Difference between revisions of "Adolf Brand"
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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
| − | Considered one of the most controversial of activists pre-War. Established homosexual journal 'Der Eigene', the first homosexual literary and artistic journal, which was often censored and banned. | + | Considered one of the most controversial of activists pre-War. Established homosexual journal 'Der Eigene', the first homosexual literary and artistic journal, which was often censored and banned. A Der Eigene subscription came with membership to a club, the Community of Self-Owners, in which members discussed issues facing the community and found safety in numbers against the threat of blackmail. Women were not allowed to join. Der Eigene shared contemporary right-wing ideals such as racial purity and anti-Semitism, giving it a complicated legacy in LGBT history. |
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
* [[Early European LGBTQ Activists]] | * [[Early European LGBTQ Activists]] | ||
| + | * [[LGBTQ Magazine Editors]] | ||
==Further Reading/Research== | ==Further Reading/Research== | ||
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* http://www.glbtq.com/literature/brand_a_lit.html | * http://www.glbtq.com/literature/brand_a_lit.html | ||
* http://www.out.com/entertainment/art-books/2013/05/06/man-who-made-magazines-gay | * http://www.out.com/entertainment/art-books/2013/05/06/man-who-made-magazines-gay | ||
| + | * https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-s-fisher-library-acquires-copies-der-eigene-world-s-first-gay-magazine | ||
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Country
Germany
Birth - Death
1874 - 1945
Occupation
Activist
Description
Considered one of the most controversial of activists pre-War. Established homosexual journal 'Der Eigene', the first homosexual literary and artistic journal, which was often censored and banned. A Der Eigene subscription came with membership to a club, the Community of Self-Owners, in which members discussed issues facing the community and found safety in numbers against the threat of blackmail. Women were not allowed to join. Der Eigene shared contemporary right-wing ideals such as racial purity and anti-Semitism, giving it a complicated legacy in LGBT history.
