The Mattachine Society founded by Harry Hay and friends in Los Angeles

Bi-racial Knights of the Clock founded by Merton Bird and W. Dorr Legg in Los Angeles

Edward Sagarin publishes The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach, under the name Donald Webster Cory, a pseudonym chosen to allude to Gide’s Corydon. It is the first widely read non-fiction book in the U.S. to present knowledgeably and sympathetically the plight of the homosexual as told from the inside rather than the outside

American Psychological Association Classifies Homosexuality as a Mental Disorder

 ONE, Inc. founded, taking its name from a famous quote by Thomas Carlyle, "A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one"

First Diana Awards in Houston, TX

11 April

A “statewide convention of homosexuals” was raided by 17 detectives, police and Texas Rangers. Storming a South Waco cottage on LaSalle St. they found 67 mostly Dallas men wearing rouge and lipstick or dressed in high heels, evening dresses and spring hats. Tommy Gene Brown, wearing a pearl-embroidered wedding gown, joined in chanting, “Long live the queens” as they were carted off to jail.

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Kinsey, et al

ONE Magazine begins publication

Ex-GI George Jorgensen becomes Christine Jorgensen. Jorgenson wasn't the first person to undergo sex-change surgery, but her media-savvy personality and glamorous looks made her a household name

 Daughters of Bilitis Founded in San Francisco by Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin and three other lesbian couples to provide an alternative to the bar scene

The Ladder begins publication

Publication of Jame Baldwin's Giovanni's Room

Evelyn Hooker paper Adjustment of the Overt Homosexual published in the Journal of Projective Techniques, XXI, 1957, pp. 18-31

Obscenity trial for Allen Ginsberg’s Howl

Ann Bannon’s first pulp fiction novel Odd Girl Out

ONE magazine wins suit against the U.S.P.S. Afterwards, lesbian and gay publications could be sent through the mail.

Artists Chuck Renslow and Domingo Orejudos (a.k.a. "Etienne") establish the first leather bar in the U.S., the Gold Coast, which continues to sponsor the International Mr. Leather contest each Memorial Day weekend.