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LGBT rights in the 19th century

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This is a list of important events relating to the LGBT community from 1801 to 1900. The earliest published studies of lesbian activity were written in the early 19th century.

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

1800s

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1802

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1803

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1807

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1809

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1810s

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1811

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  • The Netherlands abolished laws criminalizing homosexual conduct.[4]
  • The French Empire annexes the German North Sea coast, thus extending the Napoleonic Code to the annexed territory.

1812

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1813

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1814

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1815

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1820s

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1822

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1824

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  • 28 October – 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

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1830

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1832

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  • 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

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1840s

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1840

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

1849

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  • Leona Florentino was born in Spanish-colonized Philippines, beginning her literary career which would kickstart feminism against the Spanish-imposed patriarchy in the region and the writing of the archipelago's foundational lesbian literature.[13][14][15]

1850s

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1852

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1853

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1856

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  • 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".[17]

1858

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1860s

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1861

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1865

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1867

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  • 29 August — 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."[19]

1869

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  • A German pamphlet by the Austrian-born novelist Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–1882), published anonymously,[20] arguing against a Prussian anti-sodomy law contains the first known use of the word "homosexual" in print.[21]
  • Homosexuality is decriminalised in Suriname.[22]

1870s

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1870

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1871

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1880s

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1880

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1885

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  • 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

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1889

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1890s

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1890

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1892

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1892

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1894

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

1895

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  • 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

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1899

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Pickett, Brent L. (2 September 2009). The A to Z of Homosexuality. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810870727 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b "The improbable, 200-year-old story of one of America’s first same-sex ‘marriages’". The Washington Post, March 20, 2015.
  3. ^ a b Warsaw
  4. ^ Miller, p. 222
  5. ^ a b c Miller, p. 112
  6. ^ State-sponsored Homophobia A world survey of laws prohibiting same sex activity between consenting adults Archived 17 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  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. ^ Blanton, S. (2016). A Threshold of Flowers: Public and Private Eroticism in the Poems of Leona Florentino. University of North Carolina.
  14. ^ Jolo, J. B. & Manansala, A. M. B. (2020). Courting the Gaze, Romancing the Margins: Queer Re-Orientation in Emiliana Kampilan’s Komix. Review of Women's Studies. University of the Philippines.
  15. ^ Mabanglo, R. E. (2020). Leona Florentino: Mother of Filipina poetry. Philippine Graphic.
  16. ^ "Sodomylaws.org". Sodomylaws.org. Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  17. ^ Gay & Lesbian Mormons Archived 24 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Affirmation. Retrieved on 30 November 2010.
  18. ^ Kazi, Tehmina (7 October 2011). "The Ottoman empire's secular history undermines sharia claims – Tehmina Kazi". The Guardian. London.
  19. ^ Stack, Liam (1 July 2020). "Overlooked No More: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Pioneering Gay Activist". The New York Times.
  20. ^ "Kertbeny Coins "Homosexual"", GayHistory.com, retrieved 2007-09-07
  21. ^ Feray, Jean-Claude; Herzer, Manfred (1990). "Homosexual Studies and Politics in the 19th Century: Karl Maria Kertbeny". Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 19, No. 1.
  22. ^ "The Criminalization of Homosexuality in Colonial History, by Dr Joseph O'Mahoney | Gender History Research Cluster". blogs.reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
  23. ^ Miller, p. 29
  24. ^ "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). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-03-16. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  25. ^ "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 17 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine

References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to LGBT history in the 19th century.
  • 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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