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For those that didn't know, Canada had decriminalized homosexual intimacy in 1969, and fully legalized same-sex marriage across the whole country in 2005. It was legal in Ontario in 2003.

"TheRe'S nO gAY peOpLE In hIStorY"

I don't think it's fair to say that everyone in the past was accepting just because we have evidence of some people being accepting. I am sure lots of people in the past also had their struggles and battles to fight.

"NO! They were roomates! Brothers! Friends! Anything but lovers!"

"THOSE FECKIN GREEKS! THEY INVENTED GAYNESS!" (I'll sub to you if you get the reference)

It's surprising that there are barely any stories or records shared from global south. South Asian subcontinent for example has many historic queer stories. Same in many places in rest of the Asia, Africa and South America. So many of the things were destroyed by imperialism and colonialism.

Of course it was going well until modern religions appeared. Not surprising at all

I'm sorry to correct you, Professor, but I think you forgot one of the most iconic days for the community, the birthday of Alcibiades, lover of Socrates and a total fashion bicon...

For further watching, I would recommend James Somerton's documentary about the treatment of those labelled with the pink triangle in Nazi Germany. Also, verilybitchie has a bunch of videos about particularly bi and trans history. Mia Mulder is a great watch too

About the nazis: We also can't forget that Ernst Röhm, the leader of the nazi's paramilitary SA, was also openly gay. Hitler simply tolerated it at first, but he ordered his death after being told that Röhm was trying to molest children (which probably wasn't true). Röhm was then executed in his prison cell by two SS men on the first of July 1934 after he had been captured during the Röhm Putsch which began a day earlier.

As a straight guy i must say... This whole historic rewind was so informative, fascinating and entertaining, i couldn't stop watching! life would be so darn boring without diversity that's for sure! thanks for the video, so much love and support!!! 🏳‍🌈

I think it is important to remember our history. LBGTQ+ history is varied and interesting. It is important to remember LGBTQ+ history and activism began before Stonewall. My one critique is: No one was burned in the Salem witch trials. They were hanged except for Giles Corey. He was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty.

My parents were born the year of the Stonewall Riots. The Netherlands legalized gay marriage 2 days after I was born. The US legalized gay marriage my freshman year of high school. Just to give a bit of a time reference. This is very, very recent shit. And yet progress has inched forward extremely slowly.

Seeing the super super early depictions of gay couples like the Egyptian ones honestly makes me want to write a story about 2 gay people and their love in ancient times.... I think I'll do that actually, it sounds like a fun little hobby to get started on🤔

Thanks! Without our history, we're nothing.

This video assumes that each example represents the whole of humanity at that date. Which is incorrect. Pro-LGBT and Anti-LGBT ideas were prevalent throughout the world in different cultures at almost all dates mentioned. This is incredibly Western focused when it comes to 1000 AD dates + Edit: The Stonewall Riots are not the most important day for LGBTQ+. There is an argument it is the most important for Western LGBTQ+ but to argue that it defined LGBT history is naïve and incorrect. Secondly, to compare it to pearl harbour or 9/11 is pretty bold. Another edit: To define Raegan as one of the worst presidents is only valuable on the view of LGBT and not other important issues.

Thanks for the great video! Alan Turing was another great gay man who should be remembered, he was highly responsible for cracking the enigma code! Sadly due to England's laws and society, all did not go well. But to this day he is one of my heroes due to his talent in Cryptography and his membership to the LGBT+ community!

As a queer Christian the role of mistranslating the torah and bible had in queerphobia is so infuriating. I hate having to prove myself to fellow Christians just because someone hundreds or thousands of years ago changed a translation

It's so overwhelming having knowledge about the history of LGBT. I believe they also said Philippines was LGBT friendly before the spaniards ever forced their religion, "Christianity" to us, and just imagine if that didn't happened? Will this archipelago with thousands of islands be LGBT friendly? As a gay person myself, gay people are suffering here because of mistreatment towards the community. We also have this eveil, homophobic politician named "Manny Pacquiao" and I just hopes they'll never elect him as president for this upcoming election in May, 2022 because that's pure stupidity, he doesn't think of us as human beings. I have no choice but to immigrate to one of the countries which has same-sex marriage.

