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Katherina Hetzeldorfer

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39:, she had moved to Speyer in 1475 dressed as a man in the company of a woman she described as her sister. In 1477, she was tried for homosexuality and posing as a male. She was prosecuted after having been reported by someone to whom she had confided that she and his sister lived as man and wife. It was discovered that she also had bought sex from two women, both of whom claimed not to have known her biological sex even during intercourse, one of them stating that she had used a strap-on dildo made with red leather. Hetzeldorfer was executed by drowning in the Rhine River. 50:". Later executions for female homosexuality in Europe include those of Catherine de la Maniere and Francoise de l'Estrage, in 1537 in France, and a famous case of persecution was that of 248: 243: 141: 148: 213: 121: 94: 238: 84: 203: 111: 233: 208: 253: 218: 46:, were common) and a very limited number of later cases, even though female homosexuality was also considered a " 42:
There is no earlier record of executions for female homosexuality (while executions for male homosexual acts, or
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Puff, H. (1 January 2000). "Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477)".
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Index

female homosexuality
Speyer
Nuremberg
sodomy
crime against nature
Agatha Dietschi
Female sodomy
Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600
ISBN
978-0-226-68505-2
European Sexualities, 1400-1800
ISBN
978-0-521-83958-7
Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600
European Sexualities, 1400-1800
doi
10.1215/10829636-30-1-41
S2CID
170570964
Categories
15th-century births
1477 deaths
15th-century German people
15th-century German women
15th-century German LGBTQ people
Executed German people
Executed German women
German lesbians
15th-century LGBTQ people
People executed by drowning

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