Timeline of LGBTQ history in Lesotho
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- In Basotho society, there were institutionalized homoerotic practices. Relationships were documented between younger men known as boukonchana (or inkotshane), and their older partners, called numa. The boukonchana performed tasks traditionally associated with women and engaged in intercrural sex.[1] These relationships, also common among miners in South Africa, persisted until the 1970s. Among women existed the motsoalle bond, a personal and sometimes intimate long-term relationship that coexisted alongside other heterosexual relationships.[2][3]
19th century
- Roman-Dutch law, in force in the Cape Colony and including the crime of sodomy, was imposed by a proclamation of the British High Commissioner in Basutoland, though the exact date is unknown.[4]
20th century
1970s
1975
- April 1: The right to change one's legal gender comes into effect through the Registration of Births and Deaths Act of 1973, provided that a registered medical practitioner certifies the change.[4]