The season premiere of Transparent starts out at one might expect for the series, with all members of the Pfefferman clan going at each other and their loved ones in a very public place. Whether it’s ...

While Oscar Wilde was being tormented in Reading Gaol, Hirschfeld launched the world’s first gay rights organisation in Berlin Human rights campaigner; director, Peter Tatchell Foundation Human rights ...

It’s possible, even likely, that when W.W. Norton & Company decided to publish two fine new books about Magnus Hirschfeld –Daniel Brook’s “The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of ...

This vital biography from journalist Brook (The Accident of Color) shines a light on forward-thinking German physician Magnus Hirschfeld, who was born in 1868. As a gay Jewish boy in Kolberg, Prussia, ...

The Nazis called him “the most repulsive of all Jewish monsters.” One savvy American publicist called him “The Einstein of Sex.” He was world-famous for his claims that every human being mixes ...

He was written out of Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, but doctor and sexual rights campaigner Magnus Hirschfeld has a legacy even the Nazis couldn’t destroy In the spring of 1930, Danish artist Einar ...

The ongoing campaign against trans rights often depicts trans activism as something new and dangerous, overturning convention and years of settled science. In fact, the scientific study of trans ...

Outfest, the 30-year-old organization that promotes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality through the arts, is screening the 1919 German silent movie “Different From the Others,” which it ...