I'm not part of the LGBTQ community but I support you guys

I want to be a gay pirate 🥺

17:54 _April 4, 2001- Netherlands approved same sex marriage_ _April 4 ,2012- us democratics are the first political party to support queer rights_ "Around a year later-" *Dw, we, gays aren't good at maths- /nm /pos* Side note: Happy LGBTQ+ history month from BCN!

As a Czech Enby, very glad to know about the grave one

Christina: Bi Queen

I have visited the stonewall inn before and it was a great experience to be able to see such an important part of our history

As an historian I loved this

For those who didn’t know, Alexander Hamilton, writer of the constitution, is suspected to be Bisexual, and may have even had a relationship with John Laurens, one of his “close friends”, and even had more enthusiasm describing his love for Laurens then he did describing his own wife! And looking at letter between the two, it is pretty evident, there is a book where you can see all recovered letters

Funfact, Switzerland had a referendum (national voting) on the 26th of September 2021 and voted at 2/3 for marriage equality and it will come in effect on the 1st of July 2022

8:13 and this is why translators have a huge responsibility (speaking as an amateur translator). To be fair translation choices and mistakes usually don't have THIS big of a negative impact, but sometimes it does. And people do die for it.

Fun fact: There's an openly gay K-pop idol named Go Tae-seob who uses the stage name Holland. (He chose it because the Netherlands is also called Holland and they were the first country to legalize same-sex marriage.) I'd say that he's pretty widely known within the K-pop community, though unfortunately some people just know him for being "that one gay K-pop idol," but he's more than just that; he has good music, too. His story is pretty interesting; I'd suggest reading up on him if you like K-pop or generally want to know more about him.

These videos really encourage me . I'm still closeted and my parents are super religious ( my father is super homophobic) , but your all videos make me feel that I'm valid and proud for myself to be a part of LGBTQ. Thank you very much for your efforts.❤️🏳️‍🌈

Thanks for this video, im happy and proud for my self as a trans mtf

Thank you so much for this information. Being a gay man and knowing our history as well as living though it. I'm very proud of all you do for our community. I'm a proud 67 year old gay man. Out at 13 to my family in Ohio and out to the world in 1973. Take care.

This was mostly accurate except that 1. The first law to accept homosexual relationships was in the achaemenid empire at around 500 BCE And 2. Alexander the great was openly bi, so he would be the first person in a position of power to be openly LGBTQ+

Very important fact: Stonewall, it began because of two transgender women, and they were not white.

17:06 When catching "the gay" was a lot scarier than it is now

i lived in the UAE for 7 years, it was confusing, anyone can be gay, but you dont talk about, because if you do; you get jailed or worse, deported, or even worse: executed. So for a long time i didnt know that "gay" existed, i knew men can like men but i didnt understand, but now im in the UK where i see flags everywhere and it is just euphoric.

Good work! But it’s actually 31 countries that have legalized same-sex marriage. Chile and Switzerland will enact it in 2022 but the law was enacted in 2021, and they’re already passing I believe. On average, 1.5 countries have legalized it per year. Making up about 1.2 billion of the population having access to marriage equality. Let’s hope the trend continues.

This made me incredibly happy, things fell fast but are coming back up even faster and it's incredible!

the beginning of the video proved to me that humans are in their purest form inclusive and loving. power inequality causes most of our problems

"In honour of the United Kingdom's LGBTQ History Month" *Happy British noises*

very nicely edited video! i learned some stuff i didn't even know! do you have a list of sources you use for your videos?

Interesting. Although, many "first time...." sentences might be more accurate if "as far as we currently know" where added.

learned so much about lgbt history in 20 mins than school will ever teach you

Thanks,now I'm sure that I'm normal,well in the past I was bullied because I was friends only with girls,but now I'm in college and I know that I'm bi and I'm sure I'm normal

I don't know why but I started tearing up watching this, it's really incredible to hear out history, and what we as a community have accomplished in all these years :')

aaah videos like these always make me emotional 😭 for so long, our community and its history has always been erased from history on paper, but now, with the advent of queer historians who make it their personal mission to reclaim our shared history as a community, i now have hope that maybe we can mitigate the damages done on our history after all 😭 keep up this good work!!!

