These laws remained in place until challenged in 1925. Virginia).ġ714 – Sodomy laws in place in the early colonies and in the colonial militia. Content included letters and words, as well as religious-based prayers and instruction such as, “God created man, male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.”ġ691 – Virginia passes the first anti-miscegenation law, forbidding marriage between whites and blacks or whites and Native Americans (overturned in 1967 in Loving v. Some consider this as the first school-based textbook. She was banned from the community.ġ649 – Sarah White Norman and Mary Vincent Hammon are charged with “lewd behavior” in Plymouth, Massachusetts, believed to be the first conviction for lesbian behavior in the new world.ġ687 – New England Primer published and used in colonial schools (90 pages). Men held leadership positions, while women’s purpose was submissive and to “please your husband and make him happy.”ġ624 – Richard Cornish of the Virginia Colony is tried and hanged for sodomy.ġ630 – Massachusetts Bay Colony was established believing they had made a “covenant with God to build an ideal Christian community.”ġ631 – Massachusetts Bay General Court, in accordance with Puritan religious and moral beliefs, declared that the following were considered sex crimes and were punishable by whipping, banishment or execution: fornication, adultery, rape, and sodomy.ġ637, 1638 – Trials of Anne Hutchinson in the Massachusetts colony for holding religious meetings in her home since she was not allowed to hold these types of meetings in the male-dominated churches.
Mayflower contract signed by the men in the group “…for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith…” Established gender norms that determined the nuclear family unit was the basis for all other institutions such as government or church. Colonial Life and Founding of the Nation (1607-1770)ġ607 – Founding of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America.ġ619 – Approximately 20 Africans sold into slavery in Jamestown, Virginia.ġ620 – Colonial Plymouth established with Puritan norms.
Transgender – 1965 – John Oliven, in his book, Sexual Hygiene and Pathology, used the term transgender to mean a person who identifies with a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth. Gay – 1955 – the term gay was used throughout Europe earlier, but this is the year most agree that gay came to mean same-sex relationships between men. 1967: Sexual Freedom League formed in San Francisco in support of bisexual people. 1872 – the pamphlet, “Psychopathia Sexualis” was translated from German and one of the first times the term bisexual is used. Homosexual – 1869 – Hungarian journalist Karl-Maria Kertheny first used the term homosexual.īisexual – 1894/1967. Lesbian – 1732 – the term lesbian first used by William King in his book, The Toast, published in England which meant women who loved women. The years when common terms began to be used are listed first followed by important LGBTQ history events: Gay and lesbian relationships existed in ancient Rome and Greece communities and are shown in a variety of art from that time. It is important to note that there existed lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, communities, and relationships long before these terms became commonplace. Our Family Coalition will be updating the timeline over time. History classrooms and is consistent with the people and events listed in the new California History-Social Science Framework (2016). This timeline is organized in units that are typically taught in middle school and high school U.S. LGBTQ Rights Timeline in American History