![]() It was the eve of his wedding, an event he could not face. But the soldier had already made up his mind. Hirschfeld understood the soldier’s plight-he was himself both homosexual and Jewish-and did his best to comfort his patient. The infamous “Paragraph 175” in the German criminal code made homosexuality illegal a man so accused could be stripped of his ranks and titles and thrown in jail. ![]() It explained the cover of darkness to speak of such things was dangerous business. Distraught and agitated, the man had come to confess himself an Urning-a word used to refer to homosexual men. Late one night on the cusp of the 20th century, Magnus Hirschfeld, a young doctor, found a soldier on the doorstep of his practice in Germany. ![]()
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