United States LGBT History for 1923
Washington D.C.
The FBI labels Emma Goldman "the most dangerous woman in America" for her open endorsement of LGBT rights: "I regard it as a tragedy that people of differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding of homosexuals...."
Utah
Sodomy or “crime against nature” becomes illegal in Utah Territory. Sodomy was defined as anal intercourse, a felony punishable by 5 years in prison. hetero/homosexual oral sex added to sodomy statute.
Oregon
The Oregon legislature enacts a new sterilization law that both eliminates the definition of “sexual perverts,” and eliminates any need for these “perverts” to show reproductive potential in order to be sterilized.
Delaware
Delaware passes a law with a sentence of probation for persons convicted of “sodomy.”
President Warren Harding
State equality and discrimination bills
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