{"id":221,"date":"2023-02-02T20:43:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T04:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2023-02-09T20:58:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T04:58:16","slug":"this-week-in-history-february-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/2023\/02\/this-week-in-history-february-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Gay History, February 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are a few moments in gay history that occurred on this week in the past (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/2023\/01\/this-week-in-gay-history-january-25th\/\">last week in gay history<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>February 1st\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>96 years ago, in 1927, the New Britain Herald reports that stage hires for Mae West&#8217;s &#8220;The Drag&#8221; were arrested for attempting to perform it while it was banned. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/wiki\/index.php\/%22The_Drag%22_Held_As_Offensive,_New_Britain_Herald_(Article,_1927)\">&#8220;The Drag&#8221; Held As Offensive (Article, 1927)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 3rd\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2 years ago, in 2021, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is sworn in under President Biden, making history as the first openly-gay Cabinet member in the United States. This was a significant step forward as it marked an end to an era where queer men were discriminated against in federal government and seemingly slandered as security risks. It wasn&#8217;t until President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 13087 that federal discrimination of LGBTQ employees was officially ended in most federal agencies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>69 years ago, in 1954, President Eisenhower considers releasing breakdown of security firings, which included LGBTQ+ people. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/wiki\/index.php\/Breakdown_on_Risk_Firings_Under_Study,_Evening_Star_(Article,_February_1954)\">Breakdown on Risk Firings Under Study, Evening Star (Article, February 1954)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few moments in gay history that occurred on this week in the past (last week in gay history):<\/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":[135,136,52,35,7,8,9,132,134,47,40,50,133,131,108,38,75,116],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtqia-history","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-executive-order-13087","tag-gay","tag-lavender-scare","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq","tag-lgbtqia","tag-mae-west","tag-pete-buttigieg","tag-president-bill-clinton","tag-president-dwight-david-eisenhower","tag-president-joseph-biden","tag-secretary-pete-buttigieg","tag-state-of-connecticut","tag-state-of-new-york","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-usa","tag-white-house","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}