• RNAi [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    I wish they had lead the LGBTQ+ movement, that would have been cool.

    • snackage [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      In the late 80s there was a program starting in East Germany for free transition therapies. East Germany decriminalized homosexualit a decade turns out it was a couple of years before West Germany. There was an official Party approved gay club in East Berlin.

      • RNAi [he/him]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        Ah! I deff need to learn more about east germany

        • snackage [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_German_Democratic_Republic

    • Anna_KOC [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      We did that too, the first openly gay cabinet level official in Europe served under Lenin and Stalin as Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Gregory Chicherin officially represented the USSR abroad throughout the 1920s conducting high level negotiations.