"Einstein of sex" : Magnus Hirschfeld at the end of the first century of gay rights -- The empire of queer love -- Hirschfeld and Li Shiu Tong meet : feminism and queer attraction at the China united apartments -- The fight against sexual oppression is a fight against empire -- Was the homosexual white? Analogy and the making of the sexual minority -- Magnus Hirschfeld's theory of the races -- Tea with Langston Hughes : Hirschfeld's anti-Blackness and queer Black New York -- Making Jews white -- Magnus Hirschfeld's queer eugenics -- "And what about women?" -- The exile -- Li Shiu Tong's queer masculinities -- Li Shiu Tong's defiant sexology -- Conclusion: Li Shiu Tong's Berlin and Magnus Hirschfeld's America
Summary
"A love story packed with gay history, this dual biography of a sexologist and his student sheds light on the early gay rights movement and the racist and imperial concepts that are embedded in queer politics."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2022)
