Mastodawn

Today in Labor History May 15, 1897: Magnus Hershfield and colleagues formed The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Berlin to campaign for the rights of LGBTQ people. It was the first LGBTQ rights organization in history. The organization formed just four days before Oscar Wilde’s release from prison. Hershfield was an outspoken advocate for the rights of gender and sexual minorities. They were based in Hershfield’s Institute for Sexual Sciences until the Nazis destroyed the institute in 1933. They provided legal support for people being charged under Germany’s anti-sodomy laws and lobbied to abolition the laws entirely. Albert Einstein, Herman Hesse, Thomas Mann, and Tolstoy all signed their petitions. They also had the world’s first trans medical clinic. And they performed the world’s first sexual reassignment surgeries, for Karl Meir Baer, in 1906, and Lili Elbe, in 1930-1931.

For more on this history, read Robert Beachy’s “Gay Berlin” (2015)

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Kevin Stevens 15h ago

Very illustrative diatribe why most folks despise those who identify as 'maga':
https://youtu.be/vgoJg_fIhNA?si=9a4VyMfrZUUsmQXS
#maga #fascist #fascism #hate #naziism #zionism #racism #sexism #homophobia #xenophobia #exceptionalism #greed #corruption #trump #trumpcrimefamily #trumpsteinclass #diemadmaga

Lonely Trump Supporters Are Sad Nobody Wants to be Friends With Them

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David Fleetwood - RG Admin 1d ago

So the conversation about #JeffGeerling and his #misogyny is incomplete without understanding his views are much worse than what is still on his blog, where he's deleted even polite questions about them. Despite claiming he does not delete old posts just because of objections people have found and archived much worse.

CW on these for #SA #incest #homophobia etc

https://archive.ph/zo4mW
https://archive.ph/cCZGN

#bigotry

b҉1d ago

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/rand-paul-son-apologizes-antisemitic-anti-gay-rant

The younger Paul, who recently served as a congressional aide to two of Lawler’s Republican colleagues in the House, went on “a 10-minute diatribe about Jews” at the Tune Inn Restaurant & Bar on Pennsylvania Avenue, Lawler said, and “said that he hates Jews and hates gays and doesn’t care if they die”.

#USPol #randPaul #ronPaul #nazi #MAGA #fascism #Trump #nazis #classwar #antisemitism #homophobia #bigotry #groypers #groyper #williamPaul