Oregon
A slander case in Portland leads to a jury siding with a man seeking damages for having been accused of sodomy.
Oregon suffrage leader Abigail Scott Duniway reprints in The New Northwest a tirade against her as a “gal with a manly air.”
Judge Matthew Deady returns a group of prints from homoerotic frescoes from the walls of Pompeii and Herculaneum that had been proposed as donations to the public library. “I would not have believed such pictures ever existed,” he confides to his diary.
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1871
Oregon
Oregon Secretary of State S. F. Chadwick is accused of unethical practices in office. He defends himself by pointing out that his primary accuser has been charged with sodomy, thereby rendering him unbelievable.
United States LGBT History for 1870 - 1879
1877
1875
Oregon
The Oregonian reports that it has become a “stock newspaper joke” to link the names of Samuel Bowles and Charles Francis Adams into “a sort of David and Jonathan tenderness and devotion” because of their “close and long enduring friendship.” Adams is a son of former President John Quincy Adams and himself a former government official.
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