Annemarie Grewel
zij/haar1935 – 1998
Annemarie Grewel was an influential Amsterdam thinker, politician, and civic leader who championed the establishment of “gay and lesbian studies” at the University of Amsterdam. With her self-chosen death, she remained an activist until the end.

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Biography
Literature and sources
Annemarie Grewel’. Vrouwenlexicon KNAW Huygens.
1982: verfsmijterij bij talkshow Sonja, Leeuwarder Courant, 13 april 1982.
De zwerftocht van Annemarie Grewel. Jojanneke Claassen, Jochem Brouwer; Annemarie Grewel. In: Ons Amsterdam, 47 (1995) 4 (apr), p. 103-106.
Biografie Annemarie Grewel. Parlement.com