Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and the First Coming Out, 1867 | LGBTQ+ History
In 1867 one man stood before 500 German jurists and said it out loud. He was shouted down. He was also heard.
Tonight we travel to Germany and Italy to meet Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: a judge who lost his career for loving men, a thinker who decided on his own that he was born this way, and the first person known to stand up in public, under his own name, and ask the law to leave love alone.
Along the way: larks over the flat green fields of East Frisia, a new word with starlight in it, brown paper parcels of forbidden booklets, hundreds of letters from men who thought they were the only one, a…
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