VILNIUS—Defending History has still had no reply to itsopen letter of August 2013to the Minister of the Economy, asking him to look into multiple media reports that the pseudonymous “Zeppelinus,” Lithuania’s best-known purveyor of hate-popart on the internet is indeed a senior civil servan...
Before Nazism, a German institute cemented itself as gay liberation’s epicenter. For 40 years, activists have been searching for its legendary collection.
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In 1957, when the girls graduate, they land coveted spots at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Pentila in northern Italy, a prestigious art history school on the grounds of a silent convent. There, free of her claustrophobic home and the town that will always see her and her Egyptian mother...
History of LGBTQ rights Homosexuality has been decriminalized since 1971, and was declassified as an illness in 1981, around the same time as in other European countries. The age of consent was equalized to 16 in 1999. Transvestism was declassified as an illness in 2011. Same-sex marriage ...
Here is a look at government leaders who have made history by publicly coming out as queer. Next:Gabriel Attal 2/13 Credit Gabriel Attal Country: France Position: Prime Minister Time in Office: January 2024-September 2024 French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Gabriel Attal to the prime minis...
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As has the fight for our most basic of civil rights. (Photo Credit: J. Amill Santiago) DC’s political landscape has come a long way since the dark days of the AIDS crisis, or periods so stifled that politicians would rather commit suicide than publicly confront the reality of same-sex...
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June 28, 1969 -Police raid theStonewall Inn in New York City.Protests and demonstrations begin, and it later becomes known as the impetus for the gay civil rights movement in the United States. 1969 -The “Los Angeles Advocate,” founded in 1967,is renamed “The Advocate.” It is consider...