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History 1910-1919

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          Washington D.C.
                    December 14 President Woodrow Wilson vetoed the Immigration Act of 1917, excluded individuals                     from entering the United States who were found "mentally defective" or who had a "constitutional                     psychopathic inferiority." A similar Public Health Service definition of homosexuals was used                     simultaneously by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to reinforce the language of the                     Immigration Act of 1917 and effectively ban all homosexual immigrants who disclosed their sexual                     minority status. On February 5, 1917, the Congress overrode Wilson's veto, implementing the

                    Immigration Act of 1917 into law.

          Oregon
                    Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger visits Portland. During her second talk, Portland police arrest                     and jail Sanger, Marie Equi and two other women for distributing the pamphlet “Family Limitation.”                     Portland is the only city to arrest Sanger during her national tour. Equi also revises Sanger’s                     pamphlet to appeal more to working men and women.

United States LGBT History for 1916

 State equality and discrimination bills

President Woodrow Wilson

          National
                    The ambiguously gendered “KRAZY KAT” by George Herriman appears in his own newspaper strip                     starting July 26, 1916 and runs until 1944.

          Utah
                    Evan Stevens, musical composer and conductor for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was rumored to                     be gay. Contemporary and circumstantial evidence support the claim. For example, Stevens never                     married and filled his life with music and young men. Stevens performed as an “old maid” singing in                     a high falsetto in the Tabernacle.