In Houston/Texas

August. Pink Elephant opens at 1115 Bell St., Houston, (corner of Bell and Fannin, now a parking lot), was open until December 1984, or 48 years

The Wagon Wheel Nite Club, at Airline & Little York, Houston, offered female impersonator entertainment during its run from 1936 to 1938, when it burned down (or was burned down)

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

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

"Lisa Ben" begins publishing Vice Versa, the nation's first Lesbian periodical. See this link for every issue, and more.

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.

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal