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lone_fairie is correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft
If you want to discuss technicalities:
The Reichstag fire was in February ‘33, the institute was raided in May of ‘33.
My original position was that fighting against communists helped bring Hitler to power, and those clashes occurred first, from street fighting to attempted uprisings by various communist factions within Germany. There is plenty of history out there on this. So yes, they still “came for the communists first” in the context of this discussion. I don’t say this to detract from historic persecution of LGBTQ people in any way.
If you really want to discuss technicalities:
The institute was targeted by Nazis as early as 1920.
Ok dude (or whoever you are), I don't need to get in the weeds of digging through history for ever-smaller events to continue with this debate. On the context of the discussion of the Reichstag vs Institute, the Reichstag events happened first. That pretty much settles the original debate. As far as wholesale attacks on groups, the Communists by far faced the most resistance and the most violent resistance before the somewhat more acceptable trans community (as long as they stayed within their restrictive walled garden) began to have their rights stripped from them as noted in the source I provided.