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The two women emigrated to Oregon from New Bedford, Massachusetts. Marie Equi, Oregon’s first publicly known lesbian, arrives in The Dalles, Oregon to help her girlfriend Bessie Holcomb manage a homestead a few miles outside town. The Oregonian carries the story of Sandor/Sarolta Vay, a Hungarian woman raised as a boy. Two men enter the Oregon Penitentiary for sodomy a couple of weeks apart and the clerk entering information into the prison register writes “Sodomy !” for each, but doesn't place an exclamation point after the crimes of manslaughter or rape. Twenty year old Charles Cowan is admitted to the Oregon State Penitentiary for sodomy and his record notes, “Anus opening large & scarred from plying his trade of Sodomist.” This gives Alaska Oregon’s sodomy law.Įven though sodomy has been a crime in Oregon since 1853, it is not until this year that the first person is sent to the Oregon State Penitentiary for committing it. The Oregonian reports that it has become a “stock newspaper joke” to link the names of Samuel Bowles and Charles Francis Adams into “a sort of David and Jonathan tenderness and devotion” because of their “close and long enduring friendship.” Adams is a son of former President John Quincy Adams and himself a former government official.Ĭongress extends all the laws of Oregon to Alaska. He defends himself by pointing out that his primary accuser has been charged with sodomy, thereby rendering him unbelievable. Chadwick is accused of unethical practices in office. “I would not have believed such pictures ever existed,” he confides to his diary. Judge Matthew Deady returns a group of prints from homoerotic frescoes from the walls of Pompeii and Herculaneum that had been proposed as donations to the public library. Oregon suffrage leader Abigail Scott Duniway reprints in The New Northwest a tirade against her as a “gal with a manly air.” The Oregonian runs an article about President Abraham Lincoln and his “intimate friend,” Joshua Speed, who, it said, used to be “roommates.” A number of historians today believe that Lincoln and Speed had a long-term relationship.Ī slander case in Portland leads to a jury siding with a man seeking damages for having been accused of sodomy.
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Because the Iowa law didn’t outlaw sodomy, neither did Oregon.Ī new code of law adopted by the Oregon Territorial legislature does not include sodomy as a crime, keeping it legal.Ī new criminal code in Oregon makes sodomy a crime for the first time, with a penalty set at 1 to 5 years in prison.
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The code is adopted from the code of Iowa simply because a new arrival happened to have a copy of the Iowa code with him. Lewis and Clark, seeking the mouth of the Willamette River, are directed by local Indians to a place where “two young men” live together, they having left the tribe to set up a home.Ī report is published about a woman in the Kutenai tribe in Oregon who dresses like a man and has a “wife.”Ī gathering of pioneers at Champoeg adopts the first code of laws for what now is Oregon.