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Willem Arandis was an author and an illustrator.

He was born in 1894 in Holland, and he was a gay man.

After the Nazis invaded Holland in 1940, Willem joined the resistance.

He started an underground newspaper and put his skills as an

illustrator to work, forging identity documents, or Dutch Jews, trying to escape the Gestapo.

But the documents he forged could be checked against the originals, which were kept on file at a

central population registry in Amsterdam.

So Willem, along with 13 other members of the resistance,

three of them gay men, blew the building up.

They destroyed hundreds of thousands of identity records and saved countless lives.

Willem was ultimately betrayed by someone. no one knows who. He was arrested,

and he was executed. Before his execution, Willem told his lawyer that he had a message he wanted

delivered to his fellow Dutch citizens. Tell the people, homosexuals are not cowards.

On Saturday night a man walked into a gay bar in Colorado City with an AR-15 and a handgun.

He shot and killed five people and wounded two dozen others, and he might have killed more people.

But two patrons in that gay bar, according to people who've seen security footage, rushed the shooter.

One grabbed the shooter's handgun and clobbered him with it.

The two patrons then held the shooter down until the police arrived.

Homosexuals are not cowards.

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