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attacks targeting schoolgirls and in the past few weeks hundreds of girls have been hospitalised and aid agencies say they may have been singled out by religious groups. this is bbc news. now on bbc news — witness history. hello. im ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness history. ill bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, were focusing on lgbt history, stories about l...

this is bbc news. the headlines... a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in bangladesh. the blaze in coxs bazar district has been brought under control. more than 2,000 shelters had been gutted, affecting around 12,000 people. no casualties have been reported so far. after more than a decade of negotiations, un member states have agreed to establish an international treaty to protect the high seas. environmental groups say it will help reverse marine biodiver...

engulfed houses in the plumpang district of jakarta. now on bbc news, witness history. hello. i am hello. iam ben hello. i am ben boulos. hello. iam ben boulos. thank you forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this addition of witness history. i will bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, we are focusing on lgbt history, stories about lesbian, gay and trans people from all over the world. coming up, we hear how ...

history: lgbt special. hello. im ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness history. ill bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, were focusing on lgbt history, stories about lesbian, gay and trans people from all over the world. coming up: we hear how lesbian activists broke through bbc security to stage a protest on live tv. plus, the fight for lgbt rights in uganda where b...

Tom medel was the founder of the gay games, an athlete in the 1968 mexico olympic games. a lot of the men and women in the olympics at the time were in the closet, they did not want to come out. if they did, they got harassed in the locker rooms what tom wanted was for everyone to be part of the games and at the time i was a bigwig in womens softball. when i met tom, it was a kindred feeling, its like love at first sight the way it is supposed to be. he had the same feminist values that i had, h...

When we marched in, we had all of these people on both sides of the stadium clapping for us, we all cried, we all cried. may i welcome you, athletes and spectators from all over the world, to the first gay games? tom was the founder of the gay games, an athlete in the 1968 mexico olympic games. a lot of the men and women in the olympics at the time were in the closet, they did not want to come out. if they did, they got harassed in the locker rooms and what tom wanted was for everyone to be part...

We had about 1360 athletes. it took away the stereotypes and made them athletes. tom was a wonderful human being, which is why i asked him to have a child with me, i wanted to have a child. we worked on getting pregnant right away and i got pregnant right away. when i look at my daughter, she will be 38, she happened because of the gay games! the amazing family behind the first gay games. and thats all for this edition of witness history, here in the queer museum in britain, london.

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Harassed in the locker rooms and what tom wanted was for everyone to be part of the games and at the time i was a bigwig in womens softball. when i met tom, it was a kindred feeling, its like love at first sight the way it is supposed to be. he had the same feminist values that i had, he didnt ask for my help, he said i needed my help. we didnt have very much money, so we hustled. we were trying to do as many fundraisers and raises much money as possible to put on the sports, to get the medals, ...