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Gay History – July 9, 1550: Italian Humanist and Historian Jacopo Bonfadio Convicted of Sodomy and Beheaded
Jacopo Bonfadio was born in Garda, Italy in 1508 and was educated at Verona and Padua. of sodomy, for which he was arrested, tried, and condemned to…
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Gay History – May 23, 1920: Harvard University’s “Secret Court” Gay Witch-hunt. Expels 10 Students for Being Gay
On May 13, 1920 Cyril Wilcox, a Harvard undergraduate, committed suicide after telling his older brother, George, that he had…
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Gay History – May 6 – 10, 1933: Nazi Youth Attack Magnus Hirschfeld’s Berlin Institute for Sexual Research and the “Säuberung” Book Burnings [RARE VIDEO]
On May 6, 1933, less than six months after Adolf Hitler and the Nazis had come to power, Nazi Youth…
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March 1950 – The Lavender Scare: McCarthy and Cohn Hunt Homosexuals in the Federal Government
March 1950 - The Lavender Scare: McCarthy and Cohn Hunt Homosexuals in the Federal Government
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Gay History – February 18, 1895: Oscar Wilde Is Accused of Being A Sodomite
On this day in 1895, British playwright Oscar Wilde was dining at the Albermarle Club in London when the Marquess of Queensbury…
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January 27 – Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Pink Triangle and Paragraph 175
Survival in camps took on many forms. Some homosexual inmates secured administrative and clerical jobs. For other prisoners, sexuality became…
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The Gay Forgotten – July 6, 1602: Martyred Flemish Sculptor Jérôme Duquesnoy
The Flemish artist Jérôme Duquesnoy was, in his day, regarded as one of the finest sculptors of the seventeenth century.…
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10 More Gay Men Arrested In Egypt For The Crime of “Debauchery”
Egyptian Police arrested 10 men gay men in Alexandria on January 14, accusing them of “debauchery,” the Egyptian authorities’ catchall term…
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Egypt Introduces Law To Criminalize Homosexuality
MP Ryad Abdel Sattar on Wednesday introduced to the parliament’s speaker Ali Abdel Aal a draft law entailing five…
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18 Men Arrested in Florida Gay Sex Stings at Parks, Mugshots and Names Published
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood and his deputies arrested 18 men in a four-day sex sting in six public parks.…
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