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The '''history of [[lesbian]], [[gay (term)|gay]], [[bisexuality|bisexual]], and [[transgender]] ([[LGBT]]) peoples and cultures''' around the world dates back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality of [[Ancient history|ancient civilizations]]. What survives of many centuries' persecution—resulting in shame, suppression, and secrecy—has only recently been pursued and interwoven into historical narrative. In 1994 the annual observance of [[LGBT History Month]] began in the US, and it has since been picked up in other countries. They cover the history of the people, [[List of LGBT rights by region|LGBT rights]] and related [[civil rights]] movements. It is observed during October in the United States, to include [[National Coming Out Day]] on October 11.<ref name="glsen">{{cite web|url=http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/educator/library/record/816.html |title=LGBT History Month Resources |publisher=Glsen.org |accessdate=2013-11-02}}</ref> In the United Kingdom, it is observed during February, to coincide with a major celebration of the 2005 abolition of [[Section 28]], which had prohibited schools from discussing LGBT issues or counseling LGBT or [[questioning (sexuality and gender)|questioning]] youth.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=Local+Government+Act+&Year=2003&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=819204&ActiveTextDocId=819364&filesize=374 |title=Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26) – Statute Law Database |publisher=Statutelaw.gov.uk |date=2011-05-27 |accessdate=2013-11-02}}</ref><ref>[http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880009_en_5.htm Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9)], section 28. Accessed July 1, 2006 on opsi.gov.uk.</ref>

==Ancient history==
{{See also|Timeline of LGBT history}}
Among historical figures, some were recorded as having relations with others of their own sex — exclusively or together with opposite-sex relations — while others were recorded as only having relations with the opposite sex. However, there are instances of same-sex love and sexuality within almost all ancient civilizations. Additionally, Transgender and [[third sex]] peoples have been recorded in almost all cultures across human history.

===Africa===
Anthropologists [[Stephen O. Murray|Stephen Murray]] and [[Will Roscoe]] reported that women in [[Lesotho]] engaged in socially sanctioned "long term, erotic relationships," named ''motsoalle.''<ref name=murrayroscoe>{{cite book|title=Boy Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities |last=Murray |first=Stephen (ed.) |authorlink=Stephen O. Murray |coauthors=[[Will Roscoe|Roscoe, Will]] (ed.) |year=1998 |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]] |location=New York |isbn=0-312-23829-0}}</ref> [[E. E. Evans-Pritchard]] also recorded that male [[Azande]] warriors (in the northern [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]]) routinely took on boy-wives between the ages of twelve and twenty, who helped with household tasks and participated in [[intercrural sex]] with their older husbands. The practice had died out by the early 20th century, after Europeans had gained control of African countries, but was recounted to Evans-Pritchard by the elders he spoke to.<ref name=evanspritchard>[[E. E. Evans-Pritchard|Evans-Pritchard, E. E.]] (December 1970). Sexual Inversion among the Azande. American Anthropologist, New Series, 72(6), 1428–1434.</ref>

====Ancient Egypt====
[[File:Egyptian homosexual ostraca.jpg|thumb|A Rammeside period ostraca, depicting a pederastic couple (a boy and man) having sex together]]
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Ostraca dating from the [[Ramesside Period]] have been found which depict hastily drawn images of homosexual as well as heterosexual sex.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}} The duo [[Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum]], manicurists in the Palace of King [[Niuserre]] during the [[Fifth Dynasty of Egypt]]ian pharaohs, circa 2400 BC.<ref>Thomas A Dowson, "Archaeologists, Feminists, and Queers: sexual politics in the construction of the past". In Pamela L. Geller, Miranda K. Stockett, eds., ''Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future'', pp 89–102. University of Pennsylvania Press 2006, ISBN 0-8122-3940-7</ref> are speculated to have been gay based on a representation of them embracing nose-to-nose in their shared tomb. ''[[King Neferkare and General Sasenet]]'', a [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]] story, has an intriguing plot revolving around a king's clandestine gay affair with one of his generals. It may reference the actual Pharaoh [[Pepi II]], who was likely gay.<ref>Wit and Humour in Ancient Egypt, Houliban, P</ref><ref>Greenberg, David, ''The Construction of Homosexuality'', 1988; Parkinson, R.B.,''‘Homosexual’ Desire and Middle Kingdom Literature'' Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 81, 1995, p. 57-76; [[Dominic Montserrat|Montserrat, Dominic]], ''Akhenaten: History, Fantasy, and Ancient Egypt'', 2000. More details at [http://wanderingcaravan-bronzebuckaroo.blogspot.com/2007/11/clandestine-affair-pharaoh-neferkare.html] & [http://epistle.us/hbarticles/ancientegypt1.html]</ref>

====Early modern Egypt====
The [[Siwa Oasis]] was of special interest to [[anthropologists]] and [[sociologists]] because of its historical acceptance of male homosexuality. The practice probably arose because from ancient times unmarried men and [[adolescent]] boys were required to live and work together outside the town of Shali, secluded for several years from any access to available women. In 1900, the German [[egyptologist]] George Steindorff reported that, "the [[Festival|feast]] of marrying a [[boy]] was celebrated with great pomp, and the money paid for a boy sometimes amounted to fifteen [[Egyptian pound|pound]], while the money paid for a woman was a little over one pound."<ref>{{cite book|last=Steindorff|first=George|title=Durch die Libysche Wuste Zur Amonoase|year=1904|page=111|publisher=Velohgen and Klasing|location=Leipsig}}</ref> The [[archaeologist]] Count Byron de Prorok reported in 1937 that "an enthusiasm could not have been approached even in [[Sodom and Gomorrah|Sodom]]... Homosexuality was not merely rampant, it was raging...Every [[dancer]] had his [[boyfriend]]...[and] chiefs had [[harems]] of boys.<ref>{{cite book|last=De Porok|first=Count Byron|title=In Quest of Lost Worlds|year=1936 p 64|publisher=Dutton|location=New York}}</ref>

Walter Cline noted that, "all normal Siwan men and boys practice [[sodomy]]...the natives are not ashamed of this; they talk about it as openly as they talk about love of women, and many if not most of their fights arise from homosexual competition....Prominent men lend their sons to each other. All Siwans know the matings which have taken place among their [[sheiks]] and their sheiks' sons....Most of the [[pederasty|boys used in sodomy]] are between twelve and eighteen years of age."<ref>{{cite book|last=Cline|first=Walter|title=Notes on the People of Siwa|year=1936, p 43|publisher=George Banta Publishing Co|location=Menasha, Wisconsin, USA}}</ref> In the late 1940s, a Siwan [[merchant]] told the visiting British novelist Robin Maugham that the Siwan men "will kill each other for boy. Never for a woman".<ref>{{cite book|last=Maugham|first=Robin|title=Journey to Siwa|year=1950 p80|publisher=Chapman and Hall|location=London}}</ref>
[[File:Catlin - Dance to the berdache.jpg|thumb|''Dance to the Berdache''<br />[[Sac and Fox Nation]] ceremonial dance to celebrate the two-spirit person. George Catlin (1796–1872); Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC]]

===Americas===
Among [[indigenous peoples of the Americas]] prior to European colonization, a common form of same-sex sexuality centered around the figure of the [[Two-Spirit]] individual. Typically this individual was recognized early in life, given a choice by the parents to follow the path and, if the child accepted the role, raised in the appropriate manner, learning the customs of the gender they had chosen. Two-Spirit individuals were commonly [[shamanism|shamans]] and were revered as having powers beyond those of ordinary shamans. Their sexual life was with the ordinary tribe members of the same sex.<ref name=glbtqmex>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Murray |first=Stephen |authorlink=Stephen O. Murray |editor=Claude J. Summers |encyclopedia=glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture |title=Mexico |url=http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/mexico.html |accessdate=2007-08-01 |year=2004 |publisher=[[glbtq.com|glbtq, Inc.]]}}</ref>

[[Native Americans in the United States|American Native]] tribes had [[third-gender]] roles.<ref name=Califia/> These include "[[berdache]]s" (a derogatory term for genetic males who assumed a feminine role) and "[[dyke (slang)|passing women]]" (genetic females who took on a masculine role). The term "berdache" is not a [[Native American language|Native American word]]; rather it was a European definition covering a range of third-gender people in different tribes. Not all Native American tribes had transgender people.<ref name=Katz>[[Jonathan Katz|Katz, J.]] (1976) ''Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.'' New York: [[Thomas Y. Crowell]] Company</ref><ref name="Williams">[[Walter L. Williams|Williams, Walter L.]], (1986) ''The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture'', Boston: Beacon Press</ref>

===Ancient Assyria===
In the ancient [[Assyria]]n society, if a man were to have sex with another man of [[social status|equal status]] or a [[cult]] [[prostitute]], it was thought that trouble will leave him and he will have good [[Luck|fortune]].<ref>Pritchard, p. 181.</ref> Some ancient religious Assyrian texts contain prayers for divine blessings on homosexual relationships.<ref>Gay Rights Or Wrongs: A Christian's Guide to Homosexual Issues and Ministry, by Mike Mazzalonga, 1996, p.11</ref><ref name="Homosexuality, Erik Holland page 334">The Nature Of Homosexuality, Erik Holland, page 334, 2004</ref> Freely pictured art of [[anal intercourse]], practiced as part of a religious [[ritual]], dated from the [[3rd millennium BC]] and onwards.<ref>Greenberg, p. 126</ref> Homosexuality was an integral part of [[temple]] life in parts of [[Mesopotamia]], and no blame appears to have attached to its practice outside of worship.<ref name="Homosexuality, Erik Holland page 334"/><ref>Ibid, 468</ref> Some kings had [[Men who have sex with men|male lovers]] — both Zimri-lin ([[king]] of [[Mari, Syria|Mari]]) and [[Hammurabi]] (king of [[Babylon]]) slept with men.<ref name="Homosexuality, Erik Holland page 334"/> Some Assyrian priests were gay men who [[Cross-dressing|cross-dressed]].<ref>Nissinen, p. 25-27; Naphy, p. 19</ref> There were homosexual and [[transgender]] cult prostitutes, who took part in public processions; singing, dancing, wearing costumes, sometimes [[transsexuality|wearing women's clothes and carrying female symbols]], even at times pretending to give [[birth]].<ref>Ibid, 465.</ref>
[[File:Woman spying on male lovers.jpg|thumb|230px|right|A woman spying on a pair of male lovers. China, [[Qing Dynasty]].]]

