FROM THE ARCHIVES ‘1933’ - How Nazi Violence Destroyed Berlin’s Gay Freedom

And why this matters now. A brief profile of Magnus Hirschfeld, whose books were the first to burn

***In today’s walk-through of my Mike Johnson thread, I recalled how I learned from Ruth Ben-Ghiat that “authoritarianism is about control of bodies and policing sexuality.” Johnson built his career on policing sexuality and women’s bodies, which is among the reasons I referred to him on Thom Hartmann’s show as a “mild-mannered domestic terrorist.” I p…