The recent gains in Marriage Equality for gays and lesbians have been phenomenal. As we all know, this kind of legal recognition has not been the case throughout most of western history.  This is a good time to remember and review the dark times of being gay.Here is a brief timeline of anti-gay laws beginning in the Common Era and primarily from Western Europe and North America. Throughout time these laws have been known under a number of different names. These laws, statutes and decrees have been called: laws against nature, unnatural acts, sodomy, buggery, the abominable, unspeakable ...