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Scientific-Humanitarian Committee

First organization of a homosexual emancipation movement, founded in Germany in 1897

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Jan 31, 2026

Max Spohr (LGBT activist). was he related to the jewish community?

Available primary secondary accounts identify as a bookseller and pioneering publisher who helped found the in 1897, but none of the supplied sources identify him as Jewish; the reporting consistently...

Jan 31, 2026

Max Spohr (LGBT activist) life background

who became one of the first systematic publishers of literature on homosexuality and an early public ally to the nascent LGBT emancipation movement . He helped found the with and posthumous honors hav...