Part 1: From The First Written Words About Homosexuality to Alexander the Great.

The first part of the series A Queer History that looks back to Early Greece and forward to the way we live now.

“In Early and Classical Greece, homosexuality was part of the culture. The following is a snapshot of that world, and a snapshot of the fragments that are left of it.”

Timeline of 2009 LGBT Anniversaries, Part 1 of 4

In the forty years since the Stonewall riots, and the emergence of the gay liberation movement, a process of historical archaeology has been underway. Its aim has been to make the hidden past visible. This timeline of anniversaries is a look into what we now know of this hidden past, and also the revealed present.

529 AD, Justinian decreed that persons who engaged in homosexual sex were to be executed. He believed that homosexual activity was the chief cause of earthquakes.