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Cette Chronologie de l'histoire des Lesbiennes, Gays, Bisexuels et Transgenres (LGBT) détaille les évènements notables de notre ère en Occident.

• 20ème siècle in gay rights:
  • 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s
• 21ème siècle in gay rights:
  • 2000s

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[modifier] 25ème/24ème siècle avant notre ère

• Khnoumhotep et Niânkhkhnoum sont enterrés dans la même tombe en Égypte durant la Ve dynastie. Ils sont considérés par beaucoup comme le premier couple homosexuel masculin dont on ait gardé la trace^[1].

[modifier] 7ème siècle siècle avant notre ère

• 630 av. J.-C. : Les aristocrates crétois instituent des relations entre des adultes et des adolescents mâles, avec la double intention d'éduquer^[2] les jeunes et inverser la croissance démographique. La pratique, mêlant gymnastique et nudité athlétique, est rapidement adoptée par une grande partie de la Grèce antique, influençant sports, littérature, politique, philosophie, art et même techniques guerrières, conduisant, selon certains^[3], à une culture florissante connue comme le miracle grecque.

[modifier] 6ème siècle avant notre ère

• 600 av J.-C. : Les termes Lesbienne et Lesbos sont utilisés pour la première fois.

[modifier] 4ème siècle avant notre ère

• 338 av. J.-C. Le bataillon sacré de Thebes, un bataillon d'élite invaincu, composé, d'après la légende, de 150 couples d'amants pédérastiques est détruit par les forces de Philippe II de Macédoine (et son fils, le futurAlexandre le Grand) qui déplora leur perte et défendit leur honneur.

[modifier] 1^er siècle

• 54 av. J.-C. : Néron devient Empereur romain. Il se marria avec deux hommes selon des cérémonies officielles et eût une épouse a qui fûrent accordés les mêmes honneurs qu'à des impératrices^[4]. Les relations homosexuelles sont acceptées et même institutionnalisées pendant cette période^[5]

[modifier] 4ème siècle

• 342 : Les fils de Constantin Ier, Constant Ier et Constance II, édictent une loi, différement interprétée par les historiens, qui pénalise la prostitution homosexuelle, le mariage entre hommes et plus généralement l'homosexualité.

[modifier] 6ème siècle

• 529 : Le Corpus juris civilis interdit l'homosexualité à Byzance. Pourtant, le peuple de Constantinople et des autres cités byzantines sont majoritairement opposés à Justinien et à Theodora sur ce sujet, y compris les chrétiens laïcs. The public resists attempts by both Justinian and Theodora to prosecute their rivals with the law.

[modifier] 7th siècle

• 650 - In early medieval Visigothic Spain, there is great persecution of scapegoats in an attempt to unite the Hispano-Roman majority with the Visigothic minority. These scapegoats include most notably gays and Jews. Homosexuality is criminalized. However, outside of Spain, homosexuality remains completely legal, and even relatively accepted, in almost all of Europe.

[modifier] 9th siècle

• 800-900 - During the Carolingian Renaissance, there is a large amount of complex gay poetry. There is no Carolingian law prohibiting homosexuality.

[modifier] 11th siècle

• 1000-1100 - An eleventh siècle Byzantine legal treatise makes it clear that gay unions are well-known and legal in early medieval Byzantine society.
• 1000-1100 - In Scandinavia, cult transvestitism persisted for centuries. As well, only sons who inherited their fathers’ land could marry in early medieval Scandinavia. The others had to leave the land, and they joined warrior societies. Women, expected to remain strictly chaste, and punished severely for violating this rule, were unavailable. Thus, in these warriors clubs, pederasty was practiced as an institutionalized way of life, and a viable alternative to the untouchable women.
• 1051 - St. Peter Damian composed the Book of Gomorrah, in which he luridly described several varieties of gay sex, and said that they were quite common, especially among priests. In this regard he was quite correct; nevertheless, he had no luck convincing his contemporaries that homosexuality was a grave problem that had to be stopped. While Pope Leo IX saw homosexuality as a "grave sin," he was nevertheless reluctant to come down as harshly as Peter Damian wanted him to.
• 1100 - Ivo of Chartes attempts to convince Pope Urban II of the dangers of homosexuality. Ivo charged that Raoul/Ralph, Archbishop of Tours, had the king of France install John as bishop of Orleans. John was well-known as Ralph’s lover, and had even had relations with the king himself, which the king openly bragged about. Urban, however, did not see this as a major problem. John ruled effectively as bishop for almost forty years and Ralph was well-known and well-respected, and continued to be so.

