Lili Elbe, a Danish-born transgender woman, famously transitioned in the early twentieth century. What did her spouse, Gerda Wegener, think about it?

Weimar Germany was an improbably safe space for newspapers and magazines by and for lesbians.

Jack Parsons, one of the “suicide squad” trio of young rocket-boy founders of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, had an improbable extracurricular life.

In December 1969, radical German students reached out to the increasingly politicized black GIs. Together, they organized a series of rallies and teach-ins at German universities.

Remembering an early academic effort to define sexual orientation and gender identity as variable natural phenomena, rather than moral matters.

Otto Weininger's only book, Sex & Character, is a misogynist, anti-Semitic screed masquerading as philosophy. Yet it was enormously influential in fin-de-siècle Vienna.

In the 1930s, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels led the charge to create a radio cheap enough that even workers could own one.

In the Middle Ages, the legend of Aristotle and Phyllis exemplified the “Power of Women” trope.

A new theory sheds light not only on the fate of the Franks, but on the extent of Dutch resistance to the Nazis.

German female pilots played an active role during World War II—acting as perpetrators and collaborators even as they broke barriers for women in flight.