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100 years ago, Germany’s ‘Einstein of Sex’ began the gay rights movement

Although he never became a household name like Freud, sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld fought to decriminalize homosexuality and improve LGBTQ healthcare During the years before Nazism destroyed Europe, a German Jew in Berlin pioneered what became the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Magnus Hirschfeld was the first clinician to prove that gays are at a higher risk… Read more »

Official: Wurst win good for European gay rights

Paris — The head of Europe’s leading human rights body is praising Conchita Wurst’s Eurovision victory as a positive sign that freedom of expression is thriving, and that Europeans are “allowed to shock.” Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland of the Council of Europe spoke with The Associated Press by phone about new initiatives to fight anti-gay discrimination… Read more »