The implication from the tone of the article is that Stanley's family either rejected him or did not wish to acknowledge him. In reporting on the passing, Stanley's brother says that Stanley left home with a woman and has not been heard from since. His actual sex is discovered upon his death. Green" and working as the landlady of a boarding house. early 1900s: Stanley Rhorer, a native of Mercer County, is reported in a local Lexington paper to have committed suicide in St.1880: The US Census includes listings for prison inmates and lists two individuals imprisoned in Kentucky for "crimes against nature." Blacks disproportionately are imprisoned for such offenses than whites in 1880 probably as a mechanism for punishing African-Americans who oppose racial inequalities or who lack the status to fend off homosexual accusations.April 16, 1863: The Louisville Daily Democrat reports the suicide of a Civil War soldier who was a woman passing as a man.early 1800s: Shaker woman expelled from Pleasant Hill (Shakertown), KY, for attempting to seduce other Shaker women.In 1830 he publishes his autobiography and reports on meeting an A-go-kwa, the Ojibway version of a berdache. circa 1790: John Tanner, a Kentucky boy, is kidnapped by Native Americans and eventually sold to Ojibway Indians who raise him.Timeline of Gay History in Lexington and Environs
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