Our salad tonight is to honor the pioneering scientist Magnus Hirschfeld. Known as the Einstein of sex and early supporter of LGBT rights. Read a small article about him after the recipe.
Ths brocolli salad uses a simple dressing of low fat mayonnaise, mustard, and sugar. This salad is perfect for picnics, TV watching or a side for a fancy dinner.
Ingredients
- 1 (12-oz.) pkg. fresh steam-in-bag broccoli florets
- 3 tablespoons shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 2 Tbs lower-fat mayonnaise
- 1 tsp yellow mustard
- ½ tsp sugar
- ½ cup minced red onion
- 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
- ¼ tsp salt + ¼ tsp pepper
- 1 tablespoon sliced almonds
Directions:
Place broccoli package in microwave; microwave at HIGH for only 2 minutes.
Chop the red onion.
Combine mayonnaise, mustard and sugar in a bowl. Stir in the vinegar. Add salt & pepper to taste.
Now in a serving bowl place the broccoli, red onion, and almonds. Stir in the dressing.
Sprinkle cheeze over the top.
Cover and let blend in refrigerator for atleast an hour before serving.
What a great salad to serve my Master Indy.
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Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld (1868 – 1935) was a German physician and sexologist educated primarily in Germany. His pioneering work mustn't be forgotten. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld is believed to have coined the term ‘transvestitism'. He established the world's first gender identity clinic.
Hirschfeld began researching sexuality after moving to Berlin in 1896, where he lived as an openly gay man and campaigned for gay rights. He was once described by Hitler as "the most dangerous Jew in Germany", and the entire library of his Institute for Sexual Science was burned by the Nazis.
Hirschfeld believed that sexual orientation was innate and not a deliberate choice, and he hoped that a scientific understanding of sexuality would promote tolerance of sexual minorities. His sexology research was one of the first to be guided by empiricism and activism. He maintained that the sexual ideology of Judeo-Christian civilization was a serious obstacle to the understanding of sexuality and to the reform of laws and practices that regulated it.
Initially, Hirschfeld supported the concept that homosexuals constituted the "third sex," but he soon rejected that. He is best known for his subsequent theory of sexual intermediaries, which held that there were many types of naturally occurring sexual variations. They were found across the population, such as hermaphroditism, homosexuality, and transvestism. He is also credited with coining the term transvestite. Hirschfeld accomplished an enormous amount of work during his lifetime with regards to his research, writing, and advocacy efforts. In 1897 Hirschfeld established the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, the world's first gay rights organization. Its main goal was to fight for the abolishment of Paragraph 175 of the German Imperial Penal Code, which punished sexual contact between men. In 1899 he started the Yearbook of Intermediate Sexual Types, the first journal in the world to deal with sexual variants; it was regularly published until 1923. He also published an important study on cross-dressing, The Transvestites (1910). Hirschfeld was one of the founders of the Medical Society for Sexual Science and Eugenics, established in 1913. His study, Homosexuality in Men and Women, was based on the expansive statistical surveys on homosexuality that he had conducted. In addition to publishing works on sexology and sexual reforms, Hirschfeld also wrote about racism, politics, and the history of morals.
In 1919 Hirschfeld opened the first sexology institute in the world, the Institute for Sexual Science, in Berlin; the institute and the considerable holdings of its library and archives were destroyed by Nazi demonstrators in 1933.
While away in the U.S. lecturing, Nazi stormtroopers attacked and ransacked the Institute, destroying its priceless research archives. The vast library was burned in the great bonfire of "enemy books." The newsreel footage of these burning books features in almost every documentary about the Nazis and in all the main history books.
But it is rarely acknowledged that it was Hirschfeld's sexological institute and the headquarters of his German gay rights movement that were the main targets and victims of the stormtroopers' wrath.
The Nazis also seized the Institute's huge list of clients' names and addresses. These were used by the Gestapo to compile their notorious "pink lists," which identified homosexuals and led to their arrest and deportation to the concentration camps.
Being a Jew, a gay man and a sexual liberation activist made Hirschfeld the target of right-wing supporters, and he suffered serious injuries from an attack in 1920. Later, with the Nazis' growing power, he was regularly assaulted, his lectures were disrupted, and, upon completion of his international speaking tour in 1932, he was unable to return to Germany. He instead went to Switzerland and then in 1934 to France.
Hirschfeld was born into a conservative Jewish family in what was then Prussia in 1868. During his childhood, he developed a curiosity and fascination with sex. Against the conventional wisdom of his era and the moralism of his elders, even as a young boy, he viewed sexuality as something entirely natural and wholesome.
Soon after setting himself up as a doctor in Berlin in 1893, he was waylaid outside his apartment at night by a soldier, deeply disturbed by his homosexuality. Hirschfeld resisted the soldier's pleading for a consultation there and then, telling him to come to his office the next day. Overnight, however, the soldier committed suicide.
Hirschfeld's terrible guilt and remorse motivated him to begin studying homosexuality and he noticed that many of his gay patients were committing suicide. In the German language, the word for suicide is Selbstmord ("self-murder"), making the subject of suicide a taboo in 19th century Germany.
As his pro-gay reputation spread, more and more men who were unhappy with their homosexuality came to him as patients. Hirschfeld's prescription? Lots of gay parties and plenty of boyfriends!
One of Hirschfeld's biggest problems was hostility from other gays and lesbians. They mostly accepted their second-class legal status. Many did not like him rocking the boat. He was seen as a troublemaker. They refused to cooperate with his sex surveys and law reform campaigns.
Hirschfeld traveled the world lecturing and learning. His life was filled with so many interesting and pioneering episodes that it is impossible to encompass in one short article.
Just last year in Berlin was a huge celebration in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Magnus Hirschfeld. Let us take time to remember this great man and the important work he accomplished.
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