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Oct. 11th, 2009 11:35 amIt is national coming out day. You all know I am gay, y/y?
There is a march in Bloomington today, in solidarity with March for Equality in Washington that is also today. I am not going, because I feel like crap and it is really freaking cold out.
So, have a fun fact about coming out instead: The first person to come out in public was Karl Ulrichs, who outed himself in front of the Congress of German Jurists*, the day after his 42nd birthday, August 29th, 1867. His speech was about the need for homosexual rights, though he was not able to complete his speech as half the chamber wanted him to STFU and the other half was urging him to continue. The moderator asked him to complete his speech in Latin, which Ulrichs was fluent in, but he stopped anyway.
Karl Ulrichs is still considered the father of the GLBT rights movement. And, you know, actually worked hard to include women and transgendered people in his campaign.
*From my understanding, the Congress is/was convention for those in the legal professions. So in attendance would have been judges, lawyers, legal scholars, and law professors.
There is a march in Bloomington today, in solidarity with March for Equality in Washington that is also today. I am not going, because I feel like crap and it is really freaking cold out.
So, have a fun fact about coming out instead: The first person to come out in public was Karl Ulrichs, who outed himself in front of the Congress of German Jurists*, the day after his 42nd birthday, August 29th, 1867. His speech was about the need for homosexual rights, though he was not able to complete his speech as half the chamber wanted him to STFU and the other half was urging him to continue. The moderator asked him to complete his speech in Latin, which Ulrichs was fluent in, but he stopped anyway.
Karl Ulrichs is still considered the father of the GLBT rights movement. And, you know, actually worked hard to include women and transgendered people in his campaign.
*From my understanding, the Congress is/was convention for those in the legal professions. So in attendance would have been judges, lawyers, legal scholars, and law professors.
