Timeline of UK LGBT History
Note: strictly speaking the year 2000 belongs to the 20th century, but for convenience it is treated here as belonging to the 21st (and similarly with other centuries).
2nd century
- 117 – Emperor Hadrian visits Britain.
9th century
- 804 – Death of Alcuin.
12th century
- 1100 – Death of King William II.
14th century
- 1327 – Murder of King Edward II
- 1391 – Death of Sir John Clanvowe and Richard Neville
16th century
- 1533 – Buggery Act 1533
17th century
- 1625 – Death of King James I
- 1625 – Death of Francis Bacon (philosopher)
18th century
- 1726 – Three men convicted of sodomy following cases brought by Thomas Newton
- 1780 – The Ladies of Llangollen set up home together
19th century
- 1810 – The White Swan, Vere Street raided
- 1885 – Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 makes "gross indecency" a crime
- 1895 – Oscar Wilde convicted of gross indecency
20th century
- 1900 – Death of Oscar Wilde
- 1954 – Lord Montagu of Beaulieu convicted of gay offences
- 1957 – Wolfenden Report recommends decriminalisation of homosexuality
- 1958 – Albany Trust and Homosexual Law Reform Society formed
- 1967 – Sexual Offences Act 1967 partially decriminalises sex between men in England and Wales
- 1967 – North Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee formed, later to be re-founded as CHE (7 October)
- 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
- 1992 – Death of Francis Bacon (artist)
- 1992 – Gay Men Fighting AIDS founded (later GMFA)
- 1995 – Adonis Art Gallery founded.
- 1998 – LGBT Consortium founded.
- 1999 – Admiral Duncan pub bombed (30 April).
21st century
- 2000 – Section 28 repealed in Scotland.
- 2001 – Croydon Friend closed.
- 2003 – Section 28 repealed in England and Wales.
- 2009 – First Derek Oyston Film Award.
- 2010 – LGBT London website set up.
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