New portrait of activist, politician and writer Boris Dittrich
You may know Boris Dittrich as a human rights activist, but are you familiar with the thrillers he wrote?
Dittrich is best known as an openly gay D66 politician and thus the predecessor of the now so successful Rob Jetten, but Boris suppressed his feelings for a long time. He grew up in Oog in Al, Utrecht, and struggled with his homosexuality there.
Evert van der Veen has created a personal portrait with special attention to his childhood in Utrecht and his fight for equal rights.
Also listen to the podcast (in Dutch) in which he returns to his childhood home in Utrecht after forty years and talks about his youth: "Children should be accepted as they want to be, but that wasn't how it was back then."
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