What LGBTQ+ topic do you wish more people knew about? This could be a queer icon, a piece of history, knowledge about certain labels, specific philosophy topics (or notable philosopher), art, or anything else. Also if there are topics that you wish specific sub populations had greater access to or knowledge of, feel free to qualify (for example, you might wish there was greater knowledge about a specific cultural gender to all cultures which don’t have exposure to this gender, or a desire for your local gay community to be more educated on a topic important to you).

  • davehtaylor@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Some of the pictures people see of the big book burning fests that happened in Germany in the 1930s weren’t generalized events. One of them was the Nazis specifically destroying the works of Magnus Hirschfeld, who ran the Institute for Sexual Research, that studied sexuality and gender issues and provided the earliest instances of gender affirming care. They sacked the institute, destroyed it, and burned all of the material there.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld

    This is to say: trans people have always been here. And nearly a century later, the destruction of this institute has been widely forgotten.