Eveline Luberta "Evelien" Eshuis (born 25 November 1942) is a Dutch politician who was a member of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands from 1982 to 1986. She was the first openly lesbian member of the Dutch Parliament.
Eveline Luberta "Evelien" Eshuis (born 25 November 1942) is a Dutch politician who was a member of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands from 1982 to 1986. She was the first openly lesbian member of the Dutch Parliament.
Eshuis was born on 25 November 1942 in Amersfoort, Netherlands. She worked in Ghana for a year in 1968. [1] From 1972 to 1975, she taught at a social academy in Amsterdam, and she worked at a community center from 1975 to 1982. [2] Eshuis joined the Communist Party of the Netherlands in 1974 and was elected to the House of Representatives in 1982. [2] She came out as lesbian that same year, becoming the first openly lesbian member of Parliament in the Netherlands. [3] Eshuis is described in Trouw as one of the most well-known LGBT politicians in the Netherlands. [4] In Parliament, she regularly wore a pink triangle pin as a symbol of lesbian pride. Eshuis initiated a 1983 inquiry into the shipbuilding company Rijn-Schelde-Verolme after its bankruptcy. After serving one term in the House of Representatives from 1982 to 1986, she became the secretary of the district council of De Pijp. [2] From 1993 to 2002, she was Amstelveen's director of environment and recreation, and has since worked as a consultant. [1] She is a member of the board of Opzij , a feminist magazine. [2]
Boris Ottokar Dittrich is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66), jurist, author and human rights activist. He has been a member of the Senate since 11 June 2019.
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Joke Swiebel is a Dutch political scientist, and a former policy maker, politician and activist. Since the 1960s, she has been involved with the feminist and LGBT movements. She served as first chair of the Federation of Student Working Groups on Homosexuality and on the board of the COC Nederland while a student. In the former capacity, she was one of the organizers of the first LGB demonstration in the Netherlands — and probably all of Europe — which was held on 21 January 1969. It was a protest against a discriminatory provision in the Criminal Code, introduced in 1911, that set a significantly higher age of consent for homosexual than for heterosexual contact.After earning her master's degree in 1972 from the University of Amsterdam, she led the political science library at that institution until 1977. She was involved in the creation of the women's studies program at the university and worked to coordinate between activist groups to ensure that neither gender or sexual orientation were the basis for discriminatory policies.
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