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1892 – The words "bisexual" and "heterosexual" are first used in their current senses in Charles Gilbert Chaddock's translation of Kraft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis. | 1892 – The words "bisexual" and "heterosexual" are first used in their current senses in Charles Gilbert Chaddock's translation of Kraft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis. | ||
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| + | 1897 – George Cecil Ives organizes the first homosexual rights group in England, the Order of Chaeronea. | ||
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| + | 1921 – In England an attempt to make lesbianism illegal for the first time in Britain's history fails.[59] | ||
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| + | 1937 – The first use of the pink triangle for gay men in Nazi concentration camps. | ||
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| + | 1938 – The word Gay is used for the first time in reference to homosexuality.[66] | ||
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| + | 1941 – Transsexuality was first used in reference to homosexuality and bisexuality. | ||
Other stuff on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history_in_Britain --[[User:Ross Burgess|Ross Burgess]] ([[User talk:Ross Burgess|talk]]) 05:11, 11 May 2013 (CDT) | Other stuff on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history_in_Britain --[[User:Ross Burgess|Ross Burgess]] ([[User talk:Ross Burgess|talk]]) 05:11, 11 May 2013 (CDT) | ||
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From Wikipedia:
- 1836 – The last known execution for homosexuality in Great Britain.[1]
1553 – Mary Tudor ascends the English throne and removes all of the laws that had been passed by Henry VIII during the English Reformation of the 1530s
1558–1563 – Elizabeth I reinstates Henry VIII's old laws, including the Buggery Act 1533.[12]
1892 – The words "bisexual" and "heterosexual" are first used in their current senses in Charles Gilbert Chaddock's translation of Kraft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis.
1897 – George Cecil Ives organizes the first homosexual rights group in England, the Order of Chaeronea.
1921 – In England an attempt to make lesbianism illegal for the first time in Britain's history fails.[59]
1937 – The first use of the pink triangle for gay men in Nazi concentration camps.
1938 – The word Gay is used for the first time in reference to homosexuality.[66]
1941 – Transsexuality was first used in reference to homosexuality and bisexuality.
Other stuff on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history_in_Britain --Ross Burgess (talk) 05:11, 11 May 2013 (CDT)
References
- ↑ Prejudice and Pride: Discrimination Against Gay People in Modern Britain BrucecGalloway http://books.google.com/?id=Xu89AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79&dq=The+last+known+execution+for+buggery Routledge, 1984 isbn=978-0-7100-9916-7
