A Timele of Gay World History

Contents:

• GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
• CHA’S GAY EMPEROR KNOWN FOR HIS ‘CUT SLEEVE’
• GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
• A GAY MAN CHA
• CHA’S LGBT COMMUNY DON’T NEED WTERN ‘GAY PRI’
• IN CHA, GAY MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN
• A CLOSER LOOK AT GAY RIGHTS CHA

GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY

The historian Bret Hsch asserts Passns of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradn Cha that all ten emperors who led over the first two centuri of the Han dynasty were “openly bisexual, ” wh Ai beg the tenth.

Gil, wrg the Journal of Sex Rearch, Cha had “a long history of dynastic homosexualy” before the Revolutn of 1949, wh “urtly love among lers and subjects of the same sex beg elevated to noble virtu. ” He says that the survivg lerature om that time perd Cha “dit that homosexualy was accepted by the royal urts and s ctom wispread among the nobily. While the de later turned on Mizi Xia, this vigte led to both “the bten peach” and “Mizi Xia” beg tchphras referrg to gay love Che.

CHA’S GAY EMPEROR KNOWN FOR HIS ‘CUT SLEEVE’

While Europe’s Christiany promoted homophobia (along wh sexism and racism), much of the rt of the world celebrated a diversy of ways to love, to prent genr, and to have sex prelonial tim. Even the ancient perd, we see men who mataed a heterosexual marriage and a homosexual romance whout apparently seeg any ntradictn between the two. Later there were the dranian law s imposed on Cha by the Mongols and the Manch, which ma homosexualy and certa other forms of extramaral sex ser crimal offens.

Morn Cha has a plited relatnship wh homosexualy: It was crimalized 1997, but queer dividuals ntue to face social stigma and issu like nversn therapy and censorship of LGBTQ topics on Weibo.

Some historians, however, argue that the suatn was much different ancient history: In Che history, wh Tamkang Universy rearchg Liu Demg even suggtg a 2009 paper that homo-erotic relatnships were trendy among noble and tellectual men durg the Qg dynasty.

GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION

The last emperor of the Wtern Han dynasty, who led om the 7 BCE to 1 BCE, was the spiratn of the idm “Sleeve-cuttg affectn, ” which refers to homosexualy.

In the cultur of the ancient world, there was no need for signatns such as LGBTQ+ bee there was no difference noted between what is now fed as "homosexual" and "heterosexual" relatnships. There are not even words the ancient languag which translate to the morn-day "homosexual" and "heterosexual" which were only ed 1869 CE. The Greek term arsenoko, translated as "homosexual" the Bible for the first time 1946 CE, never existed until was ed by St.

Scholar Col Spencer not, "Bisexualy the male was accepted as natural and never drew adverse ment, but passive homosexualy ma the Egyptians feel uneasy. The tale of Sodom and Gomorrah om the Book of Genis is also monly ced attacks on the gay muny, but even Church Fathers such as Sat Ambrose (d. Today Cha, as many plac, homosexualy is merely tolerated rather than accepted: gay clubs n rema open, provid they stay out of the public eye.

A GAY MAN CHA

But Cha’s long history of homosexualy giv hope to many the LGBTQ muny, a untry that only removed the orientatn om an official list of “mental illns” 2001. Ancient Tim: Cultur such as the Indian, Che, Egyptian, Greek and Roman acmodate homosexualy and crossdrsg among a mory of s cizens sce the earlit rerd tim. One of the earlit Egyptian pharaohs associated wh homosexualy is Kg Neferkare, who is scribed havg an affair wh his top ary manr, Sase, durg the Sixth Dynasty.

CHA’S LGBT COMMUNY DON’T NEED WTERN ‘GAY PRI’

The Jewish prophet Mos nmns crossdrsg and homosexualy the Torah (Book of Levic), punishg the latter by ath for both men and women. Eighth-century Greek epics like the Iliad and Odyssey portray homosexual unns between gods and young men such as Zs and Ganyme, Poseidon and Pelops, Apollo and Hyacth, etc.

The Sacred Band of Theb, a homosexual army prised of more than three hundred soldiers, is feated by Phillip II of Macedon and his son, Alexanr the Great. India’s Manmri (Manu Samha) lists homosexual behavr as a mor offense for ordary, twice-born mal and for unrage, unmarried girls but do not nmn otherwise. India’s Narada-smri clus homosexuals s list of men who are impotent wh women and clar them curable and unf for marriage to the oppose sex.

Roman historian Ddos Sicul documents one of the earlit known referenc to homosexualy among the Celtic trib of Brannia and northern Gl.

IN CHA, GAY MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN

The Dark Ag: Wh the advent of Christiany, homosexualy and crossdrsg are crimalized the Roman Empire but rema wily accepted throughout the rt of the world.

A CLOSER LOOK AT GAY RIGHTS CHA

The Middle Ag: Wh the growth of Christiany and the advent of Islam, the crimalizatn of homosexualy and crossdrsg spreads across Eurasia and to Ai.

The Middle Eastern ctom of stratg homosexual slav and hoe servants be monplace the East Roman Empire (Byzantium) and is troduced to northern Cha and India. The Early Morn Age: Christian Europe wag s greatt asslt upon homosexualy to date while the practice remas silently tolerated the Mlim world. Expedns to sub-Saharan Ai, the New World and the South Seas reveal an astonishg acceptance of homosexualy and crossdrsg among the digeno people there.

Kg Henry VIII of England tablish the Buggery Act, which replac the penalty for homosexualy om stratn or burng at the stake to public hangg.