Károly Mária Kertbeny (1824 - 1882)

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Károly Mária Kertbeny

From The Knitting Circle

He wrote a private letter to Karl Heinrich Ulrichs on 6th. May, 1868 including the first use of the words homosexual and heterosexual which later he used in his pamphlets.

From 1869 to 1875 he lived in Berlin and in 1869 he wrote two pamphlets which were published anonymously. These demanded freedom from penal sanctions for homosexual men in Prussia and the Prussian-dominated North German Confederation.

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

From Stonewall Society

Károly Mária Kertbeny - Born 1824 in Vienna, died 1882 in Budapest . He had the surname Benkert up to 1847 after which he was allowed to use the Hungarian noble name of his family. He wrote a private letter to Karl Heinrich Ulrichs on 6th. May, 1868 including the first use of the words homosexual and heterosexual which later he used in his pamphlets.

From 1869 to 1875 he lived in Berlin and in 1869 he wrote two pamphlets which were published anonymously. These demanded freedom from penal sanctions for homosexual men in Prussia and the Prussian-dominated North German Confederation. Ulrichs had previously used the German words for Uranian in his writings, but Kertbeny replaced them as follows. Ulrichs 

Kertbeny claimed himself to be a Normalsexualer.

Kertbeny's thesis emphasised that the State should have no part to play in the policing of private sexual behaviour...

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