Year
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In Houston/Texas
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Other
Events in United States |
1930s
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During Chicago's
"Pansy Craze" Ernest W. Burgess carries out the country's
first extensive research project into homosexuality. |
1936
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August. Pink
Elephant opens at 1115 Bell St., Houston, (corner of Bell
and Fannin, now a parking lot), was open until December 1984,
or 48 years
The Wagon
Wheel Nite Club, at Airline & Little York, Houston, offered
female impersonator entertainment during its run from 1936 to
1938, when it burned down (or was burned down)
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1944
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Poet Robert
Duncan, part of the Berkeley Renaissance, publishes The
Homosexual in Society, one of the earliest formulations of
a theory of gay rights in America
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1947
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"Lisa Ben" begins publishing
Vice Versa, the nation's first Lesbian periodical. See this
link for every issue, and more.
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1948
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
by Kinsey, et al Homosexuality is presented as a natural part
of the continuum of human sexuality. The findings on the incidence
of homosexuality was far higher than anyone had suspected.
Harry Benjamin is introduced by Alfred
Kinsey to a boy who wants to become a girl, and whose mother seeks
a treatment to assist, rather than thwart the child. The following
year, he begins treating transsexuals in San Francisco and New
York with hormones. The Institute for Sexual Science had not previously
done this; the treatment was entirely new.
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1949
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
The City and the Pillar
by Gore Vidal
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1940s
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Houston's
Gay Thirties

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