Time Line

1. Time Line By Meaghan Kent Language Arts class 2

2. 25th century BCE • 25 BCE – a fifth dynasty Egyptian tomb is built to the first recorded gay couple, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum

3. 7th century BCE • 630 BCE - Dorian nobles allow formal relations between older princes and young boys • Meant to teach young boys and to restrain population growth • 600 BCE – Sappho, an ancient Greek poet, writes famous love poems to young females • She came from Lesbos which then created inspiration for the term lesbian

4. 5th century BCE • 425 BCE – 388 BCE – a series made by Aristophanes to ridicule hustlers and drag queens (cross dressers) • The Greeks were fine with homosexuality but when it came to men with womanly features or men who dressed like women theses people were casted out

5. 4th BCE • 385 BCE – Plato wrote The Symposium, a text in which discusses nature of love and the nature of knowledge. • This text argues that love between two males is the best and that having sex with a woman is the only means of reproduction. • 350 BCE – Plato now says that homosexuality is bad because it does not further humanity

6. 4th BCE continued • 338 BCE – The Sacred Band of Thebes, an undefeated brigade made of 150 gay couples, is destroyed by Phillip the 2nd of Macedon who mourns their loss • 326 BCE – Alexander the Great, who might have been bisexual, finishing the conquest of the known Western world • Which launched the Hellenistic Age where many people converted to a Hellenistic culture (which approved of homosexuality)

7. 1st BCE • 80 BCE – Julius Caesar has a love affair with King Nicomedes the 4th of Bithynia • 27 BCE – the Roman Empire starts their reign with Augustus. Where the first same-sex marriages ever recorded. • Roman (like the Greeks) approved of homosexuality

8. 4th century • 305 – Council of Elvira represents the Western European Church (allows homosexuals right to Communion) • 390 – three Christian emperors declare that homosexuality is illegal • Those who were caught were burned in public

9. 5th century to 6th century • 498 – even through homosexuality was illegal, the Christian emperors still collected tax on male prostitution • 589 – the Visigoth kingdom in Spain change religion • Which caused the prosecution of homophiles and Jews

10. 9th century to 12th century • 800-900 – while the Carolingian Renaissance was going on an abbot, or father, wrote love poems to other monks even through the Church condemned homosexuality • 1102 – the Council of London made sure that the English public knew that homosexual relations were sinful

11. 15th century to 16th century • 1476 – Leonardo Da Vinci was charged with sodomy but no verdict was ever made in his trial • 1533 – Mary Tudor is upon the English throne and abolishes laws that king Henry the 8th made (gay activities punishable by law)

12. 18th century • 1791 – Revolutionary France adopts a new penal code which allows sodomy • 1794 – the kingdom of Persia gets rid of the death sentence for sodomy • 1795 – Luxembourg and Tuscany allow homosexual acts