===Ancient China===
{{Main|Homosexuality in China}}

Homosexuality has been acknowledged in China since ancient times. Scholar Pan Guangdan (潘光旦) came to the conclusion that nearly every [[Emperor of China|emperor]] in the [[Han Dynasty]] had one or more [[catamite|male sex partners]].<ref>Ed. [[Wayne Dynes]], ''Encyclopaedia of Homosexuality'', New York, 1990, pp216</ref> [[Homosexuality in China]], known as the ''passions of the cut peach'' and various other euphemisms has been recorded since approximately 600 BCE. Homosexuality was mentioned in many famous works of Chinese literature.

The instances of same-sex affection and sexual interactions described in the classical novel ''[[Dream of the Red Chamber]]'' seem as familiar to observers in the present as do equivalent stories of romances between heterosexual people during the same period.   [[Confucianism]], being primarily a social and political philosophy, focused little on sexuality, whether homosexual or heterosexual. 
There are also descriptions of lesbians in some history books. It is believed homosexuality was popular in the [[Song Dynasty|Song]], [[Ming Dynasty|Ming]] and [[Qing Dynasty|Qing]] dynasties.<ref>Ed. Wayne Dynes, ''Encyclopaedia of Homosexuality'', New York, 1990, p218</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.androphile.org/preview/Museum/China/NEWindex.htm |title=androphile.org |publisher=androphile.org |accessdate=2013-11-02}}</ref> 
[[File:Threesomeindia.jpg|thumb|Gay sex in threesome with one woman and two men. Miniature from an [[Urdu]] text, [[Mughal India]].]]

===Ancient India===
{{Main|Homosexuality in India}}
Throughout [[Hindu]] and [[Vedic]] texts there are many descriptions of saints, demigods, and even the Supreme Lord transcending gender norms and manifesting multiple combinations of sex and gender. There are several instances in ancient Indian epic poetry of same sex depictions and unions by gods and goddesses. There are several stories of depicting love between same sexes especially among kings and queens. [[Kamasutra]], the ancient Indian treatise on love talks about feelings for same sexes. In South Asia the ''[[Hijra (South Asia)|Hijra]]'' are a caste of third-gender, or transgender group who live a feminine role. Hijra may be born male or [[intersex]], and some may have been born female.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://galva108.org/deities.html |title=Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association, Inc |publisher=Galva108.org |accessdate=2013-11-02}}</ref>

===Ancient Japan===
{{Main|Homosexuality in Japan}}
In Japan, several [[Heian period|Heian]] diaries which contain references to homosexual acts exist as well. Some of these also contain references to [[Emperor of Japan|emperors]] involved in homosexual relationships and to "handsome boys retained for sexual purposes" by emperors.<ref>Ed. Wayne Dynes, ''Encyclopaedia of Homosexuality'', New York, 1990, p6352</ref> In other literary works can be found references to what Leupp has called "problems of gender identity",{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} such as the story of a youth's falling in love with a girl who is actually a [[cross-dressing]] male. Japanese ''[[shunga]]'' are erotic pictures which include same-sex and opposite-sex love.
[[File:Samarkand A group of musicians playing for a bacha dancing boy.jpg|thumb|''Dance of a [[bacchá]] (dancing boy)''<br /> [[Samarkand]], (ca 1905–1915), photo [[Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii]]. [[Library of Congress]], Washington, DC.]]

===Ancient Persia===
{{Further2|[[LGBT in Islam]]}}
In pre-modern Islam there was a "widespread conviction that beardless youths possessed a temptation to adult men as a whole, and not merely to a small minority of deviants."<ref>El-Rouayheb, 2005. Op.cit. p.115</ref> Muslim—often [[Sufi]]—poets in medieval Arab lands and in [[Iran|Persia]] wrote odes to the beautiful wine boys who served them in the taverns. In many areas the practice survived into modern times, as documented by [[Richard Francis Burton]], [[André Gide]], and others. [[Homoerotic]] themes were present in poetry and other literature written by some Muslims from the medieval period onwards and which celebrated love between men. In fact these were more common than expressions of attraction to women.<ref name="autogenerated1">''Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World'', MacMillan Reference USA, 2004, p.316</ref>

Persian poets, such as [[Saadi (poet)|Sa’di]] (d. 1291), [[Hafiz Shirazi|Hafiz]] (d. 1389), and [[Jami]] (d. 1492), wrote poems replete with homoerotic allusions. The two most commonly documented forms were commercial sex with transgender young males or males enacting transgender roles exemplified by the [[köçek]]s and the [[bacchá]]s, and [[Sufi]] spiritual practices in which the practitioner admired the form of a beautiful boy in order to enter ecstatic states and glimpse the beauty of god.

===Classical antiquity in Europe===

====Ancient Greece====
{{Main|Homosexuality in ancient Greece}}
[[File:Kiss Briseis Painter Louvre G278 full.jpg|thumb|Male couple ([[Pederasty in ancient Greece#Terminology|''erastes'' and ''eromenos'']]) kissing ''([[Red-figure pottery|Attic red-figured cup]], ca. 480 BC)'']]
The earliest documents concerning same-sex relationships come from [[Ancient Greece]]. Such relationships did not replace marriage between man and woman, but occurred before and beside it. A mature man would not usually have a mature male mate (with exceptions such as [[Alexander the Great]] and the same-aged  [[Hephaestion]]) but the older man would usually be the ''[[Eromenos|erastes]]'' (lover) to a young ''[[eromenos]]'' (loved one). [[pederasty|Men could also seek adolescent boys]] as partners as shown by some of the earliest documents concerning same-sex pederastic relationships, which come from Ancient Greece. Often they were favored over women. One ancient saying claimed that "Women are for business, boys are for pleasure." Though slave boys could be bought, free boys had to be courted, and ancient materials suggest that the father also had to consent to the relationship.

In regard of male homosexuality such documents depict a world in which relationships with women and relationships with youths were the essential foundation of a normal man's love life. [[Same-sex relationship]]s were a social institution variously constructed over time and from one city to another. The formal practice, an erotic yet often restrained relationship between a free adult male and a free adolescent, was valued for its [[pedagogy|pedagogic]] benefits and as a means of population control, though occasionally blamed for causing disorder.

[[Plato]] praised its benefits in his early writings<ref name=plato1>[[Plato]], Phaedrus in the ''[[Symposium]]''</ref> but in his late works proposed its prohibition.<ref name=plato2>Plato, Laws, 636D & 835E</ref> In the ''Symposium'' (182B-D), Plato equates acceptance of homosexuality with [[democracy]], and its suppression with [[despotism]], saying that homosexuality "is shameful to barbarians because of their despotic governments, just as philosophy and athletics are, since it is apparently not in best interests of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or physical unions, all of which love is particularly apt to produce".<ref name=boswell1>{{harv|Boswell|1980}}</ref> [[Aristotle]], in the ''Politics'', dismissed Plato's ideas about abolishing homosexuality; he explains that barbarians like the [[Celts]] accorded it a special honor, while the [[Cretans]] used it to regulate the population.<ref name=boswell1/>
[[File:Lafond Sappho and Homer.jpg|right|thumb|Female youths are depicted surrounding Sappho in this painting of [[Lafond]] "Sappho sings for Homer", 1824.]]
The ideal held that both partners would be inspired by love symbolized by [[Eros (mythology)|Eros]], the erastes unselfishly providing education, guidance, and appropriate gifts to his eromenos, who became his devoted pupil and assistant, while the sexuality theoretically remained short of penetrative acts and supposedly would consist primarily of the act of [[frot]]tage or [[intercrural sex]].  Although this was the ideal, realistically speaking, it is probable that in many such relationships [[fellatio]] and penetrative [[anal intercourse]] did occur. The hoped-for result was the mutual improvement of both erastes and eromenos, each doing his best to excel in order to be worthy of the other. If one was open about one's homosexuality then they were exiled or in some cases executed because it was regarded as a duty to one's [[ethnic group]] to reproduce.

[[Kenneth J. Dover]], followed by [[Michel Foucault]] and [[Halperin]], assumed that it was considered improper for the eromenos to feel desire, as that would not be masculine. However, Dover's claim has been questioned in light of evidence of [[love poetry]] which suggests a more emotional connection than earlier researchers liked to acknowledge. Some research has shown that ancient Greeks believed [[semen]], more specifically [[sperm]], to be the source of knowledge, and that these relationships served to pass [[wisdom]] on from the erastes to the eromenos within society.<ref>{{cite book |last=Vanggaard |first=Thorkil |title=Phallos. A Symbol and its History in the Male World |publisher=New York: International Universities Press, Inc. |year=1972 |isbn=978-0-8236-8192-1}}</ref>

[[Sappho]], born on the island of [[Lesbos]], was included by later Greeks in the canonical list of [[nine lyric poets]]. The adjectives deriving from her name and place of birth ([[Sapphic love|Sapphic]] and Lesbian) came to be applied to female homosexuality beginning in the 19th century.<ref name=lesbian>{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=lesbian|title=Lesbian|accessdate=2009-02-07|publisher=Online Etymology Dictionary|year=2001|author=Douglas Harper}}</ref><ref name=sapphic>{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Sapphic|title=Sapphic|accessdate=2009-02-07|publisher=Online Etymology Dictionary|year=2001|author=Douglas Harper}}</ref> Sappho's poetry centers on passion and love for various personages and both genders. The narrators of many of her poems speak of [[infatuation]]s and [[love]] (sometimes requited, sometimes not) for various females, but descriptions of physical acts [[Lesbian|between women]] are few and subject to debate.<ref>Denys Page, ''Sappho and Alcaeus'', Oxford UP, 1959, pp. 142–146.</ref><ref>{{harv|Campbell|1982|p=xi–xii}}</ref>

