1668 - Nicholas Culpeper and Abdiah Cole publish Thomas Bartholin's Anatomia. Bartholin briefly mentions lesbianism in this book. He uses the phrases, confricatrices rubster and contemptus vivorum, to describe female homosexuality. Bartholin cites historical examples of lesbianism, such as Sappho, Philaenis, and the Book of Romans.[1]
1683 – The Kingdom of Denmark criminalizes "relations against nature", making it punishable by death.[2]
1948 – "Forbundet af 1948" ("League of 1948"), a homosexual group, is formed.
1970s[]
1976: Denmark equalizes the age of consent.
1980s[]
1985: F-48 became the Danish National Association of Gays and Lesbians (Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske, Forbundet af 1948 or LBL).
1989: Denmark is the first country in the world to enact registered partnership laws (like a civil union) for same-sex couples, with most of the same rights as marriage (excluding the right to adoption (until June 2010) and the right to marriage in a church); activists Axel and Eigil Axgil and 10 other Danish couples are unofficially married by Tom Ahlberg, the deputy mayor of Copenhagen, in the city hall, accompanied by worldwide media attention.
21st century[]
2010s[]
2010: Same-sex couple adoption legislation is passed.
2014: Denmark becomes the first European country to remove the Gender Identity Disorder diagnosis as a necessary requirement in the gender recognition process.[4]
2017: Denmark becomes the first country in the world to officially remove transgender identities from its list of mental health disorders.[5]Same-sex marriage is passed in the Faroe Islands.
