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The Gold Coast, Chicago's first leather bar, (opened June 1958) is purchased by Chuck Renslow and Associates.
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; 1960
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The Why Not (518 Ellis St.) in the Tenderloin is San Francisco's first leather bar. The owners hire Tony Taverossi to create an atmosphere that will attract the leather crowd. The bar closes shortly after opening when Tony propositions a vice squad cop. [R]
; 1950's
; 1960
Mississippi makes publication of "general information, arguments, or suggestions in favor of social equality or intermarriage between whites and Negros" a crime.
Spring: Owners of San Francisco gay bars revolt against police pay-offs and the "Gayola Scandals" result. Police retaliate with a vengeance and close most Gay bars in the city. [R]
; 1950
; 1960
After a year of revolution in China a marriage law sets new age limits and allows widows to remarry. Prospective marriage partners must be checked for "correct" thinking with the party.
Publication of Christ and The Homosexual by Robert Wood, which includes a rather accurate description of one of the many SM parties hosted by Bob Milne at his home in NYC in the early 1950's.[R]
; 1950
; 1960
Publication of The Invisible Glass by Loren Wahl
A British court rules that [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s novel [[Lady Chatterley's Lover]], is art not porn.
; 1950
; 1960
Publication of Quatrefoil by James Barr
Warlocks MC, and California Motor Club formed in southern California and San Francisco respectively.
; 1950, June 15
; 1960
[[Chuck Renslow]] and Dom Orejudos start Kris Studios to publish male physique photography. Orejudos begins sketching some of the models.
DL Sterling, "The Leathermaker", makes his first pair of motorcycle chaps.
; 1950, Nov.
; 1961
The first issue of AMG's Physique Pictorial is issued. Cover "Havasu Creek" by Quaintance. No copies of this issue are known to exist. [Hooven 95]
Michael Foucault publishes "<I>Folie et deraison</I>" (Madness and Civilization). claiming that the role of psychiatry in modern society is to remove people who refuse to conform to it's norms. A shortened English version is published in 1965. [wd]
; 1950, Dec.
; 1961
Mattachine Society founded in Los Angeles. [JR]
The Hideaway, a leather friendly bar at 438 Eddy in San Francisco's tenderloin raided and closed. [R]
; 1951
; 1961
(or by 53) Shaw's, New York City's first Leather Bar opens. [R]
Decriminalization of homosexuality in Czechoslovakia and Hungary
; 1951
; 1961
Rene Guyon critizises the United Nations for not including sexual rights as a basic human right. [wd]
The Tool Box at 339 4th St. at Harrison in San Francisco opened. It took what Tony Taverosi had created at the Why Not and developed it into what became the classic SF leather bar design. The bar featured the Chuck Arnette mural of masculine men, which was made famous by the June 1964 Life magazine. Closed in 1971.
; 1951
; 1961
Clellan S. Ford and Frank A. Beach publish their study "Patterns of Sexual Behaviour", a comparison of the sexual preferences of 200 cultures. The study shows how relative Western sexual traditions are. [wd]
Moved by the Gayola scandals, Jose Sarria becomes the first openly gay man to run for San Francisco city supervisor. He does not get elected.
; 1951, April
; 1961
Harry Hay (born Apr. 7, 1912), Rudi Gernreich, Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull and Dale Jennings start The Mattachine Society in Los Angeles.
"<I>Victim</I>" is the first film by a major British commercial studio to feature homosexuality as its theme. Dirk Bogarde plays a closeted barrister in a plot about gay blackmail and suicide.
; 1951, May 26
; 1962
British Foreign Office officials Donald Mclean and his cruel "master" Guy Burgess defect to the USSR. [Greif 82]
Illinois becomes first U.S. state to remove sodomy law from its criminal code.
; 1951, Nov.
; 1962
The cover date of the oldest known extant copy of Physique Pictorial Vol.1, No. 2. Cover painting of a nude man riding a white horse through the surf: "Dashing" by Quaintance. [Hooven 95]
The German sex researcher Hans Giese publishes his book "<I>Psychopathologie der Sexualitat</I>", with the intent of continuing [[Krafft-Ebing]]'s [[Psychopathia Sexualis]]. In the medical text book, which dedicates the first 30 pages to the importance of Christianity in sex therapy, he quotes the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sarte's theories on SM as research, and links sadomasochism to the rise in abortions. Giese's school of thought continues to dominate sex research in Germany until today. In 1992, three of the four professors for sex research in Germany will be former students of Giese. [wd]