[modifier] 12th siècle

• 1102 - The Council of London took measures to ensure that the public, quite tolerant of Homosexuality at the time, knew that it was sinful, marking a significant shift in church attitudes towards Homosexuality, which previously had been more or less indifference, or very mild condemnation. Many priests were homosexuals, likely one of the causes of the change in attitude, as moral reformers such as Bernard of Cluny called for change.

[modifier] 13th siècle

• 1250-1300 - "Between 1250 and 1300, homosexual activity passed from being completely legal in most of Europe to incurring the death penalty in all but a few contemporary legal compilations." - John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (1980)

[modifier] 14h siècle

• 1327 - The deposed King Edward II of England is allegedly sodomized to death with a red-hot poker. Edward II was a well-known Homosexual; his lover's genitals were cut off before he was beheaded. Edward II had a history of conflict with the nobility, who repeatedly banished his former lover Piers Gaveston, the Earl of Cornwall.

[modifier] 16th siècle

• 1533 - King Henry VIII begins the English common law tradition of sodomy laws, proclaiming sodomy, then-defined as any non-procreative/non-reproductive Sexual activity, a crime. This includes masturbation, anal, and oral sex - regardless of the gender or genders involved.

[modifier] 17th siècle

• 1624 - Richard Cornish of the Virginia Colony is tried and hanged for sodomy.
• 1649 - The first known conviction for Lesbian activity in North America occurs in March when Sarah White Norman is charged with "Lewd behaviour" with Mary Vincent Hammon in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

[modifier] 18th siècle

• 1726 - Mother Clap's molly house in London is raided by police, resulting in Clap's death and the execution at Tyburn of all the men arrested
• Between 1730 and 1811, a widespread panic in the Dutch Republic leads to a spectacular series of trials for Sodomy, with persecutions at their most severe from 1730 to 1737, 1764, 1776, and from 1795-1798.
• 1792 - France decriminalizes sexual acts between men.
• 1795 - Belgium decriminalizes homosexual acts.

[modifier] 19th siècle

• 1811 - The Netherlands decriminalizes homosexual acts.
• 1813 - Bavaria decriminalizes sexual acts between men.
• 1830 - Brazil decriminalizes homosexual acts; The word Asexual is used as a term for the first time in Biology.
• 1835 - For the first time in its history Poland criminalizes homosexuality
• 1836 - The last known execution for homosexuality in Britain
• 1861 - En Angleterre, la peine pour conviction de sodomie est réduite de la pendaison à l'emprisonnement
• 1867 - On August 29, 1867, Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs became the first self-proclaimed homosexual to speak out publicly for homosexual rights when he pleaded at the Congress of German Jurists in Munich for a resolution urging the repeal of anti-homosexual laws.

• 1869 - The term "Homosexuality" appears in print for the first time in a German pamphlet written by Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824-1882).
• 1871 - Homosexuality is criminalized throughout Germany by Paragraph 175 of the Reich Criminal Code; Mexico decrimilized homosexual acts.
• 1886 - The Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, outlawing sexual relations between men (but not sexual relations between women - Not acknowledging Lesbianism exists), is given Royal Assent by Queen Victoria du Royaume-Uni
• 1892 - The words Bisexual and Heterosexual is first used in its current sense in Charles Gilbert Chaddock's translation of Kraft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis.
• 1895 - Oscar Wilde prosecuted under the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 for "Gross indecency" and sentenced to two years in prison.

