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fleshadept · 2 years ago

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Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld lecturing on sexology in Different From the Others (1919 dir. Richard Oswald), a silent film arguing against German legal code Section 175, which criminalized homosexuality. Parts of the film are lost due to the later Nazi government's attempt to destroy all copies of it.

#pictures of queer people from decades ago and in this case over a hundred years ago make me so. like. god #also watching this film and realizing that was the actual magnus hirschfeld on film trying to educate people on gender & sexuality #as early as 1919. fucking hell man!!#also wanted to add that last gif to really emphasize how many people wanted to work on this film. how many people sat in that lecture hall #to be a part of making this activist film about normalizing queerness. in 1919. that's so many people #ntm crew and the other actors and everyone who pieced it back together when it was burned #and translated it #and made the cards in between saying what was supposed to happen in the lost scenes #:(#cricket gifs #magnus hirschfeld #different from the others #long post #queer history #lgbt #lgbt history

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