00:00Did you know that homosexuality originated in Berlin?
00:03And no, I'm not talking about the act of loving someone of the same sex,
00:06but that the word homosexuality literally originated here.
00:15Let's see, it was Prussia in 1869.
00:18At that time, if one guy messed with another guy,
00:20For it was spoken of as sodomy, of a heinous sin,
00:23which were just words with a super negative and religious connotation.
00:27And it was in that context that journalist Karl Maria Carveni was in mourning.
00:32His best friend had just committed suicide because he had been extorted precisely for being homosexual.
00:37Then he wrote an anonymous pamphlet where the words heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual appeared for the first time.
00:44He was looking for a much more neutral and scientific language to convince the State
00:49that homosexuality was a natural, innate thing and that one could not go around punishing people for it
00:55people.
00:55The word homo means same, it comes from Greek,
00:58And the word sexualis, well, sexuality, comes from Latin.
01:01And a few years later, the psychiatrist Richard von Kraft-Ebin
01:05He would take Kerdini's terms to develop his own work,
01:09Sexual psychopathology.
01:11This was in 1866.
01:13From there the term began to become much more popular.
01:16And it was later that the doctor Magnus Hirschfeld took up these ideas again.
01:21He founded the first institute for sexuality research in Berlin.
01:25and in 1897 the first activist organization for LGBT rights.
01:31His motto was, through science, towards justice.
01:34And he went on to argue that homosexuality is an innate thing and even an identity.
01:39In fact, he managed to get brilliant minds of the time, such as Albert Einstein himself, to work with him.
01:43They will sign a letter demanding the decriminalization of homosexuality.
01:47which was in article 175 of the Civil Code.
01:51But that's not what happened.
01:52All that springtime was crushed by Nazism in 1933.
01:57Or rather, he tried to crush it because the seed was already planted.
01:59Although it took Germany until the end of the 20th century
02:02to get rid of all its homophobic laws,
02:05It was in the streets of this city
02:07where a movement developed that forever changed language and the world.
02:15Thank you!
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