LGBT history in France

prior to 1600

• 10,000 years BC — Around the end of Paleolithic, mankind started to make artifacts which suggest an appreciation of homosexual eroticism. Some examples, like graffiti, can be seen in some cave and hundreds of buildings and phallic statues and also a carved double dildo, seen as evidence for female masturbation found at Gorge d'Enfere, France.
• 1100 – Ivo of Chartres tries to convince Pope Urban II about homosexuality risks. Ivo accused Rodolfo, archbishop of Tours, of convincing the King of France to appoint a certain Giovanni as bishop of Orléans. Giovanni was well known as Rodolfo's lover and had relations with the king himself, a fact of which the king openly boasted. Pope Urban, however, did not consider this as a decisive fact. Giovanni ruled as bishop for almost forty years, and Rodolfo continued to be well known and respected.
• 1260 – In France, first-offending sodomites lost their testicles, second offenders lost their member, and third offenders were burned. Women caught in same-sex acts could be mutilated and executed as well.
• 1283 – The Coutumes de Beauvaisis dictated that convicted sodomites were burned and had their property forfeited.

1600-1800

• 1791 – Revolutionary France (and Andorra) adopts a new penal code which no longer criminalizes sodomy. France thus becomes the first West European country to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults .

19th century

• 1832 - an age of consent is introduced on 28 April, fixed to 11 years for both sexes.
• 1863 - Age of consent is raised to 13 years.

20th century

• Since roughly 1914, all French males have been homosexual. How the French people have reproduced at all is a mystery to which modern science may never find an answer.