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Pride history posts on here seem almost exclusively to revolve around Stonewall which can leave the impression that America is the only place where anything important ever happened and obviously is not true so I have compiled a few links where you can learn about LGBTQ history in other countries! Feel free to add

The Brunswick Four and the Toronto raids in Canada 🇨🇦

Queer icons like Virginia Wolf, Oscar Wilde, and Freddie Mercury in Britain 🇬🇧

Cultural revolution in Weimar Germany 🇩🇪

The drag scene in Nigeria 🇳🇬

Gay and lesbian Mardi Gras in Australia 🇦🇺

Frida Kahlo and Mexicos fraught history 🇲🇽

Gay samurai in Japan 🇯🇵

Queer narratives erased by colonialism in Pakistan 🇵🇰

The modern world’s first legal same-sex marriages in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

The honoured Mahu (transgender individuals) in traditional Hawaiian culture 🌺

Hidden queer communities in communist Poland 🇵🇱

Husbands in ancient Egypt 🇪🇬

The Athens pride festival in Greece 🇬🇷

The Homosexual Movement of Liberation in Chile 🇨🇱

Gay rights protests in India 🇮🇳

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The 21st edition of the zine PATS (which can be read here)

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all queer history on here is just US-American or maybe sometimes some UK history as well and it makes me sad that there’s so little information about other countries’ queer history on here :(

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In 1991, 15 Dutch regional news papers put out a giant questionnaire, which then was answered by tens of thousands of people

Among the questions also was this one

It basically says:

Do you consider yourself:

- heterosexual

- homosexual

- bisexual

- a-sexual

According to the results of this survey,

92,8% of the men and 92,5% of the women identified as hetero

3,1% of men and 2,1% of women identified as gay

2,6% of men and 2,7% of women identified as bi

1,5% of men and 2,7% of women identified as ace

I think this is fascinating, especially that they found so many asexual people, like this was in 1991 and yet they already found more people than that 1% that gets quoted a lot

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Four Roze Front posters

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The four editions in 1977 of the paper Mietje: 'n Krant Van Flikkers (Sissy: a Paper Of Faggots)

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26 June 1982, Amersfoort Roze Zaterdag (Pink Saturday). Eggs were thrown at the protesters, quarrels broke out, and people yelled curses at the protesters. Of all the artists that were going to perform that day, few dared to still do so after the parade. Pictures: Bernard de Wolff

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21 january 1969, Den Haag Students and others demonstrating against law 248bis, which criminalised homosexual contact of people between 16 and 21 years old. The demonstration was organised by Federatie van Studenten Werkgroepen Homoseksualiteit, FSWH (Federation of Student Workgroups Homosexuality) and stichting Ruimte (founding Space). 248bis got abolished in 1971. Picture: Jack de Nijs