Before Common Era

Prehistory

• Early people drew cave paintings depicting homosexual activity as well as transgender, intersex, and third gendered people.

Ancient History

29th Century BCE

Circa 2,800 BCE

• A biological male is buried in the traditional style of a woman’s grave outside of present day Prague.

25th Century BCE

Circa 2419 BCE

• Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum serve together at Overseer of the Royal Manicurist. They may be history’s first recorded same-sex couple.

7th Century BCE

Circa 630 BCE

• Sappho is born.

Circa 600 BCE

• Sappho and her family are temporarily exiled from Lesbos.

6th Century BCE

Circa 580 BCE

• Sappho dies.

5th Century BCE

Circa 470 BCE

• The earliest known depiction of Sappho appears on pottery.