Berlin renamed a stretch of the Spree River in honor of a gay-rights activist persecuted by the Nazis in the 1930s as the city's biggest hospital opened an exhibition devoted to the sex researcher. A stretch of the Spree River in central Berlin was named after gay-rights activist and sexual researcher Magnus Hirschfeld in a dedication ceremony on Tuesday, May 6.   On the same day 75 years ago, the Nazis plundered his offices and later burned hundreds of his books.   Hirschfeld had founded the world's first institute dedicated to fighting discrimination against homosexuals. He went into exile in ...

Yesterday, on the 75th anniversary of the day Nazis broke into his offices and burned hundreds of books, Berlin dedicated a stretch of the Spree River to sex researcher and gay rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld. Deustche Welle reports: "Hirschfeld had founded the world's first institute dedicated to fighting discrimination against homosexuals. He went into exile in France and died there in 1935. The stretch of river bank named after Hirschfeld is near his former institute. According to Germany's Lesbian and Gay Association (LSVD) and the Mitte district of Berlin, where 'Marcus-Hirschfeld-Ufer' is located, a bronze monument to Hirschfeld will also ...

Source: The Local , Associated Press via Haaretz Berlin today renamed a promenade along the Spree River after Magnus Hirschfeld, a sex researcher and pioneer of the German gay rights movement. The Hirschfeld promenade is in the government quarter, diagonally across from the German chancellery. The city's Charite hospital also opened a new exhibition of his work called Sex Burns. A monument is also planned with a bust of the researcher – known as “the Einstein of sex” – who was born in 1868 in the German city of Kolberg as son of a Jewish doctor. "The tributes to Hirschfeld ...

Seventy-five years ago, the Nazis ransacked the offices of German sex-researcher and gay-rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld, seizing hundreds of books that were burned in a towering pyre four days later. To mark the day Tuesday, Berlin dedicated a stretch of the Spree river to Hirschfeld, while the city's Charite hospital opened a new exhibition of his work called "Sex Burns." The tributes to Hirschfeld are "a clear acknowledgment for gays that a persecution has taken place and that reparation is necessary," said Alexander Zinn, head of Germany's Lesbian and Gay Association, at the dedication ceremony.  See 2 tributes ...