The Article deals with the criminalization of homosexuality after the disintegration of AustroHungarian Empire, an important European power unit, in its successor state – the Czechoslovak Republic. It describes the transformation of the legislation of criminalization of homosexuality after the dissolution of the constitutional dualistic monarchy and the creation of a new democratic republic on its territory. It captures the impacts of the newly-formed state on the position of homosexual minority society and its legal forms of persecution. It monitors the European parallels and differences in the disintegration of the state entities and the subsequent access to criminalization of homosexuality in their new state entities and units in the same historical period.
History is an endless well of diverse stories and events from which individuals, small groups of the population, minorities, majorities, nations or humanity itself choose what is important to their image of not only historical reality. Queer history often transcends the notion of narrowly understood boundaries of nations, religions, social classes, gender, or other social categories. In this paper I would like to answer the question – what historical events or personalities were most often commemorated by the Czechoslovak queer community in the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938) and why? The answer to this main question will be aided by an analysis of the press of the Czechoslovak sexual minority from the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic.