HIRSCHFELD, Magnus & Max Tilke.

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Die Transvestiten. Second edition of the study that coined the term "transvestite". It is "the most significant and authoritative work written on the subject before Kinsey" by one of the most "influential pioneers in the study of human sexuality" (Bullough, p. 62). Three of the photographic portraits are annotated in colloquial Kurrent script by someone who seemingly had personal knowledge of the subjects.Plate XXIII depicts "a well-known Berlin artist" (our translation) and is annotated "personlich gesprochen" (personally spoken). The annotation on Plate XXXI completes the subject's name as Adam Klee and the annotation on Plate XXXII reads "hierzu tage im besitz" (currently in possession).The study is based on Hirschfeld's (1868-1935) visits to Berlin gay bars in 1906 and 1907, from which he concluded that there was a physical and hormonal component to cross-dressing as well as a psychological one. It "established at all levels what would become characteristic of later transsexual narratives: the confessional aspect and the exoneration of the monstrous self, instead narrating the transsexual as a medical entity, an individual deserving medical help and intervention" (Vicente, p. 402).In 1897 Hirschfeld founded the first LGBTQ+ rights organization, the Berlin-based Scientific-Humanitarian Committee. In 1919 he founded the Institute for Sexual Science which, besides its function as a research centre, served as a protective community for so-called "sexual deviants". The institu

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