Sappho's famed girls' school flourishes on the Isle of Lesbos.
60 AD:
Boudicca (or, Boadiciea,) Chieftess of the Iceni of the East Anglia, leads Celtic rebellion against Roman invaders, destroying cities of Colchester, St. Albans and capturing London. She was finally defeated after the Romans brought in reinforcements, and rather than be humiliated by them, she poisoned herself. Many feel her name (pronounced BOO-DEE-KA) is the origin of "bulldyke."
380:
Gregory of Nazianzus orders first burning of Sappho's poetry.
900's:
Judith, Queen of Falasha, captures capital of Ethiopia. She rules for 40 years until her death in 977.
1073:
Ecclesiastical authorities of Constantinople and Rome order all remaining copies of Sappho's poetry destroyed
1260:
The Orleans Legal School orders women found guilty of lesbian acts have their clitoris removed for their first offense. Second offenders further mutilated and third offenders burned at the stake
1600's:
Nzingh(a), southwestern African Queen of Matamba negotiates a treaty with Portugese to thwart colonial threats during her brother's reign. Rising to the throne, she negates the treaty, allies with Dutch and fights invading Portugal. Although eventually defeated, she retreats to the jungles and continues an 18 year guerilla war. Not until her death does Angola fall to colonial rule
1649:
Mary Hammon and Goodwife Norman charged with "lude behavior upon a bed" in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Charges against 16 yr old Hammon are dropped and Norman is forced to make a public confession. Norman is believed to be the first woman in America convicted of lesbianism
1655:
New Haven expands its definition of sodomy, a capital offense, to include sexual relations between women
1682:
Venus in the Clositer, a novel about lesbian nuns causes a scandal in France
1654:
Christina, Swedish Queen, abdicates instead of marrying. Raised as a boy, Christina loved Ebba Saprre, who left her after the abdication of the throne. Christina was also in love with Opera diva Angelica Georgini
1782:
Deborah Sampson, decendent of Governor William Bradford, excommunicated from First Baptist Church, Middleborough, Massachussetts for dressing in men's clothes and very loose and unchristian-like behavior
early 1800's:
James Miranda Berry earns England's first medical degree given to a woman (while still in her teens.) She lives as a man the duration of her life, had a relationship, (and child), with an important miltary officer. She was under suspision of being a gay man at the time!! She was however a bit of a flirt with the ladies...and liked to dance with them.
1810:
Schoolgirl's mother accuses Marianne Woods and Jane Pirie, mistresses of a boarding school for girls, of "improper and criminal conduct." Lillian Hellman uses this as the plot for her "The Children's Hour" 120 years later
1810:
France decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults
1811:
Gabriel Frechere reports of a Ketenai Female Berdache, Qunqon, who assumed the dress of a man, took three wives and was a courier, guide, prophet, warrior and peace mediator.
1820:
Florence Nightingale is born. Called Lady of the Lamp, Nightingale, served in Turkey during the Crimean war, and upon returning to her native England, reformed military hospital conditions and founded the trained nursing prfession. Unfortunately, even though Nightingale wrote: I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women ... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have, she lived by Victorian mores. So, even if she were Lesbian, more than likely she was extremely homophobic and closeted.
1836:
Last British execution for homosexuality, although the law remained on the books until 1861
1848:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton organizes the first Women's Rights Convention and publishes a "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," the forerunner of the modern feminist movement
1855:
Lucy Ann Lobdell wrote her biography, Lucy Ann Lobdell: Female Hunter of Delaware County, in 1855 in which she explains why she is leaving home dressed as a man - to earn more money was her initial reason. Lucy wrote a short tirade on equal pay for women. Lucy, as Joseph, and Marie Perry married themselves in 1868 and lived a persecuted life untill Lucy's false death in 1879. She was declared insane for her male behavior and institutionalized for the last 40 years of her life. Marie asked to be referred to as Joseph's widow. Lucy's own book cpntains her statements on equal pay and why she is leaving home dressed as a man. She was written up in the New York Times for her hunting abilities and her life with her wife, Marie, several times, Extrodinary Narrative of Two Women - August 25, 1871; A Mountain Romance - April 8, 1877. Her obituary was published in the New York Times on October 7, 1879: "Death of a Modern Day Diana" and in the Honesdale Herald on July 2, 1885: Lucy Ann Lobdell - the Wayne County Female Hunter Dead. In fact, she died at the Binghamton Psychiatric Hospital in 1912. Marie Perry's letter to an editor ended up getting published in the Honesdale Herald, May ? 1886, where she asks to be referred to as a widow and speaks of the avenues of employment being restricted for her sex and declares that her sex is NOT inferior to the male gender.