====Ancient Rome====
{{Main|Homosexuality in ancient Rome}}
[[File:NAMA Sappho lisant.jpg|thumb|Sappho reading to her companions on an Attic vase of c. 435 BC.]]
In Ancient Greece and [[Phrygia]], and later in the [[Roman Republic]], the Goddess [[Cybele]] was worshiped by a cult of people who [[castration|castrated]] themselves, and thereafter took female dress and referred to themselves as female.<ref name=Califia>[[Patrick Califia|Califia, Patrick]] (2003) ''Sex Changes The Politics of Transgenderism'', [[Cleis Press]] INC., California, [[ISDN]] 1-57344-180-5</ref><ref name=Banjamin>[[Harry Benjamin|Benjamin, H.]] (1966). The Transsexual Phenomenon. Julian Press: New York</ref> These early transsexual figures have also been referred to as early gay role models by several authors.<ref name=Evans>[[Arthur Evans|Evans, Arthur.]] (1978) ''Witchraft and Gay counterculture,'' [[Boston]]: Fag Rag Books</ref><ref name=Conner>[[Randy Conner|Conner, R.]] (1993) ''Blossom of Bone'' San Francisco, Harper</ref>

In [[Ancient Rome]] the young male body remained a focus of male sexual attention, but relationships were between older free men and slaves or freed youths who took the receptive role in sex. All the emperors with the exception of [[Claudius]] took male lovers. The Hellenophile emperor [[Hadrian]] is renowned for his relationship with [[Antinous]].

In Roman patriarchal society, it was socially acceptable for an [[Sexuality in ancient Rome#Male sexuality|adult male citizen]] to take the penetrative role in same-sex relations. [[Sexuality in ancient Rome#Sexuality and children|Freeborn male minors]] were strictly protected from sexual predators (see ''[[Lex Scantinia]]''), and men who willingly played the "passive" role in homosexual relations were disparaged. No law or moral censure was directed against homosexual behaviors as such, as long as the citizen took the dominant role with a partner [[Social class in ancient Rome|of lower status]] such as a [[Slavery in ancient Rome|slave]], [[Prostitution in ancient Rome|prostitute]], or someone considered ''[[Sexuality in ancient Rome#Pleasure and infamy|infamis]]'', of no social standing.

During the [[Renaissance]], wealthy cities in northern [[Italy]]—[[Florence]] and [[Venice]] in particular—were renowned for their widespread practice of same-sex love, engaged in by a considerable part of the male population and constructed along the classical pattern of Greece and Rome.<ref>Rocke, Michael, (1996), ''Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and male Culture in Renaissance Florence'', ISBN 0-19-512292-5</ref><ref>Ruggiero, Guido, (1985), ''The Boundaries of Eros'', ISBN 0-19-503465-1</ref> Attitudes toward homosexual behavior changed when the Empire fell under Christian rule; see for instance [[Sodomy#Justinian I and Byzantine power politics of late antiquity|legislation of Justinian I]].

====Ancient Celts====
According to [[Aristotle]], although most "belligerent nations" were strongly influenced by their women, the Celts were unusual because their men openly preferred male lovers (''[[Politics (Aristotle)|Politics]]'' II 1269b).<ref>{{cite book|author=Percy, William A.|title= Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece|publisher= University of Illinois Press|year= 1996|url=http://www.google.com/books?id=TCvoj1efp8UC&pg=PA18&dq=celts%2BAthenaeus%2Bboy%2Blover&sig=6jEo_4NaMuXlkX5Z-kpMCM6gOgo|page= 18|isbn= 0-252-06740-1|accessdate= 2009-09-18}}; Rankin, H.D. ''Celts and the Classical World'', p.55</ref> H. D. Rankin in ''Celts and the Classical World'' notes that "Athenaeus echoes this comment (603a) and so does [[Ammianus Marcellinus|Ammianus]] (30.9). It seems to be the general opinion of antiquity."<ref>Rankin, p. 55</ref> In book XIII of his ''[[Deipnosophistae|Deipnosophists]]'', the Roman Greek rhetorician and grammarian [[Athenaeus]], repeating assertions made by [[Diodorus Siculus]] in the 1st century BC ([[Bibliotheca historica]] 5:32), wrote that Celtic women were beautiful but that the men preferred to sleep together. Diodorus went further, stating that "the young men will offer themselves to strangers and are insulted if the offer is refused". Rankin argues that the ultimate source of these assertions is likely to be [[Poseidonius]] and speculates that these authors may be recording male "bonding rituals".<ref>Rankin, p.78</ref>

===South Pacific===
In many societies of [[Melanesia]], especially in [[Papua New Guinea]], same-sex relationships were, until the middle of the last century, an integral part of the culture. The [[Etoro tribe|Etoro]] and [[Marind-anim]] for example, even viewed heterosexuality as sinful and celebrated homosexuality instead. In many traditional Melanesian cultures a pre-pubertal boy would be paired with an older adolescent who would become his mentor and who would "inseminate" him (orally, anally, or topically, depending on the tribe) over a number of years in order for the younger to also reach puberty.<ref name=melanesia>{{Cite book |title=Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia |first=Gilbert H. |last=Herdt |year=1984 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=0-520-08096-3 |pages=128–136 }}</ref>

==The Middle Ages==
{{main|Homosexuality in medieval Europe}}
Same-sex scholarly 'empires of the mind'{{Clarify|date=April 2014}} were common in medieval Arabic cultures, as seen in their poetry on same-sex love.

According to [[John Boswell (historian)|John Boswell]], author of ''Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality'',<ref>New Haven: [[Yale University Press]] (1980)</ref> there were same-sex Christian monastic communities and other [[religious order]]s in which homosexuality thrived. According to Chauncey et al. (1989), the book "offered a revolutionary interpretation of the [[Western culture|Western tradition]], arguing that the [[Roman Catholic Church]] had not condemned [[Homosexuality|gay people]] throughout its history, but rather, at least until the twelfth century, had alternately evinced no special concern about homosexuality or actually celebrated love between men."
Boswell was also the author of ''Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe'' (New York: Villard, 1994) in which he argues that the ''adelphopoiia'' liturgy was evidence that attitude of the Christian church towards homosexuality has changed over time, and that [[Early Christianity|early Christians]] did on occasion accept same-sex relationships.<ref>[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/index-bos.html John Boswell page; "People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History "] [[Fordham University]]; 1997. Retrieved January 16, 2010.</ref> Some critics, notably [[R. W. Southern]], dispute Boswell's findings and scholarly rigor.{{Citation needed|date=September 2007}} His work attracted great controversy, as it was seen by many as merely an attempt for Boswell to justify his homosexuality and Roman Catholic faith. For instance, R. W. Southern points out that homosexuality had been condemned extensively by religious leaders and medieval scholars well before the 12th century; he also points to the [[penitential]]s which were common in early medieval society, and many of which include homosexuality as among the serious sins.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality|author=Mathew Kuefler|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=2006|isbn=978-0-226-45741-3}}</ref>
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Bennett and Froide, in "Singlewomen in the European Past", note: "Other
single women found emotional comfort and [[Sexual arousal|sexual pleasure]] with women. The
history of same-sex relations between women in medieval and early modern
Europe is exceedingly difficult to study, but there can be no doubt of its
existence. Church leaders worried about lesbian sex; women expressed,
practiced, and were sometimes imprisoned or even executed for same-sex love;
and some women cross-dressed in order to live with other women as married
couples." They go on to note that even the seemingly modern word "lesbian"
has been traced back as far as 1732, and discuss lesbian subcultures, but
add, "Nevertheless, we certainly should not equate the single state with
lesbian practices." While same-sex relationships among men were highly
documented and condemned, "Moral theologians did not pay much attention to
the question of what we would today call lesbian sex, perhaps because
anything that did not involve a phallus did not fall within the bounds of
their understanding of the sexual. Some legislation against lesbian
relations can be adduced for the period, mainly
<nowiki>involving</nowiki> the use of "instruments," in other words,
[[dildo]]es."<ref>{{cite book|title=Singlewomen in the European Past
|authorlink=Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide|year=1999|publisher=University
Pennsylvania Press|pages=10–11, 128}}</ref>

Persecutions against homosexuality rose during the [[High Middle Ages]], reaching their height during the [[Medieval Inquisition]]s, when the sects of [[Cathars]] and [[Waldensians]] were accused of fornication and sodomy, alongside accusations of satanism.  In 1307, accusations of sodomy and homosexuality were major charges leveled during the [[Trial of the Knights Templar]].<ref>G. Legman "The Guilt of the Templars" (New York: Basic Books, 1966): 11.</ref> The theologian [[Thomas Aquinas]] was influential in linking condemnations of homosexuality with the idea of [[natural law]], arguing that "special sins are against nature, as, for instance, those that run counter to the intercourse of male and female natural to animals, and so are peculiarly qualified as unnatural vices."<ref name="civ2">Crompton, Louis, ''Homosexuality and Civilization'', Harvard University, 2003. Page 187</ref>