• 1897 - Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific Humanitarian Committee on May 14 to organize for gay rights and the repeal of Paragraph 175

[modifier] 1900s

• 1907 - Adolf Brand, the activist leader of the Gemeinschaft der Eigenen, working to overturn Paragraph 175, publishes a piece "outing" the imperial chancellor of Germany, Prince Bernhard von Bülow. The Prince sues Brand for libel and clears his name; Brand is sentenced to 18 months in prison.

[modifier] 1910s

• 1910 - Emma Goldman first begins speaking publicly in favor of gay rights

• 1914 - The word faggot is first used in print in reference to gays in a vocabulary of criminal slang published in Portland, Oregon: "All the fagots [sic] (sissies) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight".

[modifier] 1920s

• 1920 - The word Gay is used for the first time in Reference to Homosexual in the Underground.
• 1923 - The word fag is first used in print in reference to gays in Nels Anderson's The Hobo: "Fairies or Fags are men or boys who exploit sex for profit."
• 1924 - The first gay rights organization in America is founded in Chicago and is called the Society for Human Rights. The movement exists for a few months before being shut down by the police.
• 1928 - The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall is published in the United States. This sparks great legal controversy and brings the topic of homosexuality to public conversation.
• 1929 May 22 - Katharine Lee Bates, author of America the Beautiful dies.
• 1929 October 16 - a Reichstag Committee votes to repeal Paragraph 175. The Nazis' rise to power prevents the implementation of the vote.

[modifier] 1930s

• 1932 - The new Polish Criminal Code again decriminalizes homosexuality in the whole of Poland
• 1933 - The Nazi Party bans homosexual groups. Some homosexuals are sent to concentration camps. Nazis burn the library of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Research, and destroy the Institute; Denmark decriminalizes homosexuality.
• 1934 - Uruguay decriminalizes homosexuality.
• 1937 - The first use of the pink triangle for gay men in Nazi concentration camps

[modifier] 1940s

• 1941 - Transsexuality was first used in Reference to Homosexuality and Bisexuality.
• 1944 - Sweden decriminalizes homosexuality

• 1945 - Upon the liberation of concentration camps by Allied forces, those interned for homosexuality are not freed, but required to serve out the full term of their sentences under Paragraph 175
• 1946 - "COC" (Dutch acronym for "Center for Culture and Recreation"), the earliest homophile organisation, is founded in the Netherlands. It is the oldest surviving LGBT organization.
• 1948 - "Forbundet af 1948" ("League of 1948"), a homophile group, is formed in Denmark.

[modifier] 1950s

• 1950 - East Germany partially abrogates the Nazis' emendations to Paragraph 175
• 1950 - The Mattachine Society, the first American homophile group, is founded in New York. The RFSL (Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights) is formed in Sweden.

• 1951 - Greece decrimilizes homosexuality.
• 1952 - Dale Jennings successfully uses the defense of entrapment against charges of solicitation. ONE, Inc. is founded in California.
• 1954 - June 7 - Alan Turing dies from cyanide poisoning, 18 months after being given libido-reducing hormone treatment for a year as a punishment for homosexuality. Arcadie is formed; it is the first homophile group in France.
• 1955 - Daughters of Bilitis founded in San Francisco, California.
• 1957 - The first time the word "Transsexual" is used to Reference Gender that which has no impact with your Sexual orientation - coined by U.S. physician Harry Benjamin; Thaïlande decrimilized homosexual acts; The Wolfenden Committee's report recommends decriminalizing consensual homosexual behaviour between adults au Royaume-Uni. Psychologist Evelyn Hooker publishes a study showing that gay men were as well adjusted as non-gay men, which was a major factor in the American Psychiatric Association removing homosexuality from its handbook of disorders in 1973.
• 1958 - The Homosexual Law Reform Society is founded au Royaume-Uni; Belize is the first contry in the world that prohibits homosexuals from entering the country by its’ Immigration laws.

