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References

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President Calvin Coolidge

          Delaware
                    Sterilization is mandated for persons convicted of three felonies and judged to have “mental                     abnormality.” 

Historical References

          National
                    Marc Blitzstein a musician who stopped fighting his sexuality. He wrote to his sister in 1929,                     regarding prior attempts to suppress or hide his orientation, "it is absurd to assume there are no sins;                     there are definitely Cardinal sins, sins against oneself, against one's law. My sin is, has been... the                     willingness to corrupt my nature." He married women and would travel with his lovers.

          Michigan
                    A Detroit physician calls Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel "The Well of Loneliness" completely faithful.

United States LGBT History for 1929

          National
                    Black Tuesday, the stock market crash of 1929, brings on the Great Depression, a worldwide                     economic disaster. Restricted economic opportunities mean a loss of individual freedom for many,                     including women who had enjoyed greater sexual freedom during the 1920s Flapper                                       phenomenon and gays.

          National
                    Lesbian, Katharine Lee Bates, author of America the Beautiful dies.

History 1920-1929

Flappers

 State equality and discrimination bills