Society for Human Rights

Society for Human Rights
Named afterBund für Menschenrecht
Founded1924 (1924)
FounderHenry Gerber
Dissolved1925 (1925)
Typenon-profit organization
Location

The Society for Human Rights was an American gay-rights organization established in Chicago in 1924. Society founder Henry Gerber was inspired to create it by the work of German doctor Magnus Hirschfeld and the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and by the organisation Bund für Menschenrecht by Friedrich Radszuweit and Karl Schulz in Berlin. It was the first recognized gay rights organization in the United States, having received a charter from the state of Illinois, and produced the first American publication for homosexuals, Friendship and Freedom.

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