Reflections on Early Canada, part 1: Changing Attitudes Towards Homosexuality in the Late 19th Century

Changing Views on Homosexuality in the West
By the mid-1800s, most of Europe had stopped executing “sodomites.” The United Kingdom and Canada were among the last to end the death penalty, but finally followed suit in the 1860s.
In 1868, Europe got its first gay-rights activist. Homosexual sexologist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs began publishing pamphlets under [...]

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