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Dec 7, 2016 5 min

A Blow To Bigotry

from This Week Back Then Hosted by Portland State University History Department

On January 1, 1972, Oregon became the fourth state to decriminalize homosexuality in the U.S. after revised Sodomy Laws went into effect. Previously Oregon, like other states, criminalized non-heterosexual intercourse as “deviant” behavior. Portland State University history major Evan Smiley explores the the long struggle for civil rights in this podcast. More at: http://www.publichistorypdx.org/2017/01/01/a-blow-to-bigotry-oregon-decriminalizes-homosexuality/

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