Portrait of Karl Maria Kertbeny.
Bruxelles: Ghémar Fréres, ca. 1865. 59 × 91 mm. Karl Maria Kertbeny (1824–1882) was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, memoirist and early human rights campaigner. Kertbeny was the coiner of the the words homosexual and heterosexual in 1869, in his anonymously published open letter to the Royal Prussian Minister of Justice, regarding..... More