National
                    Allen Irvin Bernstein is a world war II veteran and wrote “Millions of Queers (Our Homo America)”                     The research was lost until 2010.

          National
                    Tennessee Williams after some early attempts at relationships with women finally accepted his                     homosexuality. He joined a gay social circle that included Donald Windham, Fred Melton, and Frank                     Merlo.

          National
                    “MADAME FATAL,” a man who fights crime dressed as an elderly woman, first appears in CRACK                     COMICS #1 (Quality, May 1940), and in the next 21 issues.

          New York
                    New York State Liquor Authority can legally close down bars that serve “sex variants”

United States LGBT History for 1940

Alfred Kinsey

          California
                    Virginia Prince, a transgender person who began living full-time as a woman in San Francisco                     developed a widespread correspondence network with transgender people throughout Europe and                     the United States. She worked closely with Alfred Kinsey to bring the needs of transgender people to                     the attention of social scientists and sex reformers.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Virginia Prince

 State equality and discrimination bills

          National
                    Vladimir Horowitz a pianist started voluntarily accepting electroshock therapy to “change” his                     sexuality. He continued to struggle with stress and anxiety around his sexuality.

          National
                    Bob Mizer a photographer that had come out at an early age began his career as a male                                         photographer by taking photos of himself.

Vladimir Horowitz