nov 1, 1912 - Portland Vice Scandal (1912)

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- Forced sterilization & eugenics programs were adopted in Portland, Oregon after police discovered an emerging gay subculture
- Led Northwestern states to expand sodomy laws in the 1910s and 1920s
- Made sodomy punishable by sterilization
- Resulted in the arrest of "dozens of men and youths for crimes ranging from so-called indecent acts to sodomy"

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