   this is a list of notable events in the history of lgbt rights that took place in the 20th century before 1949. ==events== ===1900s=== ====1901==== * june 8 â the first documented same-sex marriage in spain in post-roman times is performed. marcela gracia ibeas and elisa sanchez loriga were married by a parish priest in a coruÃ±a (galicia), with elisa using the male identity "mario sÃ¡nchez". the priest later discovered the deception but the marriage certificate was never officially voided. ===1910s=== ====1912==== * november â following his arrest in portland, oregon for shoplifting, 19-year-old benjamin trout tells police that he was "corrupted" by adult men in the town. this news incites a moral panic which comes to be known as the portland vice scandal. dozens of men and boys are arrested on charges ranging from lewd behaviour to sodomy, and the state legislature responds by passing a law allowing for the forced sterilization of "sexual perverts". ====1916==== the united states military begins issuing blue discharges, a form of military discharge that was neither honorable nor dishonorable. during world war ii the blue discharge became the discharge of choice for commanders seeking to remove homosexuals from the ranks. ====1917==== following the russian revolution, the bolshevik government abolishes the entirety of the empire's criminal code. this includes article 995, which criminalized anal sex between males.miller, p. 204 ====1919==== * magnus hirschfeld founds the institut fÃ¼r sexualwissenschaft, a sexology research center, in germany. * february â [[newport sex scandal|an investigation into reports of homosexual activity among sailors in newport, rhode isl
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