==The Renaissance==
The [[Renaissance]] saw intense oppression of homosexual relationships by the Roman Catholic Church. Homosexual activity radically passes from being completely legal in the most of Europe to incurring the death penalty in most European states.<ref>John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (1980) p. 293.</ref> In [[France in the Middle Ages|France]], first-offending sodomites lost their testicles, second offenders lost their penis, and third offenders were burned. Women caught in same-sex acts could be mutilated and executed as well.<ref name="Fone">Fone, Byrne R. S. (2000). Homophobia: a history. New York: Metropolitan Books. ISBN 0-8050-4559-7.</ref> [[Thomas Aquinas]] argues that sodomy is second only to murder in the ranking of sins.<ref name="Fone"/> The church used every means at its disposal to fight what it considered to be the "corruption of [[sodomy]]". Men were fined or jailed; boys were flogged. The harshest punishments, such as [[burning at the stake]], were usually reserved for crimes committed against the very young, or by violence. The [[Spanish Inquisition]] begins in 1480, sodomites were stoned, castrated, and burned. Between 1540 and 1700, more than 1,600 people were prosecuted for sodomy.<ref name="Fone"/> In 1532 the [[Holy Roman Empire]] made sodomy punishable by death.<ref name="Fone"/> The following year King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] passed the [[Buggery Act 1533]] making all male-male sexual activity punishable by death.<ref>''R v Jacobs'' (1817) Russ & Ry 331 confirmed that buggery related only to intercourse ''[[anal sex|per anum]]'' by a man with a man or woman or intercourse ''per anum'' or ''[[vaginal sex|per vaginum]]'' by either [[bestiality|a man or a woman with an animal]]. Other forms of "unnatural intercourse" may amount to [[indecent assault]] or [[gross indecency between men|gross indecency]], but do not constitute buggery. See generally, Smith & Hogan, ''Criminal Law'' (10th ed), ISBN 0-406-94801-1</ref>

===Florentine homosexuality===
[[Florence]] had a widespread homosexual culture, which included age-structured relationships.<ref>Stephen J. Milner, ''At the Margins: Minority Groups in Premodern Italy'', Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8166-3820-9, p. 62.</ref>  In 1432 the city established ''Gli Ufficiali di Notte'' (The Officers of the Night) to root out the practice of sodomy. From that year until 1502, the number of men charged with sodomy numbered more than 17,000, of whom 3,000 were convicted. This number also included heterosexual sodomy. This also gave rise to a number of proverbs illuminating the views of the common people towards the practice; among them: "If you crave joys, tumble some boys."<ref>Florentine proverb, ca. 1480. After [[Sabadino degli Arienti]] in ''Le Porretane.''Michael Rocke, ''Forbidden friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence,'' Oxford, 1996; p.87</ref>

====Association of homosexuality with foreignness====
The reputation of Florence is also reflected in the fact that the Germans adopted the word ''Florenzer'' to refer to a "sodomite".<ref>Rocke, Michael, (1996), ''Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and male Culture in Renaissance Florence'', ISBN 978-0-19-512292-3</ref><ref>Ruggiero, Guido, (1985), ''The Boundaries of Eros'', ISBN 978-0-19-505696-9</ref> The association of foreignness with homosexuality gradually became a cornerstone of homophobic rhetoric throughout Europe, and it was used in a calumnious perspective. For example, the French would call "homosexuality" the "Italian vice" in the 16th and 17th centuries, the "English vice" in the 18th century, the ''mœurs orientales'' (oriental mores) in the 19th century, and the "German vice" starting from 1870 and into the 20th century.<ref>Revenin, '''Homosexualité et prostitution masculines à Paris : 1870-1918'', 102-103.</ref>

===Literature===
The Church could not repress all expressions of homoerotic desire. One of the most famous examples is a [[tongue-in-cheek]] philosophic defense of the practice provided by [[Antonio Rocco]], in his infamous ''L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola'' (''[[Alcibiades the Schoolboy]]'', in English) a dialogue in which a teacher seeks to use philosophy to convince a male student to have sex with him. However, given the tongue-in-cheek nature of the writing, it seems unclear whether it is meant to be satire or genuine under the pretense of a joke.

==Europe==

===Psychology and terminology shifts===
The developing field of psychology was the first way homosexuality could be directly addressed aside from Biblical condemnation. In Europe, homosexuality had been part of case studies since the 1790s with Johann Valentin Müller’s work.<ref>Edsall, Nicholas C., Towards Stonewall.Virginia UP. Pg. 127–152. 2003.</ref> The studies of this era tended to be rigorous examination of “criminals,” looking to confirm guilt and establish patterns for future prosecutions. Ambroise Tardieu in France believed he could identify “pederasts” affirming that the sex organs are altered by homosexuality in his 1857 publishing.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152">Edsall, Nicholas C., Towards Stonewall.Virginia UP. Pg. 127–152.</ref> François Charles’s exposé, Les Deux Prostitutions: études du pathologie sociale, (The Two Prostitutions: Study of the Social Pathology) developed methods for police to persecute through meticulous documentation of homosexuality.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/> Others include Johann Caspar and Otto Westphal, Karl Ulrichs. Krafft-Ebing’s 1886 publication, Psychopathia Sexualis,was the most widely translated work of this kind.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/>  He and Ulrichs believed that homosexuality was congenitally based, but Krafft-Ebing differed; in that, he asserted that homosexuality was a symptom of other psychopathic behavior that he viewed to be an inherited disposition to degeneracy.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/>

Degeneracy became widely acknowledged theory for homosexuality during the 1870s and 80s.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/> It spoke to the eugenic and social Darwin theories of the late 19th Century. Benedict Augustin Morel is considered the father of degeneracy theory.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/> His theories posit that physical, intellectual, and moral abnormalities come from disease, urban over-population, malnutrition, alcohol, and other failures of his contemporary society.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/>

An important shift in the terminology of homosexuality was brought about by the development of psychology’s inquisition into homosexuality.  “Contrary sexual feeling,”<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/> as Westphal’s phrased, and the word “homosexual” itself made their way into the Western lexicons. Homosexuality had a name aside from the ambiguous term “sodomy” and the elusive “abomination.”  As Michel Foucault phrases, “the sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.”<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/>

An addendum to the terminology of homosexuality is the seemingly ever-changing acronym, with its roots in the 1980s when female homosexuals began to identify themselves as lesbians instead of gay. This led to references of "gay and lesbian" every time homosexuals were discussed in the media. In the last decade non-heterosexuals such as bisexuals and those who are trans-gender have been lumped together with gays and lesbians, resulting in the popular GLBT acronym (gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans-gender). But since around 2005 the acronym has evolved at times to LGBT, apparently with the assistance of pro-lesbian lobbying to change the acronym. But the acronym is not set in stone for all publications, and GLBT or LGBT seem to appear interchangeably. It has even appeared as GLBTQ (to include Queer) or even as GLBTQQ (to include both Queer and Questioning).

===Homosexuality in eighteenth-century Great Britain===
{{main|Timeline of LGBT history in Britain}}
[[Molly house]]s appeared in 18th century London and other large cities. A ''Molly house'' is an archaic 18th century English term for a tavern or private room where homosexual and [[cross-dressing]] men could meet each other and possible sexual partners. Patrons of the Molly house would sometimes enact mock weddings, sometimes with the bride giving birth. [[Margaret Clap]] (?—circa 1726), better known as ''Mother Clap'', ran such a Molly house from 1724 to 1726 in [[Holborn]], London. She was also heavily involved in the ensuing legal battles after her premise was raided and shut down. Molly houses were perhaps the first precursors to the modern [[gay bar]].

===Decriminalization of homosexuality in France===
In 1791, [[French Revolution|Revolutionary France]] (and Andorra) adopted a new penal code which no longer criminalized sodomy. France thus became the first West European country to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults.<ref>Gunther, Scott (2009). [http://academics.wellesley.edu/French/facultyhomepages/gunther/Scott%20Gunther%20-%20The%20Elastic%20Closet.html "The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France, 1942–present"] Book about the history of homosexual movements in France (sample chapter available online). Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009. ISBN 0-230-22105-X.</ref>

===The emancipation movement in Germany, 1890s–1934===
Prior to the [[Third Reich]], Berlin was a [[Liberalism|liberal]] city, with many gay bars, nightclubs and cabarets. There were even many [[drag (clothing)|drag]] bars where tourists [[heterosexuality|straight]] and gay would enjoy [[drag queen|female impersonation]] acts. [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] decried cultural degeneration, [[prostitution]] and [[syphilis]] in his book ''[[Mein Kampf]]'', blaming at least some of the phenomena on Jews. Berlin also had the most active [[LGBT movements|LGBT rights movements]] in the world at the time. Jewish doctor [[Magnus Hirschfeld]] had co-founded the [[Scientific-Humanitarian Committee]] (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK) in Berlin in 1897 to campaign against the notorious "[[Paragraph 175]]" of the Penal Code that made [[Men who have sex with men|sex between men]] illegal. It also sought social recognition of homosexual and transgender men and women. It was the first public gay rights organization. The Committee had branches in several other countries, thereby being the first international GLBT organization, although on a small scale. In 1919, Hirschfeld had also co-founded the [[Institut für Sexualwissenschaft]] (Institute for Sex Research), a private [[sexology]] [[research institute]]. It had a [[research library]] and a large archive, and included a marriage and sex counseling office. In addition, the institute was a pioneer worldwide in the call for [[civil rights]] and social acceptance for homosexual and transgender people.

{{see also|Gustav Wyneken|Adolf Brand|Mädchen in Uniform (1931 film)|label 3={{noitalic|Mädchen in Uniform}}|Institut für Sexualwissenschaft}}

===Oscar Wilde===
[[Oscar Wilde]], the Irish author and playwright played an important role in bringing homosexuality into the public eye. The scandal in British society and subsequent court case from 1895–6 was highly discussed not only in Europe, but also in America, although newspapers like the New York Times concentrated on the question of blackmail, only alluding to the homosexual aspects as having “a curious meaning,” in the first publication on April 4, 1895.<ref>OSCAR WILDE PLAINTIFF:Cynicisms on Literature and Manners in an English Court. MARQUIS OF QUEENSBERRY'S LIBEL The Writer Rarely Writes What He Believes Is True and Thinks that Self-Realization Is the End of Life.. (1895, April 4). ''New York Times'' (1857–1922),5. Retrieved February 1, 2010, from ProQuest Historical Newspapers ''The New York Times'' (1851–2006).</ref> After Wilde’s arrest, the April 6 ''New York Times'' discussed Wilde’s case as a question of “immorality” and did not specifically address homosexuality, discussing the men “some as young as 18” that were brought up as witnesses.<ref>OSCAR WILDE IMPRISONED:Worse Than Failure Comes of His Suit for Vindication. QUEENSBERRY'S ACTION JUSTIFIED Jurors Decide in a Subsidiary Verdict that the Marquis's Accusation Was Made for the Public Good. (1895, April 6). New York Times (1857–1922),p. 5. Retrieved February 1, 2010, from ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851–2006). (Document ID: 102453111).</ref>

==United States of America==
See also ''[[Lesbian American history]].'' <br />
See also ''[[Bisexual American history]].'' <br />
See also ''[[Gay men in American history]].'' <br />
See also ''[[Transgender American history]].''

