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
this is bbc news. the headlines. a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in bangladesh. the blaze in cox s 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 biodiversity losses. military spending in china will increase by more than 7% this year. at the opening of congress, the premier, li keqiang, called for more soldiers to be trained under combat conditions. and prince harry describes writing his memoir as an act of service in the hope that sharing details will help others. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for witness history: lgbt special. hello. i m ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness
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
go back and dress up appropriately. and then i put on that yellow dress and i coiled inside, i felt like i was different now, i wasn t proud anymore, i wasn t happy anymore. i fought against my sexual orientation for so many years. i was on my own because my family didn t want anything to do with me at that point and, eventually, i was homeless. so i felt that i needed to hear from this thing that is causing me suffering, and so i took myself to churches. reject sodomy! reject perversion! they were praying for me. and then as they re praying, i started taking stripping me off. it was my clothes making me a man, so they stripped me naked. and they started to lay their hands on me, and these are boys and their pastor, they laid hands in particular on my genital area because they
i transgressed gender unintentionally from the time i started being aware of my existence. they bought me a very nice yellow dress and i went and changed, i put football shorts i felt more comfortable that way. and then, when i came out, my father was in the hallway and he gave me a slap and said, go back and dress up appropriately. and then i put on that yellow dress and i coiled inside, i felt like i was different now, i wasn t proud anymore, i wasn t happy anymore. i fought against my sexual orientation for so many years. i was on my own because my family didn t want anything to do with me at that point and, eventually, i was homeless. so i felt that i needed to hear from this thing that is causing me suffering, and so i took myself to churches. reject sodomy! reject perversion!