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
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maybe not even out, and just felt empowered by it. so here we are at the television centre again 30 years later. clearly things are a lot better than they were in the 1980s, but it has completely changed and there are very dangerous pockets of homophobia has not changed. the fact we are here today means the story has been remembered. the here today means the story has been remembered. been remembered. the lesbian -rotest been remembered. the lesbian protest at the been remembered. the lesbian protest at the bbc. been remembered. the lesbian protest at the bbc. our- been remembered. the lesbian protest at the bbc. our next i protest at the bbc. our next film is about the struggle for safety and acceptance in uganda. in 2009, ugandan mps tried to make acts of homosexuality punishable by imprisonment and even death. homophobia was rife with tabloid papers printing the names and addresses of gay people. many feared for their lives, including the activist victor macarthur. uganda al