[modifier] 1960s

• 1961 in gay rights - Decriminalization in Czechoslovakia and Hungary
• 1962 in gay rights - Illinois becomes first U.S. state to remove sodomy law from its criminal code.
• 1963 in gay rights - Israel decriminalizes de-facto sodomy and sexual acts between men by judicial decision against the enforcement of the relevant section in the old British-mandate law from 1936 (which in fact was never enforced).
• 1965 in gay rights - Swaziland becomes the second country in the world which prohibits homosexuals from entering the country by its’ Immigration laws; for persons only convicted for sodomy.
• 1966 in gay rights - The National Planning Conference of Homophile Organizations is established. (It became NACHO (North American Conference of Homophile Organizations) in 1967).
• 1967 in gay rights - The Sexual Offences Act 1967 decriminalises male homosexual behaviour in Angleterre et au Pays de Galles, so long as only two men are involved, both are age 21 or older, neither is mentally retarded, neither is a member of the armed forces or the merchant marine, and neither is a resident of a jurisdiction where male homosexual behaviour is illegal (e.g., Scotland or Northern Ireland). The book "Homosexual Behavior Among Males" by Wainwright Churchill breaks ground as a scientific study approaching homosexuality as a fact of life rather than as a sin, crime or disease, and introduces the term "homoerotophobia", a possible precursor to "homophobia". Oscar Wilde Bookshop, the world's first gay and lesbian bookstore, opens in New York City.
• 1968 in gay rights - Paragraph 175 is eased in East Germany. Canada repeals all anti-sodomy laws and Bulgaria decriminalize adult homosexual relations.
• 1969 in gay rights - Stonewall riots - Paragraph 175 is eased in West Germany - Homosexual behavior legalized in Canada with an Age of Consent set at 21 - 14 for everyone else; Quoted by a famous speech "The Government has no busineess in the bedrooms of the Nation". FREE, first gay student group formed in the United States. An Australian arm of the Daughters of Bilitis, forms in Melbourne and is considered Australia's first gay rights organisation.
• 1960-1970 : le bill Omnibus du ministre de la justice du Canada, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, décriminalise la sodomie entre adultes consentants. « L'État n'a pas à s'immiscer dans la chambre à coucher » avait déclaré le ministre qui deviendra quelques mois plus tard Premier ministre du Canada.
• En 1960, en France une autre loi introduit une discrimination pénale : la loi du 25 novembre 1960 (créant l'alinéa 2 de l'article 330 du Code pénal) double la peine minimum pour outrage public à la pudeur quand il s'agissait de rapports homosexuels (cette loi a été supprimée par la loi du 23 décembre 1980)
• En 1962, l’Illinois devient le premier État américain à décriminaliser la sodomie.
• En 1967, le Royaume-Uni décriminalise la sodomie.
• En 1969, l'Allemagne de l'Ouest fait de même.

[modifier] 1970s

• 1970 in gay rights - First Gay Liberation Day March held in New York City, First Gay Freedom Day March held in Los Angeles, first Gay-in held in San Francisco; CAMP - Campain Against Moral Prosicution formed in Australia
• 1971 in gay rights - Society Five was a gay rights organisation formed in Melbourne victoria; Homosexuality was decriminalized in Austria and Finland. Colorado and Oregon repeal sodomy laws; gay age of consent in the Netherlands changed from 21 to 16 (equalized; Penal Code Section 248bis dropped) The U.S. Libertarian Party calls for the repeal of all victimless crime laws, including the sodomy laws. Dr. Frank Kameny becomes the first openly gay candidate for the United States Congress. The University of Michigan establishes the first collegiate LGBT programs office, then known as the "Gay Advocate's Office."

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• 1972 in gay rights - Sweden becomes first country in the world to allow transgendered people to legally change their sex, and provides free hormone therapy. In Australia the Dunstan Labor government introduced a consenting adults in private type defence in Australie-Méridionale. This defence was initiated as a bill by Murray Hill, father of former Defence Minister Robert Hill, and later repealed the state's sodomy law in 1975. Norway decriminalizes homosexuality. Ann Arbor, Michigan becomes first city in United States to pass gay rights ordinance.
• 1973 in gay rights - The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its DSM-II Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, based largely on the research and advocacy of Evelyn Hooker.
• 1974 in gay rights - Kathy Kozachenko becomes the first openly gay or lesbian American elected to public office, when she wins a seat on the Ann Arbor, Michigan city council. Ohio repeals sodomy laws. Robert Grant founds American Christian Cause to oppose the "gay agenda," the beginning of the modern Christian Right in America

