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1950s

Page history last edited by Collier 7 years, 2 months ago
YEAR IN HOUSTON/TEXAS OTHER EVENTS in the United States
1950  

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

 
1951  

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

 
1952  

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"

 
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.  

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

  
1954 First Diana Awards in Houston, TX    
1955  

 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.

 

 
1956  

The Ladder begins publication.

 

Publication of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room

 
1957  

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

 
1958  

 

ONE magazine wins suit against the U.S.P.S. Afterwards, lesbian and gay publications could be sent through the mail.

  
1959    

PLEASE NOTE: This Wiki is largely inactive now. J.D. Doyle

has duplicated my timeline and is expanding on it: 

http://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/timeline.html

 

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