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Shortly after Ulrichs's death in 1895, the pro-sodomy movement in Germany split into two separate and opposed factions. One faction followed Ulrichs's successor Magnus Hirschfield, the other a young anarchist, Adolf Brand. What divided the movement was gender identity. Hirschfield and his followers embraced an effeminate identity, as in the tradition of Ulrichs, while Brand and his followers perceived themselves as hyper-masculine, as in the Greek tradition. In 1897, Magnus Hirschfield formed the Scientific Humanitarian Committee (SHC). The SHC was dedicated to two Ulrichsian goals. The first was to overturn paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code which criminalized sodomy, and the second was to work to legitimize acts of sodomy within the German culture. Although Hirschfield was originally committed to Ulrichs's "third-gender" theory of an inborn "Uranian" condition, he later abandoned it. Hirschfield believed persons experiencing same-sex attractions to be the sexual equivalent of handicapped, due to a hormonal imbalance. He also considered same-sex attraction to be curable, through hormone treatment. The acknowledgement of a curable same-sex attraction undoubtedly arose after Hir

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Author

Ryan Sorba

Publisher

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Published

2007

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction