The looting & burning of the library of Die Institut für Sexualwissenschaft is an incredibly well-documented event that marks one of the first major events of Nazi persecution of the LGBT community.
Guess what, Jo. This definitely happened.
She has gone further to perpetuate lies about Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld that engage with the anti-semitic conspiracy theory that Jews are encouraging LGBT identities to end the reproduction of the Aryan race and take over the world.
HEY! GOOD NEWS! IF YOU DO HISTORICAL RESEARCH, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING REALLY COOL!
LGBT persecution by Nazis, especially trans persecution, is an area of the Holocaust that remains under-researched and under-documented. Historians are working hard to identify trans and queer victims and to illuminate their life stories. If you are at all interested in this, it’s something you can do, too. Research for all!
It's not always high fashion but have you considered covering the WWE Hall of Fame looks? Lots of the guys go all out too! Much more interesting than most award show looks.
1888 Portrait of a woman from the Ekerkunst family (photo by Jan Mieczkowski, Leopold Türkel)
(Museum of Warsaw)
When the retouching guy shows up to work hungover (look at her waist area)
While that is probably the worst 19th century photoshop example I’ve seen to date, I’d like to thank retouch guy for providing such a good example to show that even though something’s a photograph doesn’t mean her waist was actually that size because even in the 1800s, people were editing their photos.
my brain always likes to see these ‘un-retouced’ so here’s a rough go at it. I just modified the parts I was sure were edited around her waist in the original, but they also often smoothed out people’s skin, softened jawlines etc. so 100% possible there’s additional editing. (it actually looked like there might be two rounds of waist editing but could just be the scan, so I stuck to the obvious portions)
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