When the Gold Rush struck California in 1849, the state was flooded with people from all over the world, with 90% of these new emigrants being men. The social structure of the mining camps and boomtowns paved the way for 'intimate relationships.'
Many people moved to California during the Gold Rush, and LGBTQ+ people likely found new sexual freedom in relationships among the same-sex.When the Gold Rush struck California in 1849, the state was flooded with people from all over the world. 90% of these new emigrants were men. The social structure of the mining camps and boomtowns paved the way for "intimate relationships" stories lost to time, until now.
"We have at least one divorce case where a woman divorced her husband because he kept bringing men home, and she was not happy about that," said Johnson. Jason Chamberlain and John Chaffee came to California in 1849 from New England, and would spend the rest of their lives together. Hundreds of miles away from those mining camps, San Francisco was booming. The population exploded from just 500 people in 1847 to 50,000 in 1853.
"One thing that was happening early on in the Gold Rush, really the early 1850s, there were these masquerade balls, these really infamous dances that took place around here," said Sears. "But in San Francisco where there were some women around, and women's clothing was in circulation, a lot of men would dress up, kind of in full drag, and to attend to these masquerade balls. Some women would attend, they would dress up as men.
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