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New and Updated Projects in 2024
Francis Davis Millet and Charles Warren Stoddard, 1874-1912, by Jonathan Ned Katz and Claude M. Gruener
Timeline: Sodomy Cases in U.S. Newspapers, 1800-1899, by William Benemann
Timeline: Asian American and Pacific Islander LGBTQ History, 1873-2023
Queer Sources from Queer Newark, by Moira Armstrong
State LGBT History Education Laws, by Marc Stein
Queer History of Colleges and Universities
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
"Everything I Learned": A 2023 Interview with Curtis Chin, by Judy Wu
LGBT Direct Action Inventory, by Marc Stein
OutHistory Highlights
The High Risk Project Society: Intracommunity Support in Transgender Vancouver, 1992-2001, by Phoenix Walker
An exhibit on the High Risk Project Society, which supported trans people in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Queer Workers I Have Known, June 16, 2020, by Anne Balay
An essay by a queer labor historian.
Proud to be Working Class and Queer in 2020, by Anne Balay
Pride month opens in 2020 at a moment of crisis for the USA and for its unions.
Blue-Collar Queers, an Introduction to Steel Closets, 2014, by Anne Balay
Anne Balay provided OutHistory with an original introduction to her book, Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers, published by the University of North Carolina Press, in 2014.
Bars and the Queer Economy, 2017, by Jeffrey Escoffier and Christopher Mitchel
Writing about queer bars and drag culture in the 1972 classic Mother Camp, Esther Newton observed that queer communities had “an economics but no economy.” In this exhibit, Jeffrey Escoffier and Christopher Mitchell address the economics of gay bars for the early "closeted" LGBT community.
No Red-Baiting! No Race-Baiting! No Queen-Baiting! by Allan Bérubé
This is a 90-minute illustrated talk narrated by Allan Bérubé (1946-2007) on the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union. Introduced by historians John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman, the talk tells the surprising and inspiring story of how ship stewards and other workers on luxury cruise liners banded together and overcame racial, sexual, and other divisions to create a militant union in the 1930s. First published by OutHistory in 2016.
Marching For Jobs and Freedom: Bayard Rustin and Cheryl Clarke at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963, by Claire Potter and John D'Emilio
This proud moment in civil rights activism is also a moment to reflect on how LGBT civil rights strategies have overlapped with, drawn strength from, and patterned themselves on a century and a half of anti-racist struggle in the United States.