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Niek Engelschman
hij/hem1913 – 1988
In 1946, World War II resistance fighter Niek Engelschman founded the COC, the world’s oldest still-operating organization for the rainbow community. He sought to unify the community and promote a dialogue in society about sexual diversity.
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