Gay Rights demo trials in England, several scandals surrounding sociates in Germany, were the best known In England, the subsequent reaction was terrifying enough to drive into silence those who might have been expected campaign against the 1885 bouchere amendment, which created the antitially repealled in 1967 they enabled Magnus feld's Scientific Humanitarian Committee (SHC) to keep in the public eye the injustice equivalent in German law, Paragraph 175.
The SHC's campaign for the repeal of 175 was to be the central and unifying feature of the homosexual rights movement in Germanv I01 auarter of a century. The SHC under the way in bigotry total , but also of vicious reaction and a code. was for the repeal aimed at prominent culGermany The was backed with vast What the should which through tours GROU OF 837-754 The immediate destruction of the institute by the nazis 1933 represented both and a symbolic termina extraordinary dyBernstein's was not the only contribution from the left. As early as 1898, the socialist leader, August Bebel. introduced the SHC's demands into the Reichstag. Wan peated in 1905 and 1907, vith wide support in l arty - the SPD. On t latter occasion this intervention was at the height of an anti-gay witch-hunt.
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