State equality and discrimination bills
Oregon
A Portland auto garage runs a classified ad for an employee and says it was “No job for a cream puff.” This is a contemporary euphemistic term for a gay man.
National
United States runner Helen Stephens wins an Olympic gold medal for the 100-meter sprint, beating Walsh. Stephens’s sex is challenged because of her appearance and athletic performance but sex tests reveal that she is a female. Walsh, who is not tested, is revealed to be intersex upon her death in 1980. Intersex (also known as ambiguous genitalia) occurs in 1-2% of the human population.
United States LGBT History for 1936
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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