While Oscar Wilde was being tormented in Reading Gaol, Hirschfeld launched the world’s first gay rights organisation in Berlin Human rights campaigner; director, Peter Tatchell Foundation Human rights ...

The season premiere of Transparent starts out at one might expect for the series, with all members of the Pfefferman clan going at each other and their loved ones in a very public place. Whether it’s ...

J.K. Rowling, well known for her anti-transgender stances, recently questioned a social media post that said Germany’s Nazi regime burned books on trans health care, suggesting it might be a “fever ...

This vital biography from journalist Brook (The Accident of Color) shines a light on forward-thinking German physician Magnus Hirschfeld, who was born in 1868. As a gay Jewish boy in Kolberg, Prussia, ...

Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the eminent German Jewish authority on sexual problems and pioneer advocate of sexual reform, died late last night in Nice, France, at the age of 67. Dr. Hirschfeld had been ...

More than just spiritual forefathers of the sex therapist and ex-Haganah sniper Ruth Westheimer, a trio of German Jewish sexologists preceded Sigmund Freud in innovations. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935 ...

I’m a history professor. I do not spend time in that corner of the internet where the author of the beloved Harry Potter series stirs up strong feelings with her criticisms of the movement for ...

In a world where most saw binaries of "us" and "them," Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld saw humanity as a seamless continuum of "we." Applying this insight first to sexual orientation, then to gender, and ...

Outfest, the 30-year-old organization that promotes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality through the arts, is screening the 1919 German silent movie “Different From the Others,” which it ...

This May marks the 90th anniversary of the death of groundbreaking German physician, sexologist, and LGBTQ advocate Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935). Join us for a double book talk and conversation on ...

Magnus Hirschfeld, on the right, founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sexual Research) in 1919. Hirschfeld, via the institute, helped to increase the world’s understanding of ...