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Pre 1940s

Page history last edited by Collier 7 years, 3 months ago

Year

In Houston/Texas

In other parts of the United States

1912

 The Houston Chronicle prints a small story about a woman, Madge Morris, who was arrested for wearing "male attire."
  

1925

The Houston Chronicle notes the arrest of a crossdresser.
 

1926

    New York-Gay writer Richard Bruce Nugent published his scandalous short story “Smoke, Lillies, and Jade” inFire!!, a controversial (and short-lived) literary journal edited by Nugent, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman. Nugent's short story remains the earliest known piece of openly gay literature in African American history.

1930s

   During Chicago's "Pansy Craze" Ernest W. Burgess carries out the country's first extensive research project into homosexuality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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