• 1975 in gay rights - Elaine Noble becomes the second out American elected to public office, when she wins a seat in the Massachusetts State House. Australie-Méridionale becomes the first state in Australia to make homosexuality legal between consenting adults in private. Panama is the second country in the world to allow transsexuals who have gone through gender reassignment surgery to get their personal documents reflecting their new sex.
• 1976 in gay rights - Robert Grant founds Christian Voice to take his anti-gay-rights crusade national in United States. Trinidad and Tobago prohibits homosexuals from entering the country by its’ Immigration laws - the third country to do so. The Homosexual Law Reform Coalition and the Gay Teachers Group organisation groups started in Australia for the first time.
• 1977 in gay rights - Harvey Milk is elected city-county supervisor in San Francisco, becoming the third out American elected to public office. Dade County, Florida enacts a Human Rights Ordinance; it is repealed the same year after a militant anti-gay-rights campaign led by Anita Bryant. Quebec becomes the first jurisdiction larger than a city or county in the world to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in the public and private sectors.
• 1978 in gay rights - San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone are assassinated by former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White. The gay and lesbian mardi gras kicks off in Oxford street in Sydney, Australia for the first time - people were arrested; Rainbow flag first used as a symbol of gay and lesbian pride. The Australian Capital Territory decrimilizes homosexuality between consenting adults in private.
• 1979 in gay rights - first national gay rights march on Washington, DC. Harry Hay issues the first call for a Radical Faerie gathering in Arizona.
• 28 juin 1970 : première Gay Pride à New-York
• En 1977 : La Charte des droits et libertés de la personne (Québec) du Québec est amendée. Désormais, il est interdit de faire de la discrimination basée sur l'orientation sexuelle. Il s'agit de la première loi au monde (à part quelques villes et comtés des États-Unis) qui interdit ce genre de discrimination dans les secteurs public et privé.

[modifier] 1980s

• 1980 in gay rights - The Democratic National Convention becomes the first major political party in America to endorse a gay rights platform plank. Homosexuality decriminalized in Écosse. David McReynolds becomes the first openly GLBT individual to run for President of the United States, appearing on the Socialist Party U S A ticket.
• 1981 in gay rights - Victoria in Australia decrimilized homosexuality with a Uniform Age of Consent; Moral Majority starts anti-gay crusade. Norway becomes the first country in the world to enact a law to prevent discrimination against homosexuals. Hong Kong's first sex-change operation is performed.
• 1982 in gay rights - Gay Games I. Homosexuality decriminalised in Northern Ireland. The Ten Percent Society becomes the first gay rights organization in North Dakota. Wisconsin becomes the first US state to ban gay discrimination; Nouvelle-Galles du Sud becomes the first Australian state to outlaw Discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived Homosexuality.
• 1983 in gay rights - Massachusetts Representative Gerry Studds reveals he is a homosexual on the floor of the House, becoming the first openly Gay member of Congress.
• 1984 in gay rights - The lesbian and gay association "Ten Percent Club" is formed in Hong Kong. Massachusetts voters reelect representative Gerry Studds, despite his declaration the year before that he is gay. Nouvelle-Galles du Sud and the Territoire du Nord in Australia make homosexual acts legal only for people over 18, who consent and done in private. Chris Smith, newly elected to the UK parliament declares : "My name is Chris Smith. I'm the Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury, and I'm gay." This made him the first openly out gay politician in the UK parliament.
• 1985 in gay rights - France prohibits discrimination based on lifestyle (moeurs) in employment and services. First memorial to gay Holocaust victims is dedicated
• 1986 in gay rights - Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in New Zealand, legalizing sex between males over 16
• 1987 in gay rights - ACT UP stages its first major demonstration, seventeen protesters are arrested. U.S. Congressman Barney Frank comes out as gay. Homomonument opened in Amsterdam, a memorial to persecuted gays and lesbians.
• 1988 in gay rights - Sweden is first country to pass laws protecting gays and lesbians regarding social services, taxes, and inheritances. Section 28 passes in England and Wales; Écosse brings in almost identical legislation under Clause 2A - Canadian MP Svend Robinson comes out as gay. Israel decriminalizes (de jure) sodomy and sexual acts between men (the relevant section in the old British-mandate law from 1936 was never enforced).
• 1989 in gay rights - Australie-Occidentale legalises homosexuality for people who are over 21, who consent and done in private. Denmark is first country in the world to enact registered partnership laws (like a civil union) for same-sex couples, with most of the same rights as marriage (excluding the right to adoption and marriage in a church).
• En 1982, la loi du 4 août 1982 dépénalise définitivement l'homosexualité en France.

