Was soll das Volk vom dritten Geschlecht wissen

Was soll das Volk vom dritten Geschlecht wissen[lower-alpha 1] ("What the people should know about the third sex")[lower-alpha 2] was a pamphlet about gay people in early twentieth-century Germany.

Front page of the pamphlet (1901)

Published in 1901, the pamphlet was written by Magnus Hirschfeld, a doctor at the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Berlin. Written during the first homosexual movement, it argued that gay people were sexually intermediate, and constituted a third sex within society who deserved equal rights under German law.[1] It was written for a popular audience, rather than a medical or scientific one, and simplified a number of Hirschfeld's theories on human sexuality.[2]

The pamphlet was popular and amassed over 50,000 copies in print.[6] The book was controversial, with several women who read the pamphlets wishing to procure writs against Hirschfeld for the pamphlet's contents.[7]

An abridged and translated copy of the work was published in 1923 British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology within the title The Problem of Sexual Inversion.[8]

See also

Notes
  1. Full title: Was soll das Volk vom dritten Geschlecht wissen! Eine Aufklärungsschrift über gleichgeschlechtlich (homosexuell) empfindende Menschen ("What the people should know about the third sex! An informational pamphlet about people with same-sex (homosexual) inclinations")[1][2]
  2. Also issued as Was muss das Volk vom dritten Geschlecht wissen on the cover[3][4][5]

References
  1. Tamagne, Florence (2006). A History of Homosexuality in Europe, Vol. I & II: Berlin, London, Paris; 1919-1939. Algora Publishing. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-87586-356-6.
  2. Taylor, Michael T.; Timm, Annette; Herrn, Rainer (30 October 2017). Not Straight from Germany: Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship Since Magnus Hirschfeld. University of Michigan Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-472-13035-1.
  3. National Library of Medicine (1910). Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army: Authors and subjects. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 549.
  4. Seeck, Andreas (2003). Durch Wissenschaft zur Gerechtigkeit?: Textsammlung zur kritischen Rezeption des Schaffens von Magnus Hirschfeld (in German). LIT Verlag Münster. p. 145. ISBN 978-3-8258-6871-0.
  5. Weiershausen, Romana (2004). Wissenschaft und Weiblichkeit: die Studentin in der Literatur der Jahrhundertwende (in German). Wallstein Verlag. p. 46. ISBN 978-3-89244-831-0.
  6. Sears, James T. (1 February 2013). Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation. Routledge. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-136-56879-4.
  7. Wolff, Charlotte (1986). Magnus Hirschfeld: A Portrait of a Pioneer in Sexology. Quartet Books. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-7043-2569-2.
  8. Lauritsen, John; Thorstad, David (1974). The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864–1935). New York: Times Change Press. p. 34. ISBN 0-87810-027-X.
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