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Tag: Gay Rights

Can you save Superman? Queer blood could

September 23, 2020January 7, 2021 Public History Student 6 Comments

Art by Jordan Eagles used in the online exhibition Can you save Superman? for the Leslie-Lohman museum In 1981 several, previously healthy gay men got seriously ill from pneumonia or cancer in Los Angeles, New York and California. At the end of the year 270 men suffered from (auto-)immune disease. 121 men died. Some people […]

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Anti-labeling-campaign gone bad

September 13, 2017September 13, 2017 Public History Student 90 Comments

‘Oh my god, are they really kissing?!’ my roommate was pointing at her phone whilst excitingly dangling the image in front of my eyes. I recognized two famous Dutch vloggers, Monica Geuze and Anna Nooshin, who were intimately posing on the cover of the magazine LINDA.meiden (a magazine for teenage girls). Only a few minutes […]

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Raise your Fist!

December 6, 2015January 27, 2016 Public History Student 9 Comments

Wooden Torso. Location: Club Church. Photo courtesy: Kevin Schram. Just a wooden torso you would think. Just carved wood, like any other sculpture bought in Bali in Indonesia, while riding on a scooter across the island, made of local wood. Yes, just that. But the object’s journey makes it just a little more than that. Jan, a […]

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“My Phone Helped Me With Everything”

December 2, 2015January 27, 2016 StudentAdmin 11 Comments

By Circe de Bruin, Lucia Hoenselaars and Machiel Spruijt   This phone played a crucial part in the journeys of Omar Abdulghani (20), a Syrian gay refugee. Omar fled Syria in April 2015, and came to the Netherlands through Turkey and Greece. The internet allowed Omar to discover his own sexuality in a society where […]

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