The First Queer Activist
From Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Published 7/1/2022
From Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Published 7/1/2022
On 29 August 1867, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs stood in front of the Congress of German Jurists in Munich and urged them not to extend sodomy laws across the soon to be unified Germany.He was booed off stage, but this stands as the earliest public queer protest in history. Similarly, his definition of…
