Key Dates in Queer History
Key Dates in the Queer Calendar
As LGBT History Month 2012 ends Tim Bennett-Goodman takes a sideways look at queer history.
Permalink“To my mind, modern queer history, in the British Isles and Ireland at least, begins in 1885 with the Criminal Law Amendment Act, and most particularly the pernicious Section 11 or Labouchere Amendment (named after the MP who introduced it) designed to prosecute male homosexuals for acts of ‘gross indecency’.”