If that was the kind of history we were learning at school that would of been my favorite subject

I just want to add about the Nazi time that 1. Lesbians could get send to concentration camps, wearing a black triangle and marked as antisocial. 2. Even after the Nazi regime in Germany the law that made homosexual acts illegal wasn’t lifted. So people who were sent into jail by the Nazis still had to do their time even after Germany was in the hands of the Allies/ had their new democracy. The law remained up until 1994! (It had existed before too, but the Nazis added some parts and pushed actually imprisoning people for it)

"LgBtQ+ iSnT aPaRt Of HiStOrY" Lgbtq+ history:

Literally one of the best intros ever. 💜🦄😅 "KINDA diiicks" 🤣🤣🤣 Seriously, nothing but love and support for the amazing message and work this channel produces (also the period acronyms are amazing and relief-giving.)

This is very informative. It doesn’t really account for any homophobic cavemen, because how would we know if they were homophobic?

I don't know man, i'm not denying what you said but that LGBT acceptance graph showing "max acceptance" just beacause some gay couple were recorded in some paintings doesn't seem accurate, i don't think that's enough proof to say 100% of people accepted the LGBT community, or any porcentage at all, they are just drawings.

Wow. Less than 15% of countries recognise us as equal human beings. It's better than 0, but it's still a horrible feeling!

7:16 I do wonder about the "Trajan as first gay emperor" thing, given that the Ancient Greeks assumed men could be attracted to anyone. Though that would make people like Alexander the Great, who had a documented eunuch lover, two wives, and probably-longterm-male-partner Hephaestion bisexual by our definitions, so maybe that's the distinction? Though there was that Chinese emperor who gave rise to the term "cut sleeve" for gay people when he cut off the sleeve of his robe to avoid waking up his boyfriend, and people in the court apparently thought that was super cute and started imitating him!

Random bi guy here. While the super ancient examples like the cave paintings and such are very significant and interesting because they confirm LGBT people existed back then, it's a bit of a stretch to draw the conclusion that the whole culture was heavily accepting of them. That's like historians and archeologists of the future finding evidence of LGBT people existing in our time period and assuming that everyone in our time period was heavily accepting too. I imagine it was probably nuanced and complicated back then just like nowadays. We'll probably never know definitively though, it is called prehistory for a reason after all. Otherwise, a well made and informative video.

We need another Stonewall Riot, honestly. Maybe not an actual riot, but like, get out and make those talking heads out there know we mean business.

Really great and informative video! Keep up the good work

" One of the worst presidents in history, Ronald Reagan" *subbed*

Gonna send this to the homophobes

As history student I can say that facts in video are relatable and can be considered as important moments. BUT. But I just have to say, that one thing in this video was a massive bullshit. That dumb graph. It's just so flawed. It makes no sense. 1. You can't translate one or two specific facts into general graph as proof of maximal acceptance (according to graph). In that case every cave painting of heterosexual relationship woud mean exact opposite. Or it would mean that if I and my brother like some new movie, everybody in the world like that movie too. 2. Graph is flawed in representing value of facts. Why legal marriage in ancient Rome is shown as maximal acceptance, while legal marriage in present day is shown as minimal acceptance. 3. That type of graph is acumulative, which is good for things like bank account, but not for part of social system, that isn't exact. sociology at all isn't exact science = you can't translate sociology into pure numbers and equations.

