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28th Feb 2012✧02:1138,018 notes

"Heterosexual” was actually coined in a letter at the same time as the word “homosexual,” [in the mid-19th century], by an Austro-Hungarian journalist named Károly Mária Kertbeny. He created these words as part of his response to a piece of Prussian legislation that made same-sex erotic behavior illegal, even in cases where the identical act performed by a man and a woman would be considered legal. And he was one of a couple of people who did a lot of writing and campaigning and pamphleteering to try to change legal opinion on that matter. He coined the words “heterosexual” and “homosexual” in a really very clever bid to try to equalize same-sex and different-sex…to suggest that there are these two categories… were not part of a hierarchy, that they were just two different flavors of the same thing."

~   How “heterosexual” got its start – basically, as protest against discriminatory legislature on same-sex love. (via curiositycounts)

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1st Feb 2012✧19:39236 notes
…And in Singapore, the limit does not exist. Although technically Human Rights Day is in December, this is still important - things like these are rights and need awareness
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