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Bisexual goddess and anti-Nazi fighter Josephine Baker given one of France's highest honours
Dec 2, 2021
Emily Chudy
Josephine Baker to be the first Black woman to enter the Pantheon (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
French-American cabaret star and civil rights activist Josephine Baker has become the first Black woman to enter the Panthéon, nearly 50 years after her death.
The bisexual icon is the sixth woman to be honoured in the mausoleum of revered historical figures in Paris, and one of only three Black people, with author Alexandre Dumas and colonial administrator Félix Éboué also laid to rest in the temple.
The move to enter Baker into the Panthéon, considered one of France’s highest honours, was made after years of campaigning by her family.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/02/josephine-baker-france-pantheon-bisexual/
