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- GAY RIGHTS AND LGBTQI MOVEMENTS EUROPE
- EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
GAY RIGHTS AND LGBTQI MOVEMENTS EUROPE
Durg the medieval to morn ag, European untri troduced laws agast homosexual relatnships that were driven by relig dogma and natnalist tradnalism. Wh , me the crimalizatn of homosexual relatnships. Paragraph 175 was brought to beg, a divisn of the German crimal which punished male homosexuals wh prison terms.
Fightg agast further crimalizatn of female homosexual acts, Dr. Homosexual men and women were seen as ’a-social’ by the Nazis, enemi of the ‘Aryan’ master race due to the fact that the attractn to the same sex meant they were not producg children for the Third Reich. Msag of hope durg this time me om: Iceland, where crimalizatn took place 1940; Swzerland, where the law changed 1942; and Swen, where a socialist-led wartime aln ernment crimalised homosexualy on 1 July 1944.
Dpe nservative mastream ias, clubs discreetly opened their doors to promote social mobily to gay members through readgs, excursns, or nferenc. A major ph for the rights of gay men and women took place 1951 through the foundatn of the Internatnal Commtee for Sexual Equaly (ICSE) Amsterdam. The Commtee anized transnatnal activism to ensure an improvement equal rights for gay and lbians and requted that the Uned Natns clu the rights of sexual mori the Declaratn of Human Rights.
EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
In 1968, var social uprisgs took place all over the ntent and groups fightg for homosexual rights - based on the US example of LGBTQ groups prottg and mandg equal rights - formed. Durg the , march for equal rights took place across Europe ci such as London, Paris, Antwerp, and Berl, shg an unprecented light onto the rights movements of the homosexual muny. Wh ltle knowledge about the vis, gay men were sgled out and ma rponsible for the transmissn of AIDS.
In 1993, the World Health Organizatn removed homosexualy om the list of mental illns, a ground-breakg victory for people who stggled for centuri for the simple right of regnn. Poland was reported by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn to be worst untry the EU for LGBTQ+ people due to hateful rhetoric and vlent attacks.
Durg the neteenth century, the first gay liberatn thkers laid the groundwork for a ant movement that mand the end of the crimalizatn, pathologisatn and social rejectn of non-heterosexual sexualy.