1871 – Homosexuality is criminalized throughout the German Empire by Paragraph 175 of the Reich Criminal Code.
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1919 – In Berlin, Germany, Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld co-founds the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sex Research), a pioneering private research institute and counseling office.
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1929 - On October 16, a Reichstag Committee votes to repeal Paragraph 175; the Nazis' rise to power prevents the implementation of the vote.
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1931 - Mädchen in Uniform, one of the first explicitly lesbian films and the first pro-lesbian film, is released.
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Nazis burn the library of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Research, and destroy the Institute
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