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Contents:

• STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY
• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

STANFORD SCHOLAR EXPLOR THE HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS GERMANY

(Berl) – The German ernment has pledged to do more to uphold the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) people abroad, Human Rights Watch said today.

The adoptn of the LGBTI Incln Strategy is the rult of staed advocy om German civil society groups sce 2012, spearhead by the Lbian and Gay Feratn Germany (Der Lben- und Schwulenverband Dtschland, LSVD), the Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundatn, and the Yogyakarta-Alliance.

EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

In the summer of 2017, Germany’s Feral Government wined s Natnal Actn Plan Agast Racism, which homophobia and transphobia are outlawed. The first step towards legal stat for homosexual upl was the registered civil partnership 2001, known lloquially as the homo marriage.

This mak Germany one of the world’s 24 untri which homosexual upl are allowed to get married. Yet homosexualy is still a crimal offence at least 67 untri, and seven untri homosexual acts are even punishable by ath. Especially plac where lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex (LGBTQI) people are persecuted by the state, they often have no protectn agast vlence and discrimatn.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

In Germany, every person is ee to live out their sexual/genr inty, and the law protects lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, transsexual, queer and asexual dividuals, i. Christopher Street Day (CSD) is an annual pri para held Berl, and other major ci across Germany, celebratg gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQIA+) culture and pri.

LGBTQIA+ rights Germany have e a long way sce the untry's crimalizatn of homosexualy 1871.

In 2017, Germany’s Cabet approved a bill that would expunge the nvictns of tens of thoands of German men for “homosexual acts” unr that untry’s anti-gay law known as “Paragraph 175. That was jt before the Nazis me to power, magnified the anti-gay law, then sought to annihilate gay and transgenr Europeans.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

And media entreprenrs realized there was a middle-class gay and trans rearship to whom they uld ter. Partly drivg this new era of tolerance were the doctors and scientists who started lookg at homosexualy and “transvtism” (a word of that era that enpassed transgenr people) as a natural characteristic wh which some were born, and not a “rangement. ” The Berl police gmbled that magaz aimed at gay men – which they lled “obscene prs materials” – were proliferatg.

A Parisian town uncilor 1933 lled “a moral crisis” that gay people, known as “verts” at that time, uld be seen public. When Nazi lear Adolph Hler need to jtify arrtg and murrg former polil alli 1934, he said they were gay.

Durg the followg year alone, the Gtapo arrted more than 8, 500 gay men, que possibly g a list of nam and addrs seized at the Instute for Sexual Rearch.

THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS

In Vienna, hled every gay man on police lists and qutned them, tryg to get them to name others. Italy, wh a fascist regime obssed wh virily, sent at least 300 gay men to btal mps durg the war perd, clarg them “dangero for the tegry of the race.

Still, if they had been proment members of the gay and trans muny before the fascists me to power, as Berl lbian club owner Lotte Hahm was, was too late to hi. ” One gay man attributed his survival to swappg his pk triangle for a red one – ditg he was merely a Communist. In 1929, Germany me close to erasg s anti-gay law, only to see strengthened soon thereafter.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

December 29, 2018 The relatively rapid evolutn of gay rights Germany trigued Stanford doctoral ndidate Samuel Clow Huneke.

His rearch to what led to Germany beg a standard bearer for gay rights today surprised him. Ls than 80 years after roughly 6, 000 gay men perished Nazi ncentratn mps, Germany has bee one of the untri mostly wily acceptg of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people. Several of East Germany’s gay activists, cludg well-known transgenr woman Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, center, pose for a photo the 1970s.

That stark cultural and polil change trigued Stanford rearcher Samuel Clow Huneke, a doctoral ndidate history, who began vtigatg how East and Wt Germany alt wh homosexualy om 1945 to 1990. “I started this work wh one big qutn: How do a untry go om the Nazi dictatorship to beg the standard bearer of gay rights that is today?

Huneke found that durg the Cold War era, munist East Germany had more lenient sodomy laws and accepted gay activists’ mands more quickly than s mocratic tw. As a rult, East Germany ntributed signifintly to Germany’s pro-gay turn once the untry unified 1990, some regards more than Wt Germany did.

“There is an assumptn that the state of gay rights Germany today is somethg that’s mostly due to events mocratic Wt Germany, which had a more vibrant gay culture and a more visible gay rights movement durg the 1970s, ” Huneke said.

Prev historil rearch has vtigated how gay people fared Germany durg the Weimar perd, the terwar years that ran roughly om 1918 to 1933, and durg Adolf Hler’s Nazi dictatorship.