1883:
Article about cross-dressing Lucy Ann Lobdell in Alienist and Neurologist medical journal is first time Lesbian is used to denote woman- loving-woman as opposed to inhabitant of Isle of Lesbos
1885:
The Labouchere Amendment, criminalising all same-sex activity, was introduced in 1885. Althought widely believed, Queen Victoria's refusal to believe lesbianism existed resulting in lesbianism's omission from the Act is probably false. It is believed those presenting the amendment removed it (as the House of Lords did nearly 40 years later) fearing criminalizing lesbianism would alert women to its possibility. The story was useful, however, when her statue was made the focus of a demonstration in 1977 promoting lesbian visibility on International Women's Day.
1886:
Ma Rainey, openly lesbian Mother of the Blues and writer of Prove It on Me Blues is born
June 6, 1886:
Annie Hindle and Annie Ryan marry in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The event took place on the evening of Sunday, June 6, 1886, in Room 19 of the Barnard House, a hotel in Grand Rapids. It was widely reported that Rev. E. H. Brooks of the 2nd Baptist officiated but the marriage record, available from the Kent County Clerk's Office, states Rev. K. B. Tupper (of the 1st Baptist) performed the ceremony. The witnesses were Gilbert Sarony, who was a female impersonator but who did not appear to have worn a dress on this occasion, and Loran D. Osborn, a clerk at the Grand Rapids National Bank. On this occasion, Annie Hindle wore men's clothing and gave her name as Charles E. Hindle. She gave her age as 31 (she was probably more like 39 or 40) and Annie Ryan was 22.
Annie Hindle was not a resident of Grand Rapids even though she got married there. She was an extremely well known male impersonator in American variety, most probably the first woman to pe>
She had arrived in the US in 1868 and almost immediately married the ballad and comic singer Charles Vivian. The marriage did not last long (proably less than a month if my records are right). She was reported as having married W. W. Long, a minstrel performer, in 1878 but as yet I have found no official record of this marriage. She divorced neither of her husbands as far as I can tell.
Annie Ryan had acted as Hindle's theatrical dresser for a number of years prior to the marriage. There is evidence that Hindle had been very close and probably romantically involved with a number of her prior dressers. No more is known about Ryan at this moment.
1890's:
Jiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, also calling herself Qinxiong (which means "compete with men") wears men's clothes, writes feminist poetry and fights restraints against women. She is tried for treason and beheaded in 1907 by the Manchu government
1896:
Two actresses kiss on the American stage. Ushers stand ready with ice water for those patrons feeling faint
1897:
Archeological discovery unearths remnants of Sappho's poetry. The find represents an estimated 1/20 of her total output
1901:
The death of Murray Hall reveals the well liked and greatly respected New York politician of over thrity years, who had married two women, was in fact, one Mary Anderson, a woman who "passed" as a man."
1904:
Renee Vivien (born 1878 as Pauline Tarn in Philadephia) publishes in Paris "A Woman Appeared to Me" a biographical account of her tormented relationship with Natalie Clifford Barney. Vivien is best known for her poetry, written in French, which was widely acclaimed by critics as the epitome of the French romantic style. Her poetry and prose were all openly lesbian
1908:
Edward Carpenter publishes THE INTERMEDIATE SEX in England idealizing friendship, comraderie and homosexuality
1911:
Holland passes law prohibiting sexual contact between members of the same sex who were under 21
1912:
Heterodoxy, a feminist luncheon club "for unorthodox women" begins meeting bimonthly. Prominent lesbian members include Helen Hull, Katharine Anthony, Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, and Elisabeth Irwin
1901:
The death of Murray Hall reveals the well liked and greatly respected New York politician of over thrity years, who had married two women, was in fact, one Mary Anderson, a woman who "passed" as a man."
