Introduction: What's a Modern Homosexual?
1700-1800: Sodomitical Subcultures Emerge
1710: Masturbation Condemned in Onania
1715: Parisian Police Entrap "Pederasts"
1726: Mollies Arrested in London
1730: Dutch Sodomite Massacre
1760: Tissot Declares Masturbation Dangerous
1786: Pennsylvania Drops Death Penalty
1791: "Pederasty" Decriminalized in France
1794: Prussia Rescinds Death Penalty
1828: New Sodomy Law in England
1836: Hössli Publishes "Eros"
1850-1900: Doctors Medicalize Sex
1853: France Criminalizes Cross Dressing
Biography: K. M. Benkert/Kertbeny
1857: Tardieu Diagnoses "Pederasty"
1857: Morel Invents Degeneration
1857: Acton Cures Masturbatory Diseases
Biography: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
1861: England Rescinds Death Penalty
1864: Ulrichs Invents Urnings
1869: Kertbeny coins "Homosexuality"
1869: Westphal Invents Sexual Inversion
1871: Germany Adopts Paragraph 175
Biography: Walt Whitman
1885: England Criminalizes "Gross Indecency"
1886: Krafft-Ebing Diagnoses Degenerates
1889: Scandal on Cleveland Street
Biography: Havelock Ellis
Biography: Oscar Wilde
Biography: Magnus Hirschfeld
1896: Der Eigene Goes to Press
1896: Ellis Publishes Sexual Inversion
1896: Raffalovich Condemns Doctors
1897: Hirschfeld Forms Committee
Biography: Sigmund Freud
1905: Freud Invents Sexuality
1912: Steinach Alters Sexuality with Hormones
1924: Gerber Starts Society for Human Rights
1928: Brits Censor "The Well of Loneliness"
1941: Henry Publishes "Sex Variants"
Biography: Harry Stack Sullivan
Biography: Alfred Kinsey
1948: Kinsey Publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

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