Monday Meme: Victory

As part of Pride month, we’d like to give a shout out to gay trailblazer Magnus Hirschfeld in today’s Monday Meme. As a homosexual and a Jew, Hirschfeld was advocating gay rights back in the late 1800’s. Hirschfeld spoke out against the German government and pushed for the legalization of homosexuality long before it was even a conversation in most parts of the world. As a sexologist and researcher, he published volumes on homosexuality, gay rights and equality for women, many of which were later burned by the Nazis. Hirschfeld died in Nice, France in 1935 but the groundwork he set down as an early LGBT pioneer won’t ever be forgotten.

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