; 1952 (or by 1954)  
; 1962
The Lodge, New York City's second leather bar opens. [R]
Again, in response to the Gayola scandals and their aftermath San Francisco bar owners and employees form the Tavern Guild, to wield political influence.
; 1952
1962: Fisting is "invented" in a San Francisco basement. [R]
Jack's on the Waterfront opens at 111 Embarcadero in San Francisco. The bar particularly attracts longshoremen, motorcycle men other butch types. Gradually evolves from a straight bar with "homo space" to a gay bar with a maritime flavor. Closed in 1962 as part of the "gayola" scandals. [R]
; 1962
; 1952
Satyr MC holds it's first Badger Flats Run. The annual event continues uninteruupted for 33 years, until 1994. Then resumes in 1998!
Joe Wieder, a championship competitive bodybuilder who had started a series of body building magazines converts his American Manhood to compete with the "informal" poses and slimmer "natural" physiques of magazines like Physique Pictorial and Vim. [Hooven 95]
; 1962
; 1952
Publication of King Rat by James Clavell. The novel explores dominance in men's relationships in a Japanese prison camp during WWII.
First publication of Tomorrow's Man. A tiny physique magazine Published by Irv Johnson in Chicago, which combined the look of Physique Pictorial with articles on body building and staying in shape. It quickly became the #1 physique publication. [Hooven 95]
; 1962
; 1952
Otto Preminger's film of Alan Drury's novel 'Advise and Consent', is the first movie explicitly showing a gay bar.
Alan Turing, mathematical genius, breaker of Nazi codes, acclaimed as "the man who saved England" reports the theft of his property by a hustler, when the police realize why the thief was there Turing himself is arrested and prosecuted. He is chemically castrated by the authorities and hounded by the press. He committes suicide in 1954. [Hooven 95]
; 1962, Jan. 1
; 1952, April
Effective this date Illinois repealed its sodomy laws and behavior between "consenting adults in private" is no longer subject to criminal prosecution.
Dale Jennings, a member of the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles is arrested by the police. Mattachine organizes The Committee to Outlaw Entrapment.
; 1962, Nov.
; 1952, May 27
"Birth" of Phil Andros as Sam Steward writing for EOS and Amigos magazines of Denmark, uses this pseudonym for the first time.
Birth of Sasha Alyson, founder of Alyson Publications, a gay press that gave presence to a broad range of gay and lesbian works, including Coming to Power, the writings of John Preston, and many other leather/SM works considered "marginal" at the time, by other publishers.
; 1963
; 1952, August
Denmark becomes the first modern state to drop virtually all censorship. [Hooven 95]
Cover date of Physique Pictorial issue bearing a cover painting by Quaintance, "Sacrifice," depicting a nearly naked man chained in spreadeagle suspension to a vertical sun disk. In the foreground two virtually naked warriors lie bleeding (dying) from arrows penetrating their backs. This cover resulted in censorship in Los Angeles county. No one objected to the bondage, blood, or violent theme. They wanted the lushly rounded asses of the dying warriors covered! [Hooven 95]
; 1963
; 1952
Israel decriminalizes de-facto sodomy and sexual acts between men by judicial decision against the enforcement of the relevant section in the old British-mandate law from 1936 (which in fact was never enforced).
College English professor Sam Steward begins a sideline business as Phil Sparrow, tattoo artist. [JR]
; 1963
; 1953
Publication of 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess, a novel that gives a look at sex, violence, and mind control in a future age.
Alfred C. Kinsey publishes the second part of his study on human sexual Behaviour, Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female. [wd]
; 1963
; 1953
Publication of the first English edition of Jean Genet's 'Our Lady of the Flowers'.
The German physician Harry Benjamin coins the term Atranssexuals@ and is the first to distinguish them from transvestites. [wd]
; 1963
; 1953, Apr. 23
Publication of 'City of Night' by John Rechy, a novel that takes a close look at the underbelly of gay life: hustling as it was.
US President Eisenhower issues orders prohibiting employment of gays in government agencies. [JR]
; 1963
; 1953
Publication of 'Pleasures of the Torture Chamber' by Johnathon Swain.
Forbidden Colors, Yukio Mishima's novel with SM overtones is first published in Japan. First English edition in 1968.
