LGBTQ+ history before Stonewall
Simeon Solomon // Wikimedia Commons
LGBTQ+ history before Stonewall
Airman 1st Class Perry Aston // U.S. Air Force
2900–2500 BC: First record of a transgender person
Ahmad Badr // Wikimedia Commons
2400 BC: Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep are buried together
Simeon Solomon // Wikimedia Commons
630–612 BC: Sappho the poet is born
George E. Koronaios // Wikimedia Commons
27 BC: First recorded same-sex marriage under Roman Empire
Francisco Goya // Wikimedia Commons
1478: The Spanish Inquisition stones ‘sodomites’
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1532: Holy Roman Empire makes ‘buggery’ punishable by death
Cornelius De Neve // Wikimedia Commons
1623: King James appoints his lover as Duke of Buckingham
Jean-Pierre Houël // Wikimedia Commons
1791: France becomes the first Western European nation to decriminalize homosexuality
Markus Bernet // Wikimedia Commons
1800s: Decriminalizing homosexuality spreads through Europe and Latin America
John K. Hillers // Wikimedia Commons
1886: We’wha takes part in a delegation to Washington, DC
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1892: Magnus Hirschfeld earns his doctoral degree
T. Kajiwara // Wikimedia Commons
1910: Emma Goldman begins speaking publicly
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1931: Dora Richter becomes the first transgender woman to get vaginoplasty
Harris & Ewing // Wikimedia Commons
1932: Eleanor Roosevelt’s alleged lesbian affair
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1936: Federico GarcÃa Lorca is executed
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1948: Alfred Kinsey publishes ‘Sexual Behavior in the Human Male’
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1951–52: Christine Jorgensen has sex reassignment surgery
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1955: The Daughters of Bilitis is formed
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1956: ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’ is first published by James Baldwin
Daderot // Wikimedia Commons
1958: US Supreme Court rules in favor of gay free speech
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1962: Illinois removes sodomy law from criminal code
Warren K Leffler // Wikimedia Commons
1964: First gay rights protests at Whitehall
Warren K Leffler // Wikimedia Commons
1965: Vanguard is created
Mattachine Society of New York
1966: The Mattachine Society organizes a ‘Sip-In’
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