One of the chief German activists was scientist Magnus Hirschfeld, who fought for equal rights for the community and ran a ...

In 1933, Nazi vigilantes ransacked and looted the Berlin library of Magnus Hirschfeld, a pioneering German scholar of sexuality who coined the term “Transvestit” (“transvestite”).

As Trans Awareness Week begins (13-19 November), culminating in Trans Day of Remembrance (20 November), it’s as good a time as any to remind the world that trans people have always been here. Writer, ...

I take an entire chapter to share the history of the book burnings and the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute of Sexology, and that felt really good to get to talk about. So much of the conversation ...

Dr. Ruth’s tutor was Helen Singer Kaplan. One of the most famous sex therapists was Magnus Hirschfeld, who pioneered work among LGBTQ Jews in Nazi Germany. The Nazis forced Hirschfeld to flee to ...

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Magnus Hirschfeld is considered a co-founder of the world's first homosexual movement. More than a hundred years ago, the Jewish doctor and sex researcher was already campaigning for the rights of ...

Twenty one limited-edition prints of acclaimed caricature artist Al Hirschfeld are being auctioned online to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Al Hirschfeld Foundation.

Whilst attempts to decenter art history have frequently focused on bringing to the fore marginal movements or places, an equally useful approach is reassessing those practices symbolically located in ...