19th century in LGBT rights

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Events

1810s

1811

1813

1820s

1824

1830s

1832

1840s

1840

1860s

1861

1869

A German pamphlet by the Austrian-born novelist Karl-Maria Kertbeny, published anonymously,[6] arguing against a Prussian anti-sodomy law contains the first known use of the word "homosexual" in print.[7]

1870s

1871

1880s

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

We'wha, a lhamana of the Zuni tribe, begins a six-month stay in Washington, D. C., during which time he calls upon President Grover Cleveland.[8]

1890s

1897

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Notes

  1. ^ Miller, p. 222
  2. ^ a b c Miller, p. 112
  3. ^ Muhlstein, Anka. Trans. Teresa Waugh. (1996) A Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine. Helen Marx Books.
  4. ^ Miller, p. 201
  5. ^ Miller, p. 280
  6. ^ "Kertbeny Coins "Homosexual"", GayHistory.com, http://www.gayhistory.com/rev2/events/1869b.htm, retrieved 2007-09-07 
  7. ^ Feray, Jean-Claude; Herzer, Manfred (1990). "Homosexual Studies and Politics in the 19th Century: Karl Maria Kertbeny". Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 19, No. 1.
  8. ^ Miller, p. 29

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