From ngrall at uw.edu Wed Nov 30 15:58:24 2022 From: ngrall at uw.edu (Nick Grall) Date: Sun Dec 11 15:33:48 2022 Subject: [Uwhistory] Book Reading 12/3: Laurie Marhoefer Message-ID: Join Prof. Laurie Marhoefer this Saturday, December 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Left Bank Books (92 Pike St, Seattle) for a reading from their latest book Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love (2022, University of Toronto Press). This is a free event, doors open at 7:00 p.m. Masks are required. [Text Description automatically generated]In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld's assistant on a lecture tour around the world. Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas. Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and British empires, from Manila to Tel Aviv to having tea with Langston Hughes in New York City, and then into exile in Hitler's Europe, Laurie Marhoefer provides a vivid portrait of queer lives in the 1930s and of the turbulent, often-forgotten first chapter of gay rights. "This is queer history for a better future" Angela Zimmerman, George Washington University, Author of Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South "This is the book that German history and queer history need right now. Racism and the Making of Gay Rights will be a hugely important intervention." Katie Sutton, Australian National University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 80189 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 9340 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: