Berlin honors Magnus Hirschfeld on the 90th anniversary of his death

In 2009, Yankee activist Rachel Candall Crocker promoted the commemoration of Trans Visibility Day. She was frustrated to see that, until that moment, the only event dedicated to trans transvestite collective was Trans Memory Day, a date in which people killed by the transodium are remembered. Hence the initiative of a less necrological celebration, including the living ones. Personally, I did not know the story of the date before this year when…

Berlin honored the pioneer of the queer emancipation movement, Magnus Hirschfeld, and his fellow activists on the occasion of his 90th death anniversary. As the Senate Department for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity, and Anti-Discrimination announced, this year's focus was on those who have contributed to queer history. To kick off the month of remembrance, a memorial stop was opened at the former site of the Institute for…