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, ...
A revelatory exhibit of the extraordinary gay pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld is set to appear at the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco's Castro district. It promises to illuminate our sexual past as it ...
We're going to talk now about a little-known but very important part of queer history - Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Research. Hirschfeld was a gay Jewish doctor living in Berlin in ...
In a world where most saw binaries of "us" and "them," Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld saw humanity as a seamless continuum of "we." Applying this insight first to sexual orientation, then to gender, and ...
Susan Larson interviews Daniel Brook about his fascinating new book, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin. Here’s what’s on tap in the literary life this week: Morgan ...