[modifier] 1990s

• 1990 in gay rights - OutRage! forms in UK
• 1991 in gay rights - Hong Kong in China decriminalizes homosexuality with an Age of Consent set at 21 - although 16 for Lesbian and Heterosexual sex and Queensland in Australia decriminalizes Sodomy with an Age of Consent set at 18 - 16 for non-Sodomy. Red ribbon first used as a symbol of the fight against HIV/AIDS.
• 1992 in gay rights - The World Health Organization removes homosexuality from its ICD-10; Australia allows homosexuals to serve in the Military for the first time.
• 1993 in gay rights - Third gay rights march on Washington, DC. Sodomy laws repealed in the Republic of Ireland brought about by Senator David Norris. Russia decriminalizes consensual male sodomy. Norway enacts registered partnership civil union laws that grant same-sex couples the same rights as married couples, except for the right to adopt or marry in a church.
• 1994 in gay rights - AMA denounces supposed cures for homosexuality/Canada grants refugee status to homosexuals fearing for their well-being in their native country. Paragraph 175 is repealed in Germany. Israel’s supreme court defines gay-couple’s rights same as any common-law-couple’s rights.
• 1995 in gay rights - Sweden legalizes registered partnerships (a common-law marriage or civil union) with all the rights of marriage except for marriage in a church and adoption. The Supreme Court of Canada rules that sexual orientation is a prohibited ground of discrimination under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
• 1996 in gay rights - South Africa becomes the second country to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in its constitution. Age of Consent Equalised in Burkina Faso; Homosexuality decriminalised in Bosnia and Herzegovina (although Republika Srpska will finally remove homosexuality from its criminal code in 1998).
• 1997 in gay rights - UK extends immigration rights to same-sex couples akin to marriage. Fiji is the second country to explicitly protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation in its constitution - Although the Fijian Government still not Invalidating or Repealing the Sodomie Laws. Laws prohibiting private homosexual acts are finally repealed in Tasmanie, en Australie, the last Australian state to do so - no defence for Anal sex for a person or persons under 17.
• 1998 in gay rights - South Africa decrimilized sex between men at a set Age of Consent of 19 - Even for the new lesbian sex Laws / However the heterosexual Age of Consent is 16; Matthew Shepard slain. Employment Equality Act introduced in Ireland, covering wrongful dismissal based on the grounds of sexual orientation. Vriend v. Alberta- sexual orientation is read into the IRPA, Alberta's human rights act. Ecuador is the third country in the world to explicitly prohibit discrimination on the Basis of sexual orientation.
• 1999 in gay rights - California adopts domestic partner law. France enacts civil union laws (PACS) accessible to same-sex couples and opposite sex couples. The "Queer Youth Alliance" is founded au Royaume-Uni. Israel’s supreme court recognizes lesbian partner as another legal mother of her partner’s biological son.
• En 1990, l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS)supprime l’homosexualité de la liste des maladies mentales, mettant fin à plus d’un siècle d’homophobie médicale.
• En 1993, l'homosexualité est officiellement dépénalisée en Russie.^[6]
• En 1994, le paragraphe 175 est abrogé en Allemagne.
• En 1995, le Canada reconnaît la discrimination envers les homosexuels comme étant anticonstitutionnelle.

