State equality and discrimination bills
Oregon
500 gay men were arrested as "social vagrants", leading to the legislative passage of a unique law which prohibited "acts technically known as fellatio and cunnilingus. The law, which set a maximum of 15 years in prison for either act, was the only statute law in the United States which ever mentioned the words "fellatio" and "cunnilingus".
Colorado
“Homosexuality in Men and Women” is published, regaling readers with a report from a gay Denver professor that the city’s underground gay network was alive and kicking, especially at the university. The prof curiously listed the occupations of some of his gay colleagues: “five musicians, three teachers, three art dealers, one minister, one judge, two actors, one florist, and one women’s tailor.” He goes on to describe parties thrown by a “young artist of exquisite taste and a noble turn of mind” that many gays in Denver attended — some in drag. In contrast, the professor also tells the story of an engineering student who, after being busted “carrying on with the boys in the YMCA building,” felt such shame at his arrest that he shot and killed himself.
Oregon
A dictionary of criminal slang is published and contains the first known printed use of the derogatory word “faggot” to refer to male homosexuals.
President Woodrow Wilson
Washington D.C.
The first documented appearance of bisexual characters (female and male) in an American motion picture occurred in A Florida Enchantment, by Sidney Drew.
United States LGBT History for 1914
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