Was the Homosexual Made White? Race, Empire, and Analogy in Gay and Trans Thought in Twentieth‐Century Germany.
From the very beginning of gay politics, German thinkers created a homosexual subject who had no race. This has not previously been noted in the large scholarship on the emergence of homosexual identity. Something similar happened with the identity category ‘transvestite’, the emergence of which mar...
| Published in: | Gender & History Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 91 - 115 |
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