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.
1922 – A new criminal code comes into force in the USSR officially decriminalizing homosexual acts.
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.
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).