The first homosexual movement thrived in Germany from the late nineteenth century until 1933. The movement began in Germany because of a confluence of...

3600 The Memorial to the First Homosexual Emancipation Movement (German: Denkmal für die erste homosexuelle Emanzipationsbewegung) is a memorial in the neighbourhood...

1871, the year the federal German Empire was formed, Paragraph 175 of the new Penal Code recriminalised homosexual acts. The first homosexual movement unsuccessfully...

and tolerance at the start of the first homosexual movement that would flourish in interwar Weimar culture. The Committee published the long-running journal...

After the Nazi takeover in 1933, the first homosexual movement's infrastructure of clubs, organizations, and publications was shut down. After the Röhm...

tracing the emergence of the homosexual subculture and the homosexual emancipation movement in pre-World War II Germany – and their destruction by the Nazi...

Berlin) was established in 1973 with the belief that ‘homosexual emancipation is part of the success of socialism', aiming to educate society in this vein. In...

Beatrix signed a law making Netherlands the first country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2001. Male homosexuality has been acknowledged in China since...

growth of the gay rights movement, the initiative to build a monument to persecuted homosexuals entered a qualitatively new stage when the Homomonument...

gathering places and institutions, such as the first homosexual movement, the Eldorado nightclubs, and the Institute for Sexual Science were dissolved...

of homosexuals. They explained "Amsterdam, in particular is often associated with gay emancipation, as it provided the setting for the world's first legally...

place. Lenin's emancipation was reversed a decade later by Joseph Stalin and homosexuality remained illegal under Article 121 until the Yeltsin era. In...

Marhoefer, Laurie (2015-01-01). Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis. University of Toronto Press. pp...

direct action across the United States. 1963 marked the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. Leaders...

suffrage movement, she and Willard did openly advocate "emancipation" of women. From 1894 until 1899, she edited the weekly British feminist magazine The Woman's...

during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI) until 1964, after which he left the movement, he...

States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on 28 March 2025. Retrieved 7 August 2022. "Persecution of Homosexuals in the Third Reich"....

especially homosexuality, were seen as two of many sins. The first ever unequivocal legal basis for the punishment of homosexuality in Switzerland is the Constitutio...

Hero of the Year. In his acceptance speech, he said: The road to homosexual emancipation which I and a few others embarked upon following the Wolfenden...

gender variant and homosexually oriented people as a minority group(s); this was the approach taken by the homophile movement of the 1940s, 1950s and early...

the centre for the Christian Fellowship and Irish Emancipation Centre which they established in 1941, with rooms made available for young people to stay...

have been homosexual. Mainstream historians generally hold that Lincoln was heterosexual, noting that the historical context explains any of the supposed...

the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and helped organize two of the three Selma to Montgomery marches during the 1965 Selma voting rights movement. The...

ancient Israelites; but in the United States, British Israelism began to evolve as anti-Semitism began to permeate the movement. Traditional British Israelites...

" The denial of social and political freedom to minorities continued into the mid-20th century, resulting in the civil rights movement. The movement was...

clashed with his activism. The civil rights movement was hostile to homosexuals. The only overtly gay men in the movement were Baldwin and Bayard Rustin...

integrated into society, while in eastern Europe, where emancipation had arrived later, many Jews continued to live in small towns, spoke Yiddish, and practiced...

 1–276. Neander, Biedron. "Homosexuals. A Separate Category of Prisoners". Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. Archived from the original on 14 January...

strength in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, passed...

religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition as emanating primarily from the assent of the people through the generations...