Das 3. Geschlecht
Das 3. Geschlecht ("The Third Sex"), subtitled Die Transvestiten ("Transvestites"), was a transvestite magazine of Weimar Germany, published from 1930 until 1932 in Berlin. Published by the Radszuweit publishing house, it is believed to be the first transvestite magazine in history.[1][2] A predecessor to the magazine was Die Freundin, a more lesbian-focused magazine that nonetheless published some columns appealing to transvestites.[3]
Das 3. Geschlecht first appeared on May 28, 1930. The magazine was planned as a monthly, but was published at greater intervals, issue 2 in September 1930, issue 3 in February 1931, and issue 4 in July 1931. Issue 5 of May 1932 was the last issue; shortly before, the publisher Friedrich Radszuweit had died, and his heir Martin Radszuweit did not continue the magazine. The issues each comprised 40 pages, they contained activist texts, medical articles, clothing guides, belletristic texts as well as reports on the experiences of transvestites, supplemented by numerous photographs of transvestites. Their appearance is considered one of the few pieces of evidence of the first "constitution of transvestites as a gender minority". Frequently seen in illustrations was Lotte Hahm, a prominent lesbian and transvestite activist within Weimar homosexual subculture.[4] Both Selli Engler and Elsbeth Killmer published texts there.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Birkhold, Matthew H. (15 January 2019). "A Lost Piece of Trans History". The Paris Review.
- ^ Journal, Retrospect (21 February 2021). "Gender Nonconforming Lives in Interwar Germany". Retrospect Journal.
- ^ "Almost Forgotten Voices: The Transvestite Magazine of Weimar Berlin". Making Queer History. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- ^ Marhoefer, Laurie (2015). Sex and the Weimar Republic : German homosexual emancipation and the rise of the Nazis. Toronto Ontario ; Buffalo New York: University of Toronto Press. p. 57. ISBN 9781442619562. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ Rainer Herrn: Die Zeitschrift Das 3. Geschlecht in: Rainer Herrn (Hrsg.): Das 3. Geschlecht - Reprint der 1930 - 1932 erschienen Zeitschrift für Transvestiten, 2016, ISBN 9783863002176, p. 231 ff.
Further reading
[edit]- Sutton, Katie (2012). ""We Too Deserve a Place in the Sun": The Politics of Transvestite Identity in Weimar Germany". German Studies Review. 35 (2). German Studies Association. The Johns Hopkins University: 335–354. ISSN 0149-7952. JSTOR 23269669.
- Herrn, Rainer (2020). "Das 3. Geschlecht (The 3rd sex): Illustration Practices in the First Magazine for Transvestites". Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories. University of Calgary Press. pp. 35–69. doi:10.2307/j.ctv1931hd4.7. ISBN 978-1773851525. S2CID 228955309.
- Rhodes, Hazel (2023). ""Die Transvestiten haben das Wort": the politics of gender variation, sexual distinction and morality in the transvestite magazine Das 3. Geschlecht". GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft. 15 (2–2023): 71–85. doi:10.3224/gender.v15i2.06.
- Marhoefer, Laurie (2015). Sex and the Weimar Republic : German homosexual emancipation and the rise of the Nazis. Toronto Ontario ; Buffalo New York: University of Toronto Press. p. 57. ISBN 9781442619562. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- Sutton, Katie (2018). "Sexology's Photographic Turn: Visualizing Trans Identity in Interwar Germany". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 27 (3): 442–479. doi:10.7560/JHS27305. JSTOR 44862279. S2CID 149874505.
External links
[edit]- Three issues of Das 3. Geschlecht in English via The Weimar Project
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