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=="People just faint when the subject is broached"==

by Jonathan Ned Katz. Copyright (c) by Jonathan Ned Katz. All rights reserved. Reedited by Katz from ''Gay American History'' (1976). 

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In May 1906, Otto Spengler, one of the Scientific-Humanitaran Committees directors, "gave a warmly applauded lecture on sexual intermediates before the German Scientific Society in New York," In the monthly newsletter of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, Spengler describes the discussion following his presentation:


:The debate was very lively. Representatives of all the professions were in the audience-ministers, lawyers, doctors. This was probably the first such speech given in New York, and I managed to make some headway with my limited sources. You can deduce the inflexibility of the people from this incident: after the topic had been illuminated from all sides, a lawyer stood up and maintained… that homosexuals belong in prison. This shows plainly what educational efforts are still required here, where such educated people are so stupid. I have entered into correspondence with Dr. William Lee Howard, who told me that he will soon be publishing an English-language work on the subject in question. Then, I hope, there will be more understanding here. Now, people just faint when the subject is broached.<ref>[Otto Spengler,] ''Monatsberichte des Wissenschjtlich-humanitaren Komitees,'' VOL 5 (1906), p. 151. I wish to thank James Steakley for informing me of this and the following two documents, and for translating them.</ref>



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