so, you may be interested to know that the Supreme Court is hearing a case this week that might decide the the future of– and potentially ban– harmless parodies of corporate brands.
And if the court decides in Jack Daniels’ favor the precedent this sets for freedom of speech will be disastrous.
See the chap with glasses and an incredible moustache in the bottom right? that’s Magnus Hirschfeld, the gay Jewish doctor who ran the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Research) in Berlin. It was largely his books, his research that the Nazis burned.
Everyone else in this photo is a trans person that Dr Hirschfeld worked with. This photo was taken at their christmas party.
