United States LGBT History for 1911
Oregon
Openly Lesbian physician Marie Equi presents a paper to the Multnomah County Medical Society regarding her treatment of a male patient who had gonorrhea of the throat.
President William H. Taft
State equality and discrimination bills
Oregon
Gay businessman Theodore Kruse is reported as missing by his wife. When another woman is suggested, his wife responds for publication, “I never knew of his having associated with another woman. I laugh at such a suggestion because I had virtually to drive him out with the young men of his acquaintance to attend banquets or other social affairs.” Kruse later is seen traveling with various other men and returns to Portland several months later. He and his wife are divorced almost
immediately afterward.
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