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Time Line

Time Line. By Meaghan Kent Language Arts class 2. 25 th century BCE. 25 BCE – a fifth dynasty Egyptian tomb is built to the first recorded gay couple, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. 7 th century BCE. 630 BCE - Dorian nobles allow formal relations between older princes and young boys

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Time Line

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  1. Time Line By Meaghan Kent Language Arts class 2

  2. 25th century BCE • 25 BCE – a fifth dynasty Egyptian tomb is built to the first recorded gay couple, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum

  3. 7th century BCE • 630 BCE - Dorian nobles allow formal relations between older princes and young boys • Meant to teach young boys and to restrain population growth • 600 BCE – Sappho, an ancient Greek poet, writes famous love poems to young females • She came from Lesbos which then created inspiration for the term lesbian

  4. 5th century BCE • 425 BCE – 388 BCE – a series made by Aristophanes to ridicule hustlers and drag queens (cross dressers) • The Greeks were fine with homosexuality but when it came to men with womanly features or men who dressed like women theses people were casted out

  5. 4th BCE • 385 BCE – Plato wrote The Symposium, a text in which discusses nature of love and the nature of knowledge. • This text argues that love between two males is the best and that having sex with a woman is the only means of reproduction. • 350 BCE – Plato now says that homosexuality is bad because it does not further humanity

  6. 4th BCE continued • 338 BCE – The Sacred Band of Thebes, an undefeated brigade made of 150 gay couples, is destroyed by Phillip the 2nd of Macedon who mourns their loss • 326 BCE – Alexander the Great, who might have been bisexual, finishing the conquest of the known Western world • Which launched the Hellenistic Age where many people converted to a Hellenistic culture (which approved of homosexuality)

  7. 1st BCE • 80 BCE – Julius Caesar has a love affair with King Nicomedes the 4th of Bithynia • 27 BCE – the Roman Empire starts their reign with Augustus. Where the first same-sex marriages ever recorded. • Roman (like the Greeks) approved of homosexuality

  8. 4th century • 305 – Council of Elvira represents the Western European Church (allows homosexuals right to Communion) • 390 – three Christian emperors declare that homosexuality is illegal • Those who were caught were burned in public

  9. 5th century to 6th century • 498 – even through homosexuality was illegal, the Christian emperors still collected tax on male prostitution • 589 – the Visigoth kingdom in Spain change religion • Which caused the prosecution of homophiles and Jews

  10. 9th century to 12th century • 800-900 – while the Carolingian Renaissance was going on an abbot, or father, wrote love poems to other monks even through the Church condemned homosexuality • 1102 – the Council of London made sure that the English public knew that homosexual relations were sinful

  11. 15th century to 16th century • 1476 – Leonardo Da Vinci was charged with sodomy but no verdict was ever made in his trial • 1533 – Mary Tudor is upon the English throne and abolishes laws that king Henry the 8th made (gay activities punishable by law)

  12. 18th century • 1791 – Revolutionary France adopts a new penal code which allows sodomy • 1794 – the kingdom of Persia gets rid of the death sentence for sodomy • 1795 – Luxembourg and Tuscany allow homosexual acts

  13. 19th century • 1830 – Brazil allows homosexual acts • And the term asexual is used in biology • 1835 – Poland has homosexuality made illegal • They were being controlled by Tsarist • 1836 – the last known government killing for homophiles in Great Britain • 1852 – Portugal allows homosexuality • 1870 – the 1st American story about homosexuality

  14. 19th century continued • 1886 – Portugal makes homosexuality illegal again • 1889 – Italy allows homosexuality -- the Cleveland Street Scandal breaks out in England • 1895 – Earl Lind creates Cercle Hermaphroditos, the 1st group to give a political agenda to go against the persecution of homophiles • 1897 - George Cecil Ives creates the 1st homosexual rights group in England, the Order of Chaeronea

  15. Welcome to the 20th century Note: these are much more spread out

  16. 1910’s • 1910 – Emma Goldman starts talking about homosexual relationships publicly to the American citizens • 1917 – October Revolution, Russia, gets rid of their previous criminal code (including Article 995)

  17. 1920’s • 1920 – the word gay is used for the first time to refer to homosexuals in the underground • 1921 – an attempt to make lesbianism legal in Britain fails • 1924 – 1st homosexual rights group in America, The Society for Human Rights

  18. 1930’s • 1933 – Nazi’s ban homosexual groups and send them to concentration camps. Denmark and Philippines allow homosexuality • 1937 – 1st use of the pink triangle for homosexual men in Nazi concentration camps

  19. 1940’s • 1941 – the word transsexual first is used in relation to homo- and bi- sexuality. • 1946 - 1 of the earliest homosexual groups is formed in Netherlands (oldest living LGBT group) • 1947 – 1st American LGBT paper (Vice Versa), made by Lisa Ben (Los Angeles)

  20. 1950’s • 1950 – Mattachine Society is found in Las Angeles • 190 people in the U.S were laid off from their government jobs for not being heterosexuals (this is the beginning of the Lavender Scare) • 1955 - Daughters of Bilitis is set up in San Francisco

  21. 1969 • 1969 - The Canadian Prime Minister quote say : “The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation.” • The Stonewall Riots begin at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich, New York.

  22. 1970’s • 1973 – Homosexuality is no longer a sickness • 1979 – 1st homosexual rights march in Washington D.C • The White Riots start to begin • Harry Hay calls for a Radical Faerie meeting (Arizona) • Sweden is the 1st country that actually removes homosexuality from being an illness

  23. 1980’s • 1980 – David McReynolds is the 1st openly LGBT individual to run for President of the United States of America • 1983 – 1st openly gay member of congress • Portugal allows homosexuality (3rd time in history) • AIDs is known as the “gay plague” by Reverend Jerry Falwell • 1989 – Denmark is the 1st country to have registered partnership for homosexuals

  24. 1990’s • 1991 – the red ribbon is 1st used for AIDs/HIV • 1993 – “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” is used for the armed forces • 1994 - Israel’s supreme court says that homosexual rights are the same as heterosexuals • 1999 – California take on domestic partnership laws

  25. 21st century • 2002 – politician Pim Fortuyn is killed by Volkert van der Graaf • China allows homosexuality • 2003 – Belize has homosexuality made illegal • 2004 - Cape Verde and Marshall Islands allow homosexuality • James McGreevey is the 1st openly gay Governor in the United States

  26. Continued….. • 2005 – 2 gay teenagers are executed in Iran • South Africa's Supreme Court says that banning same-sex marriages is not right • 2006 – 1st gay march in Moscow • International Conference on LGBT Human Rights is taken place at Montreal

  27. 2007… • House of Representatives allows the bill to allow equal rights workplaces • 1st gay pride parade in Istanbul, Turkey • 1st foreign gay wedding in Hanoi, Vietnam (raised attention to the gay and lesbian communities in Vietnam)

  28. 2008…. • Nicaragua and Panama allow homosexuality (under a new penal code) • Arkansas voters make an act that doesn’t allow homosexuals to adopt • Connecticut allows homosexual marriages • This is the 3rd state to do so • France well knows about same-sex marriages but doesn’t allow them to be performed

  29. 2009 • Iowa and Vermont allow homosexual marriages • Annise Parker is made mayor of Houston, Texas • Largest United States city with an openly gay mayor • District of Columbia well knows about same-sex marriages but doesn’t allow them to be performed • Finland allows homosexual couples to adopt a biological child • Iceland has the 1st openly gay head of government in the world

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