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Swedish people in 1979 calling in sick (protesting the classification of homosexuality as an illness) (thelemmy.club)
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[-] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 46 points 1 day ago

Context: as titled, this is an interesting way used by protesters to object towards the classification of homosexuality as an illness. And successfully so, after the protest in August, the classification was removed in October.

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