1871: Germany
Adopts Paragraph 175
| When the disparate German
Kingdoms were unified into the country we call Germany
today, King William I imposed the legal code of his native
Prussia on all the German states. Many of the German
Kingdoms had liberal laws based on the French legal
traditions before unification, but William forced them to
accept Prussia's conservative code including Paragraph 175,
a law that forbade sex between men. |
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