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
Li Shiu Tong, right, was the boyfriend and intellectual heir of German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld.Imagno/Getty ImagesHistorians 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...