92 years ago...

[elisi]

"On 6 May 1933, the Berlin chapter of the German Student Union made an organised attack on Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sex Research).

The institute's library included many thousands of volumes on sexuality and other matters relating to its work. The institute also had a substantial collection of objects, photographs and documents including research, biographies and patient records. Estimates of total size vary. The looted material was witnessed by the international press being loaded on to a truck and, on 10 May, it was taken to the Bebelplatz square at the State Opera, and burned them along with volumes from elsewhere."
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Pink News:
VE Day 80: It took the world less than a century to forget what World War II was fought for

(OR: That poem should go 'First they came for the Trans people')

Also thissterlingcrew has a lot of good resources, such as:

Email Your Representatives About the Supreme Court Decision

Early Day Motion recognizing Trans+ History Week

Comments

[kaffy_r]

Right now, I feel as if we're tumbling right back into that killing sewer.

[elisi]

Here's to hoping we can somehow turn the tide...

ETA: Congrats on the pope! You were the first person I thought of. <3

[kaffy_r]

Yep.

[elisi]

<3

[jerusha]

It's amazing to me how progressive the Weimar Republic was. Amazing and scary, considering how quickly that progression was reversed or erased.

[elisi]

::nods:: Reading Isherwood is incredible - you see the reversal in real time and it's chilling.