===18th and 19th century===
Before the American Civil War and the massive population growth of the Post-Civil War America, the majority of the American population was rural. Without major urban centers to foster sexual subcultures, no self-conscious homosexual subculture could form. With no access to alternative opinions to religious, legal, and social castigations, the culture treatment of homosexuality as a sickness, a sin, and a criminal act would be internalized by homosexuals— keeping homosexuality suppressed personally and culturally.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84">Edsall, Nicholas C., Towards Stonewall.Virginia UP. Pg. 69–84. 2003.</ref> Homosexuality remained unseen and taboo concept in society. In fact, the word “homosexuality” was not coined as a word till 1868 by German-Hungarian [[Karoly Maria Kertbeny]] (who advocated decriminalization).<ref>EEdsall, Nicholas C., Towards Stonewall.Virginia UP. Pg. 69–84. 2003.</ref> During this era, homosexuality fell under the umbrella term “sodomy” that comprised all forms of nonproductive sexuality (masturbation and oral sex were sometimes excluded). Without urban sub-cultures or even a name for self-definition, communal solidarity and self-consciousness was impossible.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/>

Mainstream [[Biblical hermeneutics|interpretation]] of {{bibleverse||Leviticus|20:13|KJV}}, {{Bibleverse||Romans|1:26-7|KJV}} and the destruction of [[Sodom and Gomorrah]] were the justification for the severe penalties facing those accused of “sodomy.”<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/> Most of the laws around homosexuality in the colonies were derived from the English laws of “buggery,” and the punishment in all American colonies was death. The penalty for attempted sodomy (both homosexuality and bestiality) was prison, whipping, banishment, or fines. Thomas Jefferson suggested castration as the punishment for sodomy, rape, and polygamy in a proposed revision of the Virginia criminal code near the end of 18th Century.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/>

Pennsylvania was the first state to repeal the death penalty for “sodomy” in 1786 and within a generation all the other colonies followed suit (except North and South Carolina that repealed after the Civil War).<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/> Along with the removal of the death penalty during this generation, court case language notably shifted from Biblical damnation to a more dispassionate language, such as: “unmentionable” or “abominable” acts.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/> This evasive language moved homosexuality to an absolute taboo in American society, making communal solidarity ever impossible. Aside from sodomy and “attempted sodomy” court cases and a few public scandals, homosexuality remained unacknowledged by mainstream society. Lesbianism had no legal definition largely because of the Victorian notion of female sexuality was that women were not sexually driven.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/>

In a survey of sodomy law enforcement of the 19th Century, a significant minority of cases did not even specify gender of the “victim” and the accused. Most cases were argued as non-consensual or rape.<ref name="Mucciaroni, Gary Pg. 117-128">Mucciaroni, Gary. Same Sex, Different Politics. Chicago UP. Pg. 117–128. 2008</ref> The first prosecution for consensual sex between people of the same gender was not until 1880.<ref name="Mucciaroni, Gary Pg. 117-128"/> This can be attributed to the purity movement which also explains the sharp increase in arrests for prostitution and homosexuality. In response to the visibility of alternative genders, gender bending, and homosexuality, a host of laws against vagrancy, public indecency, disorderly conduct, and indecent exposure were introduced across America as discourse for easier persecution. “Sodomy” laws also shifted in many states over the beginning of the 20th Century to specifically address homosexuality (many States during the 20th Century made anal intercourse between men and women legal).<ref name="Mucciaroni, Gary Pg. 117-128"/> In some states, these laws would last until the Federal government repealed them in 2004 with the Lawrence decision.<ref name="Mucciaroni, Gary Pg. 117-128"/>

===Male ideal and the 19th century===
Homosexual identity found its first social foothold in the 19th Century not in sexuality or homoerotica, but in idealized conception of the wholesome and loving male friendship during the 19th Century. Or as contemporary author [[Theodore Winthrop]] in Cecil Dreeme writes, “a friendship I deemed more precious than the love of women.”<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/> This ideal came from and was enforced by the male-centric institutions of boy’s boarding schools, all-male colleges, the military, the frontier, etc. – fictional and non-fiction accounts of passionate male friendships became a theme present in American Literature and social conceptions of masculinity.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/>

New York, as America’s largest city exponentially growing during the 19th Century (doubling from 1800–20 and again by 1840 to a population of 300,000), saw the beginnings of a homosexual subculture concomitantly growing with the population.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/>  Continuing the theme of loving male friendship, the American poet, [[Walt Whitman]] arrived in New York in 1841.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/> He was immediately drawn to young working class men found in certain parks, public baths, the docks, and some bars and dance halls.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/> He kept records of the men and boys, usually noting their ages, physical characteristics, jobs, and origins.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/>  Dispersed in his praise of the city are moments of male admiration, such as in ''Calamus''— “frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me robust, athletic love” or in poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, where he writes:

"Was call'd by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me / approaching or passing, / Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the negligent leaning of their flesh against me as / I sat, / Saw many I loved in the street or ferry-boat or public assembly, yet never told them a / word, / Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing, sleeping, / Play'd the part that still looks back on the actor or actress, / The same old role, the role that is what we make it, as great as we like, / Or as small as we like, or both great and small."<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/>

Sometimes Whitman's writing verged on explicit, such as in his poem, Native Moments— “I share the midnight orgies of young men / I pick out some low person for my dearest friend. He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate.”<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/> Poems like these and Calamus (inspired by Whitman’s treasured friends and possible lover, Fred Vaughan who lived with the Whitman family in the 1850s) and the general theme of manly love, functioned as a pseudonym for homosexuality.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/>  The developing sub-community had a coded voice to draw more homosexuals to New York and other growing American urban centers. Whitman did, however, in 1890 denounce any sexuality in the comradeship of his works and historians debate whether he a practicing homosexual, bisexual, etc.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/> But this denouncement shows that homosexuality had become a public question by the end of the 19th Century.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/>

Twenty years after Whitman came to New York, Horatio Alger continued the theme of manly love in his stories of the young Victorian self-made man.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/>  He came to New York fleeing from a public scandal with a young man in Cape Cod that forced him to leave the ministry, in 1866.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 69-84"/>

===Late 19th century===
We'wha was a relatively modern ''Ihamana'' ([[Two-Spirit]]) of the Native American [[Zuni people|Zuni tribe]]. She made a trip to Washington in 1886, and later shook President [[Theodore Roosevelt|Roosevelt]]'s hand. She was revered by her tribe for her skill at weaving and pottery, as well as taking part in community ceremonies and rituals.<ref name=Califia/> Her life was originally documented by anthropologist [[Matilda Coxe Stevenson]] in the late 19th century.<ref name=Roscoe>Roscoe, W. (1988) "The Zuni Man-Woman", ''[[Outlook (magazine)| ]]'', Summer 1988, p.57.</ref>

===Early 20th century===
In 1908, the first American defense of homosexuality was published.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/> ''The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life'', was written by Edward Stevenson under the pseudonym Xavier Mayne.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/> This 600-page defense detailed Classical examples, but also modern literature and the homosexual subcultures of urban life.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/> He dedicated the novel to Krafft-Ebing because he argued homosexuality was inherited and, in Stevenson’s view and not necessarily Krafft-Ebing’s, should not face prejudice. He also wrote one of the first homosexual novels— ''Imre: A Memorandum''.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/> Also in this era, the earliest known open homosexual in the United States, Claude Hartland, wrote an account of his sexual history.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 90-91">Edsall, Nicholas C., Towards Stonewall.Virginia UP. Pg. 90–91.</ref> He affirmed that he wrote it to affront the naivety surrounding sexuality. It was in response to the ignorance he saw while being treated by doctors and psychologists that failed to “cure” him.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 90-91"/> Hartland wished his attraction to men could be solely “spiritual,” but could not escape the “animal.”<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 90-91"/>

By this time, society was slowly becoming aware of the homosexual subculture. In an 1898 lecture in Massachusetts, a doctor gave a lecture on this development in modern cities.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/> With a population around three million at the turn of the 20th century, New York’s queer subculture had a strong sense of self-definition and began redefining itself on its own terms. “Middle class queer,” “fairies,” were among the terminology of the underground world of the Lower East Side.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/> But with this growing public presence, backlash came naturally. The YMCA, who ironically promoted a similar image to that of the Whitman’s praise of male brotherhood and athletic prowess, took a chief place in the purity campaigns of the epoch. Anthony Comstock, a salesman and leader of YMCA in Connecticut and later head of his own New York Society for the Suppression of Vice successfully pressed Congress and many state legislatures to pass strict censorship laws.<ref name="Edsall, Nicholas C. Pg. 127-152"/> Ironically, the YMCA became a site of homosexual conduct. In 1912, a scandal hit Oregon where more than 50 men, many prominent in the community were arrested for homosexual activity. In reaction to this scandal conflicting with public campaigns, YMCA leadership began to look the other way on this conduct.

