LGBT rights in the 19th century explained

This is a list of important events relating to the LGBT community from 1801 to 1900. The earliest published studies of lesbian activity were written in the early 19th century.

1800s

1802

1803

1807

1809

1810s

1811

1812

1813

1814

1815

1820s

1822

1824

1830s

1830

1832

1835

1840s

1840

1849

1850s

1852

1853

1856

1858

1860s

1861

1865

1867

1869

1870s

1870

1871

1880s

1880

1885

Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or is a party to the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
Buggery, or anal sex between men, was already illegal.

1886

1889

1890s

1890

1892

1892

1894

1895

1897

1899

See also

References

Notes and References

  1. Book: Pickett, Brent L.. The A to Z of Homosexuality. 2 September 2009. Scarecrow Press. 9780810870727. Google Books.
  2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/20/the-improbable-story-of-one-of-americas-first-same-sex-marriages-from-over-200-years-ago/ "The improbable, 200-year-old story of one of America’s first same-sex ‘marriages’"
  3. http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/warsaw_S.pdf Warsaw
  4. Miller, p. 222
  5. Miller, p. 112
  6. http://old.ilga.org/Statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2013.pdf State-sponsored Homophobia A world survey of laws prohibiting same sex activity between consenting adults
  7. http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/el_salvador.html El Salvador
  8. Muhlstein, Anka. Trans. Teresa Waugh. (1996) A Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine. Helen Marx Books.
  9. http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/Leis/LIM/LIM-16-12-1830.htm 16 December 1830 Law
  10. Miller, p. 201
  11. https://ilga.org/downloads/2017/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2017_WEB.pdf STATE-SPONSORED HOMOPHOBIA A WORLD SURVEY OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION LAWS OF CRIMINALISATION, PROTECTION AND RECOGNITION
  12. Book: Galloway, Bruce. Prejudice and Pride: Discrimination Against Gay People in Modern Britain. registration. 79. The last known execution for buggery.. Routledge. 1984. 978-0-7100-9916-7.
  13. Blanton, S. (2016). A Threshold of Flowers: Public and Private Eroticism in the Poems of Leona Florentino. University of North Carolina.
  14. Jolo, J. B. & Manansala, A. M. B. (2020). Courting the Gaze, Romancing the Margins: Queer Re-Orientation in Emiliana Kampilan’s Komix. Review of Women's Studies. University of the Philippines.
  15. Mabanglo, R. E. (2020). Leona Florentino: Mother of Filipina poetry. Philippine Graphic.
  16. Web site: Sodomylaws.org . Sodomylaws.org . 2013-10-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130512190601/http://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/ . 12 May 2013 . dmy-all .
  17. http://www.affirmation.org/history/lesbian_mormon_history.shtml Gay & Lesbian Mormons
  18. News: The Ottoman empire's secular history undermines sharia claims – Tehmina Kazi . London . The Guardian . Tehmina . Kazi . 7 October 2011.
  19. Web site: Stack . Liam . Overlooked No More: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Pioneering Gay Activist . 1 July 2020 .
  20. Feray, Jean-Claude; Herzer, Manfred (1990). "Homosexual Studies and Politics in the 19th Century: Karl Maria Kertbeny". Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 19, No. 1.
  21. Web site: The Criminalization of Homosexuality in Colonial History, by Dr Joseph O’Mahoney Gender History Research Cluster . 2024-05-08 . blogs.reading.ac.uk.
  22. Miller, p. 29
  23. Web site: Legge N. VIII: Norme complementari in materia penale, 11 July 2013 (see Article 8(4) and Article 4(a) – for sex within marriage see Article 8(5)). 2017-03-15. 2017-03-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20170316114654/http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CRC-OP-SC/Shared%20Documents/VAT/INT_CRC-OP-SC_AIS_VAT_16025_O.pdf. dead.
  24. http://old.ilga.org/Statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2012.pdf "State-sponsored Homophobia: A world survey of laws prohibiting same sex activity between consenting adults", The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, authored by Lucas Paoli Itaborahy, May 2012