Queer Sources from Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community, 1870s-2020s, by Moira Armstrong

Arts and Culture

Community Study

Identities

Media and Communications

Family, Intimacy, and Relationships

Movements and Activism

Organizations

Politics, Government, and Law

Race and Ethnicity

Science, Medicine, and Health

Sexuality / Sexual Behaviors

Social Life and Community

Transgender

This exhibit follows up on the recent book Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2024), which covers themes, figures, and events from the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries. Each section of the exhibit focuses on a different chapter, presenting an overview of the chapter's argument and two primary sources used to provide insight into Newark queer life. Published originally on OutHistory in 2024.

1800s

1900-1920

1920-1940

1940-1960

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

New Jersey

New Jersey

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