; 1963
; 1953, Aug.
Publication of 'Flagellation - The Rod &amp; The Whip' by George Bishop.
Tomorrow's Man #8 contains the first published art by Dom Orejudos and the pseudonym Etienne is created.
; 1963
; 1954
Publication of 'The Velvet Underground' by Michael Leigh.
Satyrs MC founded in Los Angeles, the first gay motorcycle club.
; 1963
; 1954
'Physique Pictorial' begins to print a scribbled code of astrological symbols along with its photographs. The symbols give Bob Mizer's ideas about the personalities, and sexual proclivities, of the models. A code sheet to decipher them is sent to favored customers. In 1967 the symbols are used as part of the sexual pandering case against Mizer. He destroys all copies of the code's meanings. [Hooven 95] NOTE: LA&amp;M would consider a copy of this code sheet a very valuable addition to the collection.
Historie d'O by Pauline Reage (real name, Anne Declos) first published in France. In 1955 it won the Deux-Magots prize, an important French literary award. In 1965 Grove Press publishes the first English language edition as The Story of O.
; 1963
; 1954
Scott Studio, one of the best physique photography studios closes when Tom Nichol, the owner and photographer, moves from London to California. Nichol is noted for early (before 1950) photos of men in boots, leather, biker caps, etc. and for the infamous "Scott Shorts," thin white gym style shorts always at least two sizes too small for his models, who somehow squeezed into them. [Hooven 95]
Birth of Bob Flannigan, SM performance artist and ASupermasochist@ [wd]
; 1963, Feb.
; 1954
Publication of the first (and only) issue of Young Adonis magazine, the first to have substantial full color. The cover trumpets "24 photos in color" and "More Color than any other magazine!" [Hooven 95]
The San Francisco police stage a crackdown on "Sex Deviates" hitting particularly the area of Market and Embarcadero streets.
; 1963, May
; 1954
Mars magazine, a male physique publication with leather leanings, begins publication. It is designed and edited by [[Chuck Renslow]] and Dom Orejudos of Kris studios
Joe Wiedner begins publication of Body Beautiful and Adonis, big budget, color cover, physique magazines which alternate publication in succeeding months. The rise of physique magazines threw the body building publishing world into a homophobic panic, except for Wiedner who jumped in and competed. [Hooven 95]
; 1963, Sept. 15
; 1954
Second City Motorcycle Club founded in Chicago.[ JOSEPH, SEE ALSO APR. 1965: CAN YOU CLEAR THIS UP?]
On the urging of Jim Kepner and Ann Carrl Reid, Chuck Rowland starts the Church of One Brotherhood to minister to the religious needs of gays and lesbians. It prospers for about a year, then folds.
; 1964
; 1954
The opening of the NYC World's Fair is preceded by a"cleanup of gay bars, shutting down every one in city except Julius' in the village. [R]
The movie "The Wild One" Starring Marlon Brando as a leather jacketed motorcycle gang member is released, creating a sensation and giving seed to an image.
; 1964
; 1954, Feb.
Publication of 'Rough Trade' by Lou Rand.
One magazine includes its first article about a women's issue. Lesbians continued to be included in the content, and on the staff, until 1959.
; 1964
; 1954
Publication of 'Stockade' a novel by Jack Pearl which focuses on abuse in a military prison.
June: Suicide of Alan Turing in England, after being outed as a homosexual when he reported the theft of some items by a young man he had invited into his home. Turning had been instrumental in breaking Nazi codes during the war, and is considered the father of the computer.
; 1964
; 1955
Publication of 'A History of Torture' by Daniel P. Manix.
Two by Eric Jourdan first published in France. This novel of male love with definite SM elements was published in English in 1963.
; 1964
; 1955
Publication of 'With Rod and Whip, A History of Flagellation Among Different Nations' by Valhalla Books.
Publication of Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce, the novel which inspired Paul Neuman's superb movie performance as a member of a southern prison camp chain gang.
; 1964
; 1955, Sept. 21
Publication of the American edition of 'Flagellation Curiosa Pt. 1: Sublime of Flagellation, by H. T. Buckle, Pt. 2: Experiences in Flagellation, Compiled by an Ameteur [sic] Flagellant.
The Daughters of Bilitis, the first Lesbian organization in America, is formed in San Francisco.
; 1964
; 1955, Sept. 30
US courts allow importation of Danish magazines showing full frontal male nudity if they are official publications of nudist organizations. International Nudist Sun is the most popular all male title, many others feature only women or both men and women. [Hooven 95]
