BCE to The Suffragettes
1801, UK – Ireland was added to Great Britain by an Act of Union thus creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It also put Ireland, and today, Northern Ireland under British laws on morality and particularly homosexuality.
1885
Homosexual activity becomes illegal (up to life in prison as punishment).
The Labouchere Amendment passed making sex between two men a gross indecency, punishable by imprisonment. Female homosexuality and sexual acts were not addressed in the law, and therefore, they technically would have been legal, though the law often applied the law towards women.
Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Homosexuality is criminalized in Sri Lanka under Section 365 of the 1883 Penal Code inherited from British colonial rule. “Voluntary carnal intercourse against the order of nature” by both men and women is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Human Rights Watch and Equal Ground have found evidence of these laws continuing to be enforced by police as of 2020. Sri Lanka is an independent nation, as such, India’s 2018 Supreme Court decision to decriminalize same-sex relationships and make a similar law unenforceable does not apply.
In August 23, 2013 Sri Lanka Had its first gay marriage. Homosexuality is currently illegal. Civil Union legalization pending.
1888
Upper River, Gambia Homosexual activity becomes legal.
01-01-1898 – 08-07-1978 Valentine Penrose – Born in Mont-de-Marsan, Landes, France. She was a French surrealist poet, author, and collagist. In 1925 she married English artist, historian, and poet Roland Penrose. The marriage was never consummated. In 1937, they divorced but met again in London during WWII, after which she lived half her time with her ex-husband and his second wife. The arrangement continued for the rest of her life. In 1936 she made a visit to India with the poet and painter Alice Paalen. The women became close and their relationship is shown in their poetry from 1936 to about 1945. Because of the lesbian attributes in their work, it is believed that they had an affair. Penrose’s writing on lesbianism was always with the same lovers: Emily and Rubia. She saw herself as in the Sapphic tradition of Renée Vivien, Natalie Barney, and Charles Baudelaire.
1890
Vatican City Equal age of consent becomes equal.
1892 – Ellis Island in New York harbor opened. Over 20 million new arrivals to America were processed until its closing in 1954. It is unknown how many of the new immigrants were gays and lesbians. Some estimates are as high as 1 million (This is lower than 10% since most of those admitted to the US were families)
1925
Lucrezia Bori and John McCormack of the famous Metropolitan Opera in New York City made their singing debuts on radio.
1933, Germany – Lovers Erika Mann (November 9, 1905 – August 27, 1969) and Therese Giehse (6 March 1898 – 3 March 1975) write and direct the anti-fascist Cabaret in Germany. The Nazis shut it down on Jan. 30th. It re-opens in Zurich and becomes a rallying point for exiles. Mann was a German actress and writer. She was the eldest daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann. Giehse was a German actress.
1936
Billboard magazine issued its first record sales chart,
1940s The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code
1940
NBC begins regular FM transmission from New York’s Empire State Building on W2XDG. In October of the same year, the FCC granted 15 stations the first construction permits for commercial FM operation. Edwin Armstrong, the inventor of FM (Frequency Modulation) first demonstrated the technology to executives and engineers of RCA in 1933.
1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex
RCA Victor announced that they were dropping the prices of their records in an attempt to spur record sales.
The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30
1962:
USA – Illinois repeals its sodomy laws, becoming the first U.S. state to decriminalize homosexuality.
1964
1964
The first edition of the BBC TV show Top Of The Pops was transmitted from an old church hall in Manchester, England. Acts mimed to their latest releases. The first song played was Dusty Springfield’s ‘I Only Want To Be With You’.
1965:
San Francisco police arrest gay and lesbian party-goers at a fund-raising ball for the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, held at California Hall. The event galvanizes the local gay and lesbian community. Several patrons were injured and a bartender was hospitalized with a fractured skull. Several hundred people spontaneously demonstrate on Sunset Boulevard and picket outside the Black Cat. The raids prompted a series of protests that began on 5 January 1967, organized by P.R.I.D.E. (Personal Rights in Defense and Education). It’s the first use of the term “Pride” that came to be associated with LGBT rights and fuels the formation of gay rights groups in California.
1967:
In the first hour of the new year, a raid occurs at the Black Cat Tavern on Sunset Blvd in Silverlake. Several hundred people spontaneously demonstrate and picket outside the Black Cat, fueling the formation of gay rights groups in California.
Sonny and Cher were barred from the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, CA, for their support of the Sunset Strip rioters.