[modifier] 2000s

• 2000 in gay rights - Clause 2A repealed in Écosse. Age of consent equalised au Royaume-Uni, Belarus and Israel. German Bundestag officially apologizes to gays and lesbians persecuted under the Nazi regime, and for "harm done to homosexual citizens up to 1969". Vermont becomes the first U.S. state to legalize civil unions. Israel recognizes same-sex relations for immigration purposes for a foreign partner of Israeli resident.
• 2001 in gay rights - The State of Arizona in the United States repeals the Sodomy law; Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Liechtenstein, Australie-Occidentale, Albania, Austria and Hungary all with an Equalised Age of Consent. Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands legalized. Germany enacts Registered partnership legislation. Soccer fans, clerics leading ultranationalist youth and skinheads stormed the first Pride march in Belgrade (at the time Yugoslavia, now Serbia), attacking and seriously injuring several participants and stopping the manifestation from taking place. The police was too poorly equipped to suppress riots or protect the Pride marchers.
• 2002 in gay rights - Moldova and Romania now have a Equal Age of Consent for all; Sweden legalizes adoption for same-sex couples, making Sweden's Registered partnership nearly identical to marriage, with the exception of right to marriage in a church. Zurich extends marriage-like rights to same sex couples. Controversial openly gay Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by Volkert van der Graaf.
• 2003 in gay rights - Section 28 repealed in England and Wales; U.S. Supreme Court strikes down remaining state sodomy laws; Armenia decrimilizes male homosexual sodomy; Lithuania equalised the Age of Consent to 14 for all; as well as The Territoire du Nord and Nouvelle-Galles du Sud equalised the Age of Consent to 16 for all - the last Australian State and Territory to do so; Same-sex marriage in Belgium legalized, but is not equal to heterosexual marriage because couples lack adoption rights; a bill is introduced in the Canadian parliament to legalise statutory same-sex marriage (new style "common law" same-sex marriage was already created by Act of Parliament in 2000). Germany's Supreme Court upheld the country's civil union law which gives some of the benefits of marriage to registered same-sex couples.
• 2004 in gay rights - Cape Verde legalises homosexuality; Puerto Rico repeals the sodomy law - despite the law being invalidated; Portugal is the fourth country in the world to protect people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the Consitution; Same-sex marriage in the United States: Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage in May while eleven other U.S. states ban the practice through public referenda in the November elections; Civil unions in Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul now accepts civil unions; Domestic partnerships in New Jersey legalized in July. In Canada, 85% of the population lived in a province or territory with same-sex marriage. Australia bans same-sex marriage, while New Zealand passes the Civil Union Bill. Luxembourg introduces Civil partnerships with rights all but equal to marriage. Same-sex marriage in Belgium gets also adoption rights and is equal to marriage.

