Exploring the journey of German immigrant Henry Gerber in the U.S. during World War I, his internment as an enemy alien, and how his exposure to the German homosexual emancipation movement influenced the LGBT rights progress amidst the backdrop of Hitler's rise.
This 2015 episode on Henry Gerber covers his founding of the Society for Human Rights in Chicago in the 1920s with the intent to decriminalize homosexuality. Gerber was inspired by Germany's homosexual emancipation movement.
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