Delaware
A court finds that fellatio is included under the “sodomy” law.
State equality and discrimination bills
Emma Goldman
President Woodrow Wilson
Oregon
Marie Equi provides abortions to her patients. She is skillful, discreet, and never encounters legal problems for the illegal procedure. She is one of a handful of licensed physicians in Portland known to provide abortions.
Marie Equi legally adopts an infant girl who she names Mary. This is the first known legal adoption by a known lesbian in Oregon. She raised the child with Harriet Speckart.
Social activist Emma Goldman makes a speech in Downtown Portland defending homosexuality. Although Portland police arrested her for her speech on birth control, they did not interfere with her speech on homosexuality.
United States LGBT History for 1915
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