And even if he was from the US, the overwhelming majority of people there know nothing about it. It’s certainly not taught in schools.
Most people these days, I imagine anyway, only find out about it either on the internet or from LGBT circles, and if it never comes up, how do you seek info on something you don’t even know about?
Yeah, definitely, he is an idiot. But Stonewall often doesn’t even get taught in the US and i imagine much less in other countries.
I mean I grew up in Germany. And I only learnt about ‘my’ gay history because I was interested in it. No mention of it during my time in school.
You know, WW2 is basically everywhere in the curriculum for us, but never once was mentioned that the books they burned before that were in big parts about sexuality & gender researched in Berlin by Magnus Hirschfeld. Berlin was quite liberal (no surprise now, but historically it was monumental) in that regard, but so was Bavaria (thanks to french influence). [For our American readers: our Bavaria is similar to your Texas in mentality and association with the whole country as a whole. ] Or that when the concentration camps were ‘freed’ that they did not free the ‘unnatural’ marked by the pink triangles. And then the gay history splits between east and west and for quite some time the east is actually ahead in terms of equality. And that with the reunification some young couples unknowingly broke the law, as age of consent differed between east and west.
Hell, the only time ‘the gays’ were mentioned in school was during an STI workshop where prevention and healthy relationships was not part of it, but that we should still treat infected people with basic decency. That was around 2010.
Tbf, maybe Stonewall isn’t Richards history, as he may not be from the US
That’s a good point
And even if he was from the US, the overwhelming majority of people there know nothing about it. It’s certainly not taught in schools.
Most people these days, I imagine anyway, only find out about it either on the internet or from LGBT circles, and if it never comes up, how do you seek info on something you don’t even know about?
That still wouldn’t excuse him from accusing others of lying.
Yeah, definitely, he is an idiot. But Stonewall often doesn’t even get taught in the US and i imagine much less in other countries.
I mean I grew up in Germany. And I only learnt about ‘my’ gay history because I was interested in it. No mention of it during my time in school.
You know, WW2 is basically everywhere in the curriculum for us, but never once was mentioned that the books they burned before that were in big parts about sexuality & gender researched in Berlin by Magnus Hirschfeld. Berlin was quite liberal (no surprise now, but historically it was monumental) in that regard, but so was Bavaria (thanks to french influence). [For our American readers: our Bavaria is similar to your Texas in mentality and association with the whole country as a whole. ] Or that when the concentration camps were ‘freed’ that they did not free the ‘unnatural’ marked by the pink triangles. And then the gay history splits between east and west and for quite some time the east is actually ahead in terms of equality. And that with the reunification some young couples unknowingly broke the law, as age of consent differed between east and west.
Hell, the only time ‘the gays’ were mentioned in school was during an STI workshop where prevention and healthy relationships was not part of it, but that we should still treat infected people with basic decency. That was around 2010.