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- TODAY GAY HISTORY
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
- GAY PRI
TODAY GAY HISTORY
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1982: The Quebec ernment overwhelmgly approv a measure that giv domtic partners of gays and lbians legal protectn and accs to enomic benefs prevly rtricted to straights. 1983: Mel Brook’s To Be or Not To Be, a remake of the Ernst Lubsch classic be the first mastream Hollywood film to not only acknowledge Nazi persecutn of homosexuals, but also mak a key plot element.
Where homosexual activy or viance om tablished genr rol/drs was banned by law or tradnal ctom, such nmnatn might be munited through sensatnal public trials, exile, medil warngs, and language om the pulp.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
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GAY PRI
The European powers enforced their own crimal s agast what was lled sodomy the New World: the first known se of homosexual activy receivg a ath sentence North Ameri occurred 1566, when the Spanish executed a Frenchman Florida.
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