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Showing posts with label Jewish heritage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish heritage. Show all posts
Monday, 27 January 2020

Out of Her Tree: Echoes Into the Past

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Most of the focus in the lgbt community on Holocaust Memorial Day has often been towards the thousands of gay men imprisoned and killed b...
Saturday, 21 April 2018

Around the World in Another 80 Gays : Part 13) From the Ghetto to Hollywood

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Previously : 23) The Harper Road Woman (c.60 AD) may have been a witness to the destruction of Roman London by Boudicca, whose name, acc...
Friday, 27 January 2017

Extraordinary Lives : A Gay Pimpernel

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On this Holocaust Memorial Day I want to bring you the story of another Holocaust hero. He was a great-grandson of the Chief Rabbi of En...
Tuesday, 26 April 2016

A Feast of Firsts for Passover

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We’re coming to the end of the Jewish festival of Passover right now, so today we look at lgbt Jewish culture. Perhaps more than any other...
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Thursday, 26 November 2015

History Month Launch

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Tonight sees the official launch of the UK’s LGBT History Month 2016. It takes place in the hallowed surroundings of Queen’s College, Ca...
Sunday, 20 September 2015

Out Of Their Trees : Colombian Genes

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Today I’m looking at the ancestry of a member of the lgbt community from the Hispanic world as part of my celebration of Hispanic Heritage...
Sunday, 31 May 2015

City Pride : Tel Aviv and the Aguda

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The Aguda is Israel’s first lgbt organisation and in 9 days time will begin celebrating its 40 th anniversary with a 3-day conference i...
Monday, 25 May 2015

Simeon's Dignity Restored

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Regular readers will know that I’m a fan of Pre-Raphaelite art and have a special interest in the work of Simeon Solomon, a gay Jewish a...