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The history of LGBT rights in England & how it affected American attitudes

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the decriminalization of adult same-sex sexual expression in England.

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Germany clears path to erase convictions of gay men

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

The antigay law that dated back to the 19th century was used to vigorously prosecute gay men in the post-war era.

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UK could posthumously pardon over 100,000 sodomy convictions

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Those people, including some lesbians, convicted for same-sex kissing and cuddling under laws such as the Public Order Act of 1986, are not eligible for a pardon.

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Remembering the gay man who saved 17 million lives

Sunday, October 30, 2016

The WWII hero saved millions of lives before being chemically castrated for being gay. He killed himself two years later.

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British bill to pardon men with convictions under antigay laws fails

Friday, October 21, 2016

A Conservative Party lawmaker filibustered a bill that would have cleared men of convictions from antigay laws that have since been overturned.

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Britain will pardon thousands of men convicted under anti-gay laws

Friday, October 21, 2016

The pardons apply to men convicted for consensual same-sex sexual relations before homosexuality was decriminalized several decades ago.

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How will today’s transgender martyrs will be seen by history?

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Members of the trans community often suffer the consequences of other truth tellers from the past.

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UK spy agency chief apologizes for old prejudice about gays

Monday, April 18, 2016

The speech offered a poignant tribute to Turing, the gay computer science pioneer and architect of the effort to crack Nazi Germany's Enigma cipher.

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New LGBTQ organization to focus on fighting inequality internationally

Friday, October 2, 2015

Alturi seeks to “educate and engage individual supporters who want to help improve the lives of LGBTI people around the world.”

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‘Imitation Game’ code breaker Alan Turing’s notebook fetches over $1M at auction

Monday, April 13, 2015

The 56-page manuscript was written at the time the mathematician and computer science pioneer was working to break the seemingly unbreakable Enigma codes used by the Germans throughout the war.

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