It was in the 4th century immediately after the Roman Empire became a de facto Christian state that the first anti-homosexual laws appeared. Thereafter, for the next 1500 years, the criminalisati...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/29-august-1867-the-first-gay-rights-activist-speaks-out/
On this day in 1976, power was seized in a coup d’etat by a military junta that would rule Argentina between 1976 and 1983. Throughout those seven grueling years, Argentines endured a repressiv...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/24th-march-1976-argentinas-dirty-war/
Despite the best efforts of fundamentalists of all kinds to have it otherwise, most of us are products of a generally secular society. This makes it almost impossible for us to conceive of a time...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/31st-october-1517-martin-luther-posts-the-ninety-five-theses/
On this day in 1949, following twenty years of bitter and bloody civil war, Mao Zedong stood victorious at Beijing’s Gate of Heavenly Peace and solemnly proclaimed the founding of the People’...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/1st-october-1949-mao-zedong-declares-the-peoples-republic-of-china/
“…first lady of the skies, she had no guy holding her down, no one could clip her wings, she was no bird in the hand, she is no living thing now…” from the poem ‘Amelia Earhart’ by...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/2nd-july-1937-amelia-earhart-disappears/
An entry on the brutal suppression of the Prague Spring will appear here shortly.
http://www.onthisdeity.com/20th-august-1968-%E2%80%93-the-end-of-the-prague-spring/
“…Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and ...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/11th-july-1960%C2%A0%E2%80%93-harper-lee-publishes-to-kill-a-mockingbird/
Today in 1815 near a small town in Belgium, an Anglo-Allied army defeated Napoleon’s imperial army in a twelve-hour battle that even the victorious Duke of Wellington described as a ‘damn nea...
“Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech,” states the First Amendment to the US Constitution. Except when it suits Congress. And ninety-nine years ago today, President Wo...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/16th-may-1918-%E2%80%93-the-sedition-act/
“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother” – Margaret Sanger The most revolutionary and liberating act for women is surely ...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/9th-may-1960%E2%80%93the-pill-is-approved/