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| Region | Mexico |
| Issue | Homosexual activity |
| Status | Male illegal, female uncertain |
| Start Date | Jan 1, 1600 |
| End Date | Feb 15, 1872 |
| Description | From the 1600s to the short Second French intervention and the subsequent restoration of the Republic under President Juárez, sodomy was heavily criminalized in Mexico. The medieval laws issued in the Kingdom of Castile were still valid for all the territories of the Hispanic Monarchy in the Americas. These laws still heavily criminalised acts of sodomy and were still part of the chaotic Mexican legal body even after achieving independence. In the first half of the 19th century, Mexico experienced political instability and a series of civil wars and revolts. All the efforts to enact a solid, unified legal body for this new country were unsuccessful until the 1870s. |
| Sources | Garza, Federico. Quemando mariposas. Sodomía e imperio en Andalucia y México, siglos XVI-XVII. Laertes. Barcelona, 2002. (Spanish) https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292779945/ (English & Book) https://database.ilga.org/mexico-lgbti http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5194486&fecha=10/06/2011 (Spanish) Irwin, Robert McKee, et al., eds. The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico 1901. New York: Palgrave, 2003. Lumsden, Ian. Homosexuality, Society and the State in Mexico. Toronto: Canadian Gay Archives, 1991. (English) Timeline of war: https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/timelines/the-mexican-campaign-1862-1867/ Translated version: https://www-jornada-com-mx.translate.goog/2001/11/08/ls-monsivais.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Original version: https://www.jornada.com.mx/2001/11/08/ls-monsivais.html |
| Federal Law | Yes |
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edited by Unknownmiles. setting as federal law
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| Federal Law | No | Yes |
edited by Unknownmiles. correcting the date
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| End Date | Dec 7, 1871 | Feb 15, 1872 |
edited by Alejandro_Ramirez. The dates and the information was wrong. Mexico abolished all same-sex consensual acts for adults in 1987 with the proclamation of the first Federal Penal Code. Pease see the last source (https://database.ilga.org/mexico-lgbti)
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| End Date | 2001 | Dec 7, 1871 |
| Description | In the 1600s to the revolution of the Second French intervention, Sodomy was heavily criminalized until Mexico adopted Spanish laws. Spanish laws still heavily criminalized acts of sodomy even though it was decriminalized in 1871. In 1901, there was a Dance of the 41s. The Dance of the 41s was 41 men dancing, 19 of them were dancing as women. 12 of the 19 men that were arrested were sent to a camp. In 2001, Sodomy was officially removed from Mexican Amendments. Number 41 has been seen as bad luck in recent Mexican history. | From the 1600s to the short Second French intervention and the subsequent restoration of the Republic under President Juárez, sodomy was heavily criminalized in Mexico. The medieval laws issued in the Kingdom of Castile were still valid for all the territories of the Hispanic Monarchy in the Americas. These laws still heavily criminalised acts of sodomy and were still part of the chaotic Mexican legal body even after achieving independence. In the first half of the 19th century, Mexico experienced political instability and a series of civil wars and revolts. All the efforts to enact a solid, unified legal body for this new country were unsuccessful until the 1870s. |
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| Sources | Garza, Federico. Quemando mariposas. Sodomía e imperio en Andalucia y México, siglos XVI-XVII. Laertes. Barcelona, 2002. (Spanish) https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292779945/ (English & Book) http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5194486&fecha=10/06/2011 (Spanish) Irwin, Robert McKee, et al., eds. The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico 1901. New York: Palgrave, 2003. Lumsden, Ian. Homosexuality, Society and the State in Mexico. Toronto: Canadian Gay Archives, 1991. (English) Timeline of war: https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/timelines/the-mexican-campaign-1862-1867/ Translated version: https://www-jornada-com-mx.translate.goog/2001/11/08/ls-monsivais.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Original version: https://www.jornada.com.mx/2001/11/08/ls-monsivais.html | Garza, Federico. Quemando mariposas. Sodomía e imperio en Andalucia y México, siglos XVI-XVII. Laertes. Barcelona, 2002. (Spanish) https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292779945/ (English & Book) https://database.ilga.org/mexico-lgbti http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5194486&fecha=10/06/2011 (Spanish) Irwin, Robert McKee, et al., eds. The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico 1901. New York: Palgrave, 2003. Lumsden, Ian. Homosexuality, Society and the State in Mexico. Toronto: Canadian Gay Archives, 1991. (English) Timeline of war: https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/timelines/the-mexican-campaign-1862-1867/ Translated version: https://www-jornada-com-mx.translate.goog/2001/11/08/ls-monsivais.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Original version: https://www.jornada.com.mx/2001/11/08/ls-monsivais.html |
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| End Date | 2003 | 2001 |
| Description | In the 1600s to the revolution of the Second French intervention, Sodomy was heavily criminalized until Mexico adopted Spanish laws. Spanish laws still heavily criminalized acts of sodomy even though it was decriminalized in 1871. In 1901, there was a Dance of the 41s. The Dance of the 41s was 41 men dancing, 19 of them were dancing as women. 12 of the 19 men that were arrested were sent to a camp. In 2003, Sodomy was officially removed from Mexican Amendments. Number 41 has been seen as bad luck in recent Mexican history. | In the 1600s to the revolution of the Second French intervention, Sodomy was heavily criminalized until Mexico adopted Spanish laws. Spanish laws still heavily criminalized acts of sodomy even though it was decriminalized in 1871. In 1901, there was a Dance of the 41s. The Dance of the 41s was 41 men dancing, 19 of them were dancing as women. 12 of the 19 men that were arrested were sent to a camp. In 2001, Sodomy was officially removed from Mexican Amendments. Number 41 has been seen as bad luck in recent Mexican history. |
