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

by Laurie Marhoefer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487523971
• ISBN13: 9781487523978
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"