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Bill Clinton winning the 1992 election against George H. W. Bush to later become the 42nd president of the USA
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Homosexuality is no longer classified as a mental illness according to WHO's ICD (International Classification of Diseases)
Thanks for raising the LGBT community people don't realise how awful our history is
How‽ Maybe I just spoke to my elders when I was younger, but even as a baby queer I knew that we were mocked as we died en masse, that we weren't released from the concentration camps after WWII, and that we used to get arrested for anything and everything related to queerness.
Yep IME they often think it's ancient history though, they don't realise how recent it is
I'm only 30 and gay men my parents' age were few and far between when I was a kid. You didn't have old trans people who were open about their life unless they were either sex workers or exceptional enough to be in the public eye. Damn near every lesbian my parents' age was some kind of psychologically broken or she wasn't really involved in the gay community.
The survivors are still around. Anyone who hasn't listened to them should while they're still here because the clock is ticking and hard lives often arent long ones.
Also anyone interested should listen to ths podcast Making Gay Historty which is interviews with influential queer people, many of which were done during the height of aids