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The Asian Canadian gay activist whose theories on sexuality were decades ahead of their time

  • Written by Laurie Marhoefer, Jon Bridgman Endowed Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
imageLi Shiu Tong, right, was the boyfriend and intellectual heir of German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld.Imagno/Getty Images

Historians are rediscovering one of the most important LGBTQ activists of the early 20th Century – an Asian Canadian named Li Shiu Tong. You probably don’t know the name, but he was at the center of the first wave of...

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