Kertbeny's role fightg for gay rights is rarely mentned. His one lastg legacy was that he was the man who vented homosexualy, or to be more precise, the one who ed the terms "homosexual" and "heterosexual."
Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- HOMO-GENI - A HISTORY OF GAY VENTORS
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
homo-geni - a history of gay ventors... * homogeneous a history of gay inventors *
I wanted to wre an article celebratg the works of the most fluential gay, lbian, transgenr and bisexual novators, ventors and scientists throughout history. However, there was a are jt not many lists of famo homosexuals the homosexualy has often been associated wh the arts and creativy, has never been as openly accepted wh the scientific muny. Ined, beg a homosexual was a crimal offense many untri until recently (and many untri, ntu to be today), which will have prevented many historil figur om g out of the closet.
In the UK, before 1967 (jt over 50 years ago) homosexualy ed to be punishable by sentenc as harsh as life imprisonment. As a rult, many of history’s greatt homosexual scientists may have hidn their te inty.
HOMO-GENI - A HISTORY OF GAY VENTORS
However, the gay muny has a long history of ntributns to science and I have piled a number of proment novators, scientists, and ventors who were LGBTQ, as they have eher openly admted to beg gay or historil rerds of their relatnships strongly suggt they were (see sourc at bottom of the article). Historil not believe that he was primarily homosexual. Rpectg the potato kgHistoril acunts believe he was homosexual, which enraged his fay and society at the time.
His work was so fluential that this branch of enomics is known as Keynian of his re tes were the age of tert rat by central banks to balance the needs of enomic growth and an open homosexual his younger years, Keyn eventually also began datg women and married a Rsian ballera. Peter ThielPeter ThielYou may not always agree wh his polics, but you nnot ignore Thiel’s volvement some of the most novative technology pany of the past few of Confy 1998, which started PayPal 1999, Thiel is often referred to as the “Don of the PayPal mafia”, a a group of former PayPal employe and founrs who have sce found and veloped addnal technology pani[1]such as Tla Motors, LkedIn, Palantir Technologi, SpaceX, YouTube, Yelp, and himself was also the first outsi vtor Facebook and provis lns of dollars to forward-lookg rearch technologi through the Thiel Foundatn and Thiel now openly gay and married to his long-time partner, Thiel was fur at beg outed a 2007 article by Gawker media. Jon HallJon “maddog” HallJon “Maddog” Hall is the Board Chair of Lux ternatnal, the open source movement promotg the eely available Lux operatg is an advote for g open source software and hardware available for any entreprenr, no matter what their background June 2012, honor of Alan Turg, Hall published an article Lux Magaze announcg that he is gay.
I n thk of nobody history who n boast a portfol as varied as Da Vci kept his love-life private, is wily believed that he was homosexual, based on acunts om those who knew him at the time, as well as urt documents where was revealed he had been volved a sexual enunter wh several men. However, the world lost one of s most fluential mds far too early, as 1952 Turg was charged wh the crime of “gross cency” after admtg to havg had a homosexual relatnship wh another man, which was a crime at the time.