Many activists of the first homosexual movement denounced outing as 'the way over corpses'. Harden's accusations incited other journalists to follow suit, including Adolf Brand, founder of Der Eigene. Left-wing journalists opposed to Kaiser Wilhelm II's policies outed a number of prominent members of his cabinet and inner circle-and by implication the Kaiser-beginning with Maximilian Harden's indictment of the aristocratic diplomat Prince Eulenburg.
The Eulenburg affair of 1907–1909 was the first public outing scandal of the twentieth century.
See also: Krupp affair, Eulenburg affair, and Röhm scandal
