Timeline of UK LGBT History

18th century

• 1726 – Three men convicted of sodomy following cases brought by Thomas Newton

20th century

• 1958 – Albany trust formed
• 1967 - Sexual Offences Act 1967 partially decrimialises sex betweenmen in England and Wales
• 1967 7 October – North Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee formed, later to be re-founded as CHE
• 1971 – CHE London Group Seven (later Croydon Area Gay Society) founded
• 1972 – Allegro Music Group formed.
• 1972 – Gay News first published.
• 1988 – Section 28 passed
• 1995 – Adonis Art Gallery founded.
• 1999 30 April – Admiral Duncan pub bombed.

21st century

• 2000 – Section 28 repealed in Scotland.
• 2001 – Croydon Friend closed.
• 2003 – Section 28 repealed in England and Wales.