1904:
Renee Vivien (born 1878 as Pauline Tarn in Philadephia) publishes in Paris "A Woman Appeared to Me" a biographical account of her tormented relationship with Natalie Clifford Barney. Vivien is best known for her poetry, written in French, which was widely acclaimed by critics as the epitome of the French romantic style. Her poetry and prose were all openly lesbian
1908:
Edward Carpenter publishes THE INTERMEDIATE SEX in England idealizing friendship, comraderie and homosexuality
1911:
Holland passes law prohibiting sexual contact between members of the same sex who were under 21
1912:
Heterodoxy, a feminist luncheon club "for unorthodox women" begins meeting bimonthly. Prominent lesbian members include Helen Hull, Katharine Anthony, Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, and Elisabeth Irwin
1932:
Swiss woman Mammina founds Swiss Friendship Bond and publishes monthly magazine of stories, art and photography
1933:
The Hitler regime bans gay press in Germany and raids the Institute for Sexology burning 12,000 books, periodicals and documents
1934:
On June 28, the anti-gay holocaust begins with the rounding up and execution of 200 "homosexual pigs who besmirch the honor of the party" (Hitler.) Throughout the year, Nazis rounded up gays and lesbians from Germany and German occupied countries and incarcerated them in concentration camps
1936:
Mona's, one of the first Lesbian bars in the U.S. opens in San Francisco
1937:
Bessie Smith, the (imho) greatest blues diva, who combined songs of the rural south with a natural theatrical talent, and, who had many women lovers, dies
1937:
Nazis begin using Pink Triangles to identify gay men and Black Triangles to identify women of "socially unacceptable" stance believed now to have included Lesbians
1932:
Swiss woman Mammina founds Swiss Friendship Bond and publishes monthly magazine of stories, art and photography
1933:
The Hitler regime bans gay press in Germany and raids the Institute for Sexology burning 12,000 books, periodicals and documents
1934:
On June 28, the anti-gay holocaust begins with the rounding up and execution of 200 "homosexual pigs who besmirch the honor of the party" (Hitler.) Throughout the year, Nazis rounded up gays and lesbians from Germany and German occupied countries and incarcerated them in concentration camps
1936:
Mona's, one of the first Lesbian bars in the U.S. opens in San Francisco
1937:
Bessie Smith, the (imho) greatest blues diva, who combined songs of the rural south with a natural theatrical talent, and, who had many women lovers, dies
1937:
Nazis begin using Pink Triangles to identify gay men and Black Triangles to identify women of "socially unacceptable" stance believed now to have included Lesbians
1932:
Swiss woman Mammina founds Swiss Friendship Bond and publishes monthly magazine of stories, art and photography
1933:
The Hitler regime bans gay press in Germany and raids the Institute for Sexology burning 12,000 books, periodicals and documents
1934:
On June 28, the anti-gay holocaust begins with the rounding up and execution of 200 "homosexual pigs who besmirch the honor of the party" (Hitler.) Throughout the year, Nazis rounded up gays and lesbians from Germany and German occupied countries and incarcerated them in concentration camps
1936:
Mona's, one of the first Lesbian bars in the U.S. opens in San Francisco
1937:
Bessie Smith, the (imho) greatest blues diva, who combined songs of the rural south with a natural theatrical talent, and, who had many women lovers, dies
1937:
Nazis begin using Pink Triangles to identify gay men and Black Triangles to identify women of "socially unacceptable" stance believed now to have included Lesbians
1932:
Swiss woman Mammina founds Swiss Friendship Bond and publishes monthly magazine of stories, art and photography
1933:
The Hitler regime bans gay press in Germany and raids the Institute for Sexology burning 12,000 books, periodicals and documents
1934:
On June 28, the anti-gay holocaust begins with the rounding up and execution of 200 "homosexual pigs who besmirch the honor of the party" (Hitler.) Throughout the year, Nazis rounded up gays and lesbians from Germany and German occupied countries and incarcerated them in concentration camps
1936:
Mona's, one of the first Lesbian bars in the U.S. opens in San Francisco
1937:
Bessie Smith, the (imho) greatest blues diva, who combined songs of the rural south with a natural theatrical talent, and, who had many women lovers, dies
1937:
Nazis begin using Pink Triangles to identify gay men and Black Triangles to identify women of "socially unacceptable" stance believed now to have included Lesbians
1970:
First legislative hearings on Gay Rights by three members of the New York Assembly
1970:
NOW (National Organization for Women) kicks out Rita Mae Brown and other lesbians
1970:
Amazon Bookstore, the first American Lesbian-Feminist bookstore, opens in Minneapolis
1971:
Lesbian-Feminist Seperatist collective The Furies founded by dissatisfied ex-members of NOW Joan Biren, Charlotte Bunch, Rita Mae Brown and Helaine Harris
1971:
One year after expelling lesbians, NOW acknowledges lesbian oppression
1972:
East Lansing, Michigan is first city to ban sexual-orientation discrimination in city hiring
1972:
Camille Mitchell, an open lesbian, is first to win custody of children in disputed divorce case. Judge restricts Mitchell from co-habitating with lover
1973:
Supreme Court rules in the Roe vs. Wade case in favor of a woman's right to first tri-mester abortion
1973:
Naiad Press, Lesbian book publishers, started by Barbara Grier and Donna McBride
1973:
Two Army WACs, Gail Bates and Valerie Randolph, married by publicity hound Reverand Ray Broshears in San Francisco. As a result, both discharged from military
1973:
Olivia Records founded by Lesbian collective and releases first single featuring Meg Christian and Cris Williamson
1974:
The first bill to prohibit discrimination against Gays and Lesbians, HR-14752, introduced to House of Representatives by Bella Abzug and Ed Koch
1974:
Kathy Kozachenko is the first openly gay candidate elected. (To the Ann Arbor, Micigan City Council.)
1974:
Elaine Noble becomes first openly gay candidate elected to state (Massachusetts) legislature
1974:
Homosexuality removed from list of mental disorders by American Psychiatric Association
1977:
Reverand Ellen Barrett is first out Lesbian to be ordained priest (Episcopal.)
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2010-05-17 00:43:33
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Hi there
Re 23 January 1998 - the correct spelling is Jolanda Langemaat.
