Man defends homosexuality long before there was a gay rights movement [Video]

Long before there was a real gay rights movement, a man went on a mission to bring injustices against homosexuals to light.Allen Irvin Bernstein was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1913. He spent his childhood in Salem, Massachusetts, and later lived in Maine for many years. In 1940, Bernstein finished writing a 149-page manuscript titled “Millions of Queers.” He tried to get his manuscript published to no avail.For decades, the manuscript went unnoticed until Drexel University professor Randall Sell came across it while doing some research at the National Library of Medicine in 2010.”It was just this shocking defense of homosexuality that this person was writing in the 1930s, and that really was unheard of,” Sell said.Sell believes Bernstein’s manuscript is one of the earliest defenses of homosexuality to be written in English in the United States.”At least for me, one of the most perplexing things about him is …