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
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