Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen
1899–1933 annual publication by the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee
The Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen (English: Annual of Sexual Intermediaries) was a periodical of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (German: Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK), the world's first LGBT rights organization founded by German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld in 1897. The annual publication featured articles on scientific, literary, and political topics related to sexual and gender minorities. It was published regularly from 1899 to 1923 (sometimes quarterly) in 23 volumes. The complete work comprised a total of more than 11,000 pages.
Since 2023, Michael Lombardi-Nash, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida, has been translating the “Annuals of Sexual Intermediaries” from German into English and publishing them under the title “Urania Manuscripts.”
In 2026, Lombardi-Nash completed Volume XXIII, the final volume of the series. All 23 volumes are now available in English translation.
Notable contributors
Psychiatry and sexology: Iwan Bloch, Alfred Fuchs, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert Moll
History and philology: Hans Licht (pseudonym of Paul Brandt), Numa Praetorius (pseudonym of Eugen Wilhelm), Lucien von Römer
Art and literature: Elisabeth Dauthendey, Kurt Hiller, Elisar von Kupffer
Theoretics of third gender: Hans Blüher, Benedict Friedlaender
Feminism, lesbian rights: Arduin (pseudonym of Karl Friedrich Jordan), Anna Rüling (pseudonym of Theodora Sprüngli)
Translations
Annual of Sexual Intermediaries. Volume I. Translated by Michael Lombardi-Nash. Jacksonville, FL: Urania Manuscripts, 2023. (Original work published 1899) ISBN 979-8-3952-6858-7
Annual of Sexual Intermediaries.
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