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Gay Rights TimelineThis page is a timeline of significant events in gay rights over the past few centuries. Each year is annotated with a significant event for the LGBT communities as a reference point. - 20th century in gay rights:
- 21st century in gay rights:
See also History of sexuality 16th century 17th century - 1624 - Richard Cornish of the Virginia Colony is tried and hanged for sodomy.
- 1649 - The first known conviction for lesbian activity in North America occurs in March when Sarah White Norman is charged with "lewd behavior" with Mary Vincent Hammon in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
18th century - 1726 - Mother Clap's molly house in London is raided by police, resulting in Clap's death and the execution at Tyburn of all the men arrested
- Between 1730 and 1811, a widespread panic in the Dutch Republic leads to a spectacular series of trials for sodomy, with persecutions at their most severe from 1730 to 1737, 1764, 1776, and from 1795-1798.
- 1792 - France decriminalizes sexual acts between men
19th century - 1813 - Bavaria decriminalizes sexual acts between men
- 1836 - The last known execution for homosexuality in Britain
- 1861 - In England, the penalty for conviction for sodomy is reduced from hanging to imprisonment
- 1869 - The term "homosexuality" appears in print for the first time in a German pamphlet written by Kroly Mria Kertbeny (1824-1882).
- 1871 - Homosexuality is criminalized throughout Germany by Paragraph 175 of the Reich Criminal Code
- 1886 - The Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, outlawing sexual relations between men (but not women) is given Royal Assent by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
- 1892 - the word bisexual is first used in its current sense in Charles Gilbert Chaddock's translation of Kraft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis.
- 1895 - Oscar Wilde prosecuted under the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 for "gross indecency" and sentenced to two years in prison.
- 1897 - Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific Humanitarian Committee on May 14 to organize for gay rights and the repeal of Paragraph 175
1900s - 1907 - Adolf Brand, the activist leader of the Gemeinschaft der Eigenen, working to overturn Paragraph 175, publishes a piece "outing" the imperial chancellor of Germany, Prince Bernhard von Blow. The Prince sues Brand for libel and clears his name; Brand is sentenced to 18 months in prison.
1910s - 1910 - Emma Goldman first begins speaking publicly in favor of gay rights
- 1914 - The word faggot is first used in print in reference to gays in a vocabulary of criminal slang published in Portland, Oregon": "All the fagots sic (sissies) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight".
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1940 - Barney Frank, American politician is born March 31st
- 1945 - Upon the liberation of concentration camps by Allied forces, those interned for homosexuality are not freed, but required to serve out the full term of their sentences under Paragraph 175
1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s External links
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