First Male Same-Sex Kiss: 1927
BrainPickings recently highlighted the first kiss in cinema history. That takes you back to 1896, to a film brought to you by Thomas Edison. Now we… Read More »First Male Same-Sex Kiss: 1927
First Male Same-Sex Kiss: 1927
OFFICIAL – ALAN TURING PARDONED POSTHUMOUSLY
OFFICIAL – ALAN TURING CONVICTION QUASHED
Updated 2nd January 2014 with an interview with Tony Fenwick, co-chair LGBT History Month
The UK Government has officially announced that with effect from midnight on 24th December 2013, openly-gay codebreaker Alan Turing is granted an official posthumous pardon for his 1952 ‘gross indecency’ conviction. Turing, genius mathematician and the founder of the modern computer technology, was found dead in 1954, in an apparent suicide. In 2009 the Government issued an apology for Alan’s homophobic treatment – chemical castration in order to avoid a prison sentence – but had stopped short of a pardon. LGBT History Month are pleased that at least here in Britain, 2013 will end on a positive note for the LGBT community. Co-chair Tony Fenwick will be speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live from 5am today, to comment on the announcement: http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/on-air
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BT Filter Discriminating against Young LGBT people
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One Step Beyond IT
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London: Lecturer who compared gay teachers to the Ku Klux Klan sacked from college
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Namibian political leader stands up for gay rights
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Australia high court overturns ACT gay marriage law
Australia high court overturns ACT gay marriage law – Australia’s High Court has overturned legislation allowing gay marriage in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The ACT parliament passed a bill in October making the territory the first part of Australia to legalise same-sex weddings.
India bans gay sex in Supreme Court shock ruling
India bans gay sex in Supreme Court shock ruling – India’s highest court has upheld a colonial-era law which criminalises gay sex, in what activists have described as a “black day” for gay rights.