5 Was the Homosexual White? Analogy and the Making of the Sexual Minority

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction: Manila, Philippines, July 1931 1
5. 1 “Einstein of Sex”: Magnus Hirschfeld at the End of the First Century of Gay Rights: North Atlantic Ocean, November 1930 22
6. 2 The Empire of Queer Love 41
7. 3 Hirschfeld and Li Shiu Tong Meet: Feminism and Queer Attraction at the China United Apartments: International Settlement, Shanghai, May 1931 55
8. 4 The Fight against Sexual Oppression Is a Fight against Empire: Jawaharlal Nehru’s House, Allahabad, India, October 1931 67
9. 5 Was the Homosexual White? Analogy and the Making of the Sexual Minority 79
10. 6 Magnus Hirschfeld’s Theory of the Races 88
11. 7 Tea with Langston Hughes: Hirschfeld’s Anti-Blackness and Queer Black New York: Manhattan, Winter of 1930 98
12. 8 Making Jews White: Tel Aviv, Palestine, Winter of 1932 113
13. 9 Magnus Hirschfeld’s Queer Eugenics: Berlin, Germany; Manila, Philippines; Pasadena, California, United States; and Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia 129
14. 10 “And What about Women?” 146
15. 11 The Exile: Athens to Nice, 1932–1935 153
16. 12 Li Shiu Tong’s Queer Masculinities: Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, Late 1930s 167
17. 13 Li Shiu Tong’s Defiant Sexology: Vancouver, British Columbia, 1974–1993 181
18. Conclusion: Li Shiu Tong’s Berlin and Magnus Hirschfeld’s America 193
19. Acknowledgments 205
20. Notes 209
21. Bibliography 267
22. Index 303