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New and Updated Projects in 2025 and 2026
Searching for Men “of the Right Sort”: The Letters of Harold W. Curtis to Henry Blake Fuller, 1897–1898, by Donald W. McLeod
Queer, Asian, Everywhere: An Overview of the Transnational Activism of the Gay Asians of Toronto, 1980-2000, by Jacqueline Cho
Building Queer New Worlds: The Emergence of Queer Ethnoracial Literary Anthologies 1982-2024, by Corey D. Clawson
Justice Weekly and Homophile Publishing in Toronto, 1953–1972, by Donald W. McLeod
Elver Barker and Mattachine Denver: A 2002 Interview, by Peter Boag
LGBT Direct Action Bibliography, Chronology, and Inventory, 1965-1976, by Marc Stein
Gavin Arthur and Edward Carpenter's Night of Love (1923), by Jonathan Ned Katz and Joey Cain
Queer Pasts: A 2025 Interview with the Founding Editors, by Isaac Fellman
Queer Galleries and Art Spaces in the East Village, 1980-1994, by Jenny Mohan
OutHistory Highlights
Trumping the Trumpians: OutHistory and American Oversight, 2025, by Marc Stein
This exhibit introduces and reprints a set of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed against the Trump Administration in response to federal government attacks on LGBTQ history. Prompted by…
Queer Transformations at San Francisco State, 1969-1974, by Marc Stein
This exhibit, drawn from a collaborative faculty-student research project, focuses on LGBTQ history at San Francisco State in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
“I Will Always Be There in the Front Lines Fighting”: The Defiant Art and Activism of Pei-Hsien Lim (1953-1992), by David K. Seitz
A biographical exhibit on Pei-Hsien Lim, a gay Malaysian-Chinese artist and activist who made major contributions to struggles against racism, homophobia, and AIDS in San Francisco, Toronto, and…
Danny Cockerline: Toronto’s Patron Saint of Whores and Hustlers (1960-1995), by Ryan Conrad
This exhibit focuses on gay HIV-positive sex worker activist Daniel Charles Cockerline (1960-1995), who was involved in the founding of numerous sex workers’ rights organizations in Toronto, Ontario,…
LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, edited by Megan E. Springate, 2016
This exhibit features LGBTQ America, a theme study that the National Park Foundation and National Park Service (NPS) published in 2016; the NPS deleted the report from its website in 2025. The exhibit…
The Queer History of Women's Suffrage: Scholarship and Censorship in 2025, by Wendy Rouse
This exhibit features Wendy Rouse's "The Very Queer History of the Suffrage Movement," which the National Park Service published in 2020 but altered and then deleted in 2025. The exhibit includes an…
LGBTQ+ People Have Been Here Before: The Power of Our History, by Marc Stein and the OutHistory Advisory Board
This essay responds to new efforts to censor, distort, erase, and falsify LGBTQ+ (and especially trans and queer) history in 2025.