James Dean is killed in a car crash in California. The actor's smoldering sexuality and young death (at 24) elevated him to legendary status. The persistant rumors that he enjoyed being burned with cigarettes and kicked and trampled under men's feet provided hours of pleasant fantasy for many Tops.
; 1964, June 26
; 1955, Nov. 1
Life magazine features "Homosexuality in America," an article by Paul Welch that includes a two page spread on the Tool Box, San Francisco's premier leather bar, and sparks a migration of eager leathermen to "Baghdad by the Bay."
An anti-homosexual witch hunt begins in Boise, ID, later documented by John Gerassi in The Boys of Boise.
; 1964
; 1956
The first appearance of Al "A. Jay" Shapiro's cartoon creation, "Harry Chess", in the Philadelphia based gay monthly Drum.
The last of the US laws making epilepsy a disqualification for marriage are removed.
; 1964
; 1956
Empire City MC founded in NYC and holds first Empire City Christmas Party and Toys for Tots.
Publication of The Street of the Sun by Lance Horner, the most homoerotic and SM, of the Mandango family of novels.
; 1964
; 1956
Recon MC founded in San Francisco.
Publication of Sex Magick by Ian Young. Poetry from one of Canada's best known leathermen. (born Jan 5, 1945).
; 1964
; 1956, Sept.
Society for Individual Rights (SIR) founded in San Francisco.
Jim Kepner and Dorr started America's first gay studies classes. In Jan 1957 they started the first 36 week course in World History from the gay perspective. Kepner conceived and edited Americas first gay scholarly-style journal: ONE Institute Quarterly of Homophile Studies for three years.
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; 1957
The German physician Hans Lehfeldt founds the "Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality" (SSSS) in New York. [wd]
; 1957
Amsterdam's first leather bar and hotel, The Argos, opens. It is still in business!
; 1957
The Spring issue of Physique Pictorial magazine includes the first published erotic art of Tom of Finland, and marks the first time that name is used.
; 1957
Erotic artist George Quaintance dies.
; 1957
Publication of Color of Darkness, a novel by James Purdy (born July 14, 1923).
; 1957
Publication of The Last Exit to Brooklyn, a novel by Hubert Selby Jr. (born July 23, 1928)
; 1957
In the Crittenden Report, the US Navy concludes that homosexuals serving in the military do not create a security risk. The Pentigon denies the existance of this report for twenty years.
; 1957, Sept. 4
In London the [[Wolfenden Report]] recommends decriminalization of "private homosexual acts between consenting adults".
; 1958
Both Federal and Chicago authorities charge Kris studios with censorship violations. Renslow fights back, surprising the prosecution. His defense uses the simple stand that nudity is not obscene. In support his attorney shows photos of nude male sculpture in the courthouse where the case is being held. Kris was found not guilty, prosecution appealed and eventually the same decision came from the US Supreme court. [Hooven 95]
; 1958
Confessions of a Mask, an autobiographical novel by Yukio Mishima first published in English.
; 1958
The Balcony, Jean Genet's play which accommodates every sexual desire, is published in French and English.
; 1958
The gay SM novel, Muscle Boy, by Bud Clifton is published [wd]
; 1958
Publication of The Question by Henri Alleg, an account of the French Algerian newspaper man's torture at the hands of French paratroopers.
; 1958
Publication of Those about to Die , a history of the Roman games and arena shows by Daniel P. Manix.
; 1958
Oedipus MC founded in Los Angeles, the second gay motorcycle club.
; 1958 May 12
The Homosexual Law Reform Society is founded in London.
; 1958, June
[[Chuck Renslow]] becomes manager of The Gold Coast in Chicago and creates the first Leather Bar. [JR]
; 1959
The Big Dollar at 34th &amp; 3rd in New York City opens, A VERY leather bar. [R]
; 1959
The Spur Club a leather friendly bar at 126 Turk in San Francisco's tenderloin is raided and closed. [R]
; 1959
In the San Francisco mayoral election homosexuality becomes a political issue. The incumbent clamps down on "queers". [R]
; 1959
Publication of [[Naked Lunch]] by William S. Burroughs. (born Feb. 5, 1914)
; 1959
US Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing distribution of D. H. Lawrence's novel, [[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]. [Hooven 95]
; 1959
Kellers (bar) opens in New York City and becomes a gathering place for gay motorcycle riders.
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1950's

