Magnus Hirschfeld himself or his sexuality institute, which he founded in 1919. The rise of the Nazis put an end to the Scientific Humanitarian Committee and the homosexual rights movement in Germany.”Īnd that was it. The goals of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, as the organization was called, included the abolition of Germany’s anti-gay penal code, the promotion of public education about homosexuality, and the encouragement of homosexuals to take up the struggle for their rights. “More than four decades before World War II, the first organization for homosexuals was founded in Germany. Magnus Hirschfeld’s work in the opening to the first chapter:
Episode Notesįrom Eric Marcus : When I wrote the original 1992 edition of Making Gay History (which was then called Making History ), my oral history book about the LGBTQ civil rights movement, I devoted just one paragraph to Dr. Credit: Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft e.V., Berlin.
