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Dustin Goltz, an American LGBT rights activist, historian and author, characterized Hirschfeld's committee as having carried out "the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights". In his book, "The Gay Revolution", Goltz describes Hirschfeld's work as "the first sustained and comprehensive effort to document and advocate for homosexual and transgender rights", and says that Hirschfeld's committee "played a critical role in the early development of the modern LGBT rights movement".