Portal:LGBTQ/Did you know/9

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• ... that during action by the UK Gay Liberation Front (GLF) to disrupt a Christian morality campaign in 1971, a GLF "bishop" began an impromptu sermon urging people to "keep on sinning"?

• ... that the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of official mental illnesses in 1973? And that the American Psychological Association followed suit in 1974?

• ... that Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became the world's first openly gay head of state in the modern era on February 1, 2009?

• ... that Men who have sex with men are not currently allowed to donate blood in the United States, Austria, Sweden, Finland, or Denmark?

• ... that in her 1992 documentary film Nitrate Kisses Barbara Hammer filmed an elderly lesbian couple making love as part of an exploration of the repression and marginalization of LGBT history?