State equality and discrimination bills
Michigan
Michigan outlaws gross indecency between males.
New York
The Ariston Hotel Baths are raided by New York police. Seven defendants receive prison sentences ranging from 4 to 20 years. It’s the first recorded raid on a gay bathhouse. 12 men are charged with sodomy.
Oregon
The Northwest Medical Journal reviews Havelock Ellis’s work, Analysis of the Sexual Impulse—Love and Pain—The Sexual Impulse in Women, and engages in its first discussion of homosexuality.
Marie Equi becomes one of the fist sixty women doctors – and first known lesbian doctor -- in Oregon. She graduated from the University of Oregon Medical Department, now Oregon Health & Science University in a class of five men and five women.
United States LGBT History for 1903
President Theodore Roosevelt George W. Bush
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