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LGBTQ* History You Should Know

DID YOU KNOW?

The first recorded evidence of homosexuality is found in Mesopotamia circa 3000 B.C., where artifacts depict men having relations with other men.

Source: OUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS (1995) p. 162

Photo Source: Phantom Report

LGBTQ* and (Christian) Biblical Texts

What Jesus Said About Homosexuality

(source)

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LGBTQ* Pride Around The World

Click HERE for more from Amnesty International

LGBTQ* Flow Charts

shared with you from The Wall’s blog

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LGBTQ* History Infographic

Queer History (1200s-2005) —

Note: Focus heavy on the UK, many US laws/history not represented

From JobCenterPlus

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LGBTQ* Quotes and Books You Should Know

Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant, 1978

LGBTQ* Did You Know Art History

BATMAN is (not) Gay!

Did you know?

In 2005, DC comics sent a “cease and desist” letter to both Mark Chamberlain (the artist of the above image) and Kathleen Cullen Fine Art’s studio telling them to pull all artwork depicting the DC characters.

Due to copyright infringement (DC owns Batman’s image), DC and Chamberlain eventually settled on displaying the images but not selling them.

LGBTQ* Religion and Political Cartoons

You are the company you keep. 

LGBTQ* Quotes and Quips

First rate thoughts from the author of The Second Sex 

LGBTQ* Stories of Survival

“I’m living proof that Hitler didn’t win.

I’m aware of that every day.” The speaker is Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim. (pictured above) At the age of eighty-eight, this charming gay man celebrates his birthday twice a year. “You never know,” he says.

One can hardly imagine the suffering he endured. Von Groszheim was among 230 men arrested in Lübeck in the course of a single evening in 1937. The police hauled him from his home and imprisoned him for ten months. He was released, but re-arrested. This time, the Nazi authorities forced him to choose between castration, or incarceration at the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen. He submitted to castration.

His nightmare had not ended, however. In 1943, von Groszheim was arrested a third time, and was put into a satellite camp of Neuengamme. He survived that ordel, but half a century would have to pass before he started to tell his story.

— Dr. Klaus Müller

Introduction to THE MEN WITH THE PINK TRIANGLE