1929-10-16 German Reichstag Committee Approves Decriminalization

A committee of the Reichstag, the German national legislature, approves a bill to decriminalize homosexual acts between adults in private. But the growing power of the Nazis made it impossible for the bill to be debated by the whole legislature and it was never voted upon.

1929-12-15 Radclyffe Hall publishes The Well of Loneliness

English writer Radclyffe Hall’s novel, The Well of Loneliness, is published in the United States. Sympathetic to lesbian love, the novel quickly attracted a wide readership and also became the target of police action and state censorship. After a court battle, a judge ruled that the novel was not in violation of New York’s censorship laws.