The high school teacher behind LGBTQ+ History Month

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2:00thought it was important to share his truth. In March of 1994, during a lesson on the Holocaust, I simply mentioned there was a pink triangle. I mentioned that could have been for me potentially. As a gay person, I might have fallen underneath that umbrella of persecution. That was the way in which I came out to my students. Thanks to PBS, upside down pink triangles were sewn into the uniforms of gay concentration camp prisoners to mark them out for harsh treatment like torture. A big old backlash to Rodney's coming out made the national news with calls for his sacking which didn't happen. Despite the immense pressure, it was able to capitalise and all the attention. The upshot being a month each year dedicated to LGBTQ plus history ever since. Pride daily Next, a lifetime ban for the sore loser thug who broke the jaw of a gay opponent after a judo match. A carkey Japparidesay from Georgia was defeated by Germany's Timo Kavilius in Leipzig because

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