KARL HEINRICH ULRICHS: PIONEER OF THE MODERN GAY MOVEMENT [E-BOOK]; KARL HEINRICH ULRICHS: LEBEN UND WERK [2ND EDITION]

A funny thing happened along the way to "gay history." The nineteenth-century Hannoverian jurist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, arguably the first modern theorist of sexual orientation and advocate for equality before the law for sexual minorities, almost ended up a footnote in an alternate versio...

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Published in:Journal of homosexuality 2003, Vol.46 (1/2), p.188
Main Author: Wright, Les
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Biographies
Gays & lesbians
LGBTQ rights movements
Literature
Nonfiction
Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich
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Summary:A funny thing happened along the way to "gay history." The nineteenth-century Hannoverian jurist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, arguably the first modern theorist of sexual orientation and advocate for equality before the law for sexual minorities, almost ended up a footnote in an alternate version of heteronormative history. In his lifetime, Ulrichs suffered many injustices and indignities, perhaps the most offensive being the man who planted in the mind of Karl Westphal, the earliest homophobic sexologist, the idea that homosexuals are a breed -- a defective, degenerate breed -- apart. Magnus Hirschfeld rescued Ulrichs name and ideas from the dust heap of history and himself drew inspiration from Ulrichs in founding the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, the first fully realized organization for the study of homosexuality and the emancipation of homosexual men and women. Only recently, since the original publication of Kennedy's Ulrichs biography, has it come to light that the iconographic film clip of the Nazi book burning was in fact the burning of the library of Hirschfeld's institute.
ISSN:0091-8369
1540-3602