1924 – The first homosexual rights organization in America is founded by Henry Gerber in Chicago- the Society for Human Rights.1923 – Lesbian Elsa Gidlow, born in England, published the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry in the United States, titled "On a Grey Thread.".1923 – The word fag is first used in print in reference to gays in Nels Anderson's The Hobo: "Fairies or Fags are men or boys who exploit sex for profit.".
1922 – A new criminal code comes into force in the USSR officially decriminalizing homosexual acts.1921 – In England, an attempt to make lesbianism illegal for the first time in Britain's history fails.
( June 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. Magnus Hirschfeld has a cameo in the film and partially funded its production. 1919 - Different from the Others, one of the first explicitly gay films, is released.Its library of thousands of books was destroyed by Nazis in May 1933. 1919 – In Berlin, Germany, Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld co-founds the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sex Research), a pioneering private research institute and counseling office.Bolshevik leaders reportedly say that "homosexual relationships and heterosexual relationships are treated exactly the same by the law." 1917 – The October Revolution in Russia repeals the previous criminal code in its entirety-including Article 995.1913 – The word faggot is first used in print in reference to gays in a vocabulary of criminal slang published in Portland, Oregon: "All the faggots (sissies) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight".1912 – The first explicit reference to lesbianism in a Mormon magazine occurred when the "Young Woman's Journal" paid tribute to " Sappho of Lesbos " the Scientific Humanitarian Committee of the Netherlands (NWHK), the first Dutch organization to campaign against anti-homosexual discrimination, is established by Dr.issue of German lesbian periodical Die Freundin ( Friedrich Radszuweit) Magnus Hirschfeld later wrote "she was the first and only woman, indeed the first and only American, to take up the defense of homosexual love before the general public." 1910 – Emma Goldman first begins speaking publicly in favor of homosexual rights.1907–1909 – Harden–Eulenburg affair in Germany.The Prince sued Brand for libel and cleared his name Brand was sentenced to 18 months in prison. 1907 – Adolf Brand, the activist leader of the Gemeinschaft der Eigenen, working to overturn Paragraph 175, published a piece "outing" the imperial chancellor of Germany, Prince Bernhard von Bülow.Baer, in December 1906, became the first transgender person to undergo sex reassignment surgery. 1906 – Potentially the first openly gay American novel with a happy ending, Imre, was published.
34 men were arrested and 12 brought to trial on sodomy charges 7 men received sentences ranging from 4 to 20 years in prison.