Monday, June 26, 2023

Pride 2023: X


Pride Alphabet Time! X is for... well, I have nothing. I have yet to read anything with starts with an X (author-wise, title-wise, series-wise), I haven't come across any X names or X terms in my research. If YOU have anything, please, please, please let me know in a comment below!!


Instead, I figured I'd share a quick(ish) Queer Timeline (from my copy of "Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History"--you need to check it out btw):

Pre-1492 to the 20th century: The precolonial world has a wealth of LGBTQ+ diversity. What is considered "normal" for genders and sexualities varies greatly from culture to culture across all inhabited continents before European standards are imposed.

BC era: Several cave paintings and other ancient representations have been found from this time period showing LGBTQ+ people. Sappho writes about female-female love, and Catullus and others write about male-male love.

27 BC - AD 476: Roman Empire. Bisexuality is common, and multiple Roman emperors marry men publicly.

476-1492: Middle Ages. LGBTQ+ people are used as scapegoats for society's problems and as a result are often executed.

1300-1600: Renaissance. Many LGBTQ+ artists contribute to this artistic time period in Europe, including Leonardo da Vinci.

1428-1521: Aztec Empire. The Aztecs punish same-sex acts by death.

1478-1834: Spanish Inquisition. Over 1,600 people are investigated for homosexuality; many are punished for it, including being put to death.

1740: China criminalizes homosexuality for the first time in the country's history.

1791: France decriminalizes homosexuality, the first European country to do so. This also applies to all French-controlled territories overseas.

1815-1914: Height of British Empire. The UK conquers much of the world and brings its anti-LGBTQ+ laws with it. Of the countries where anti- LGBTQ+ laws are still on the books, more than half retain those laws from when they were British colonies.

1869: The word "homosexuality" is first publicly printed in Germany.

1871: Britain's Criminal Tribes Act goes into effect in India. One of the groups it criminalizes are the hijra, a South Asian gender that has existed since ancient times. Today the hijra have legal recognition in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.

1873: Japan criminalizes homosexuality for the first time in the country's history.

1897: Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Germany, considered the world's first LGBTQ+ rights advocacy group.

1916: Charles Webster Leadbeater founds the Liberal Catholic Church in Australia, considered the first religious group to minister openly to gay men and lesbians.

1918-1937: Harlem Renaissance. A time of incredible African American contributions to the arts. It includes many LGBTQ+ artists, such as Langston Hughes.

1924: The Society for Human Rights is founded in Chicago, the first LGBTQ+ rights organization in the Americas. While this organization only lasted a few months, it paved the way for longer-lasting groups to be founded in the 1950s.

1933-1945: Nazis control Germany. It is estimated that over fifty thousand men are sent to concentration camps for loving men.

1965: A small group of people pickets Independence Hall in Philadelphia, considered to be one of the first public demonstrations for LGBTQ+ rights.

1967: The group Nuestro Mundo is founded in Argentina, considered the first LGBTQ+ rights group in Latin America.

1969: Stonewall Rebellion happens in New York City, a huge riot that sparks the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. Canada decriminalizes homosexual

1970: The first Pride is organized in New York City as a celebration of the anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion.

1972: Sweden becomes the first country in the world to allow people to legally change their sex.

1981: HIV/AIDS epidemic begins. Nearly half a million people die of complications due to HIV/AIDS by the year 2000. Today, people living with HIV/AIDS can lead full lives.

1996: South Africa's new constitution says that no one can discriminate against someone for being LGBTQ+, the first national constitution in the world to do so.

2001: The Netherlands legalizes marriage equality, the first country in the world to do so.

2003: Alex McFarlane (an intersex person) receives an Australian passport and birth certificate with the gender marker "X" instead of "M" or "F.»

2018: The Supreme Court of India strikes down a colonial-era anti-homosexuality law.

Current: Slightly tragic, to be honest (but with a hopeful, glass half-full, rose-colored-glasses outlook).

Future: ?


Just like with my resources page, please feel free to drop any I missed below in the comments!

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