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Today marks the start of LGBT+ History month in the UK.\u00a0 This is a special time of the year when people of the LGBT+ community can shine and celebrate and pay respect to the developments in equality for people who identify as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and so much more!<\/p>\n
Over the next 28 days we will be posting a different article on 28 different LGBT+ individuals who have made great contributions in the fight for equality.<\/p>\n
Today we shine a light on Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: The first openly gay person to publicly speak out for homosexual rights.<\/p>\n
Ulrichs was a German lawyer and writer who would become known as one of the first people to seek LGBT+ rights.\u00a0 Ulrichs believed that same sex attraction was natural and sought to decriminalise homosexuality in Germany.<\/p>\n
Born in 1825, Ulrichs coined many terms for LGBT+ people long before \u2018homosexuality\u2019 was a word, including \u2018urning\u2019 for gay males and \u2018urningin\u2019 for lesbians.\u00a0 At the time, the only word for gay men was the derogatory \u2018sodomite\u2019.\u00a0 It was a few years later that the term \u2018homosexual\u2019 came into existence when fellow human rights campaigner Karl-Maria Kertbeny corresponded with him.<\/p>\n
As the years progressed, he would publicly speak out against anti-homosexual law in print, producing a body of work on theories around sexuality, and in person.\u00a0 In 1867 he would stand before a grand, heckling audience of lawyers in Germany to decriminalise homosexuality.\u00a0 Sadly, he was jeered off stage by his former peers and would spend the rest of his life fighting for gay liberation until his death in 1895.<\/p>\n
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To this day, Ulrichs\u2019 legacy lives on.\u00a0 In 2013, after much lobbying, part of Einem street in Berlin, Germany was named in his honour.\u00a0 Einem street itself was named after Karl von Einem, a war minister who demanded homosexual persecution and later supported the Nazis.\u00a0 Poetic justice don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n
125 years later and the world continues with his legacy.\u00a0 Millions of LGBT+ individuals, groups and ally\u2019s campaign for the rights of the community to ensure they are protected and valued in society.<\/p>\n
While the UK is fortunate to have a more progressive attitude towards the community, there are still 72 countries where LGBT+ activity can result in various criminal convictions, 6 of which include the death penalty.<\/p>\n
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What can you do to support and champion the rights LGBTQ+ people?<\/strong><\/p>\n Come back tomorrow and check out our next instalment of the 28 days of #Queeroes.<\/p>\n For more information check out:<\/p>\n Today marks the start of LGBT+ History month in the UK.\u00a0 This is a special time of the year when people of the LGBT+ community can shine and celebrate and pay respect to the developments in equality for people who...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,19],"tags":[40,51,46,45,39,47,70,38,35,34,36,37,50,42,48,43,30,44,52,11,41,49],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-28-days-of-queeros-queer-heros","category-lgbt-history","tag-bisexual","tag-body","tag-diversity","tag-equality","tag-gay","tag-inclusion","tag-karl-heinrich-ulrichs","tag-lesbian","tag-lgbtplushistorymonth","tag-lgbtpoc","tag-lgbtq","tag-lgbtqia","tag-mind","tag-nonbinary","tag-pride","tag-queer","tag-queeroes","tag-questioning","tag-spirit","tag-trans","tag-transgender","tag-wellbeing"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd4Pwk-4j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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