Homosexualy was lobbed as an sult durg the war while gay people hid , but sometim would "hi pla sight."
Contents:
- HOW WWI SPARKED THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY SOLDIERS WHO SERVED THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- THE FOTTEN GAY SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
HOW WWI SPARKED THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Discrimatn and persecutn has led to gay soldiers of the Great War beg seen as tragic figur, but this was not always the se * world war 1 gay soldiers *
One of the World War I’s most endurg legaci is largely fotten: It sparked the morn gay rights movement.
Gay soldiers who survived the bloodlettg returned home nvced their ernments owed them somethg – full cizenship.
Especially Germany, where gay rights already had a tenuo footg, they formed new anizatns to advote public for their rights. Though the movement that lled self “homosexual emancipatn” began the 19th century, my rearch and that of historian Jason Crouthamel shows that the war turned the 19th-century movement to gay rights as we know today.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY SOLDIERS WHO SERVED THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Read the stori of four men and women who intified as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr that ntributed to help Bra durg the First World War * world war 1 gay soldiers *
The Scientific Humanarian Commtee was then the world’s leadg homosexual emancipatn group, boastg a membership of about 100 people.
THE FOTTEN GAY SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Homosexualy meant the loss of one’s job, social ostracism, the risk of blackmail and perhaps crimal prosecutn.