Mississippi makes publication of "general information, arguments, or suggestions in favor of social equality or intermarriage between whites and Negros" a crime.

1950

After a year of revolution in China a marriage law sets new age limits and allows widows to remarry. Prospective marriage partners must be checked for "correct" thinking with the party.

1950

Publication of The Invisible Glass by Loren Wahl

1950

Publication of Quatrefoil by James Barr

1950, June 15

Chuck Renslow and Dom Orejudos start Kris Studios to publish male physique photography. Orejudos begins sketching some of the models.

1950, Nov.

The first issue of AMG's Physique Pictorial is issued. Cover "Havasu Creek" by Quaintance. No copies of this issue are known to exist. [Hooven 95]

1950, Dec.

Mattachine Society founded in Los Angeles. [JR]

1951

(or by 53) Shaw's, New York City's first Leather Bar opens. [R]

1951

Rene Guyon critizises the United Nations for not including sexual rights as a basic human right. [wd]

1951

Clellan S. Ford and Frank A. Beach publish their study "Patterns of Sexual Behaviour", a comparison of the sexual preferences of 200 cultures. The study shows how relative Western sexual traditions are. [wd]

1951, April

Harry Hay (born Apr. 7, 1912), Rudi Gernreich, Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull and Dale Jennings start The Mattachine Society in Los Angeles.

1951, May 26

British Foreign Office officials Donald Mclean and his cruel "master" Guy Burgess defect to the USSR. [Greif 82]

1951, Nov.