===1920s===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1983-0121-500, Berlin, Bar "Eldorado".jpg|thumb| The Gay Club Eldorado in [[Berlin]]]]
[[File:Lesbiche - 1928 - D- Die freundin 1928.jpg|right|130px|thumb]]
[[File:WeMustGrowAMustache.jpg|thumb|Sheet music poking fun at the masculine traits many women adopted during the 1920s.]]
[[Berlin]] was the leading city for homosexuals during the 1920s with clubs and even newspapers for both lesbians and gay men. The lesbian magazine [[Die Freundin]] was started by [[Friedrich Radszuweit]] and the gay men magazine [[Der Eigene]] had already started in 1896 as the world's first gay magazine. The first gay demonstration ever took place in [[Nollendorfplatz]] in 1922 in Berlin, gathering 400 homosexuals. The homosexual doctor [[Magnus Hirschfeld]] did many things to improve the situation for gays. Berlin was well known as the decadent city during the 1920s.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}}

The 1920s ushered in a new era of social acceptance of minorities and homosexuals, at least in heavily urbanized areas. This was reflected in many of the films (see [[Pre-Code]]) of the decade that openly made references to homosexuality. Even popular songs poked fun at the new social acceptance of homosexuality. One of these songs had the title "Masculine Women, Feminine Men."<ref>The song was written by [[Edgar Leslie]] (words) and [[James Vincent Monaco|James V. Monaco]] (music) and featured in Hugh J. Ward's Musical Comedy "Lady Be Good."</ref> It was released in 1926 and recorded by numerous artists of the day and included the following lyrics:<ref>Artists who recorded this song include: 1. [[Frank Harris]] ([[Irving Kaufman (singer)|Irving Kaufman]]), (Columbia 569D,1/29/26) 2. Bill Meyerl & Gwen Farrar (UK, 1926) 3. Joy Boys (UK, 1926) 4. Harry Reser's [[Six Jumping Jacks]] (UK, 2/13/26) 5. Hotel Savoy Opheans (HMV 5027, UK, 1927, aka Savoy Havana Band) 6. Merrit Brunies & His Friar's Inn Orchestra on Okeh 40593, 3/2/26. An exhibit of early-twentieth-century postcards depicting "Masculine Women and Feminine Men" is available at: http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Main_Page</ref>

{{cquote |
Masculine women, Feminine men<br />
Which is the rooster, which is the hen?<br />
It's hard to tell 'em apart today! And, say!<br />
Sister is busy learning to shave,<br />
Brother just loves his [[permanent wave]],<br />
It's hard to tell 'em apart today! Hey, hey!<br />
Girls were girls and boys were boys when I was a tot,<br />
Now we don't know who is who, or even what's what!<br />
Knickers and trousers, baggy and wide,<br />
Nobody knows who's walking inside,<br />
Those masculine women and feminine men!<ref>A full reproduction of the original [[sheet music]] with the complete lyrics (including the amusing cover sheet) can be found at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an6301650</ref>}}

Homosexuals received a level of acceptance that was not seen again until the 1960s. Until the early 1930s, gay clubs were openly operated, commonly known as "pansy clubs". The relative liberalism of the decade is demonstrated by the fact that the actor [[William Haines]], regularly named in newspapers and magazines as the number-one male box-office draw, openly lived in a gay relationship with his lover, [[Jimmie Shields]].<ref>Mann, William J., ''Wisecracker : the life and times of William Haines, Hollywood's first openly gay star. '' New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1998: 2–6.</ref> Other popular gay actors/actresses of the decade included [[Alla Nazimova]] and [[Ramon Novarro]].<ref>Mann, William J., ''Wisecracker : the life and times of William Haines, Hollywood's first openly gay star. '' New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1998: 12–13, 80–83.</ref> In 1927, [[Mae West]] wrote a play about homosexuality called ''[[The Drag (play)|The Drag]]'', and alluded to the work of [[Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]]. It was a box-office success. West regarded talking about sex as a basic [[human rights]] issue, and was also an early advocate of [[LGBT social movements|gay rights]]. With the return of conservatism in the 1930s, the public grew intolerant of homosexuality, and gay actors were forced to choose between retiring or agreeing to hide their sexuality.

===Late 1930s===
By 1935, the United States had become conservative once again. [[Victorian morality|Victorian values]] and mores, which had been widely ridiculed during the 1920s became fashionable once again. During this period life was harsh for homosexuals as they were forced to hide their behavior and identity in order to escape ridicule and even imprisonment. Many laws were passed against homosexuals during this period and it was declared to be a mental illness. Many police forces conducted operations to arrest homosexuals by using young [[Undercover Cops|undercover cops]] to get them to make propositions to them.

===WWII and the Holocaust===
{{Main|Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust}}
[[File:WAC Air Controller by Dan V. Smith.jpg|thumbnail|1943 Painting of a [[World War II]] [[Women's Army Corps|WAC]] Air Controller artist: Dan V. Smith]]
As the US entered [[World War II]] in 1941, women were provided opportunities to volunteer for their country and almost 250,000 women served in the armed forces, mostly in the [[Women's Army Corps]] (WAC), two-thirds of whom were single and under the age of twenty-five.<ref name="The Roots of Gay Oppression"/> Women were recruited with posters showing muscular, short-haired women wearing tight-fitting tailored uniforms.<ref name="The Roots of Gay Oppression"/> Many lesbians joined the WAC to meet other women and to do ''men’s work.''<ref name="The Roots of Gay Oppression"/><ref name="Coming Out Under Fire">{{cite web |last=Bérubé |first=Allan |title=Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two |publisher=New York: Plume
 |year=1991|page=30|url = http://www.isreview.org/issues/37/gay_oppression.shtml|accessdate=2007-08-22}}</ref> Few were rejected for lesbianism, and found that being strong or having [[masculinity|masculine]] appearance – characteristics associated with homosexual women – aided in the work as mechanics and motor vehicle operators.<ref name="The Roots of Gay Oppression"/> A popular [[The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour|Fleischmann’s Yeast]] [[advertisement]] showed a WAC riding a motorcycle with the heading ''This is no time to be frail.''<ref name="The Roots of Gay Oppression"/><ref name="Coming Out Under Fire, photo inserts, 4.">{{cite web |last=Bérubé |first=Allan |title=Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two, photo inserts.
 |publisher=New York: Plume |date=1991, photo inserts, 4.|url = http://www.isreview.org/issues/37/gay_oppression.shtml|accessdate=2007-08-22}}</ref> Some recruits appeared at their inductions wearing men’s clothing and their hair slicked back in the classic butch style of [[Coming out|out]] lesbians of the time.<ref name="The Roots of Gay Oppression">{{cite web |last=Wolf |first=Sherry
 |title=The Roots of Gay Oppression: The Second World War |publisher=[[International Socialist Review (1997)|International Socialist Review]] |date=September–October 2004, Issue 37
|url = http://www.isreview.org/issues/37/gay_oppression.shtml|accessdate=2007-08-22}}</ref> Post-war many women including lesbians declined opportunities to return to traditional gender roles and helped redefine societal expectations that fed the [[Second-wave feminism|women's]], [[African-American Civil Rights Movement|black]] and [[Gay Liberation|gay liberation]] movements. The war effort greatly shifted American culture and by extension representations in entertainment of both the [[nuclear family]] and LGBT people. In mostly same sex quarters service members were more easily able to express their interests and find willing partners of all sexualities.

During [[The Holocaust]] about 50,000 people were sentenced because of their homosexuality and several thousands of them died in concentration camps. Outside of the gay community, this persecution of homosexuals is usually ignored (see [[History of Gays during the Holocaust]] for more information). Conditions for gay men in the camps was especially rough; they faced not only persecution from German soldiers, but also other prisoners, and many gay men were reported to die of beatings. German soldiers were also known to use the pink triangles that the men were forced to wear for [[target practice]] with their weapons. Female homosexuality was not, technically, a crime and thus gay women were generally not treated as harshly as gay men. Although there are some scattered reports that gay women were sometimes imprisoned for their sexuality, most would have been imprisoned for other reasons, i.e. "anti-social".

By the 1930s both ''fruit'' and ''fruitcake'' terms as well as numerous other words are seen as not only negative but also to mean male homosexual,<ref name="A Dictionary of Epithets">{{cite book |last=Dunkling |first=Leslie |authorlink=Leslie Dunkling|coauthor = |title=A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address  |publisher=Routledge |date=1990, ISBN 0-415-00761-5|url = http://books.google.com/?id=5QIv39cbUMYC&dq=fruit+homosexuality+term |accessdate=2007-11-15 |isbn=978-0-415-00761-0}}</ref> although probably not universally. LGBT people were widely diagnosed as diseased with the potential for being cured, thus were regularly "treated" with [[castration]],<ref>{{cite journal |last=Talbot |first=E.S. |coauthors=Ellis, Havelock |year=1896 |title=A Case of Developmental Degenerative Insanity, with Sexual Inversion, Melancholia, Following Removal of Testicles, Attempted Murder and Suicide |journal=Journal of Mental Science |volume=42 |pages=341–44 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |year=1929 |title=Results of Castration in Sexual Abnormalities |journal=Urologic & Cutaneous Review |volume=33 |page=351 }}</ref><ref name="kronemeyer">{{cite book |last=Kronemeyer |first=Robert |title=Overcoming Homosexuality |year=1980 |publisher=Macmillan |location=New York |isbn=0-02-566850-1 |pages=81, 87 |quote=In the 1950s and 1960s, lobotomies ... were administered promiscuously in the treatment of homosexuals. }}</ref> [[lobotomy|lobotomies]],<ref name="kronemeyer" /><ref>{{cite journal |last=Friedlander |first=Joseph |coauthors=Banay, Ralph S. |year=1948 |title=Psychosis Following Lobotomy in a Case of Sexual Psychopathology; Report of a Case |journal=Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry |volume=59 |pages=303–11, 315, 321 }}</ref> pudic nerve surgery,<ref>{{cite journal |year=1904 |title=The Gentleman Degenerate. A Homosexualist's Self-Description and Self-Applied Title. Pudic Nerve Section Fails Therapeutically |journal=Alienist & Neurologist |volume=25 |pages=68–70 }}</ref> and electroshock treatment.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Max |first=Louis William |year=1935 |title=Breaking Up a Homosexual Fixation by the Condition Reaction Technique: A Case Study |journal=Psychology Bulletin |volume=32 |page=734 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Liebman |first=Samuel |year=1944 |title=Homosexuality, Transvestism, and Psychosis: Study of a Case Treated with Electroshock |journal=Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease |volume=99 |pages=945–57 }}</ref> so transferring the meaning of ''fruitcake'', nutty, to someone who is deemed insane, or crazy, may have seemed rational at the time and many apparently believed that [[LGBT]] people were mentally unsound. In the United States, [[psychiatric institution]]s ("[[mental hospital]]s") where many of these procedures were carried out were called ''fruitcake factories'' while in 1960s Australia they were called ''fruit factories''.<ref>Green, Jonathon (2006, page 549). Cassell's Dictionary of Slang. Sterling Publishing, ISBN 0-304-36636-6. ISBN 978-0-304-36636-1. Retrieved 2007-11-16.</ref> From 1942 to 1947, WWII [[conscientious objectors]] in the US assigned to psychiatric hospitals under [[Civilian Public Service]] exposed abuses throughout the psychiatric care system and were instrumental in [[reform]]s of the 1940s and 1950s.

