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Gay rights is not this "Western" singularity passed from Sappho straight through Christendom to the tolerant people of contemporary Alabama.
Reminder that 70 years ago England was so homophobic they were imprisoning and torturing their best artists and scientists over it.
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Recent progress such as it is is the product of decades of difficult and often dangerous toil on the part of activists.
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And it was only 14 years ago that non-"heterosexual" sex was federally decriminalized in the US.
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And Louisana came late to it because of their weird Code Napoleon system and I think Michigan sneaked an anti sodomy bill last year.
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We fucking killed some of the greatest mind of the last 100 years. What could have happened if Turing was allowed a long happy life
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rip alan turing
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True, why not recognize that progress and be proud of it instead of pretending things r the same everywhere?
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why not read instead of read into it?
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As I understand it, the elite had been more tolerant pre-WW2, but lost too much power post-war.
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Also, the recent widespread improvements got started during the most dramatic increase in wealth in history. Makes things easier.
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