De Alarcon's "Men in women's apparell", 1540

The earliest Gay-related data for any part of California is found in Captain Alarcon's brief observation, dating to 1540, of the natives of that area:

There were among these Indians three or foure men in womens apparell.

3. Hernando de Alarcon, The Relation of the Nauigation and Dtscouerv which Captaine Fernando Alarchon Made, vol. 4 of The 'Principal Nauigations, Voiages, Traffiqves & Discoveries of the English Nation. ed. Richard Hakluyt 12 vols, (Glasgow: J. MacLehose, N.Y.: Macmillan, 19°3-05), p. 286.