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Laurie Marhoefer

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love

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A love story packed with gay history, this dual biography of a sexologist and his student sheds light on the early gay rights movement and the racist and imperial concepts that are embedded in queer politics.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 334 pages
Publication date: 04 June 2022
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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.

Weight: 440g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487523978

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