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. i m ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness history. i ll bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, we re 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 being gay was punishable by death. how the balkans war inspired a groundbreaking film about trans sex workers. and the fight to use the word 0lympics for the very first gay games. but first to san francisco, and the aids memorial that would make headlines all over the world. activist cleve jones
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 lesbian activists broke through bbc security to stage a protest on live tv. plus, the fight for lgbt rights in uganda where being gay was punishable by death. how the balkans war by the groundbreaking film about france sex workers. and the fight to use the word olympics for the very first gay games. but first, to san francisco, and the aids memorial that would make headlines all over the world. activist cleve jones was living there in the 1980s when a mysterious disease started killing his frien
history: lgbt special. hello. i m ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness history. i ll bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, we re 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 being gay was punishable by death. how the balkans war inspired a groundbreaking film about trans sex workers. and the fight to use the word 0lympics for the very first gay games. but first to san francisco, and the aids memorial that would make headlines all over the world. activist cleve jones was living there in the 19805 when a mysterious disease started killing his friends. the suffering he saw inspired him to create one of the world s biggest ever arts projects. i talked about this ide
my children know me as daddy and they call me daddy. they don t say, hey, trans daddy! hey, former lesbian trans daddy. you know, they call me daddy. it shouldn t matter, but it matters now that i identify as a transgender man because that is the beginning of a conversation about what transgender is. not for me, because i have survived, but the people who are still struggling to come out or to even ask for what they need. so then it matters. victor mukasa and the fight for lgbt rights in uganda. remember, you can watch witness history every month on the bbc news channel, or you can catch up on all our films, along with more than 2,000 radio programmes in our online archive. just search for bbc witness history. now to the 1990s, and how a chance encounter with a trans sex worker inspired the serbian film director zelimir zilnik to make a groundbreaking film.
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. i m ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness history. i ll bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, we re 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 being gay was punishable by death. how the balkans war inspired