This Week in History
Happy Birthday!
Did you know?
- Daily Iowan Covers Gay Lib
- Protest Against Media Bias
- U.S. Navy Petty Officer Allen Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by a fellow sailor in an anti-gay hate crime.
- Aides Founded in Paris
- GLAAD Founded in New York
- Documentary Film about Harvey Milk
- Allen Schindler, Jr. Murdered in Hate Crime
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New and Recently Updated Projects
Drag Kings in the Spotlight: Blackie Dennis and Friends, 1930s-1950s, by Lisa E. Davis
Ellen Eyre and Walt Whitman: The Blackmailer's Story, 1862, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Secret Skies: The Queer Airmen of Tuskegee, by Michael Schreiber
Quakers and the Rise of the Gay Liberation Movement, 1946-1972, by Brian T. Blackmore
Philadelphia LGBT History Project, 1940-1980, by Marc Stein
Confronting Erasure, Rejecting Visibility, and Demanding to Be Seen: Transmasculine Stories from U.S. Archives, 1940-1975, by Sam Brooks
The Pink and the Blue: Lesbian and Gay Life at Yale and in Connecticut, 1642-2004, by Jonathan Ned Katz
The Power and Difficulty of Coalition Work: A History of Seattle’s Freedom Day Committee, 1975-2000, by Chris Smith
Lesbian Mothers Oral History Project, 2023-2026, by Nancy Lee Marquis
Out and Elected in the USA: 1974-2000, by Ron Schlittler
OutHistory Highlights
Queering the Bicentennial: Patriots, Protesters, Pornographers, and Profiteers in the 1970s, by Marc Stein
Timed for release as the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, this exhibit builds on Marc Stein's Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s, published in March 2026 by the University…
Celebrating Gay American History at Fifty, by Jonathan Ned Katz
To mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, this exhibit reprints the 1992 edition of Jonathan Ned Katz’s Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in…
LGBTQ+ American History before 1830, by Jonathan Ned Katz
To mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, this exhibit reprints pre-1830 materials from Jonathan Ned Katz’s books Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay…
The Three Sapphos of 1900: What Bryn Mawr College Can Teach Us about the Icons Who Put Lesbian Culture on the Map, by Suzanne Stroh and Samantha Pious
This exhibit traces the development of the “Sapho 1900” phenomenon in Paris to three lesbians who came of age in the United States: the performance artist Eva Palmer and the poets Natalie Barney and…
Historians Under Fire: Two Case Studies of Federal Censorship in the National Park Service, 2025-2026, by Gail Dubrow
This exhibit reproduces a presentation by University of Minnesota architectural historian Gail Dubrow at the January 2026 American Historical Association annual convention in Chicago. Published…
"The Castro": An Interview with Tina Aguirre, Gerard Koskovich, and Jen Reck, by Reese Uteda
A conversation with Tina Aguirre, Gerard Koskovich, and Jen Reck discussing their 2026 booklet "The Castro: The Story of San Francisco's Best-Known LGBTQ+ Neighborhood" and the legacies of LGBTQ+…