Henry was born Heinrich Joseph Dittmar on June 29th 1892 in the city of Passau in Bavaria. He later changed his name to “Henry Gerber”. “Henry Gerber and the Society for Human Rights”
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Barbara Gittings – Activist for Equality
Barbara Gittings was born in 1932 in Vienna, Austria. Barbara and her siblings attended Catholic schools in Montreal. She was so immersed in Catholicism at “Barbara Gittings – Activist for Equality”
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was born in the East Frisian village Westerfeld, incorporated today within Aurich, which at the time was in the Kingdom of Hanover on “Karl Heinrich Ulrichs”
Eudy Simelane
Trigger Warning: This story includes references to sexual assault and violent crime. Eudy Simelane was born on 11th March 1977, in Kwa-Thema, a township in “Eudy Simelane”
Feminist and Poet Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde was born in New York City on 18th February, 1934. As the youngest of three children born to immigrant parents from the West “Feminist and Poet Audre Lorde”
A Brief History of Modern Ballroom Culture
Modern ballroom culture, or ball culture emerged in the 1920s in and around New York City. In the beginning, performers consisted mainly of white men “A Brief History of Modern Ballroom Culture”
Lili Elbe – The Danish Girl
Lili Elbe, also known as Lili Ilse Elvenes is generally believed to have been born in 1882, in Vejle, Denmark. Some of our audience may “Lili Elbe – The Danish Girl”
Conversion Therapy – Boy Erased
Garrard spent years saying the same prayer “Lord, make me pure”. He grew up in a small town of 100 people in Arkansas, the only “Conversion Therapy – Boy Erased”
Terrence Higgins Trust
Terrence Higgins was one of the first people in the UK to die of an AIDS-related illness. He died aged 37, on 4th July 1982 “Terrence Higgins Trust”
Gilbert Baker – Creator of the Pride Flag
Gilbert Baker was born on 2nd June 1951, in Chanute, Kansas. He grew up in Parsons, Kansas, where his grandmother owned a women’s clothing store. “Gilbert Baker – Creator of the Pride Flag”