Let's gather historic list of governments that targeted gays for exclusion

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Tue Jun-06-06 03:54 PM
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Let's gather historic list of governments that targeted gays for exclusion

Nazi Germany.

Iran.

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DBoon

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Tue Jun-06-06 04:07 PM
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1. Czarist Russia

Supposedly pressured Tchaikovsky to commit suicide, rather than having to execute him as was the law at the time

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AndyTiedye

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Tue Jun-06-06 05:44 PM
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2. The UK. Check Out The Story of Alan Turing

Never mind that Alan Turing broke the Nazis codes
so that the Allies were one step ahead of them
throughout most of the war... Once they found out
he was gay, he was prosecuted and driven to suicide. :grr:

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DBoon

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Tue Jun-06-06 05:46 PM
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3. Computer Science was started by a *homosexual*

interesting

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OneBlueSky

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Tue Jun-06-06 11:18 PM
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4. The Vatican . . . n/t

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