Blätter für Menschenrecht

The Blätter für Menschenrecht (English: "Pages for Human Rights"[lower-alpha 1]) was a German gay periodical founded by Friedrich Radszuweit, an LGBT rights campaigner and publisher, in February 1923.[1] Its literary supplement was Die Insel,[2] and the Blätter was associated with the Bund für Menschenrecht (English: "Society for Human Rights"), an LGBT rights organisation.[3]

Front cover of the September 1926 issue, featuring the actor Wilhelm Kunst

The journal was published regularly (monthly, sometimes weekly) and reviewed literary, cinematic, and scientific information and portrayals of gender and sexual minorities (i.e. sexual intermediaries).[1][4] The positions of the magazine generally reflected those of the first homosexual movement in Germany. This included the abolition of Paragraph 175 (which criminalised gay sex), campaigning against the blackmail of gay people, and for the integration of LGBT people into mainstream society.[1]

The magazine ceased publication in 1933,[2] the year Adolf Hitler seized power.

Notes

  1. Also translated into English as the Journal for Human Rights, the Magazine for Human Justice, the Journal of Human Rights, or the Human Rights Leaflets

References

  1. Tamagne, Florence (2006). A History of Homosexuality in Europe, Vol. I & II: Berlin, London, Paris; 1919-1939. Algora Publishing. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-87586-356-6.
  2. Webber, Andrew (9 March 2017). The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-06200-9.
  3. Herzog, Dagmar (2005). Sexuality and German Fascism. Berghahn Books. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-57181-551-4.
  4. Kuzniar, Alice A. (2000). The Queer German Cinema. Stanford University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-8047-3995-5.


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