Timeline How the Forward (Jewish Newspaper) covered LGBTQ history -- intersectionality

If an American reader had glanced casually at the front page of the Forward on May 7, 1933, they would have had no idea that one of the most pivotal events of the early Nazi regime had occurred the day before.

No, it wasn’t the decision of Adolf Hitler’s Justice Department to allow for the firing of Jewish employees — that was there.

It was the arson of the Hirschfeld Institute, where the sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld and his staff provided groundbreaking care for LGBTQ people, including by offering some of the first modern gender affirmation operations.

In burning the Institute, the Nazis continued their escalating persecution of Jews: Hirschfeld, along with some of his most prominent collaborators, was Jewish. But the event, one of the Nazi party’s first major book burnings, also marked an upsurge in the Nazis’ persecution of Germany’s LGBTQ community.

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