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Bertrand Delanoë became the first openly gay person to be elected mayor of Paris. [216] The Netherlands became the first country to legally recognize same-sex marriage. The UK's first ever televised gay wedding was screened live on air from Liverpool's Albert Dock on ITV's This Morning. [217] [218]
Societal attitudes towards same-sex relationships have varied over time and place. Attitudes to male homosexuality have varied from requiring males to engage in same-sex relationships to casual integration, through acceptance, to seeing the practice as a minor sin, repressing it through law enforcement and judicial mechanisms, and to proscribing it under penalty of death.
1672 – The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Wälättä P̣eṭros (1672) is the first reference of homosexuality between nuns in Ethiopian literature. [115] [116] 1683 – The Kingdom of Denmark criminalizes "relations against nature", making it punishable by death. [117] 1688 – 1704 – Kagemachaya, a Japanese gay bar, first opens in Japan.
In Ulrichs' memory, the International Lesbian and Gay Law Association presents a Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Award for distinguished contributions to the advancement of sexual equality. [18] In an interview, Robert Beachy said "I think it is reasonable to describe [Ulrichs] as the first gay person to publicly out himself." [19]
As Germany became more accepting of LGBT people in the twenty-first century, the number of Germans taking pride in their country's role in the first homosexual movement increased. The Memorial to the First Homosexual Emancipation Movement , which had been proposed by LGBT groups since 2013, [ 274 ] was inaugurated on the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Ufer ...
Meanwhile, California state Rep. Mark Takano, the first gay person from California (and first-ever gay person of color) to serve in Congress, explains his connection to Feinstein.
Sen. Dan Innis (male) (R) – elected 2016, first Republican open LGBT person ever elected to the New Hampshire Senate; Reps. Gerri Cannon and Lisa Bunker (D) – elected 2018, first openly transgender people ever seated in the New Hampshire House of Representatives; New Jersey: Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D) – came out 2006; New Mexico:
Gay publications celebrated his election, with the Advocate calling him an “activist” in a profile in 1982. “Gene’s good people," resident Kathy Carver told the Advocate. "I like him.