Homosexual behaviour, called sodomy, was considered a capital crime in most European countries, and thousands of homosexual men were executed across Europe during waves of persecution in these centuries.
Homoseksualno ponašanje, pod nazivom sodoma, smatralo se kriminalom u većini europskih zemalja, a tisuće homoseksualnih i biseksualnih muškaraca pogubljeno je diljem Europe tijekom valova nasilnog progona tijekom tih stoljeća.