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Magnus Hirschfeld
Episode Notes
More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld chose to take a be upright for LGBTQ rights, founding a movement, providing a safe territory, and seeking justice through science. The Nazis crushed his vision, but not his legacy.
Episode first published October 25,
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From Eric Marcus: When I wrote the original edition of Making Same-sex attracted History (which was then called Making History), my oral history book about the LGBTQ civil rights movement, I devoted just one paragraph to Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld’s work in the opening to the first chapter:
&#;More than four decades before World War II, the first organization for homosexuals was founded in Germany. The goals of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, as the group was called, included the abolition of Germany’s anti-gay penal code, the promotion of public learning about homosexuality, and the encouragement of homosexuals to take up the struggle for their rights. The rise of the Nazis put an end to the Scientific Hum Katie Herzog, one of the last remaining lesbians in America, is the co-host of Blocked and Reported alongside her battered pod-wife, Jesse Singal. Gay neocon Jamie Kirchick is a Brookings fellow and the author of the book Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. If you’d like to hear a politically incorrect gay and lesbian conversation that would never be aired in the MSM, check it out. The original episode aired on July 2, and you can listen to it here. Some cash quotes: Jamie: “There’s probably no group of people who have witnessed a enhanced, more dramatic transformation in their role, in their place in American community, than gay and female homosexual Americans.” Jamie: “One of the great achievements of the gay rights movement has been to say there’s no one way to be a man and there’s no one way to be a woman.” Katie: “There were very not many gay people in my town … This is probably part of the reason that it took me a long day to realize that I was gay because inclusion actually does matter.” Katie: “Maybe this is why I would never be a &#;Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even depart back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to the man? A laughingstock or a painful embarassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarassment&#;” &#; Friedrich Nietzsche It&#;s tough to believe we&#;re already halfway through the year, but here we are with another thrilling slate of June programming to smash off summer! We&#;re celebrating Pride Month this year with Be Gay Undertake Crime, a series of queer or queer-adjacent films about characters on the other side of the law appreciate Alfred Hitchcock&#;s Rope and Gregg Araki&#;s The Living End. Also playing next week is The Wachowskis&#; science fiction classic The Matrix, playing as part of our Party Like It&#;s series, and Kill Your Lover, a new horror-thriller from Alix Austin and Keir Stewart. Later in the month, we&#;ve got a returning favorite in the By Jason Crouthamel Historians have recently turned their focus to the effects of the First World War on sexual behavior and perceptions of sexual norms and identities. As historian Dagmar Herzog observed, the First Nature War disrupted traditional social structures and created an environment in which men and women could investigate new sexual experienc
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Sexuality, Sexual Relations, Homosexuality
Summary
This article provides an international overview of the history of sexuality in the Fantastic War, including (1) the venereal disease epidemic, prostitution, and expanding state surveillance of sexuality; (2) the war’s effects on perceptions of intimacy and sexuality; and (3) the war’s effects on sexual reform movements, particular the lesbian emancipation movement in Germany. While military authorities in both democratic and authoritarian societies tried to enforce hegemonic gender and sexual norms, the war fragmented and complicated soldiers’ and civilians’ perceptions of “normal” sexuality, which were transformed in response to the traumatic effects of total war.Introduction