On this day 90 years ago the Nazis destroyed the first modern LGBTQ clinic in the West

[NullTuples]

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by German President Paul von Hindenburg.

On May 6, 1933, a Nazi student group marched to the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin (Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin). With members of the SA, they ransacked the institute and looted its library and archives. Days later, the stolen books, artifacts, and clinical files were destroyed in one of several public book burnings organized across Germany (ie the famous "Nazi bookburning" photo). A bust of Hirschfeld was paraded through the streets on a stick before being thrown onto the bonfire.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/magnus-hirschfeld-2

(from @[e-mail] on mastodon)

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. K&R. Part of the reason so much of the discussion around trans and nonbinary people feels "new"

or that "it's a modern fad" is because researchers lost so much knowledge because of the Nazis and had to start from scratch.

[RKP5637]

2. The political environment in the US is so strange now and hostile. I think some in the

US would be pleased to repeat this today. Things are really getting ugly in some states for so many things.

[electric_blue68]

3. Woah! Something I never knew.

[crickets]

4. K&R for visibility.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. The SA was useful to the Nazis for a while. Later SS propaganda...

fit in with the idea of pure Aryan stock being pushed out by untermenschen like Jews and Poles (sound familiar?) so good Germans should fuck like bunnies.