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Condition: Poor Book has been soaked, leaving stains throughout, and loss of part of back cover. Content: Chapter I. The 100th Anniversary of Gay Liberation Chapter II. The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864 - 1935): Beginnings of a Movement / The Scientific Humanitarian Committee / The Petition / The Role Played by Women / The Community of the Special / Progress and Projects / The Institute for Sexual Science / Per Scientiam ad Justitiam / Uranians of the World, Unite! / The Gay Movement in England / The Movement in the United States and Other Countries / Demise of the Early Homosexual Rights Movement Chapter III. Scientfic and Theoretical Issues Chapter IV. Socialism and the Early Gay Movement: An Early Encounter / The Oscar Wilde Trial and Die Neue Zeit / The Social Democrats and the 1905 Reichstag Debate / The Left Queer-baits the Nazis / The Bolsheviks and the Stalinists Chapter V. Regeneration Chapter VI. Additional Notes on Five Pioneers: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs / Magnus Hirschfeld / Sir Richard Burton / Walt Whitman / Edward Carpenter (followed by extracts from Towards Democracy) Bibliography Background / Biography: Reviews: Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "In the late 1860s a new penal code was proposed for Prussia that added homosexual acts (among males) to the category of crimes. In 1871, this provision was introduced by the Reichstag with no debate as Paragraph 175 of the new penal code for the Second Reich. While the German legislators displayed a lightminded attitude in legalizing homosexual oppression, however, their move did not go unnoticed by homosexuals. In 1869, a Hungarian doctor by the name of Benkert (who used the pseudonym K M Kertbeny) wrote a lengthy open letter to the minister of justice, tracing the history of the rational approach to homosexuality, and arguing that the state has no business sticking its nose into people's bedrooms. He defended homosexual behavior with what might be called 'gay pride', and called upon the authorities to reject the proposed paragraph." p 6 Secondhand booksellers |
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