• 2005 in gay rights - State of California expands domestic partnership statutes to include most marriage rights available under state law. California domestic partnership is available to opposite-sex couples age 62 and older who meet certain Social Security qualifications, and to all same-sex couples age 18 and older without further qualification. Hong Kong equalised the Age of Consent at 16 for all - by a 20 year old gay man in a Court Case. Fiji Invalidated the Sodomy law (Only in private) by a Court case on the 26 August based on the Consitutional Grounds Prohibiting discrimination on the basis of "Sexual Orientation" - In 2005, Australian tourist Thomas McCosker had sex with Dhirendra Nadan and was sentenced to 2 years jail for Sodomy. Their convictions were overturned on August 26, 2005 on constitutional grounds; see [1]. Uganda and Latvia amended their constitutions to prohibit same-sex marriage. Same sex marriage legalized in Canada and Spain. Two gay male teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, were executed in Iran. Switzerland voted in favor of extending rights for registered same-sex couples. South Africa's Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal, under the country's constitution, to ban gay marriages. André Boisclair is chosen leader of the Parti québécois, becoming the first openly gay man elected leader of a major political party in North America. UK introduces Civil partnerships with rights all but equal to marriage. Maine adds sexual orientation and gender identity to existing anti-discrimination laws. The Church of Sweden, the former state church, decides to hold blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples, who can already enter into registered partnerships equal to marriage. This decision promted the Russian Orthodox Church to cut eccumenical relations to the Church of Sweden.
• 2006 in gay rights - Illinois outlaws sexual orientation discrimination. Washington State adds sexual orientation to existing anti-discrimination laws. Missouri legalizes homosexuality between consenting adults in private - despite the law being invalidated in 2003. Serbia, Kosovo and Vojvodina equalised the Age of Consent to 14 for all; An attempt to stage the first-ever gay pride march in Moscow ended with violence and mass arrests, after activists took to the streets despite the ban by mayor Yuri Luzhkov. The first regional Eastern European Pride - Internacionala Pride 2006 - took place in Zagreb, Croatia, with participants coming from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia and Lithuania. Kyle Hawkins becomes first openly gay male coach at the college level of a men's team. United States Senate fails to pass an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America making gay marriage illegal. The International Conference on LGBT Human Rights is held in Montreal, issuing the Declaration of Montreal for submission to the United Nations. Czech Republic introduces Civil partnerships with rights all but equal to marriage starting in July; Slovenia introduces Civil partnerships with some rights to Marriage starting in July and South Africa Introduces Same-sex Marriage for the first time ever, ordered under the Consitution of South Africa - starting on the second of December.
• En 2001, les Pays-Bas reconnaissent le mariage homosexuel.
• En février 2003, la Belgique reconnaît le mariage homosexuel (sans effet sur la filiation)
• La Cour suprême américaine abolit les lois toujours en vigueur contre les pratiques sexuelles homosexuelles.
• En 2004, le Canada et un État américain reconnaissent légalement le mariage homosexuel.
• 30 décembre 2004 : instauration en France de la Haute Autorité de Lutte contre les Discriminations et pour l'Égalité, chargée de lutter - entre autres - contre l'homophobie, et pénalisation des propos homophobes.
• Le 21 avril 2005, les députés espagnols ont voté en faveur de la législation autorisant le mariage entre personnes du même sexe. Le premier mariage homosexuel du pays a lieu en juillet de la même année.
• Le 17 mai 2005, la première journée mondiale de lutte contre l'homophobie a lieu dans 40 pays.
• Le 5 juin 2005, le peuple suisse accepte par référendum la Loi fédérale du 18 juin 2004 sur le partenariat enregistré entre personnes du même sexe (Lpart).
• En juin 2005, le projet de loi sur l'adoption par les homosexuels est en discussion en commission parlementaire en Belgique.
• En juillet 2005, le premier mariage homosexuel espagnol a lieu.
• En juillet 2005, le Parlement canadien modifie sa Loi sur le mariage et la définition qu'elle contient pour reconnaître et permettre les unions en personnes du même sexe en modifiant la définition, qui est maintenant « l'union de deux personnes, à l'exclusion de toute autre ».
• Le 19 décembre 2005, la première union homosexuelle est célébrée en Irlande du Nord. Cette union civile donne les mêmes droits aux couples hétérosexuels et homosexuels.
• Le 15 mars 2006, les députés tchèques reconnaissent un statut légal aux couples homosexuels, renversant un veto qu'avait posé le président Vaclav Klaus contre ce texte. La loi a été votée par 101 députés (sur les 177 présents), minimum requis pour que le vote soit valide. Ce statut, étudié pour la première fois en 1998 et rejeté par quatre fois, est donc finalement créé.
• Le 30 juin 2006 entre en vigueur en Belgique la loi modifiant le Code civil et permettant ainsi l'adoption aux couples mariés ou cohabitant dans les mêmes conditions et cela quelques soit leur sexe. Parcours : Chambre le 2 décembre 2005, Sénat le 20 avril 2006, sanction royale le 18 mai, publication au Moniteur belge le 20 juin et entrée en vigueur 10 jours plus tard.

• 2007 in gay rights - Swizerland Introduces Civil unions for the first time with some rights to Marriage starting in January.

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[modifier] Liens externes

• Extended Chronicle of gay history
• Gay Student Rights
• History of Gay Rights
• Gay Movie History
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