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New and Updated Projects in 2024

Arthur Kingsley Porter, 1883-1933, by Andrew Houchens

Melville's Secret Sex Text: Decoding His 1849 Novel Redburn, by Jonathan Ned Katz

Disabled Gay and Lesbian Activists in the Homophile Movement, 1930s-1980s, by Moira Armstrong

LGBT Direct Action Inventory, by Marc Stein

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

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