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The high school teacher behind LGBTQ+ History Month · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: elections looking kinda queer. First though, LGBTQ plus history month
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  Speaker 2: kicks off today in Australia, Canada and the US. This
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  Speaker 2: has been a thing for more than 30 years and
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  Speaker 2: it's all because of a gay high school teacher in
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  Speaker 2: Missouri in America. Rodney Wilson didn't feel his history students
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  Speaker 2: at Melville High were getting the full story.
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  Speaker 3: My textbook didn't have anything about LGBTQ people or LGBTQ history.
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  Speaker 2: When it came to teaching those kids about Nazi atrocities
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  Speaker 2: in World War II... Rodney thought it was important to
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  Speaker 2: share his truth.
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  Speaker 3: In March of 1994, during a lesson on the Holocaust,
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  Speaker 3: I simply mentioned there was a pink triangle. I mentioned
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  Speaker 3: that could have been for me, potentially. As a gay person,
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  Speaker 3: I might have fallen underneath that umbrella of persecution. So
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  Speaker 3: that was the way in which I came out to
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  Speaker 3: my students.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to PBS, upside-down pink triangles were sewn into the
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  Speaker 2: uniforms of gay concentration camp prisoners... to mark them out
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  Speaker 2: for harsh treatment like torture. A big old backlash to
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  Speaker 2: Rodney's coming out made the national news, with calls for
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  Speaker 2: his sacking, which didn't happen. Despite the immense pressure, he
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  Speaker 2: was able to capitalise on all the attention, the upshot
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  Speaker 2: being a month each year dedicated to LGBTQ plus history
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  Speaker 2: ever since. Pride Daily. Next, a lifetime ban for the
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  Speaker 2: sore loser thug who broke the jaw of a gay
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  Speaker 2: opponent after a judo match. Akaki Japaridze from Georgia was
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  Speaker 2: defeated by Germany's Timo Kavilias in Leipzig because he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: good enough and tried to justify the attack with claims
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  Speaker 2: he was defending his honour. The German Judo Bundesliga says
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  Speaker 2: he's kicked to the curb forever and is also facing
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  Speaker 2: other sporting and legal repercussions. Timo, who's an Olympian, can't
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  Speaker 2: fight again for two and a half months, so he'll
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  Speaker 2: miss the upcoming World Championships. And Brazil's general elections on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: with 529 out queer candidates running. That's about two-thirds up
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  Speaker 2: on the previous vote in 2022, and includes 109 transgender
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  Speaker 2: or travesti hopefuls. Travesti sort of translates as transvestite, but
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  Speaker 2: it's more nuanced than that. bisexual candidates making up most
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  Speaker 2: of the LGBTQ plus contingent on 176. We're also on
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