===Stonewall riots===
{{Main|Stonewall riots}}

''Although the June 28, 1969, Stonewall riots are generally considered the starting point of the modern gay liberation movement, a number of demonstrations and actions took place before that date. These actions, often organized by local homophile organizations but sometimes spontaneous, addressed concerns ranging from anti-gay discrimination in employment and public accommodations to the exclusion of homosexuals from the United States military to police harassment to the treatment of homosexuals in revolutionary Cuba. The early actions have been credited with preparing the LGBT community for Stonewall and contributing to the riots' symbolic power.'' SEE: [[List_of_LGBT_actions_in_the_United_States_prior_to_the_Stonewall_riots|List of LGBT actions in the United States prior to the Stonewall riots]]

In the autumn of 1959, the police force of New York City's Wagner administration began closing down the city's gay bars, which had numbered almost two dozen in Manhattan at the beginning of the year. This crackdown was largely the result of a sustained campaign by the right-wing ''NY Mirror'' newspaper columnist [[Lee Mortimer]]. Existing gay bars were quickly closed and new ones lasted only a short time. The election of [[John Lindsay]] in 1965 signaled a major shift in city politics, and a new attitude toward sexual mores began changing the social atmosphere of New York. On April 21, 1966, Dick Leitsch, president of the New York [[Mattachine Society]] and two other members staged the Sip-in at Julius bar on West 10th Street in Greenwich Village. This resulted in the [[LGBT rights opposition|anti-gay]] accommodation rules of the NY State Liquor Authority being overturned in subsequent court actions. These SLA provisions declared that it was illegal for homosexuals to congregate and be served alcoholic beverages in bars. An example of when these laws had been upheld is in 1940 when Gloria's, a bar that had been closed for such violations, fought the case in court and lost. Prior to this change in the law, the business of running a gay bar had to involve paying bribes to the police and Mafia. As soon as the law was altered, the SLA ceased closing legally licensed gay bars and such bars could no longer be prosecuted for serving gays and lesbians. Mattachine pressed this advantage very quickly and Mayor Lindsay was confronted with the issue of police entrapment in gay bars, resulting in this practice being stopped. On the heels of this victory, the mayor cooperated in getting questions about homosexuality removed from NYC hiring practices. The police and fire departments resisted the new policy, however, and refused to cooperate. The result of these changes in the law, combined with the open social- and sexual-attitudes of the late Sixties, led to the increased visibility of gay life in New York. Several licensed gay bars were in operation in [[Greenwich Village]] and the [[Upper West Side]], as well as illegal, unlicensed places serving alcohol, such as the [[Stonewall Inn]] and the Snakepit, both in Greenwich Village. The [[Stonewall riots]] were a series of violent conflicts between gay men, drag queens and butch dykes against a police officer raid in New York City. The first night of rioting began on Friday, June 27, 1969 at about 1:20&nbsp;am, when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar operating without a state license in Greenwich Village. ''Stonewall'' is considered a turning point for the modern [[gay rights]] movement worldwide. Newspaper coverage of the events was minor in the city, since, in the Sixties, huge marches and mass rioting had become commonplace and the Stonewall disturbances were relatively small. It was the commemorative march one year later, organized by the impetus of [[Craig Rodwell]], owner of the Oscar Wilde Book Shop, which drew 5,000 marchers up New York City's [[Sixth Avenue (Manhattan)|Sixth Avenue]], that drew nationwide publicity and put the Stonewall events on the historical map and led to the modern-day pride marches. A new period of liberalism in the late 1960s began a new era of more social acceptance for homosexuality which lasted until the late 1970s. In the 1970s, the popularity of [[disco]] music and its culture in many ways made society more accepting of gays and lesbians. Late in 1979, a new [[Revivalism|religious revival]] ushered in the conservatism that would reign in the United States during the 1980s and made life hard once again for LGBT people.

===Decriminalization of homosexuality (1961–2003)===
The first US state to decriminalize homosexuality was Illinois in 1961.<ref>Mucciaroni, Gary. Same Sex, Different Politics. Chicago UP. Pg. 123. 2008</ref> It was not until 1969 that another state would follow (Connecticut), but the 1970s and 80s saw the decriminalization throughout the majority of the United States. The 14 states that did not repeal these laws until 2003 were forced to by the landmark United States Supreme Court case [[Lawrence v. Texas]].

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|1972
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|1983
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|1992
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|1993
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|[[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Rhode Island]]
|1998
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|2002
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|2011
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===1980s===
In the 1980s a new intolerance and even hatred against them was manifested by society as it became more conservative, primarily with the help of the Religious Right ([[Evangelicals]] in particular). It is a common belief within the gay community that [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[George H.W. Bush]] were vehemently anti-gay, but that is an extreme exaggeration. Ronald Reagan spoke up for gay equality as early as 1978, when he came out against Proposition 6, a ballot initiative that would have dismissed California teachers who “advocated” homosexuality, even off-campus. As President, he allocated 5.727 Billion dollars from 1982 until 1989 for AIDS research. Socially, the Reagans were well known for being tolerant of homosexual men. Robert G. Kaiser’s news story in the March 18, 1984, Washington Post.
“The Reagans are also tolerant about homosexual men,” Kaiser wrote. “Their interior decorator, Ted Graber, who oversaw the redecoration of the White House, spent a night in the Reagans’ private White House quarters with his male lover, Archie Case, when they came to Washington for Nancy Reagan’s 60th birthday party — a fact confirmed for the press by Mrs. Reagan’s press secretary.”<ref>{{cite news|last=Murdock |first=Deroy |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/304207/gay-left-lies-about-reagan-again-deroy-murdock?pg=2: |title=The Gay Left Lies about Reagan — Again |publisher=Nationalreview.com |date=2012-06-22 |accessdate=2013-11-02}}</ref> Not all conservatives were as tolerant. Many people called AIDS a "punishment from God" and blamed gay men for their "loose morals." However by the later part of the decade the general public started to show more sympathy and even tolerance for gay men as the toll for AIDS related deaths continued to rise to include heterosexuals as well as cultural icons such as [[Rock Hudson]] and [[Liberace]], who also died from the condition. Also despite the more conservative period life in general for gays and lesbians were considerably better in contrast to the pre-Stonewall era. Canards against LGBT people are still employed and in 2010 several Christian right organizations are upgraded from "anti-gay" to [[hate group]]s by the Southern Poverty Law Center which historically tracts hate activities due to the groups' propagation of known falsehoods about lesbians and gays.".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pewforum.org/Religion-News/RNS-Hate-group-watchdog-adds-Family-Research-Council-to-its-list.aspx |title=RNS: Hate group watchdog adds Family Research Council to its list |publisher=Pewforum.org |accessdate=2013-11-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Clark |first=Tracy |url=http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/11/24/hate |title=Anti-gay group: We aren't hateful!: The Family Research Council is angry that its homophobic rhetoric has gotten it labeled a "hate group" |publisher=Salon.com |date=2010-11-25 |accessdate=2013-11-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9266:tolerance-group-accused-of-character-assassination&catid=155:nonprofit-newswire&Itemid=986 |title=Tolerance Group Accused of Character Assassination |publisher=Nonprofitquarterly.org |accessdate=2013-11-02}}</ref>

Despite this, homosexuals in a [[Wall Street Journal]] survey in 1991 found in comparison with average Americans that they were three times more likely to be college graduates, three times more likely to hold professional or managerial positions, and had average salaries $30,000 higher.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=Nayo9QVuJs8C&pg=PA139&dq "The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom"], Michael Bronski. Macmillan, 2000. ISBN 0-312-25287-0, ISBN 978-0-312-25287-8. p. 139</ref>

===Same-sex marriage===
{{Main|Same-sex marriage}}
{{World homosexuality laws map|align=right|size=350px}}

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, there has been a growing movement in a number of countries to regard marriage as a right which should be extended to [[Same-sex marriage|same-sex couples]]. Legal recognition of a marital union opens up a wide range of entitlements, including [[social security]], taxation, inheritance and other benefits unavailable to couples unmarried in the eyes of the law. Restricting legal recognition to opposite-sex couples prevents same-sex couples from gaining access to the legal benefits of marriage. Though certain rights can be replicated by legal means other than marriage (for example, by drawing-up contracts), many cannot, such as inheritance, hospital visitation and immigration. Lack of legal recognition also makes it more difficult for same-sex couples to adopt children.

