Hirschfeld, Magnus.

During his around-the-world journey begun in 1930, Magnus Hirschfeld was saluted in America as "[t]he Einstein of Sex" and in India as "the modern Vatsayana of the West." Today, however, his life and work seem almost erased from cultural memory, yet he deserves recognition as a significant theorist of sexuality and the most prominent advocate of homosexual emancipation of his time. In seeking to assess the true dimensions of Hirschfeld's theoretical and emancipatory achievements, his motto per scientiam ad justitiam ["Through Science to Justice"] offers a key to his encompassing sexological program that moves from acknowledgement of the biological facts of human sexuality to a libertarian vision of culture capable of coping with endless sexual diversity. He was convinced that scientific understanding of sexuality would lead to tolerance and acceptance of sexual minorities.