Write a narrative for a documentary talking about history of the LGBTQ from ancient times. 

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LGBT history dates back to the first recorded instances of samesex love and sexuality of ancient civilizations involving the history of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender LGBT peoples and cultures around the world What survives after many centuries of persecutionresulting in shame suppression and secrecyhas only in more recent decades been pursued and interwoven into more mainstream historical narratives The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village Manhattan site of the June 28 1969 Stonewall riots the cradle of the modern worldwide LGBT rights movement is adorned with rainbow pride flags123 See also Timeline of LGBT history In 1994 the annual observance of LGBT History Month began in the United States and it has since been picked up in other countries This observance involves highlighting the history of the people LGBT rights and related civil rights movements It is observed during October in the United States to include National Coming Out Day on October 114 In the United Kingdom it has been observed during February since 2005 to coincide with the abolition of Section 28 in 2003 which had prohibited local authorities from promoting homosexuality56 A celebrated achievement in LGBT history occured when Queen Beatrix signed a law making Netherlands the first country to legalize samesex marriage7 East Asia and Pacific Edit China Edit Main article LGBT history in China A woman spying on a pair of male lovers China Qing Dynasty Male homosexuality has been acknowledged in China since ancient times and was mentioned in many famous works of Chinese literature Confucianism being primarily a social and political philosophy focused little on sexuality whether homosexual or heterosexual In contrast the role of women is given little positive emphasis in Chinese history with records of lesbianism being especially rare Still there are also descriptions of lesbians in some history books8174 It is believed homosexuality was popular in the Song Ming and Qing dynasties9 Chinese literature recorded multiple anecdotes of man engaging in homosexual relationships In the story of the leftover peach set during the Spring and Autumn Era the the historian Han Fei recorded a anecdote in the relationship of Mi Zixia and Duke Ling of Wei in which Mizi Xia shared an especially delicious peach with his lover832 The story of the cut sleeve recorded the Emperor Ai of Han sharing a bed his lover Dongxian when Emperor Ai woke up later he carefully cut off his sleeve so as not to awake Dongxian who had fallen asleep on top of it846 Scholar Pan Guangdan came to the conclusion that many emperors in the Han dynasty had one or more male sex partners10 However except in unusual cases such as Emperor Ai the men named for their homosexual relationships in the official histories appear to have had active heterosexual lives as well With the rise of the Tang dynasty China became increasingly influenced by the sexual morels of foreigners from Western and Central Asia and female companions began to replace male companions in terms of power and familial standings8 The following Song dynasty was the last dynasty to include a chapter on male companions of the emperors in official documents8 During these dynasties the general attitude attitude toward homosexuality was still tolerant but male lovers started to get seen as less legitimate compared to wives and men are usually expected to get married and continue the family line11 During the Ming Dynasty it is said that the Zhengde Emperor had a homosexual relationship with a Muslim leader named Sayyid Husain1213 In later Ming Dynasty homosexuality began to be referred to s the southern custom due to the fact that Fujian was the site of a unique system of male marriages attested to by the scholarbureaucrat Shen Defu and the writer Li Yu and mythologized by in the folk tale The Leveret Spirit The Qing dynasty instituted the first law against consensual nonmonetized homosexuality in China However the punishment designated which included a month in prison and 100 heavy blows was actually the lightest punishment which existed in the Qing legal system8144 In Dream of the Red Chamber written during the Qing Dynasty instances of samesex affection and sexual interactions described seem as familiar to observers in the present as do equivalent stories of romances between heterosexual people during the same periodcitation needed Homosexuality started become eliminated in China by the SelfStrengthening Movement when homophobia was imported to China along with Western science and philosophy14 Japan Edit Main article Homosexuality in Japan Bewhiskered Man Importuning a Wakash by Miyagawa Issh 1736 to 1744 PreMeji Japan Edit Records of men who have sex with men in Japan date back to ancient times However they became most apparent to scholars during the Edo period Historical practises of homosexuality is usually referred to in Japan as wakashud litway of the wakashu and nanshoku litmale colors15 The institution of wakashud in Japan is in many ways similar to pederasty in ancient Greece Older men usually engaged in romantic and sexual relationships with younger men the wakashu usually in their teens1617 In the classic Japanese literature The Tale of Genji written in the Heian Era men are frequently moved by the beauty of young boys In one scene the hero is rejected by a lady and instead sleeps with her young brother Genji pulled the boy down beside him Genji for his part or so one is informed found the boy more attractive than his chilly sister18 Some references also contain references to emperors involved in homosexual relationships and to handsome boys retained for sexual purposes by emperors19 In other literary works can be found references to what Leupp has called problems of gender identity20 such as the story of a youths falling in love with a girl who is actually a crossdressing male Japanese shunga are erotic pictures which include samesex and oppositesex love Post Meiji Japan Edit As Japan started it process of westernizing during the Meiji era homophobia was imported from western sources into Japan and animosity towards samesex practices started growing17 In 1873 Ministry of Justice passed the keikan code a sodomy law criminalizing homosexual practices15 South Pacific Edit Learn more This section relies largely or entirely upon a single source June 2021 In some societies of Melanesia especially in Papua New Guinea samesex relationships were until the middle of the last century an integral part of the culture The Etoro and Marindanim for example viewed heterosexuality as sinfulclarification needed and celebrated homosexuality instead In a few traditional Melanesian cultures a ... 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