In the 1860s, Mrs. Nash, a transgender woman, served as Libby Custer's favorite laundress while at Fort Abraham Lincoln, south of Mandan, North Dakota.
A bar in Fargo, North Dakota had a "gay section" and local Chinese restaurant transformed into a popular disco at night.
[8] In 1982, University of North Dakota students, faculty and staff formed the Ten Percent Society,[9] now known as the Queer & Trans Alliance.
In 1999, a gay bar called I-Beam opened up in Moorhead, Minnesota, which is right across the river from Fargo, North Dakota.
The Constitutional Amendment banned legal recognition of same-sex marriage and similar options, including civil unions.
[12] They also began doing LGBTQ cultural competency education in public health, churches, school conferences, universities, and other venues throughout the state.
[14] In September 2012, the North Dakota State College of Science football program dismissed Jamie Kuntz from the team after news broke that he was gay.
[16] Boschee later unsuccessfully ran for the North Dakota Secretary of State, thus being the first openly gay candidate for a statewide office.
[23] A federal judge ordered in March 2018 a drilling rig service company working in North Dakota's Oil Patch to pay a former worker as part of an agreement to settle a lawsuit alleging harassment because he is gay.
[24] In January 2019, The North Dakota Senate defeated legislation banning discrimination based on sexual orientation, again turning down efforts to add LGBT protections to state law.
Burgum also opposed the anti-gay platform, calling it "divisive and divisional", and saying, "As I've long said, all North Dakotans deserve to be treated equally and live free of discrimination".
[34] The following day, the Minot Daily News took a public stand with Mayor Sipma and council member Carrie Evans on the flag issue.
[39] In State v. Nelson (1917), the North Dakota Supreme Court broadened the scope of the sodomy law to include acts of cunnilingus.
In 1927 the law initially designed to permit the sterilization of mentally and physically disabled inmates was expanded to include anyone who the State authorities believed might be "habitual criminals, moral degenerates and sexual perverts".
In 1973, the State legalized private, adult, consensual homosexual relations as part of a larger revision of the criminal code that set the universal age of consent at eighteen years.