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For a review of our 2023 accomplishments and an overview of our 2024 plans, see our December 2023 fundraising appeal.

You can support OutHistory by donating online or by sending a check made out to “Fund for the City of New York” (please write OutHistory in the memo line) to:

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OutHistory's fiscal sponsor is the Fund for the City of New York, a non-profit corporation. We receive tax-deductible donations through the Fund. Our tax identification number is 13-2612524.

LGBTQ+ History Fellowships, Grants, Prizes, Internships, and Opportunities

New and Updated Projects in 2023 and 2024

The High Risk Project Society: Intracommunity Support in Transgender Vancouver, 1992-2001, by Phoenix Walker

"I Am Now Well And Strong": Frederik Hammerich, 1868-1918, by Jonathan Ned Katz

Timeline: Abraham Lincoln, Sexuality, and Intimacy, 1809-1865, by Jonathan Ned Katz

Timeline: Asian American and Pacific Islander LGBTQ History, 1873-2022

"Everything I Learned": A 2023 Interview with Curtis Chin, by Judy Wu

Urvashi Vaid: The Vassar and Boston Years, 1975-83, by Marc Stein

LGBTQ Controversies at the University of Iowa in the 1990s, by Mickey Eliason

LGBT Direct Action Bibliography, Chronology, and Inventory, by Marc Stein

Kaliflower and the Homosexual Revolution of 1969, by Eric Noble

The Lafayette College Queer Archives Project Digital Humanities Site, by Mary A. Armstrong

A Conversation with Alex Ketchum about the Directory of LGBTQ+ Archives, by Juan Carlos Mezo-González

Curing Psychiatry and Psychology: A 2015 Interview with Charles Silverstein, by Philip Clark

Do You Know Jonathan Ned Katz?: A 2023 Interview with Director Philip Harrison, by Joseph Plaster

Documenting the Stonewall Riots: A Bibliography of Primary Sources, by Marc Stein

Sally: A 2023 Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Deborah Craig, by Julie R. Enszer

When Henry Wrote to Jim: The Letters of Henry Gerber to Jim Egan, 1951, by Donald W. McLeod

Transmasculine People in the U.S. Press, 1876-1939, by Emily Skidmore, with Marissa Brameyer

Groovy Guy Contest, Los Angeles, 1968-1991, by Jeff Auer

The Marlin Beach Affair: From Homosexual "Presence" to Gay "Community," by Fred Fejes

State LGBT History Education Laws, 2011-2021, by Marc Stein

“We Were The Movement": Lesbian Activism in the Boston Reproductive Rights Movement, by Sara Slager

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DONATE TO OUTHISTORY TODAY

For a review of our 2023 accomplishments and an overview of our 2024 plans, see our December 2023 fundraising appeal.

You can support OutHistory by donating online or by sending a check made out to “Fund for the City of New York” (please write OutHistory in the memo line) to:

Fund for the City of New York
Attn: OutHistory
121 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10013

OutHistory's fiscal sponsor is the Fund for the City of New York, a non-profit corporation. We receive tax-deductible donations through the Fund. Our tax identification number is 13-2612524.

LGBTQ+ History Fellowships, Grants, Prizes, Internships, and Opportunities

New and Updated Projects in 2023 and 2024

The High Risk Project Society: Intracommunity Support in Transgender Vancouver, 1992-2001, by Phoenix Walker

"I Am Now Well And Strong": Frederik Hammerich, 1868-1918, by Jonathan Ned Katz

Timeline: Abraham Lincoln, Sexuality, and Intimacy, 1809-1865, by Jonathan Ned Katz

Timeline: Asian American and Pacific Islander LGBTQ History, 1873-2022

"Everything I Learned": A 2023 Interview with Curtis Chin, by Judy Wu

Urvashi Vaid: The Vassar and Boston Years, 1975-83, by Marc Stein

LGBTQ Controversies at the University of Iowa in the 1990s, by Mickey Eliason

LGBT Direct Action Bibliography, Chronology, and Inventory, by Marc Stein

Kaliflower and the Homosexual Revolution of 1969, by Eric Noble

The Lafayette College Queer Archives Project Digital Humanities Site, by Mary A. Armstrong

A Conversation with Alex Ketchum about the Directory of LGBTQ+ Archives, by Juan Carlos Mezo-González

Curing Psychiatry and Psychology: A 2015 Interview with Charles Silverstein, by Philip Clark

Do You Know Jonathan Ned Katz?: A 2023 Interview with Director Philip Harrison, by Joseph Plaster

Documenting the Stonewall Riots: A Bibliography of Primary Sources, by Marc Stein

Sally: A 2023 Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Deborah Craig, by Julie R. Enszer

When Henry Wrote to Jim: The Letters of Henry Gerber to Jim Egan, 1951, by Donald W. McLeod

Transmasculine People in the U.S. Press, 1876-1939, by Emily Skidmore, with Marissa Brameyer

Groovy Guy Contest, Los Angeles, 1968-1991, by Jeff Auer

The Marlin Beach Affair: From Homosexual "Presence" to Gay "Community," by Fred Fejes

State LGBT History Education Laws, 2011-2021, by Marc Stein

“We Were The Movement": Lesbian Activism in the Boston Reproductive Rights Movement, by Sara Slager