APPEAL TO THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR SEXUAL REFORM FOR THE BENEFIT OF AN OPPRESSED VARIETY OF HUMAN BEING (Copenhagen 1928)
New York: The Red Butterfly, 1970. Though not very well known today, Kurt Hiller (1885-1972) was one of the most prominent gay rights activists in the early 20th century Germany. The most influential example of his "literary activism" - a term Hiller coined - was this speech, in which he rejected the understanding of homosexuality as something contrary to nature, and contested traditional conceptions of same-sex love. Arrested by the Gestapo following the Nazi seizure of power, Hiller spent nine months in prisons and the earliest concentration camps. This translation was produced by The Red Butterfly, a Marxist cell within the New York Gay Liberation Front. Quarto: [8] p. Mimeographed on 8 1/2" x 11" stock, with a photomechanically reproduced blue title sheet. A bit of toning along the extremities; else clean and bright. Scarce, OCLC locates only three holdings: IHLIA (Netherlands), UC Davis, and Connecticut. Item #77138
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