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Gay and lesbian rights movement
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Boag, Peter |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Before New York’s Stonewall Riots in 1969, the history of gay rights in Oregon, as in the United States generally, was one of curtailment. For example, in the nineteenth century when Oregon formed as a territory and then a state, lawmakers adopted a statute criminalizing sodomy, whether consensual or not. In response to a major homosexual scandal that gripped Portland at the end of 1912, the state legislature strengthened the sodomy law in 1913, extending its maximum sentence in the penitentiary from five to fifteen years and expanding the definition of what constituted an act of sodomy. In addition, from early in the twentieth century into the 1970s, local law enforcement officials persistently used nuisance ordinances to harass and prosecute people who patronized gay bars. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.4135/9781608712380.n709 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/gay_lesbian_rights_movement/pdf/ |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.4135/9781608712380.n709 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
