LGBT history in the Czech Republic

Main article: LGBT rights in the Czech Republic

17th Century

Abraham and Lot by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1670?

• 1670? Wenceslaus Hollar depicts the departure of Abraham and Lot. Lot is described in the Book of Genesis 18 and 19 as the pious heterosexual with Daughters of Lot during the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah for homosexuality.

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century

One of the earliest activists in Czechoslovakia to fight for the equal rights of sexual minorities and the decriminalization of homosexuality was Imrich Matyáš. He started advocating for gay rights in 1919 and continued during the communist regime as well.^[1]

In 1924, František Jelínek published Homosexualita ve světle vědy (Homosexuality in the Light of Science), claiming that some of the nation's famous people had been homosexual.^[2]

In 1931, the country's first gay newspaper was founded. It was later called Nový hlas (New Voice).^[3]

Homosexuality in Czechoslovakia was decriminalised in 1962.^[4]

See also

• LGBT rights in the Czech Republic

References

1. Vērdiņš, Kārlis, ed. (2016). Queer Stories of Europe. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 136. ISBN 978-1-4438-9790-7.
2. Jelínek, František (1924). Homosexualita ve světle vědy (in Czech). Obelisk.
3. Waters, Michael (2024). The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
4. "Where is it illegal to be gay?". BBC News. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.