Racism and the Making of Gay Rights

A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld’s assistant on a lecture tour around the world.Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas.Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and British empires, from Manila to Tel Aviv to having tea with Langston Hughes in New York City, and then into exile in Hitler’s Europe, Laurie Marhoefer provides a vivid portrait of queer lives in the 1930s and of the turbulent, often-forgotten first chapter of gay rights.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-05-04
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor334
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487523978
UtmärkelserShort-listed for Glasscock Book Prize Awarded by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research 2023 (United States)

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AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsMapsIntroduction: Manila Bay, Philippines, July 19311. "Einstein of Sex": Magnus Hirschfeld at the End of the First Century of Gay Rights, North Atlantic Ocean, November 1930 2. The Empire of Queer Love: Berlin, Sometime between 1910 and 1914 3. Hirschfeld and Li Shiu Tong Meet: Feminism and Queer Attraction at the China United Apartments, International Settlement, Shanghai, May 19314. The Fight against Sexual Oppression is a Fight against Empire: Jawaharlal Nehru’s house, Allahabad, India, 1931 5. Are Homosexuals Like a Race? Analogy and the Making of the Sexual Minority6. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Theory of the Races7. Tea with Langston Hughes: Hirschfeld’s Anti-Blackness and Queer Black New York: Winter of 19308. Making Jews White: Tel Aviv, Palestine, Winter of 19329. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Queer Eugenics: Berlin, Germany, Manila, Philippines, Pasadena, California, United States, and Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia10. "And What about Women?" 11. The Exile: Athens to Nice, 1932 to 193512. Li Shiu Tong’s Queer Masculinities: The Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, Late 1930s13. Li Shiu Tong’s Defiant Sexology: Vancouver, British Columbia, 1974 to 1993Conclusion: Li Shiu Tong’s Berlin and Magnus Hirschfeld’s AmericaBibliography

"Marhoefer's achievement in Racism and the Making of Gay Rights is not just to place Li back into the lecture halls and the steamships of their shared journey, but also to brilliantly reframe Hirschfeld as a man of his era, a man who developed and popularized the concept of ‘homosexuality’ in a world that was shaped by the fact of empire … This book should be required reading for anybody with a professional, political, or personal interest in the ‘homosexual.’" - Lauren Stokes, Northwestern University (Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences)