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LGBT History Suriname
Execution & Extinction must cease
Existence & Expression will thrive
A unjust common History Exposed
Photos from Stand With Us’s post
A small fact is that around that time (1731) in a population of about 1230 (white) citizens the ring of ‘suspected’ homosexuals in this case alone amounted to 11 total, which is approx. 1%. Imagine nowadays that all at once 1% of Surinamese citizens were to be arrested for homosexuality. This would amount to about 5500 simultaneous arrests. Imagine the impact of this case and its arrests on social life back then.
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