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"Like, Hirschfeld, the HRL [Human Rights League, Bund für Menschenrecht E.V.] stressed the innate biological nature of homosexuality, as well as its manifestation across time and space, and among all social classes, representing the entire political spectrum from left to right. But by depicting  homosexuals as law abiding, and fundamentally middle class, this seemingly ecumenical inclusion ultimately excluded a great many. Radszuweit rejected all stereotypes that depicted homosexuals as disruptive, subcultural, criminal, or effeminate. Prostitutes and their john, as well as cross-dressers and effeminates, had no place in Radszuweit’s vision of homosexual bourgeois respectability."

—Robert Beachy, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of Modern Identity (2014)