1700-1800: Sodomitical
Subcultures Emerge

1726:  Mollies
Arrested in London

1710:  Masturbation
Condemned in Onania

1760:  Tissot Declares
Masturbation Dangerous

1715:  Parisian Police
Entrap "Pederasts"

1730:  Dutch Sodomite
Massacre

1786:  Pennsylvania
Drops Death Penalty

1791:  "Pederasty"
Decriminalized in
France

1794: Prussia Rescinds
Death Penalty

1836:  Hössli Publishes
Eros

BIO: K.M. Benkert/
Kertbeny

BIO: Karl Heinrich
Ulrichs

1864: Ulrichs Invents
Urnings
 

1850-1900:  Doctors
Medicalize Sex
 

1857:  Tardieu Diagnoses
"Pederasty"

1857:  Morel "Discovers"
Degeneration

1857:  Acton Cures
Masturbatory Diseases
 

1853: France
Criminalizes Cross-
Dressing

 
1861:  England
Rescinds Death
Penalty

1869: Kertbeny Coins
"Homosexual"

BIO: Walt Whitman

BIO:  Oscar Wilde

BIO:  Magnus Hirschfeld

1869:  Westphal Invents
Sexual Inversion

1886:  Krafft-Ebing
Diagnoses Degenerates

BIO:  Havelock Ellis

1871: Germany Adopts
P. 175

1885: England
Criminalizes "Gross
Indecency"

1889: Scandal on
Cleveland Street

1896:  Der Eigene Goes to Press

1897:  Hirschfeld Forms Committee

1896:  Ellis Publishes Sexual Inversion

1896:  Raffalovich Condemns Doctors