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A War on Cross-Dressing: Los Angeles’ Anti-Masquerading Ordinance of 1889 Targeted the Growing Queer Population of Los Angeles

October 15, 2018

October 15, 2018

A little over a hundred years after the City of Los Angeles was founded, the Anti-Masquerading Ordinance of 1889 was...