LGBT+ history

In 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalise gay marriage

The 2009 murder of Vicky Hernandez forced recognition of transgender rights in Honduras

In May 2001, 52 men were arrested in a gay nightclub floating on the River Nile

On 7 August 1994, police raided Tasty, a gay nightclub in downtown Melbourne, Australia

In 2009, Rudolf Brazda returned to the former concentration camp he was in for being gay

In 1961 the first openly gay person ran for public office in the United States.

A school offering specialised education for LGBT students opened in the city in 1985

The UK’s first official gay Pride march took place 50 years ago – on 1st July 1972.

A group of US feminists set up a commune to live entirely without men in 1971.

How a protest outside New York's Stonewall Inn inspired the modern gay rights movement.

How LGBT people in China started arranging fake marriages to hide their sexuality

Hear one man's story of living in fear before 1967 when Britain legalised homosexuality

Until 2011 LGBT service people in the US armed forces had to keep their sexuality secret

In 2006, a Ugandan newspaper began printing the names of professionals believed to be gay

In 2006, Russian activists broke the law to stage the first gay pride march in Moscow.

In 1992, a group of LGBT Ivoirians stormed the office of a national newspaper

The murder of a gay student shocked Americans and helped reform US hate crime law

In 1984 a group of lesbians and gay men organised to support striking coal-miners.

In 1975 a US airman announced he was gay, to test the military's attitude to homosexuals.

The transgender Indonesians who fought for their rights in the 1970s and 1980s

In 1982, Terrence Higgins became the first known British victim of HIV/AIDS.

The first international sports event for LGBT athletes was held in San Francisco in 1982.

The transgender player who fought for the right to compete in tournaments as a woman