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ġ928: Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness is published in the UK and later in the United States. Gerber disbands the society after the charges against him are dropped. Gerber and two SHR officers are arrested on obscenity charges the police confiscate all copies of the SHR newsletter, Friendship and Freedom. Support for the group is minimal many of the gay men that Gerber tries to interest in the group either refuse to join so as to protect their privacy or are more interested in discreet sexual encounters than in politics, and the doctors he consults to confer legitimacy to homosexuality do not wish to endanger their practice. The group's charter does not make any overt reference to homosexuality instead, it states that the purpose of the organization is "to promote and to protect the interests of people who by reasons of mental and physical abnormalities are abused and hindered in the legal pursuit of happiness which is guaranteed them by the Declaration of Independence, and to combat the public prejudices against them by dissemination of facts according to modern science among intellectuals of mature age". It is thought to be the first homosexual emancipation organization in the United States.
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1923: The FBI labels Emma Goldman "the most dangerous woman in America" for her open endorsement of LGBT rights: "I regard it as a tragedy that people of differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding of homosexuals." ġ924: Henry Gerber, a Bavarian expatriate living in the United States, forms a chapter of the Society for Human Rights in Chicago.