The cover date of the oldest known extant copy of Physique Pictorial Vol.1, No. 2. Cover painting of a nude man riding a white horse through the surf: "Dashing" by Quaintance. [Hooven 95]

1952 (or by 1954)

The Lodge, New York City's second leather bar opens. [R]

1952

Jack's on the Waterfront opens at 111 Embarcadero in San Francisco. The bar particularly attracts longshoremen, motorcycle men other butch types. Gradually evolves from a straight bar with "homo space" to a gay bar with a maritime flavor. Closed in 1962 as part of the "gayola" scandals. [R]

1952

Joe Wieder, a championship competitive bodybuilder who had started a series of body building magazines converts his American Manhood to compete with the "informal" poses and slimmer "natural" physiques of magazines like Physique Pictorial and Vim. [Hooven 95]

1952

First publication of Tomorrow's Man. A tiny physique magazine Published by Irv Johnson in Chicago, which combined the look of Physique Pictorial with articles on body building and staying in shape. It quickly became the #1 physique publication. [Hooven 95]

1952

Alan Turing, mathematical genius, breaker of Nazi codes, acclaimed as "the man who saved England" reports the theft of his property by a hustler, when the police realize why the thief was there Turing himself is arrested and prosecuted. He is chemically castrated by the authorities and hounded by the press. He committes suicide in 1954. [Hooven 95]

1952, April

Dale Jennings, a member of the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles is arrested by the police. Mattachine organizes The Committee to Outlaw Entrapment.

1952, May 27

Birth of Sasha Alyson, founder of Alyson Publications, a gay press that gave presence to a broad range of gay and lesbian works, including Coming to Power, the writings of John Preston, and many other leather/SM works considered "marginal" at the time, by other publishers.

1952, August

Cover date of Physique Pictorial issue bearing a cover painting by Quaintance, "Sacrifice," depicting a nearly naked man chained in spreadeagle suspension to a vertical sun disk. In the foreground two virtually naked warriors lie bleeding (dying) from arrows penetrating their backs. This cover resulted in censorship in Los Angeles county. No one objected to the bondage, blood, or violent theme. They wanted the lushly rounded asses of the dying warriors covered! [Hooven 95]

1952

College English professor Sam Steward begins a sideline business as Phil Sparrow, tattoo artist. [JR]

1953

Alfred C. Kinsey publishes the second part of his study on human sexual Behaviour, Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female. [wd]

1953

The German physician Harry Benjamin coins the term Atranssexuals@ and is the first to distinguish them from transvestites. [wd]

1953, Apr. 23

US President Eisenhower issues orders prohibiting employment of gays in government agencies. [JR]

1953

Forbidden Colors, Yukio Mishima's novel with SM overtones is first published in Japan. First English edition in 1968.

1953, Aug.

Tomorrow's Man #8 contains the first published art by Dom Orejudos and the pseudonym Etienne is created.

1954

Satyrs MC founded in Los Angeles, the first gay motorcycle club.

1954

Historie d'O by Pauline Reage (real name, Anne Declos) first published in France. In 1955 it won the Deux-Magots prize, an important French literary award. In 1965 Grove Press publishes the first English language edition as The Story of O.

1954

Birth of Bob Flannigan, SM performance artist and ASupermasochist@ [wd]

1954

The San Francisco police stage a crackdown on "Sex Deviates" hitting particularly the area of Market and Embarcadero streets.

1954

Joe Wiedner begins publication of Body Beautiful and Adonis, big budget, color cover, physique magazines which alternate publication in succeeding months. The rise of physique magazines threw the body building publishing world into a homophobic panic, except for Wiedner who jumped in and competed. [Hooven 95]

1954

On the urging of Jim Kepner and Ann Carrl Reid, Chuck Rowland starts the Church of One Brotherhood to minister to the religious needs of gays and lesbians. It prospers for about a year, then folds.

1954

The movie "The Wild One" Starring Marlon Brando as a leather jacketed motorcycle gang member is released, creating a sensation and giving seed to an image.

1954, Feb.

One magazine includes its first article about a women's issue. Lesbians continued to be included in the content, and on the staff, until 1959.

1954

June: Suicide of Alan Turing in England, after being outed as a homosexual when he reported the theft of some items by a young man he had invited into his home. Turning had been instrumental in breaking Nazi codes during the war, and is considered the father of the computer.

