1932 – Poland codifies the homosexual and heterosexual age of consent equally at 15.1931 – In Berlin in 1931, Dora Richter became the first known transgender woman to undergo vaginoplasty.1931 – Mädchen in Uniform, one of the first explicitly lesbian films and the first pro-lesbian film, is released.They do so after the destruction of a centric public bath of Barcelona (Spain) which was a common LGBT meeting place at the time. 1931 – A group of transvestites from Barcelona known as "Las Carolinas" carries out the first documented LGBT demonstration in history.On 16 October, a Reichstag Committee votes to repeal Paragraph 175 the Nazis' rise to power prevents the implementation of the vote. 1929 – On 22 May, Katharine Lee Bates, author of America the Beautiful dies.This sparks great legal controversy and brings the topic of homosexuality to public conversation. 1928 – The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall is published in the UK and later in the United States.1927 – Karol Szymanowski, Poland's openly gay composer, is appointed chief of Poland's state-owned national music school, the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy.Iconic lesbian café Eve's Hangout in Greenwich Village closed after police raid. 1926 – The New York Times is the first major publication to use the word homosexuality.Paraguay and Peru legalize homosexuality. The group exists for a few months before disbanding under police pressure. 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.".
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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 sues Brand for libel and clears his name Brand is sentenced to 18 months in prison. 1907 – Adolf Brand, the activist leader of the Gemeinschaft der Eigenen, working to overturn Paragraph 175, publishes a piece "outing" the imperial chancellor of Germany, Prince Bernhard von Bülow.1906 – Potentially the first openly gay American novel with a happy ending, Imre, is published.
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34 men were arrested and 12 brought to trial on sodomy charges 7 men received sentences ranging from 4 to 20 years in prison. 1903 – In New York City on 21 February 1903, New York police conducted the first United States recorded raid on a gay bathhouse, the Ariston Hotel Baths.To achieve it Elisa had to adopt a male identity: Mario Sánchez, as listed on the marriage certificate. 1901 – On 8 June 1901 two women, Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sanchez Loriga, attempted to get married in A Coruña ( Galicia, Spain).