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Kitty Kuse
Hedwig Emma Käthe "Kitty" Kuse (March 17, 1904 – November 7, 1999) was an activist for lesbian emancipation in Germany after the Second World War. She founded the first group for older lesbian women and was the founder, editor and author of the monthly magazine . Life Kitty Kuse grew up in a politically left-wing working-class social milieu, milieu in Berlin Schöneberg. After elementary school and vocational training, she worked as a commercial clerk, employee. During the Nazi Germany, National Socialist era, Kitty Kuse did not join the NSDAP and did not belong to any Nazi organization. She was unemployed for a long time and later worked as a punch operator on the assembly line. She hid her sexual identity and considered adopting a male first name. A doctor from Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science advised her not to do so, so that she would not be on record with the Nazis.Ilse Kokula, Christiane von Lengerke, Eva Rieger''Käthe (Kitty) Kuse'' fembio.de She supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexuality or same-sex attraction. Relatively little in history was documented to describe female homosexuality, though the earliest mentions date to at least the 500s BC. When early sexologists in the late 19th century began to categorize and describe homosexual behavior, hampered by a lack of knowledge about homosexuality or women's sexuality, they distinguished lesbians as women who did not adhere to female gender roles. They classified them as mentally ill—a designation which has been reversed since the late 20th century in the global scientific community. Women in homosexual relationships in Europe and the United States responded to the discrimination and repression either by hiding their personal lives, or accepting the label of outcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
