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Memorial to the First Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Berlin-Moabit

From the late 19th century until 1933, the first homosexual movement unsuccessfully sought the repeal of Paragraph 175, a German law criminalizing sex between men. In 1897, Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee—the world's first LGBT organization—to achieve this goal through science. The movement greatly expanded after World War I and the German revolution, when the first mass-market periodicals for gay people were published. The first mass organizations, the German Friendship Society and the League for Human Rights, were founded after the war, emphasizing human rights and respectability. In 1929, the German parliament considered but ultimately did not vote on a proposal to decriminalize homosexuality. Due to a hostile political climate and the failure to achieve its objectives, the movement waned, and was shut down after the Nazi takeover in early 1933, followed by persecution of homosexual men. The first homosexual movement has inspired and influenced later LGBT movements.(Full article...)

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Buidhe, thanks for looking at the blurb. However, it's now 1126 characters, and the limit for a TFA blurb is 1025. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:04, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

By my count it's 1108 chars, now reduced to 1015. (t · c) buidhe 15:36, 12 April 2022 (UTC)