Some mfs really think there's no gay people in history

fun fact:their is a whole culture of transgender in india and we call trans people as hijras in india, this culture was way back in 12th century.. theirs even a transgender god in Hinduism called aravan

Japan had male homosexuality (nannshoku) going since the yayoi first arrived, so much that it’s a punchline in historic drama. It’s associated with masculinity and warrior culture, so it’s quite different to the west. There’s sex, but no marriage. More so an entertainment partnership rather than modern homosexuality. Because of that association, during the early imperial years, nannshoku ran rampant in the military branches. As part of modernisation, Meiji government discouraged acts of homosexuality, but, since nannshoku is associated with masculinity, it’s a bit weird. Nannshoku was fully banned when people started hunting down boys for pleasure after the Russo-Japanese war, big oof there. In historical drama, or just random shows even, nannshoku influences can still be seen but often as punchlines rather than anything serious. Post-war Yakuza group members can sometimes have a non-binary motif, not sure about actual orientation. BL (boys love) content is currently around, very popular but only with female readership. Not so much anything girls love.

16:13 - Good to see a flag with the right color order (red at the bottom, violet at the top) like it is in the chakra system.

Thank you so much for making this. LGBTQ+ eraser is far too rampant in our history lessons today.

I will start my degree in ancient history very soon and it baffles how much lgbtq+ history is completely ignored most of the time. Even with solid proof in certain instances historians still say that a big part of it is "unconfirmed" or "lack proof". It really frustrates me.

Would just like to add a little note here that doesn’t really matter, but witches weren’t burned. They were drowned. And not all of them were women! There’s was a man and two dogs accused of witchcraft, meaning only 17 women were actually out to witch trial. Just wanted to say that here

It's sad that its gay ancient history and not the history of love in ancient times. It's sad that we as humans are so ripped apart by small things. Go off king 👑

Idk why but learning about gay ancient Egyptians with their kids makes me want to cry 😢

kinda weird that its just "yea sure you can be gay." and then it just suddenly "HELL NAW THATS BAD AF WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT"

These are proud days for us folks

This was very interesting. I've never looked into our LGBTQ history before and it was nice to learn about, and I'm absolutely shocked that gay marriage has only been legalizd since 2015 in the US

I think it's a bit insincere to have that graph also the vikings thought that it was only wrong to be homosexual if you where a bottom edit: This is clearly a simplification but still

3:49 About Egypt, I just wanna say that they criminalized homosexuality in the year 2000. Many islamic countries have these laws, and Iran has to be the worst case of it all.

Very informative, glad I had this video recommended to me :)

Goddamn, first gender noncomforming person in history comes from my country. I am way too proud of this.

This was super informative, thank you so much :)

Meanwhile my country in EU, famous for it's tech and IT, people are still bigoted and arguing if gays should have rights at all. I'm ashamed of it.

20. Century, especially the first half, was really one of the darkest ages for humanity entirely, not just for LGBTQs, and my ancestors surely did a large part of all that terrible stuff that was going on back then. Good that we live in better times. Greetings from Germany.

Plato’s philosophy on love was based on same sex relationships! And it was commonly accepted during his time that Achilles and Patroclus from the Iliad were lovers.

I would have a 10/10 on history classes if I had you as the teacher

Hi, I'm from Uruguay. I think we were the first ones in America (the continent) to recognise LGBTQ+ civil unions in 2008 and marriages in 2012, along with weed legalization, abortion and other nice things. Though I am heterosexual, I'm proud of every person that fights in order to make a difference and makes me truly happy all the positive things that are happening. We have to make sure to never repeat what other people did in the near past since there are A LOT of things we need to change in order to live in equity. Love knows no gender, color or faith!!!! Peace.

1:50 - 2:02, dude, homosexuality did happen back then, we have records of it happening in the early Bible, that doesn't mean it was widely accepted back then, also that may have depicted men playing games together or hanging out, just because there are two men near each other does not mean they are supposed to be depicted as having gay intercourse. Also, if the majority of the world was gay and or "approved" being gay then the world population would be a hell of a lot less than it currently is, considering that there were only about 5 million people back then, if there was a large portion that were gay humans might not have existed today, being gay was an extreme minority of the population back then, and still is today.

