What if the LGBT research from Germany survived?

I will be honest that I don't know too much about the subject except what I have mainly read on Wikipedia but I was thinking about how prevalent it seems that the Institute fur Sexualwissenshaft was before the Nazis came to power.

Germany seems to have been leading in research on the matter, even dealing with the first Transgender corrective surgery.

Considering that iOTL it doesnt seem like LGBT rights became big before the Civil Right Movements in the USA. I mean I know this would be mainly speculative. What if the researchers fled to a neutral country like Sweden and managed to save some or all of their research?

I have heard a lot of people act like LGBTQ is some modern trend but if anything, history quite clearly shows this to be false so I kinda wanted to hear what you would think? :)
 

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There was a thread on this a while ago already if you do a forum search.
Hirschfeld did go into exile in the early 1930s and published abroad lecturing in a world tour, ultimately dying in exile in 1935. His work was out there, but did not get much traction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld

Also there was a LGBT rights group founded in Germany in 1897, the first in the world, but it really got nowhere and never had more than 500 members:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific-Humanitarian_Committee
 
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