Diversity at WHU

19/06/2020

Happy Juneteenth.
Here are some food for thoughts

07/06/2020

How can we help students understand George Floyd's death in the context of institutionalized racism?

02/06/2020

Happy Pride Month!

01/03/2020

🦋 On Zero Discrimination Day, join us in condemning all forms of discrimination and in supporting inclusion and compassion 🧡

11/11/2019

Come visit us at this year's WHU Diversity Day! We are happy to welcome among others Oliver Wyman Karriere, Google, and Equality Group for a keynote speech, workshops, and wine tasting!

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11/11/2019

Never forget

08/11/2019

Hey LGBTQI 🏳️‍🌈 people, the EU has got your back! Learn more about your rights under EU law here 👉 http://epfacebook.eu/lgbtiq

04/11/2019

A piece of hidden history in the God's waiting room.

The hidden history of a Florida witch hunt. Starting in the 1950s, a Florida state committee spent years stalking, intimidating, and outing hundreds of LGBTQ...

12/10/2019

Happy coming out day!

05/10/2019

This is Karl Gorath. When he was 26, his jealous lover denounced him to the police as a gay man. The N**i regime had strengthened Germany’s existing law against homosexuality, Paragraph 175, to punish men suspected of so-called "unnatural indecency" with other men. After being denounced, Karl was tried and convicted under Paragraph 175 and sent to Neuengamme concentration camp, where he was forced to wear a pink triangle on his prisoner uniform.

His training as a nurse eventually got him transferred to another camp to work in the hospital there; however, when a guard ordered him to decrease the rations for patients who were Polish prisoners of war, Karl refused. He was sent to Auschwitz as punishment, where he remained until liberation in 1945.

After the war, he returned to Germany. His conviction under Paragraph 175 stayed on his record because West Germany continued to uphold the N**i version of the law. Karl was arrested under Paragraph 175 a second time in the 1950s. At his trial, the judge sentencing him to prison for homosexuality was the same judge who had sent him to a concentration camp for the same reason decades earlier. From 1945 until Paragraph 175 was amended in 1969, West Germany imprisoned about 100,000 men under this law. The German government did not fully repeal Paragraph 175 until 1994.

Karl made several attempts to claim reparations after the war, as many survivors of N**i persecution did. He was denied. According to officials, he was not eligible because his camp records showed that he was a Paragraph 175 prisoner. He became one of the first gay survivors of N**i persecution to publicly tell his story. He died in 2003, after many years of sharing his experiences and drawing attention to the plight of Paragraph 175 prisoners.

23/09/2019

Happy Bisexuality Day! On Sep.23rd we recognize and celebrate the uniqueness of bisexuality. Bisexuality Day was for the first time officially observed in 1999 at the International Le***an and Gay Association Conference in Johannesburg South Africa. On this day, we cheer for bisexuality history, bisexuality community and all the bisexual people! Props to every bisexual individual out there :D