I do think that some of the dates make a lot of sense in the video, but it is very arguable whether or not LGBTQ culture was accepted prior to the Greek Classical Era. There is very little record of society before the 5th century BCE. There is evidence backing the claim of acceptance for LGBTQ before the classic era, but thats not enough to generalize over 9000 years of history as being the period in which societies across the globe were accepting of LGBTQ. Other than that, you also mention "the picture that white straight men have tried to paint on history" and I think you might be getting wrong ideas here. First of all, you say that there is something they have been trying to cover up, which is definitely true, especially when talking about America, but I dont think you do this point any justice if you limit yourself saying "white straight men", asians have their own things they are covering up or are trying to cover up as do white and black people because race does not matter in this debate and I don't even know why you had to bring that up, just to bash on white people? Secondly, before I go over to other dates, there is strong claim Trajan was engaging in homosexual relationships, but so was the entirety of roman society. Transgenderism for example was heavily disgraced, aswell as being in the submissive position during same-sex intercourse. While homosexuality wasn't fully condemned, people still saw it as something endangering the masculinity of someone. Therefore labelling the first 9000 - 10000 years as "LGBTQ accepting" is very unintuitive. Next up the bible, while I do not have the sources you have and I may have skimmed over it, a 20 minute research showed me that even in the old religious texts of the jewish Bible, they already had the underlying Anti-LGBTQ connotations you'd also find in the christian bible. Naming a verse is one example in a book of hundreds of pages where similar instances can be found. You can look at the wikipedia for different languages, as I can speak german and english for example and in crossreference, I cannot find mentions of it on its own wikipedia page. With Nazi Germany and Cold War USA being brought up, I agree, anything diverging from the norm in our society was condemned harshly, but for the USA, this is its own piece of history while many outside of the US never had those problems, looking at you, Weimar Republic. Obviously, you got a point, humanity has gotten more accepting of LGBTQ over time, but the way you present this information is factually unbacked for several instances. LGBTQ was never accepted in Ancient Times except during the period Greek and Roman society fell into decadence (part of history theory: Jacques Barzun). In Europe, the first world war and the abundance of material due to the industrial revolution caused a new society to rise, this was seen for example in the nightlife of the weimar republic. It should also be mentioned that the struggle for LGBTQ acceptance ended in Europe way earlier than in America, and way more important than the right of marriage is still the right to even be in a relationship like that, regardless of same-sex marriage or not. Now a problem I find with your video is that despite you saying that straight white men are trying to cover something up, the only perspective you look at is a "white perspective", whether you like it or not, which is why I think that it's incredibly stupid to label problems in our society by ruling out a majority of the world population to point at a specific issue in society. Your way of portraying "How white straight men trying to cover up history, except they don't because all of the examples I used to prove a point are actually known" is just as rascist as if I were to say that immigrants and black people are criminals. If you read all of this, I'd like a civil discussion with you in the comment section because I would love to hear your opinion on this, especially the part about white straight men because it was unnecessary to bring that up at all other than to point at a majority population living in relative "wealth and privilege".

All of these dates should be much more well known, but I'd love a much deeper historical dive into these events. Also maybe a less eurocentric take too.

Sorry, I've never heard that example you gave of the text in Leviticus being changed, do you have a source for that please and thank you?

Super interesting! Thanks for this.

Netherlands literally did the April Fools on homophobes. Nice!

the sentence "lesbian women [in 1933-45 Germany] were completely free to live however they wanted" (13:34) is simply untrue!!! Please look into the works of historian Claudia Schoppmann

With the amount of hate and wrath the line in Leviticus caused, just to learn it was tacked on later by some rando ancient homophobe, it really shows how people need to do their research in history.

SPAIN 🇪🇸 legalized gay marriage = 2005 That had a huge impact worldwide in Europe and in all Latin America including USA.

nice to know i can get married in 29 countries ig lol

im sorry but saying gay men were treated worse than jews is just wrong.

"Hey, intresting thumbnail, let's watch this video" ...second 35 "...aaaaaand you lost me"

What were the pasages in the bible you refered to in this (as wel as in the other) video you paraphrased. Because i cant find them based on the info in the video as well as the links in the description.

Thanks for making this, we need to educate people about how homosexuality is a natural thing. Hell, even penguins do it!

"homosexual men were *by far* treated the worst during the war." 💀 no, just no. they were not.

Thanks for sharing!