Difference between revisions of "Talk:Timeline of UK LGBT History"

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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.

1954 – 7 June–Mathematical and computer genius Alan Turing commits suicide by cyanide poisoning, 18 months after being given a choice between two years in prison or libido-reducing hormone treatment for a year as a punishment for homosexuality.[72]

1957 – The word "Transsexual" is coined by U.S. physician Harry Benjamin;

1959 – ITV, at the time the UK's only national commercial broadcaster, broadcasts the first gay drama, South, starring Peter Wyngarde.[75]

1975; Brighton Switchboard; Gay Left

1978: ILGA

1981 Dudgeon v UK; 1982 NI; 1983 Guernsey

Other stuff on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history_in_Britain --Ross Burgess (talk) 05:11, 11 May 2013 (CDT)

References

1. ↑ 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