Voila, No. 119: L'Amour Et La Science [Magnus Hirschfeld, Weimar Germany, queer history, sexology]

Paris: Voila, 1933. Very good, with a line from folding into halves;
embrittling and loss at the spine. Item #10451

A 1933 issue of Voila magazine profiling Magnus Hirschfeld, the German sexologist, physician, and early advocate for homosexual and transgender rights.

Hirschfeld founded the Institute for Sexual Research in Wiemar Berlin, which included perhaps the world's first trans clinic, as well as an extensive library of sexology, sex museum, and areas for the study; during its time, the Institute would host figures such as Marxist thinkers Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch, and Dora Richter one of the documented trans people to receive gender-affirming surgery. Hirschfeld also founded theScientific-Humanitarian Committee, credited as the first LGBT rights organization in the world, and World League for Sexual Reform.Hirschfeld was targeted by early fascists and later the Nazis for being Jewish and gay. He was beaten by fascists in 1920, and in 1933, just a month and a half before the publication of this magazine, the Institute for Sexual Research was looted and its books burned by Nazis. Hirschfeld, who had fled Germany a few years earlier, was living in Paris at the time of the publication; he would die in Nice in 1935.

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