‘Incredible queer pioneers’ who fought 1920s homophobia immortalised in new play by David Dawson

As a big period drama fan, David Dawson had begun wondering “why aren’t there many about incredible queer people”.

“I’m a big history nerd because the way we are today is a jigsaw of what we have been,” the actor and playwright, most recently seen in My Policeman opposite Harry Styles, tells PinkNews. 

So when he discovered the Institute of Sexual Science – which worked to abolish ‘Paragraph 175’, the law banning “an unnatural sex act between persons of the male sex”, in pre-Nazi Germany – he thought “why has no-one ever told me about this?”