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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.