National
Bob Mizer a photographer founds the Athletic Model Guild. During a time after a war laws were in place that limited how men could be portrayed in printed form. Women could be displayed as publishers saw fit. The magazines had to be presented as a body building genre until the government was engulfed in a lawsuit that lifted the restrictions on male photography.
Utah
LDS Presiding Bishop LeGrand Richards launched a continuing surveillance of church owned apartments to discover “evil practices” of tenants. J. Reuben Clark asks Bishop Gordon Burt Affleck to “organize a surveillance for possible homosexuals” in the steam room of the church-owned Deseret Gymnasium.
United States LGBT History for 1945
State equality and discrimination bills
Washington D.C.
First appearance of "bisexual" in the Congressional Record. Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 79th Congress, First Session. Vol. 91 pt. 10. February 20, 1945, p. A741.
New York
The Quaker Emergency Committee of New York City opens the first social welfare agency for gay people, serving young people arrested on same-sex charges
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
World War II ends. The Veterans Benevolent Association is founded in New York by gay service members to fight the “blue discharge: system.” It is the first documented LGBT veterans group. They also partnered with the NAACP to help support gay black soldiers who were discharged from the military for their race & sexuality. The blue discharge was a nonconfrontational method for removing homosexuals from military service.
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