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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Quotes

1825–1895 Germany

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (28 August 1825 – 14 July 1895) was a German writer who is seen today as the pioneer of the modern gay rights movement. He is often cited as the first person to publicly "come out" as gay, although the term he used was "Urning".

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The prohibition of the expression of the sex drive, i.e., between consenting adults in private, lies outside the legal sphere.

I may have a beard, and manly limbs and body, yet confined by these, I am and remain a woman

Inclusa (1864)

The Urning is not by a hair’s breadth any more dangerous to immature boys than the genuine man is to immature girls. For the rest, I gladly leave the child molester to his deserved punishment by the law. Let the integrity of a will-less minor be sacred to every Urning.

Until my dying day I will look back with pride that I found the courage to come face to face in battle against the spectre which for time immemorial has been injecting poison into me and into men of my nature. Many have been driven to suicide because all their happiness in life was tainted. Indeed, I am proud that I found the courage to deal the initial blow to the hydra of public contempt.

Keith Stern (2013)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.