1884
1886
Oregon
Even though sodomy has been a crime in Oregon since 1853, it is not until this year that the first person is sent to the Oregon State Penitentiary for committing it.
Illinois
Jane Addams founds Hull House in Chicago, America's first “settlement house” offering services for the poor. Addams, herself a lesbian, is vital in founding the new profession of “social work.” Closely identified with the contemporary notion of extending women’s natural domestic sphere (which focused on childcare and family well-being), social work is a female dominated profession from its inception. Using an experimental model of reform — trying solutions to see what would work — and committed to full- and part-time residents to keep in touch with the neighborhood’s real needs, Addams built Hull House into an institution known worldwide. A pacifist and women’s rights activist, she also became involved in wider efforts for social reform, including housing and sanitation issues, factory inspection, rights of immigrants, women and children, pacifism and the 8-hour work day. She also served as a Vice President of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1911-1914. Books by Jane Addams include “Twenty Years at Hull House” and “Democracy and Social Ethics.”
1889
United States LGBT History for 1880 - 1889
Oregon
Twenty year old Charles Cowan is admitted to the Oregon State Penitentiary for sodomy and his record notes, “Anus opening large & scarred from plying his trade of Sodomist.”
Oregon
Congress extends all the laws of Oregon to Alaska. This gives Alaska Oregon’s sodomy law.
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