Adherents of this movement support the notion that the LGBT community forms a distinct people due to their unique culture and customs.
The homophobic aspect of many cultures has led to increasing frustration and a wish to separate from a perceived hostile heterosexual majority.
[2] In 1969, gay activist Don Jackson from California proposed to take over Alpine County, California—a project also known as Stonewall Nation.
[3] The first attempt to make territorial claims was made in 2004 by a group of Australian gay activists who declared the tiny islands of Cato Reef to be the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands and Dale Parker Anderson to be the Emperor.
[citation needed] These formed several small parties throughout the United States and Canada that stand in solidarity only to those that identify as supporters of the old Queer Nation.