The 56-year-old historian still recalls his run-ins with "suspicious" real estate agents in Switzerland, where police in some places were still keeping registers of homosexuals.
The country decriminalised homosexuality in 1942, but numerous local and regional police forces continued to keep "gay registers", some into the early 1990s. "If a homosexual applied to rent an apartment, he would not get it. If a homosexual wanted a job in the public sector, he would not get it." Delessert said he had also found testimony from a commissioner mentioning that around 200 homosexuals were registered in Zurich each year.Zurich's official records division told AFP that these registers had been kept for internal police use, and had been destroyed.
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