Magnus Hirschfeld

Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a German physician, sexologist and LGBTQ advocate. Hirschfeld found the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, which researched homosexuality and transgender healthcare, before it was destroyed by the Nazis.

• Homosexuality was part of the plan of nature and creation just like normal love.
  • Testimony at a trial during the Eulenburg affair (1907)

• The more we delve into the essence of personality, the more we learn that in this world, certainly rich with natural beauty and things worthy of seeing, nothing is more attractive and worthier of knowing and experiencing than people.
  • Die Transvestiten: Eine Untersuchung über den Erotischen Verkleidungstrieb (1910)
• In the ranks of a relatively small party, the anarchist, it seemed to me as if proportionately more homosexuals and effeminates are found than in others.
  • Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes (1914)
• The persecution of homosexuals belongs to the same sad chapter of history in which the persecutions of witches and heretics is inscribed... Only with the French Revolution did a complete change come about. Everywhere where the Code Napoléon was introduced, the laws against homosexuals were repealed, for they were considered a violation of the rights of the individual... In Germany, however, despite more than fifty years of scientific research, legal discrimination against homosexuals continues unabated... May justice soon prevail over injustice in this area, science conquer superstition, love achieve victory over hatred!
  • Different from the Others (1919)

• Emma Goldman has campaigned boldly and steadfastly for individual rights, and especially for those deprived of their rights. Thus it came about that she was the first and only woman, indeed the first and only American, to take up the defense of homosexual love before the general public.
  • Yearbook for Intermediate Sexual Types, volume 23 (1923)