"Emma Goldman has campaigned boldly and steadfastly for individual rights, and especially for those deprived of their rights. Thus it came about that she was the first and only woman, indeed the first and only American, to take up the defense of homosexual love before the general public."
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Yearbook for Intermediate Sexual Types, volume 23 (1923)
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Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a German physician, sexologist and LGBTQ advocate. Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, which researched homosexuality and transgender healthcare, before it was destroyed by the Nazis.
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