1. Gert Hekma taught gay and lesbian studies at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences of the University of Amsterdam from 1984 to 2017.
12 Facts About Gert Hekma
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Gert Hekma was one of the organizers of the June 1983 social-scientific congress "Among Women, Among Men".
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In 1987, Gert Hekma received his PhD in Historical anthropology from Utrecht University.
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Gert Hekma's research is part of an academic counterculture, and some of his statements, in particular about pedophilia and about sadomasochism, have caused conflicts between him and some of his colleagues and the university board, and resulted in threats directed at Gert Hekma.
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Gert Hekma has served as editor or editorial board member of many periodicals.
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Gert Hekma has co-organized several conferences, and has studied the life and works of Jacob Israel de Haan, Louis Couperus, and Gerard Reve.
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Gert Hekma has taught students at Queens College and at the City College of San Francisco.
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Gert Hekma is the son of a notary and grew up in Bedum, the Netherlands.
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Gert Hekma was a book collector, and had a fetish for satin.
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In 2014, Gert Hekma co-created a petition addressed to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, pleading with the Dutch Supreme Court to not ban pro-pedophilia association Vereniging MARTIJN.
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Gert Hekma was interviewed for John Scagliotti's documentary film Before Homosexuals.
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Gert Hekma has published widely on the LGBT history in the Netherlands and Europe, both as a sole author and as a contributing editor.