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Where there any anti-gay and lesbian laws around the time WW2 took place!? If so where and what were they!? Thanks!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Article № 121 criminal codes of the USSR provided punishment for voluntary sexual relations between men in the form of imprisonment for the term up to five years!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Most of the laws were the same in every state and and every state had them, with California having the harshest punishment!. They all required that anyone found guilty be sentenced to prison most for a period of 2 to 5 years except for California which had a 5 to 10 year jail sentence!. Prior to 1900 many states had castration laws in effect for gays and lesbians were forced to have hysterectomies in addition to jail time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Not that I know of and I do know that Hitler through anyone gay into the camps

I know Denmark was the first country in the world to allow same sex civil unions in 1989Www@QuestionHome@Com