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 ...

It’s possible, even likely, that when W.W. Norton & Company decided to publish two fine new books about Magnus Hirschfeld –Daniel Brook’s “The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of ...

A revelatory exhibit of the extraordinary gay pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld is set to appear at the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco's Castro district. It promises to illuminate our sexual past as it ...

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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, ...

We're going to talk now about a little-known but very important part of queer history - Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Research. Hirschfeld was a gay Jewish doctor living in Berlin in ...

Among the most famous images from the Nazi era is a 1933 photograph that depicts a giant pile of burning books, the back of an officer visible as several volumes fly through the air, bound for the ...

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 ...