He faced an audience of more than five hundred distinguished legal figures, and as he walked to the lectern he felt a pang of fear. On August 29, 1867, a forty-two-year-old lawyer named Karl Heinrich Ulrichs went before the Sixth Congress of German Jurists, in Munich, to urge the repeal of laws forbidding sex between men.
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Magnus Hirschfeld and two cross-dressers, outside the Institute for Sexual Science.
