YEAR |
IN HOUSTON/TEXAS |
OTHER EVENTS in the United States |
1950 |
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The Mattachine Society founded by Harry Hay and friends in Los Angeles
Bi-racial Knights of the Clock founded by Merton Bird and W. Dorr Legg in Los Angeles
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1951 |
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Edward Sagarin publishes The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach, under the name Donald Webster Cory, a pseudonym chosen to allude to Gide’s Corydon. It is the first widely read non-fiction book in the U.S. to present knowledgeably and sympathetically the plight of the homosexual as told from the inside rather than the outside
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1952 |
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American Psychological Association Classifies Homosexuality as a Mental Disorder
ONE, Inc. founded, taking its name from a famous quote by Thomas Carlyle, "A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one"
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1953 |
11 April A “statewide convention of homosexuals” was raided by 17 detectives, police and Texas Rangers. Storming a South Waco cottage on LaSalle St. they found 67 mostly Dallas men wearing rouge and lipstick or dressed in high heels, evening dresses and spring hats. Tommy Gene Brown, wearing a pearl-embroidered wedding gown, joined in chanting, “Long live the queens” as they were carted off to jail.
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Kinsey, et al
ONE Magazine begins publication.
Ex-GI George Jorgensen becomes Christine Jorgensen. Jorgenson wasn't the first person to undergo sex-change surgery, but her media-savvy personality and glamorous looks made her a household name
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1954 |
First Diana Awards in Houston, TX |
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1955 |
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Daughters of Bilitis Founded in San Francisco by Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin and three other lesbian couples to provide an alternative to the bar scene.
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1956 |
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The Ladder begins publication.
Publication of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
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1957 |
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Evelyn Hooker paper Adjustment of the Overt Homosexual published in the Journal of Projective Techniques, XXI, 1957, pp. 18-31
Obscenity trial for Allen Ginsberg’s Howl
Ann Bannon’s first pulp fiction novel Odd Girl Out
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1958 |
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ONE magazine wins suit against the U.S.P.S. Afterwards, lesbian and gay publications could be sent through the mail.
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1959 |
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