{"id":202,"date":"2023-01-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2023-01-20T23:07:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T07:07:54","slug":"this-week-in-gay-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/2023\/01\/this-week-in-gay-history\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Gay History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are a few moments in LGBTQIA+ history that occurred this week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>January 18th\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>79 years ago on January 18th, 1944, a letter submitted to the Waterbury Democrat discussed cross-dressing, claiming a majority of psychiatrists agreed cross-dressing was not a sign of any psychological disorder. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/wiki\/index.php\/Transvestism_More_An_Outlet_For_Escapism,_Waterbury_Democrat_(Article,_January_1944)\">Transvestism More An Outlet For Escapism, Waterbury Democrat (Article, January 1944)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 20th\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Two years ago on January 20th, 2021, President Biden signs Executive Order 13988 &#8220;On Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation&#8221;. This was the fourth executive order by the Biden-Harris administration and was signed following the inauguration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>63 years ago on January 20th, 1960, Judge Madden with the United States Court of Claims ruled against the United States Air Force in their decision to discharge a woman, accused of &#8220;homosexuality&#8221;, &#8220;under conditions other than honorable&#8221; without providing a court martial. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/wiki\/index.php\/Court_Assails_Air_Force_On_WAF_Morals_Case,_Evening_Star_(Article,_January_1960)\">Court Assails Air Force On WAF Morals Case, Evening Star (Article, January 1960)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 21st\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>154 years ago on January 21st, 1869, the Wheeling Daily Registered reported that police in Toledo detained a young individual who was found wearing clothes of the opposite sex. The person approached the officer requesting shelter. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/wiki\/index.php\/Adventure_of_a_Girl_in_Male_Attire,_Wheeling_Daily_Register_(Article,_1869)\">Adventure of a Girl in Male Attire, Wheeling Daily Register (Article, 1869)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is some queer history for the week of January 21st, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[6,114,117,52,53,7,8,9,120,50,55,118,56,44,119,38,75,115,116],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtqia-history","tag-bisexual","tag-cross-dressing","tag-executive-order-13988","tag-gay","tag-lesbian","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq","tag-lgbtqia","tag-non-binary","tag-president-joseph-biden","tag-queer","tag-this-week-in-gay-history","tag-transgender","tag-united-states-air-force","tag-united-states-court-of-claims","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-usa","tag-vice-president-kamala-harris","tag-white-house","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}