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Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (born 1892)

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Henry Gerber

20th-century US homosexual rights activist

Henry Gerber was an early gay rights activist in the United States. Inspired by the work of Germany's Magnus Hirschfeld and his Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and by the organisation Bund für Menschenrecht by Friedrich Radszuweit and Karl Schulz, Gerber founded the Society…
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Society for Human Rights

Chicago-based LGBT rights organization (1924–1925)

The Society for Human Rights was an American gay-rights organization established in Chicago in 1924. Society founder Henry Gerber was inspired to create it by the work of German doctor Magnus Hirschfeld and the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and by the organisation Bund für…
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