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Benjamin Melzer (4)
Benjamin Ryan Melzer is a German model, transgender activist, and blogger. He has modeled in German magazines ''Der Tagesspiegel'', ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,'' ''Der Spiegel'', and ''Focus.'' In April 2016, he became the first transgender man in Europe to appear on the cover of a men's fitness magazine. This was the European edition of ''Men's Health''. Biography Melzer was born and raised in Oer-Erkenschwick, a suburb 40 minutes's commute from Düsseldorf. In 2016, he starred in a modeling shoot for Diesel and About You alongside Dutch model and trans woman Loiza Lamers. The same year, he starred in PETA's "I'd rather go naked than wear fur" campaign alongside Lamers. Gender transition Mezler stated that he knew there was "something special" about himself at 3 years of age, but lacked information to classify this as childhood gender dysphoria. After watching a documentary film about transgender actor Chaz Bono when Melzer was 18, he realized he had been experie ...
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Der Tagesspiegel
(meaning ''The Daily Mirror'') is a German daily newspaper. It has regional correspondent offices in Washington, D.C., and Potsdam. It is the only major newspaper in the capital to have increased its circulation, now 148,000, since reunification. is a liberal newspaper that is classified as centrist media in the context of German politics. History and profile Founded on 27 September 1945 by Erik Reger, Walther Karsch and Edwin Redslob, main office is based in Berlin at Askanischer Platz in the locality of Kreuzberg, about from Potsdamer Platz and the former location of the Berlin Wall. For more than 45 years, was owned by an independent trust. In 1993, in response to an increasingly competitive publishing environment, and to attract investments required for technical modernisation, such as commission of a new printing plant, and improved distribution, it was bought by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Its current publisher is Dieter von Holtzbrinck with ed ...
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Wakeboarding
Wakeboarding is a water sport in which the rider, standing on a wakeboard (a board with foot bindings), is towed behind a motorboat across its wake and especially up off the crest in order to perform aerial maneuvers. A hallmark of wakeboarding is the attempted performance of midair tricks. Wakeboarding was developed from a combination of water skiing, snowboarding and surfing techniques. The rider is usually towed by a rope behind a boat, but can also be towed by cable systems and winches, and be pulled by other motorized vehicles like personal watercraft, cars, trucks, and all-terrain vehicles. The gear and wakeboard boat used are often personalized to each rider's liking. Though natural watercourses such as rivers, lakes and areas of open water are generally used in wakeboarding, it is possible to wakeboard in unconventional locations, such as flooded roads and car parks, using a car as the towing vehicle. Wakeboarding is done for pleasure and competition, ranging from frees ...
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German LGBTQ Models
German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman era) *German diaspora * German language * German cuisine The cuisine of Germany consists of many different local or regional cuisines, reflecting the country's federal history. Germany itself is part of the larger cultural region of Central Europe, sharing many culinary traditions with neighbouring c ..., traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock b ...
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People From Recklinghausen (district)
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ...
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Living People
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1987 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader Mohammad Najibullah says that Afghanistan's 1978 Communist revolution is "not reversible," and that any opposition parties will have to align with Communist goals. * January 4 – ** 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route from Washington, D.C. to Boston collides with Conrail engines at Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people. ** Televangelist Oral Roberts announces to his viewers that unless they donate $8 million to his ministry by March 31, God will "call [him] home." * January 15 – Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, is forced into retirement by political conservatives. * January 16 – León Febres Cordero, president of Ecuador, is kidnapped for 11 hours by followers of imprisoned ...
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Fashion
Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, Fashion accessory, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into Clothing, outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing (Style (visual arts), styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, Self-expression values, self-expression, and group belonging. As a multifaceted term, fashion describes an Clothing industry, industry, fashion design, designs, Aesthetics (textile), aesthetics, and trends. The term 'fashion' originates from the Latin word 'Facere,' which means 'to make,' and describes the manufacturing, mixing, and wearing of outfits adorned with specific cultural aesthetics, patterns, motif (textile arts), motifs, shapes, and cuts, allowing people to showcase their group belongings, values, meanings, beliefs, and ways of life. Given the rise in mass production of Commodity, commodities and clothing at lower prices and global rea ...
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Transgender History
Accounts of transgender people (including non-binary and third gender people) have been uncertainly identified going back to ancient times in cultures worldwide. The modern terms and meanings of ''transgender'', ''gender'', ''gender identity'', and ''gender role'' only emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. As a result, Presentism (historical analysis), opinions vary on how to categorize historical accounts of gender-variant people and identities. The ''galli'' eunuch priests of classical antiquity have been interpreted by some scholars as transgender or third-gender. The trans-feminine ''kathoey'' and ''Hijra (South Asia), hijra'' gender roles have persisted for thousands of years in Thailand and the Indian subcontinent, respectively. In Arabia, ''khanith'' (like earlier ''mukhannathun'') have occupied a third gender role attested since the 7th century CE. Traditional roles for transgender women and transgender men have existed in many African societies, with some persisting to the m ...
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Transgender Rights In Germany
Transgender rights in the Federal Republic of Germany are regulated by the Self-Determination Act (Germany), ''Selbstbestimmungsgesetz'' ("Self-determination law") since 2024, and indirectly affected by other laws like the ("Law of Descent"). The previous law concerning transgender people, the , initially required them to undergo sex-reassignment surgery in order to have key identity documents changed. This has been declared unconstitutional. The Scholz cabinet has since replaced the ''Transsexuellengesetz'' with the ("Self-determination law"), which removed the financial and bureaucratic hurdles necessary for legal gender and name changes. Discrimination protections on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation vary across Germany, but discrimination in employment and the provision of goods and services is in principle banned countrywide. Transsexuals Act In 1980, West Germany passed a law regulating the change of first names and legal gender, the (Law concer ...
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Calvin Klein
Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer. In 1968, he launched the company that later became Calvin Klein. In addition to clothing, he has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewellery. Early life and education Klein was born on November 19, 1942, to a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York the son of Flore (''née'' Stern; 1909–2006) and Leo Klein. His father was born in Boiany, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) and had immigrated to New York. He was born in the United States to immigrants from Galicia and Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). As a child, Klein attended J.H.S. 80 in the Bronx. He earned a diploma at the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan. After graduation, he attended New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, leaving for six months after his first year before returning to finish his degree. Career Klein did his apprenticeship in 1962 at an old line cloak-and-suit manufacturer, Dan Mil ...
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