Underrated tweet, imo.
[image description: a tweet from Hakeem (@_Hakeemo) “Homosexuality was still qualified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they were gay. Attached is an image with the text ”… equality, identified being gay as a disorder as late as 1979. / That year, a group of Swedes took advantage of the legal framework that made being gay an illness and called in sick to work, claiming their homosexuality as the reason. One woman, from the southern province of Smalandeven, managed to get Social Security benefits for calling in gay.”
zee (@redshiftvoid) replied with the modified Sappho quotation “sweet bossman, I cannot come to work – slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl”]
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