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 ...

The Nazis called him “the most repulsive of all Jewish monsters.” One savvy American publicist called him “The Einstein of Sex.” He was world-famous for his claims that every human being mixes ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Historians are rediscovering one of the most important LGBTQ activists of the early 20th Century — an Asian Canadian named Li Shiu Tong. You probably don’t know the name, but he was at the center of ...