Roger Casement
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Queer Irish hero ROGER CASEMENT is honored with a plaque on the Rainbow Honor Walk in SF’s Castro
Hollywood may have its legendary Walk of Fame, but for Queerguru the Rainbow Honor Walk in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood is far more important. Now spanning several blocks, it houses bronze sidewalk plaques that honor Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer individuals who have made a significant difference to society in California, the United States and…
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Roger Casement : a gay Irish martyr or victim of a British forgery?
Sir Roger Casement, CMG, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist between 1911 and 1916, but was executed for treason during World War I. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations”, he was honored in…
