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Timeline of Homosexuality
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| 1590 BC | First historical mention of Phoenecians, who practiced homosexuality in religious ritual |
| c. 1400 BC | The earliest date of the Biblical book of Leviticus, which includes the prohibition of "lying with a man as with a woman" |
| c. 55-57 AD | Paul writes Romans and 1 Corinthians, in which he condemns same-sex "indecent acts" and "homosexual offenders" |
| c. 100 | Plutarch writes approvingly of attraction to either gender (see Homosexuality in Ancient Greece) |
| 2nd cent. | The apocryphal Apocalypse of Peter depicts hell populated with men who pretended to be women, and women who slept with other women |
| 342 | Roman constitutions ban male prostitution |
| 390 | Roman constitutions reinforce ban on male prostitution, adding punishment of burning at the stake |
| 438 | Emperor Theodosius II punishes passive homosexuality with a death sentence |
| 535 | Emperor Justinian's Novella outlaws both passive and active homosexuality, reinforced by capital punishment |
| 538 | Justinian changs the penalty of homosexuality to penance |
| 1886 | Psychologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing writes Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), in which masturbation, sado-masochism, and "lust-murder" are sexual perversions that originate in heredity |
| 1948 | The Kinsey Report finds that 30 percent of adult American males among Kinsey's subjects had engaged in some kind of homosexual activity |
| 1969 | Stonewall Riot - New York policemen raid a gay bar and meet sustained resistance. |
| 1973 | The American Psychiatric Association declassifies "ego-syntonic homosexuality" (the condition of a person content with his or her homosexuality) as a mental illness |
| 1995 | Albania repeals anti-sodomy laws |
| 2001 | Gay couples marry under the same laws as heterosexual marriage in Amsterdam |
| 2005 | The Civil Marriage Act (Bill C-38) legalizes same-sex marriages in Canada (July 20) |
| 2013 | Supreme Court debates the Defense of Marriage Act |
Own this series on "Homosexuality in the World's Religions"
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