19th century in LGBT rights

This is a list of important events relating to the LGBT community from 1800 to 1899. The earliest published studies of lesbian activity were written in the early 19th century.

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895), a pioneer of LGBT rights

Events

1800s

1802

1803
  • The last recorded state sanctioned execution for male same-sex sodomy occurs in the Batavian Commonwealth and continental Europe.[1]

1807
  • One of the first known same-sex couples in American history, Vermont residents Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, begin their relationship.[2] This couple is most strongly documented in historian Rachel Hope Cleves' 2014 book Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America.[2]
  • The Duchy of Warsaw is created, re-legalizing same-sex sexual intercourse.[3]

1809

1810s

1811

1812

1813

1814

1815

1820s

1822
El Salvador decriminalizes homosexuality.[7]

1824
  • October 28 — The Marquis de Custine is beaten and left for dead after propositioning a male soldier in Saint-Denis. The scandal forces him out of the closet, but he recovers and lives the rest of his life as an open 'sodomite' with his partner Edward St. Barbe. Custine maintains a successful social life in Paris.[8]

1830s

1830

1832
  • The Russian Empire criminalizes muzhelozhstvo, which courts interpret to mean anal sex between men, under Article 995 of the criminal code. Men convicted were stripped of their legal rights and sent to Siberia for four to five years.[10]
  • Bolivia decriminalizes homosexuality.[11]

1835

1840s

1840
  • Hannover abolishes laws criminalizing homosexual conduct between consenting adults.[5]

1850s

1852

1853

1856
  • The first known reference to lesbians in Mormon history occurred in 1856, when a Salt Lake man noted in his diary that a Mormon woman was "trying to seduce a young girl.".[14]

1858

1860s

1861
  • In England, the Offences against the Person Act 1861 is amended to remove the death sentence for "buggery" (which had not been used since 1836). The penalty became imprisonment from 10 years to life.

1865

1867
  • On 29 August 1867 Karl Heinrich Ulrichs became the first homosexual to speak out publicly in defence of homosexuality when he pleaded at the Congress of German Jurists in Munich for a resolution urging the repeal of anti-homosexual laws. He was shouted down. In an interview, Robert Beachy said "I think it is reasonable to describe [Ulrichs] as the first gay person to publicly out himself."[16]

1869

The modern term “homosexuality” (homosexualitat) is first coined in a German pamphlet written by Karoly Maria Kertbeny.[17]


1869
  • A German pamphlet by the Austrian-born novelist Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–1882), published anonymously,[18] arguing against a Prussian anti-sodomy law contains the first known use of the word "homosexual" in print.[19]
  • Suriname decriminalizes homosexuality.[20]

1870s

1870

1871
  • Homosexuality is criminalized throughout the German Empire by Paragraph 175 of the Reich Criminal Code. It made homosexual acts between males a crime, and in early revisions the provision also criminalized bestiality. The Nazis broadened the law in 1935; in the prosecutions that followed, thousands died in Nazi concentration camps. It was repealed on 10 March 1994.
  • Guatemala decriminalizes homosexuality.
  • Mexico decriminalizes homosexuality.

1880s

1880

1885
  • In the United Kingdom, the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, whose Labouchere Amendment (Clause 11) outlaws oral sex between men—but not women—is given Royal Assent by Queen Victoria. A popular legend claims that Victoria struck references to lesbianism from the Act because of her refusal to believe that women "did such things"; in reality, they had simply never been mentioned in the Act. Clause 11 reads:

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
  • The Cleveland Street Scandal erupts in England.

1890s

1890
  • Homosexuality is legalized in Italy.
  • Homosexuality is legalized in the Vatican.[22]

1892
  • The words "bisexual" and "heterosexual" are first used in English in their current senses in Charles Gilbert Chaddock's translation of Kraft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis.

1892

1894
  • Biologist and pioneer of human sexuality Alfred Kinsey is born on 23 June.

1895
  • The trial of Oscar Wilde results in his being prosecuted under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 for "gross indecency" and sentenced to two years hard labor in prison. :In Brazil Adolfo Caminha publishes his controversial novel Bom-Crioulo (in English:The Black Man and the Cabin Boy) with homosexuality at its center and with a black man as the story's hero.

1897

1899
gollark: I would be very surprised if they did.
gollark: It's a thing which finds certain kinds of thing so it can remove them if they cause problems in some way.
gollark: It seems obvious enough.
gollark: How mean.
gollark: I guess it might consider the wither "yours" and allow it to damage stuff, but still.

See also

Notes
  1. Pickett, Brent L. (2 September 2009). "The A to Z of Homosexuality". Scarecrow Press – via Google Books.
  2. "The improbable, 200-year-old story of one of America’s first same-sex ‘marriages’". The Washington Post, March 20, 2015.
  3. Warsaw
  4. Miller, p. 222
  5. Miller, p. 112
  6. State-sponsored Homophobia A world survey of laws prohibiting same sex activity between consenting adults Archived 19 July 2013 at WebCite
  7. El Salvador Archived 14 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 23 August 2007.
  8. Muhlstein, Anka. Trans. Teresa Waugh. (1996) A Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine. Helen Marx Books.
  9. 16 December 1830 Law (in Portuguese)
  10. Miller, p. 201
  11. STATE-SPONSORED HOMOPHOBIA A WORLD SURVEY OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION LAWS OF CRIMINALISATION, PROTECTION AND RECOGNITION
  12. Galloway, Bruce (1984). Prejudice and Pride: Discrimination Against Gay People in Modern Britain. Routledge. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-7100-9916-7. The last known execution for buggery.
  13. "Sodomylaws.org". Sodomylaws.org. Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  14. Gay & Lesbian Mormons Archived 24 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Affirmation. Retrieved on 30 November 2010.
  15. Kazi, Tehmina (7 October 2011). "The Ottoman empire's secular history undermines sharia claims – Tehmina Kazi". The Guardian. London.
  16. Stack, Liam (1 July 2020). "Overlooked No More: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Pioneering Gay Activist".
  17. Gary Greenberg (2007), Gay by Choice? The Science of Sexual Identity Mother Jones
  18. "Kertbeny Coins "Homosexual"", GayHistory.com, retrieved 2007-09-07
  19. Feray, Jean-Claude; Herzer, Manfred (1990). "Homosexual Studies and Politics in the 19th Century: Karl Maria Kertbeny". Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 19, No. 1.
  20. SURINAME 2015 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT
  21. Miller, p. 29
  22. "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))" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  23. "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 :page: 12 & 14 Archived 21 December 2012 at WebCite

References
  • Miller, Neil (1995). Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York, Vintage Books. ISBN 0-09-957691-0.
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