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1940s

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YEAR Events in Houston and Texas Other events in the United State
1940    
1941    
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1943    
1944  
Poet Robert Duncan, part of the Berkeley Renaissance, publishes The Homosexual in Society, one of the earliest formulations of a theory of gay rights in America
 
1945
Pink Elephant opens at 1115 Bell St. Houston, TX (corner of Bell and Fannin. It is now a parking lot)
 
1946  

The Rev. George Augustine Hyde heads the firstchurch  known to openly minister to and with homosexuals in the U.S.

1947  

"Lisa Ben" begins publishing Vice Versa, the nation's first Lesbian periodical

 
1948  

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Kinsey, et al Homosexuality is presented as a natural part of the continuum of human sexuality. The findings on the incidence of homosexuality was far higher than anyone had suspected.

 

Harry Benjamin is introduced by Alfred Kinsey to a boy who wants to become a girl, and whose mother seeks a treatment to assist, rather than thwart the child. The following year, he begins treating transsexuals in San Francisco and New York with hormones. The Institute for Sexual Science had not previously done this; the treatment was entirely new.

 
1949  

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote 

 

The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal 

 

 

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