Matthew Puccini.
  A synonym used for the original gay liberation movement which began in 1969 is referring to the movement as the lavender revolution.
  During the 1960s feminism movement, lesbians were rejected by the then head of the National Organization for Women, Betty Friedan, calling them the "Lavender Menace". These lesbian radical feminists adopted the name for their own informal group, consisting of many members of the Gay Liberation Front.
  The Lavender Panthers was a gay rights activist group in San Francisco during the early 1970s, led by the Reverend Ray Broshears.
  Lavender Country was an American country music band whose 1973 self-titled album was made up entirely of gay-themed songs.