Educational Criteria​

References

Public Domain & Copyright

President Woodrow Wilson

          Washington D.C.
                    The U.S. Navy prepares a report on entrapment of “perverts” within its ranks.

Historical References

History 1920-1929

          California
                    California lowers its sodomy penalties from a maximum life sentence to a maximum of fifteen years                     in prison.

          Washington D.C.
                    The U.S. Army issues standards in which “stigmata of degeneration” such as feminine characteristics                     and “sexual perversion” can result in a male being declared unfit for service.

United States LGBT History for 1921

          Oregon
                    Harry Staben, who had been involved in the 1912 1913 Vice Clique Scandal, is arrested and held                     briefly on a charge of murder. He is released after he gives police his alibi for the date in question –                     that he had gone to a Portland café and was picked up by a man for sex and was with the man at the                     time the murder occurred.

                    A Marion County trial court strikes down the state’s sterilization law that had been used on 127                     people.

 State equality and discrimination bills