
Hey homos, lezzos, trannys, bis, others, daddys, bros, hos
its that night!
OUR night!
the night where we can gay it up and take it to the streets!
we've come along way baby!!
- Somewhere 'round 25th/24th century BC
* Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum's tomb is built in Egypt during the fifth dynasty.
- 600 BC
* Sappho of Lesbos writes her famous love poems to young women, providing the eventual inspiration for the word lesbian. Later writings by Plato credit Sappho for inventing the Mixolydian mode (a type of musical scale).
- 385 BC
* Plato's Symposium is published in which it is argued that love between males is the highest form and that sex with women is lustful and only for means of reproduction. Only with men can the Greek male reach his full intellectual potential.
- 27 BCE
* The Roman Empire begins with the reign of Augustus. The first recorded same-sex marriages occur during this period.
- 244-249
* Emperor Philip the Arab tries and fails to outlaw homosexual
prostitution.
- 498
* In spite of the laws against gay sex, the Christian emperors continued to collect taxes on male prostitutes until the reign of Anastasius I, who finally abolishes the tax in favor of sampling of the best men
- 1007
* The Decretum of Burchard of Worms equates homosexual acts with other sexual transgressions such as adultery and argues, therefore, that it should have the same penance (generally fasting)
- 1260
* In France, 1st offending sodomites lost their testicles, 2nd offenders lost their member, and 3rd offenders were burned. Women caught in same-sex acts could be mutilated and executed as well.
- 1476
* Leonardo Da Vinci is charged with sodomy but no verdict was rendered in his trial.
- 1532
* Holy Roman Empire makes sodomy punishable by death.
- 1649
* The first known conviction for lesbian activity in North America occurs in March when Sarah White Norman is charged with "Lewd behaviour each with other upon a bed" with Mary Vincent Hammon in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Hammon was under 16 and not prosecuted.
- 1779
* Thomas Jefferson prepared a draft of Virginia’s criminal statute, envisaging that the punishment for sodomy should be castration.
- 1785
* Jeremy Bentham is one of the first people to argue for the decriminalization of sodomy in England.
- 1880
* The Empire of Japan decrimiminalized homosexual acts.
- 1913
* The word faggot is first used in print in reference to gays in a vocabulary of criminal slang published in Portland, Oregon: "All the fagots [sic] (sissies) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight".
- 1920
* The word Gay is used for the first time in reference to homosexual in the Underground.
- 1934
* Uruguay decriminalizes homosexuality.
- 1937
* The first use of the pink triangle for gay men in Nazi concentration camps.
- 1970
* The first Gay Liberation Day March is held in New York City; The first Gay Freedom Day March is held in Los Angeles; The first "Gay-in" held in San Francisco; CAMP (Campaign Against Moral Prosecution) is formed in Australia
- 1978
* San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone are assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White; The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras for the first time
- 1997
* Fiji becomes the second country to protect explicitly against discrimination based on sexual orientation in its constitution; Laws prohibiting private homosexual acts are finally repealed in Tasmania
- 2005
* New Zealand is the first nation in the world to outlaw hate crime and employment discrimination on the basis of Transgender
- 2010
* parade root at the oxford hotel
presented by Vanessa Wagner and Seymour Butz
a event at the ground zero of all things homo
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Location:
The Oxford Hotel
taylor square
Sydney, Australia
taking over the whole building from active top floor down to the insatiable bottom floor. 'staches in bassment, lipsticks in the lounge
macho, fem, butch, chubs, burly, tuff, queeny, chasers, girly.... not surly
featuring djs:
Stereogamous
Ben Drayton
Annabelle Gaspar
Matt Vaughn
Lovertits
Seymour Butz
Vynyl Ritchie
+ guests
live:
Suspect (Berlin), Video Video (Melbourne), The Enablers
shows
Anaconda Trash (Uruguay), Justin Shoulder, Dallas Della Force + more
come and get it lovers ..... its going to be more rammed than a sling room during a passive attack.
All four genders welcome. As well as all wildlife now used as homosexual subculture signifier : bears, otters, cubs, dogs, yetis, pandas, wolves, chickens, cats, starfish.....
get tix here
buy parade root tickets herepretty please don't miss out lovers!