The first country to legalize same-sex marriages was the [[Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands|Netherlands]] (2001), while the first marriages were performed in the Amsterdam city hall on April 1, 2001. As of August 2013, same-sex marriages are legal nationally in fifteen countries: the Netherlands (2001), [[Same-sex marriage in Belgium|Belgium]] (2003), [[Same-sex marriage in Spain|Spain]] and [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|Canada]] (2005), [[Same-sex marriage in South Africa|South Africa]] (2006), [[Same-sex marriage in Norway|Norway]] and [[Same-sex marriage in Sweden|Sweden]] (2009), [[Same-sex marriage in Portugal|Portugal]], [[Same-sex marriage in Iceland|Iceland]] and [[Same-sex marriage in Argentina|Argentina]] (2010), [[Same-sex marriage in Denmark|Denmark]] (2012), [[Same-sex marriage in Brazil|Brazil]], [[Same-sex marriage in France|France]], [[Same-sex marriage in Uruguay|Uruguay]] and [[Same-sex marriage in New Zealand|New Zealand]] (2013). In [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico|Mexico]], same-sex marriage is recognized in all states, but performed only in [[Same-sex marriage in Mexico City|Mexico City]], where it became effective on March 4, 2010.<ref>{{sp icon}} {{cite web | author=Carlos Áviles Allende | publisher=El Universal | title=Ratifica corte, bodas gay, válidas en todo el país | date=August 10, 2010 | url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/700789.html | accessdate=September 23, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Gay marriage effective">{{sp icon}} {{cite web | author=Mónica Archundia | publisher=El Universal | title=La primera unión gay, para marzo | date=January 5, 2010 | url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/ciudad/99607.html | accessdate=January 5, 2010}}</ref>

In the United States as of October 2013, 14 states ([[New York]], [[Vermont]], [[Iowa]], [[Connecticut]], [[New Hampshire]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Washington (state)]], [[Maine]], [[Maryland]], [[California]], [[Delaware]], [[Rhode Island]], [[Minnesota]]), the [[District of Columbia]] and New Jersey are the ones to recognize and offer same-sex marriages, while the states of [[Colorado]], [[Nevada]] and [[Oregon]] offer same-sex partners benefits similar to those of legally married couples. 29 states have constitutional provisions that limit marriages to one man and one woman In the United States, the debate over whether or not to make same-sex marriages legally binding remains one of the most polarizing and divisive political debates of the early 21st century, and it is discussed with great passion all over the world. During 2004, 13 [[U.S. state|US states]] amended their constitutions to define marriage as being only between one man and one woman. Some people, including many gay rights advocates and some heterosexual same-sex marriage advocates, view restrictions such as these as being an example of the [[tyranny of the majority]] in action.<ref>{{cite web |title=Spring fever |work=Bill and Kent's Place on the Web |url=http://billandkent.com/blog/archives/000802.htm |accessdate=November 8, 2006 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20060613211653/http://billandkent.com/blog/archives/000802.htm |archivedate = June 13, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Matt Daniels, president of the traditionalist Alliance for Marriage condemned the decision. |work=NewsFeed Researcher |url=http://newsfeedresearcher.com/rss/idn2006.10.29.11.58.50.jsp#hdng1 |accessdate=November 8, 2006}}</ref>

===Student groups===
{{Main|Gay–straight alliance}}

Since the mid-1970s students at high schools and universities have organized LGBT groups, often called Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) at their respective schools.<ref>[http://www.amsa.org/news/release2.cfx?id=279 American Medical Student Association. September 13, 2006: "Nation's Medical Students Applaud California Osteopathic Medical School's Affirmation of [[Gay-straight alliance|Gay-Straight Alliance]]."]</ref> The groups form to provide support for LGBT students and to promote awareness of LGBT issues in the local community. In 1990, a student group named [[The Other Ten Percentile]] (Hebrew: העשירון האחר) was founded by a group of teachers and students in the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], becoming the first LGBT organization in [[Jerusalem]]. Frequently, such groups have been banned or prohibited from meeting or receiving the same recogniztion as other student groups. For example, in September 2006, [[Touro University California]] briefly attempted to ban the school's GSA, the [[Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance]]. After student demonstrations and an outcry of support from the [[American Medical Student Association]], the [[Gay and Lesbian Medical Association]] and the [[Vallejo, California|Vallejo]] [[City council|City Council]], Touro University retracted its revocation of the school's GSA. The university went on to reaffirm its commitment to non-discrimination based on sexual orientation. However, organizing these groups do not always work. For most places around the world it takes time for them to become recognized.

===Schools===
Several public schools have opened with a specific mission to create a "safe" place for LGBT students and allies, including [[Harvey Milk High School]] in New York City, and [[The Alliance School (Milwaukee)|The Alliance School]] of [[Milwaukee]]. The Social Justice High School-Pride Campus is proposed for Chicago,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95565768 |title=Chicago Proposes Gay-Friendly High School |publisher=NPR |accessdate=2013-11-02}}</ref> and a number of private schools have also identified as "gay friendly", such as the [[Elisabeth Irwin High School]] in New York City.

In 2012, for the first time, two American school districts celebrated [[LGBT History Month]]; the Broward County school district in Florida signed a resolution in September in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, and later that year the Los Angeles school district, America's second-largest, also signed on.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/08/two-school-districts-recognize-lgbt-month/?hpt=us_bn1 |title=Two school districts recognize LGBT Month – In America - CNN.com Blogs |publisher=Inamerica.blogs.cnn.com |accessdate=2013-11-02}}</ref>

==Historical study of homosexuality==

===19th century and early 20th century===
When Heinrich Hoessli and K. H. Ulrichs began their pioneering homosexual scholarship in the late 19th century, they found little in the way of comprehensive historical data, except for material from ancient Greece and Islam.<ref>''Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia: Volume 2 of Encyclopedia of lesbian and gay histories and cultures'', George E. Haggerty, Bonnie Zimmerman, ISBN 0-8153-3354-4, ISBN 978-0-8153-3354-8, Taylor & Francis, 2000, page 388.</ref> Some other information was added by the English scholars Richard Burton and [[Havelock Ellis]]. In German [[Albert Moll (German psychiatrist)|Albert Moll]] published a volume containing lists of famous homosexuals. By the end of the century, however, when the Berlin Scientific-Humanitarian Committee was formed it was realised that a comprehensive bibliographical search must be undertaken. The results of this inquiry were incorporated into the volumes of the ''Jahrbuch fur sexualle Zwischenstufen'' and Magnus_Hirschfeld's ''Die Homoexualitat des Mannes und des Weibes'' (1914). The [[Great Depression]] and the rise of [[Nazism]] put a stop to most serious homosexual research.

===1950s and 1960s===
As part of the growth of the contemporary gay movement in Southern California, a number of historical articles made their way into such movement periodicals as ''The Ladder'', ''Mattachine Review'', and ''One Quarterly''. In France ''Aracadie'' under the editorship of Marc Daniel published a considerable amount of historical material. Almost without exception, university scholars were afraid to touch the subject. As a result much of the work was done by autodidacts toiling under less than ideal conditions. Since most of this scholarship was done under movement auspices, it tended to reflect relevant concerns; compiling a brief of injustices and biographical sketches of exemplary gay men and women of the past for example.

The atmosphere of the 1960s changed things. The sexual revolution made human sexuality an appropriate object of research. A new emphasis on social and intellectual history appeared, stemming in large measure from the group around the French periodical ''[[Annales (journal)|Annales]]''. Although several useful syntheses of the world [[history of homosexuality]] have appeared, much material, especially from [[Islam]], China and other non-Western cultures has not yet been properly studied and published, so that undoubtedly these will be superseded.<ref>Ed. Wayne Dynes, ''Encyclopaedia of Homosexuality'', New York, 1990, pp539-542</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|LGBT}}
* [[History of bisexuality]]
* [[List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender firsts by year]]
* [[Timeline of LGBT history]]
* [[ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives]] at the USC Libraries, Los Angeles
* [[GLBT Historical Society]], San Francisco
* [[Lesbian Herstory Archives]], Brooklyn, NY
* [[June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives]], West Hollywood, CA
* [[Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives]], Toronto, Canada 
* [[Schwules Museum]], Berlin, Germany 
* [[Centrum Schwule Geschichte]], Cologne, Germany
* [[Leather Archives and Museum]], Chicago
* [[Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies]], Minneapolis, MN
* [[Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives]], Melbourne, Australia

==Notes==

{{Reflist|2}}

==References==
{{Ibid|date=June 2013}}
* [http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_4312436 Denina, Chris. "Gay Club Loses Touro OK." Vallejo Times-Herald September 9, 2006: A1]

==Further reading==
* Bullough, Vern L., et al., (ed.) [http://williamapercy.com/pub-Stonewall.htm ''Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context.'']{{Dead link|date=April 2010}} New York, London, Oxford: [[Haworth Press|Harrington Park Press]], 2002. ISBN 978-1-56023-192-9
*{{Cite book |last=Cante |first=Richard C. |title=Gay Men and the Forms of Contemporary US Culture |publisher=Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 0-7546-7230-1 |date=March 2008 |location=London}}
* Chauncey, George. [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465026214 ''Gay New York: Gender, Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940.''] New York: BasicBooks, 1994.
* Dynes, Wayne R. (ed.) [http://williamapercy.com/pub-EncyHom.htm ''Encyclopedia of Homosexuality.'']{{Dead link|date=April 2010}} New York and London, Garland Publishing, 1990. ISBN 978-0-8240-6544-7
* Johansson, Warren and Percy, William A. [http://williamapercy.com/pub-Outing.htm ''Outing: Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence.'']{{Dead link|date=November 2010}} New York and London: Haworth Press, 1994. ISBN 978-1-56024-419-6
* Meeker, Martin. [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/167324.ctl ''Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s–1970s.''] Chicago: [[University of Chicago Press]], 2006.
* Stein, Marc, ed. [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0684312611/ ''Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered History in America.''] 3 vols. New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 2003.
* Bronski, Michael. ''A Queer History of the United States.'' Boston: [[Beacon Press]], 2012.  ISBN 978-0-8070-4465-0

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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4194247.stm BBC – United Kingdom Celebrates Gay History Month]
* [http://www.glbthistory.org GLBT Historical Society]
* [http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/homosexuality_articles.html Homosexuality: Issues and Articles]
* [https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/archives-and-local-studies/research-guides/lesbian-and-gay-sources.html Sources for the study of lesbian, gay, bi and trans history in Sheffield, UK] Produced by Sheffield City Council's Libraries and Archives
* [http://www.nycnotkansas.com NYC Not Kansas: A personal history of gay life in Manhattan 1959-2000]
* [http://www.quistapp.com Quist - Mobile app about LGBT history]
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