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New and Updated Projects in 2024
Disabled Gay and Lesbian Activists in the Homophile Movement, 1930s-1980s, by Moira Armstrong
The Midwest's "Queer Mecca": 40 Years of GLBTQ History in Bloomington, Indiana, 1969-2009, by Susan Stryker's Students
Queering the Titanic, 1912
Archibald Butt: Presidential Aide and Titanic Victim, 1865-1912, by James Gifford
Francis Davis Millet and Charles Warren Stoddard, 1874-1912, by Jonathan Ned Katz and Claude M. Gruener
Timeline: Asian American and Pacific Islander LGBTQ History, 1873-2023
Queer Sources from Queer Newark, by Moira Armstrong
Finding Annette: Uncovering Trans History in Idaho, 1950-70, by Sophie McMahon
The High Risk Project Society: Intracommunity Support in Transgender Vancouver, 1992-2001, by Phoenix Walker
LGBT Direct Action Inventory, by Marc Stein
"Everything I Learned": A 2023 Interview with Curtis Chin, by Judy Wu
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An edited transcript of a 2023 interview with the creator of a new directory of LGBTQ+ archives. Published originally by OutHistory in 2023.
An archive and exhibit exploring U.S. homophile magazine references to various regions of the world in the 1950s and 1960s. The regions are (1) Africa; (2) Asia and the Pacific; (3) Canada; (4) Latin…
Following the death of historian Horacio N. Roque Ramírez in December 2015, OutHistory published a memorial by Nan Alamilla Boyd.
Reed Erickson used the wealth which his class privilege provided to support public education and activism about transgender lives and issues at a time when very little public attention was focused on…
These documents about LGBTQ+ Native Americans present years of testimony from a wide variety of observers: military men, missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, settlers, and later, medical…
A collection of twenty works by New York artist Anthony Gonzales depicting the varieties of life that could be found in New York City's subway tunnels in 2008. Published originally on OutHistory in…
Transcripts of interviews on Philadelphia LGBT history from the 1940s to the 1970s, along with an introduction by the interviewer, who completed much of this work as part of his Ph.D. dissertation…
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Check out our recent fundraising letter. Support OutHistory by donating online or sending a check made out to the Fund for the City of New York (write OutHistory in the memo line) and mailed to OutHistory, P.O. Box 14336, San Francisco, CA 94114. Donations are tax-deductible (tax identification number 13-2612524).
New and Updated Projects in 2024
Disabled Gay and Lesbian Activists in the Homophile Movement, 1930s-1980s, by Moira Armstrong
The Midwest's "Queer Mecca": 40 Years of GLBTQ History in Bloomington, Indiana, 1969-2009, by Susan Stryker's Students
Queering the Titanic, 1912
Archibald Butt: Presidential Aide and Titanic Victim, 1865-1912, by James Gifford
Francis Davis Millet and Charles Warren Stoddard, 1874-1912, by Jonathan Ned Katz and Claude M. Gruener
Timeline: Asian American and Pacific Islander LGBTQ History, 1873-2023
Queer Sources from Queer Newark, by Moira Armstrong
Finding Annette: Uncovering Trans History in Idaho, 1950-70, by Sophie McMahon
The High Risk Project Society: Intracommunity Support in Transgender Vancouver, 1992-2001, by Phoenix Walker
LGBT Direct Action Inventory, by Marc Stein
"Everything I Learned": A 2023 Interview with Curtis Chin, by Judy Wu
