Keeping words 1600-1800

At this time homosexuality was a very sensitive topic. Even people eho were alleged to have performed any homosexual activities or alleged to be homosexual were executed with no remorse. In the early 1600, European colonial government sought out to control the sexual behaviour of the people in their settlements. There were laws regarding Sodomy, a range of same sex activities, and in the British colonies it was considered a capital crime. It took a long time for people to begin even talking baout it. Still people were whipped or taken to court for attempting to have sexual relations with poeple of the same gender. Most importantly people did not refer to it as sexual intercourse with a person of the same sex, as we would say today, but such phrases as "leude behaviour each with[the] other person upon a bed". people were also being fined for cross dressing and were legible to being embarrassed in front of the community, for exaple, In Massachusetts, Deborah Byar was fined and publicly humiliated for wearing men's clothing. In the 1650s it was common for poeple to cross dress, especially men, to make political statements in European society but still colonial laws actually made it a crime. In the 1650s sex between women was considered a capital crime especially in the New Haven colony. Even htough religious figures condemned many different kinds of sexual activity (both heterosexual and homosexual) to be sinful acts, it was difficulty to know and figure out whether the community shared the attitude of the laws. In the 1690s people were still being fined and publically humiliated for wearing clothing for people of the opposite gender. In the late 1690 the Native Americans were discovered to embrace cross dressing and men living as women which was shocking for the British, Spanish and French. In the 1750s discrimination against cross dressers, people who had been living as a person of the opposite gender, and same sex relations was still at its height ignited by the law Jefferson placed, os such activities, being punished by mutilation rather than death.