President Franklin D. Roosevelt

          Oregon
                    The Oregonian editorializes on the death of bisexual sex researcher Havelock Ellis that he wasn’t
                    very important or respected in the scientific community. A long letter to the editor in reply from a                     Portland woman argues the opposite.

          New York
                    In preparation for the World’s Fair, New York City “cleans up,” an effort that includes closing most of                     the city’s best-known gay bars.

          Michigan
                    Michigan enacts a criminal sexual psychopath law.

 State equality and discrimination bills

          National
                    With the men off to war and the women left at home, same-sex bonding was a requirement. For gays                     and lesbians, the war made it easy to find and identify one another.

United States LGBT History for 1939