Baltimore Outloud-October 18, 2013
AN INDEPENDENT VOICE FOR THE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER COMMUNITIES OUT October 18, 2013 | Volume XI, Issue 11 Danish gay LGBT History Month pioneer Axel Axgil With so many things going on in October – Past, present gay rights organiza- Breast Cancer Awareness, Hispanic Heri- tion. After Denmark tage Month, National Coming Out Day – it and future became the first only seems feting that it should also be nation to legalize LGBT History Month. same-sex domestic partnerships, he and As far back as man or woman can re- his partner, Eigil Eskildsen, were the first member there has been an LGBT person couple to register. Born Axel Lundahl-Mad- making strides for the community. Doc- sen, he came out in the 1940s after meet- tors, lawyers, activists, and the list goes ing Eigil. The two men would later adopt on. Very proud people, some not as well the surname “Axgil” – a combination of known as others because of the times they Eigil and Axel – to acknowledge their com- lived in, but it seems that in the present mitment to one another. Inspired in 1948 day we are finding out more and more by the United Nations’ adoption of the about the history of the LGBT community. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Let’s take a walk back in time and see Axgil cofounded Forbundet af 48 (F-48), just who some of these people are: Europe’s first gay rights organization. Axel Axgil was a Danish gay activist The couple also founded Vennen (“The and cofounder of Europe’s first postwar —continued on page 5 Sitcom is a Welcome Change for Justina Machado BY GRE GG S HA PIRO to portray her? mom so that she could go to work.
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