1968
Billboard magazine reported that for the first time albums had outsold singles in the US with album sales reaching over 192 million units.
1970s: Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights
01-01-1970 Magalen Hsu-Li – Born in Martinsville, Virginia. She is a Chinese-American music artist, painter, poet, and speaker. Her parents
emigrated from China in the 1960’s. She attended Rhode Island School of Design. After graduating she discovered a passion for music over design. She studied jazz and classical music at Cornish School of the Arts. She founded ChickPop Records in 1997 as well as Femme Vitale, and The Seattle Women’s Music and Arts Coalition. Her second CD, Evolution with the song Monkey Girl won her the Gay and Lesbian American Music Award for “Best Song” in 1998. In 2006 she met and had a child with music artist Greane (Adam Dias). She identifies herself as bisexual.
1971 – Colorado and Oregon decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.
1972 – Science magazine publishes a report that suggests male homosexuality may be determined in the womb due to chemical and/or hormonal stress of the pregnant woman.
1972 – Hawaii decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.
1973 – Maryland becomes the first state to statutorily ban same-sex marriage.
1974 – Ohio repeals its sodomy laws and decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.
1975 – New Mexico decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.
1976 – Iowa decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.
1977 –
Vermont decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.
The first lesbian mystery novel in America, Angel Dance by Mary F. Beal (1937), is published.
1978 –
Good Housekeeping readers name Anita Bryant “The Most Admired Woman in America.”
North Dakota decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.
1980s The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list
1980 – Arizona decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.
1982
ABBA made their final live appearance as a group when they played in Stockholm, Sweden.
1985
VH-1 premiered as an adult contemporary music video channel
1989
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) changed the requirements for a musical work to achieve gold and platinum status.
1990s: The Queer Slur Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation
1990, Iran – The government of Iran beheads three gay men and stones two lesbians to death as part of an intensified campaign against “vice.”
1991, Kosovo –The age of consent for sexual activity becomes 14 regardless of the gender of the parties involved. All sexual criminal laws become gender neutral.
1993 – The World Health Organization officially deletes “homosexuality” from its list of “diseases.
1998, Turkmenistan – Article 135 of the new criminal code takes effect making male-male sex punishable by imprisonment.
1999
Tom Jones and closet lesbian Dusty Springfield receive the Order Of The British Empire for their services to music, as does David Essex, commended for his charitable work with Voluntary Service Overseas.
2000s – “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”
2003 –
Phat Family Records, an organization of LGBT hip-hop artists and fans, releases the groundbreaking CD Phat Family Volume 2: Down 4 the Swerve, featuring 14 tracks by gay, lesbian and bisexual hip-hop artists from across the U.S. and Europe, including Rainbow Flava, Tori Fixx, Miss Money, Tim’m T. West and others.
Capitol Records announced that apparently bisexual Lisa Marie Presley’s first album, “To Whom It May Concern” was set for release on April 8th of this year. The LP would go on to reach #5 on the Billboard Hot 200 and be certified Platinum in 2007.
2005:
California law AB 205, which extends many rights and responsibilities of marriage to registered domestic partners, goes into effect.
The copyright on songs recorded in 1954 and earlier expired in most of Europe
2008 –
The Arizona LGBTQ Storytelling Project is founded by Jamie Ann Lee. The purpose of the project is to teach LGBTQ communities media production skills.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) reported that the number of music downloads sold in the UK in the final week of 2007 was double the total of 12 months earlier. In total there were 2.95 million downloads in seven days, the highest ever recorded for any weekly period. And when the whole of the year was taken into account, 77.5 million downloads were sold in the UK in 2007.
2009, Norway – Same-sex marriage becomes legal making Norway the first Scandinavian country and sixth country world-wide to legalize same-sex marriage.
2010s Avocado Toast is the new Latte cheaper made at home, tastes better out
2014
Patti Page, the best selling female artist in America in the 1950s, earning 15 Gold singles and 3 Gold albums, passed away at the age of 85. When Page recorded her first hit single, ‘Confess’ in 1947; owing to a strike, background singers were not available to provide harmony vocals for the song: Page decided to overdub her own, becoming the first pop artist to overdub her vocals on a song.
2015
Miss New Orleans-1957/actress Donna Douglas (The Beverly Hillbillies, Frankie and Johnny, Lover Come Back, Career, Chronicles of Life Trials) died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 82.
2020s: Unnamed Common Oppressor/Religion VS: Sex/Gender Ideas vs Global Reality
2023
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