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edited by qcksws. Smashed all of the information into one, there is at least 300 years of a gap mainly, I tried my best to include all of the sources I could. Homosexual acts are now legal this is just an past entry
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| Value | Legal | Male illegal, female uncertain |
| Start Date | (unknown) | 1600 |
| End Date | 2014 | 2003 |
| Description | The concept has never been illegal in Mexico, but in the times of the colony by Spain, sodomy was a grave felony. Those proven guilty were burned by the Holy Inquisition. In the independent period homosexuality was an administrative felony, that was charged by the police at discretion. This practice has been waning since the arrival of the modern democracy at the beginning of the 21st century. With the broad reform about human rights the protection of sexual preference was included in the federal constitution in 2011. http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5194486&fecha=10/06/2011 | In the 1600s to the revolution of the Second French intervention, Sodomy was heavily criminalized until Mexico adopted Spanish laws. Spanish laws still heavily criminalized acts of sodomy even though it was decriminalized in 1871. In 1901, there was a Dance of the 41s. The Dance of the 41s was 41 men dancing, 19 of them were dancing as women. 12 of the 19 men that were arrested were sent to a camp. In 2003, Sodomy was officially removed from Mexican Amendments. Number 41 has been seen as bad luck in recent Mexican history. |
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| Sources | Book: https://www-amazon-com.translate.goog/-/es/Federico-Garza-Carvajal/dp/8475844804?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Garza, Federico. Quemando mariposas. Sodomía e imperio en Andalucia y México, siglos XVI-XVII. Laertes. Barcelona, 2002. | Garza, Federico. Quemando mariposas. Sodomía e imperio en Andalucia y México, siglos XVI-XVII. Laertes. Barcelona, 2002. (Spanish) https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292779945/ (English & Book) http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5194486&fecha=10/06/2011 (Spanish) Irwin, Robert McKee, et al., eds. The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico 1901. New York: Palgrave, 2003. Lumsden, Ian. Homosexuality, Society and the State in Mexico. Toronto: Canadian Gay Archives, 1991. (English) Timeline of war: https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/timelines/the-mexican-campaign-1862-1867/ Translated version: https://www-jornada-com-mx.translate.goog/2001/11/08/ls-monsivais.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Original version: https://www.jornada.com.mx/2001/11/08/ls-monsivais.html |
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edited by qcksws. Unknown of the laws back in the days of 1800s but it was believed to be Illegal for Sodomy
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| Start Date | 2002 | (unknown) |
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| Start Date | (unknown) | 2002 |
| Description | The concept has never been illegal in Mexico, but in the times of the colony by Spain, sodomy was a grave felony. Those proven guilty were burned by the Holy Inquisition. In the independent period homosexuality was an administrative felony, that was charged by the police at discretion. This practice has been waning since the arrival of the modern democracy at the beginning of the 21st century. With the broad reform about human rights the protection of sexual preference was included in the federal constitution in 2011. http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5194486&fecha=10/06/2011 | The concept has never been illegal in Mexico, but in the times of the colony by Spain, sodomy was a grave felony. Those proven guilty were burned by the Holy Inquisition. In the independent period homosexuality was an administrative felony, that was charged by the police at discretion. This practice has been waning since the arrival of the modern democracy at the beginning of the 21st century. With the broad reform about human rights the protection of sexual preference was included in the federal constitution in 2011. http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5194486&fecha=10/06/2011 |
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| Sources | Book: Garza, Federico. Quemando mariposas. Sodomía e imperio en Andalucia y México, siglos XVI-XVII. Laertes. Barcelona, 2002. | Book: https://www-amazon-com.translate.goog/-/es/Federico-Garza-Carvajal/dp/8475844804?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Garza, Federico. Quemando mariposas. Sodomía e imperio en Andalucia y México, siglos XVI-XVII. Laertes. Barcelona, 2002. |
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created by alfredonarvaez
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| Status | Legal |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | Jan 1, 2014 |
| Description | The concept has never been illegal in Mexico, but in the times of the colony by Spain, sodomy was a grave felony. Those proven guilty were burned by the Holy Inquisition. In the independent period homosexuality was an administrative felony, that was charged by the police at discretion. This practice has been waning since the arrival of the modern democracy at the beginning of the 21st century. With the broad reform about human rights the protection of sexual preference was included in the federal constitution in 2011. http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5194486&fecha=10/06/2011 |
| Sources | Book: Garza, Federico. Quemando mariposas. Sodomía e imperio en Andalucia y México, siglos XVI-XVII. Laertes. Barcelona, 2002. |