1955

Two by Eric Jourdan first published in France. This novel of male love with definite SM elements was published in English in 1963.

1955

Publication of Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce, the novel which inspired Paul Neuman's superb movie performance as a member of a southern prison camp chain gang.

1955, Sept. 21

The Daughters of Bilitis, the first Lesbian organization in America, is formed in San Francisco.

1955, Sept. 30

James Dean is killed in a car crash in California. The actor's smoldering sexuality and young death (at 24) elevated him to legendary status. The persistant rumors that he enjoyed being burned with cigarettes and kicked and trampled under men's feet provided hours of pleasant fantasy for many Tops.

1955, Nov. 1

An anti-homosexual witch hunt begins in Boise, ID, later documented by John Gerassi in The Boys of Boise.

1956

The last of the US laws making epilepsy a disqualification for marriage are removed.

1956

Publication of The Street of the Sun by Lance Horner, the most homoerotic and SM, of the Mandango family of novels.

1956

Publication of Sex Magick by Ian Young. Poetry from one of Canada's best known leathermen. (born Jan 5, 1945).

1956, Sept.

Jim Kepner and Dorr started America's first gay studies classes. In Jan 1957 they started the first 36 week course in World History from the gay perspective. Kepner conceived and edited Americas first gay scholarly-style journal: ONE Institute Quarterly of Homophile Studies for three years.

1957

The German physician Hans Lehfeldt founds the "Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality" (SSSS) in New York. [wd]

1957

Amsterdam's first leather bar and hotel, The Argos, opens. It is still in business!

1957

The Spring issue of Physique Pictorial magazine includes the first published erotic art of Tom of Finland, and marks the first time that name is used.

1957

Erotic artist George Quaintance dies.

1957

Publication of Color of Darkness, a novel by James Purdy (born July 14, 1923).

1957

Publication of The Last Exit to Brooklyn, a novel by Hubert Selby Jr. (born July 23, 1928)

1957

In the Crittenden Report, the US Navy concludes that homosexuals serving in the military do not create a security risk. The Pentigon denies the existance of this report for twenty years.

1957, Sept. 4

In London the Wolfenden Report recommends decriminalization of "private homosexual acts between consenting adults".

1958

Both Federal and Chicago authorities charge Kris studios with censorship violations. Renslow fights back, surprising the prosecution. His defense uses the simple stand that nudity is not obscene. In support his attorney shows photos of nude male sculpture in the courthouse where the case is being held. Kris was found not guilty, prosecution appealed and eventually the same decision came from the US Supreme court. [Hooven 95]

1958

Confessions of a Mask, an autobiographical novel by Yukio Mishima first published in English.

1958

The Balcony, Jean Genet's play which accommodates every sexual desire, is published in French and English.

1958

The gay SM novel, Muscle Boy, by Bud Clifton is published [wd]

1958

Publication of The Question by Henri Alleg, an account of the French Algerian newspaper man's torture at the hands of French paratroopers.

1958

Publication of Those about to Die , a history of the Roman games and arena shows by Daniel P. Manix.

1958

Oedipus MC founded in Los Angeles, the second gay motorcycle club.

1958 May 12

The Homosexual Law Reform Society is founded in London.

1958, June

Chuck Renslow becomes manager of The Gold Coast in Chicago and creates the first Leather Bar. [JR]

1959

The Big Dollar at 34th & 3rd in New York City opens, A VERY leather bar. [R]

1959

The Spur Club a leather friendly bar at 126 Turk in San Francisco's tenderloin is raided and closed. [R]

1959

In the San Francisco mayoral election homosexuality becomes a political issue. The incumbent clamps down on "queers". [R]

1959

Publication of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. (born Feb. 5, 1914)

1959

US Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing distribution of D. H. Lawrence's novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover. [Hooven 95]

1959

Kellers (bar) opens in New York City and becomes a gathering place for gay motorcycle riders.

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