A short story set in 1950s Greenwich Village about the love between two women--one white, one black--as observed by the white woman's daughter. Reprinted with the permission of Faith S. Holsaert. Copyright (c) 2003 by Faith S. Holsaert. Published originally on OutHistory in 2011.

An overview of the life of a man who emigrated from Denmark to the United States in the 1890s in the aftermath of scandalous accusations about his same-sex sexual activities. Published originally by OutHistory in 2009; updated in 2024. 

An exhibit on a 1968 student protest at Bucks County Community College after the college president cancelled an event featuring Mattachine Society New York leader Richard Leitsch. Published originally on OutHistory in 2021.

A 2023 essay by Sara Slager, a Boston-based researcher who graduated in May 2022 from Simmons University with a B.A. in Women's and Gender Studies and a double minor in History and Education. In May 2023, she completed an M.A. in Teaching: Elementary and Special Education at Simmons.

An exhibit on Gay and Lesbian Youth of New York and its relationship to the FBI in the 1980s.

An exhibit on eighteenth century U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and his relationship with John Laurens. Multiple historians consider how to interpret the intimacy between Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens during the American Revolution. In 1976, Jonathan Ned Katz, in a first book documenting what he then called "Gay American History," presented letters between Hamilton and Laurens. Those letters are presented on OutHistory as Katz presented them in 1976. Since then Katz has studied what other historians have said about Hamilton's and Laurens' relationship and he presents excerpts from those historians here on OutHistory, along with his own later essay "Alexander Hamilton's Nose."

OutHistory researchers present a previously unknown 149-page manuscript defending homosexuality in 1940. The scholars also document the remarkable life of its author Allen Bernstein (1913-2008), a gay Jewish American husband and father who served in the U.S. military during World War Two. After receiving a less-than-honorable discharge based on allegations about same-sex sexual activities, Bernstein fought an ultimately successful decades-long battle to receive an honorable discharge. Published originally on OutHistory in 2014 and updated in 2019.

A collection of love letters to Emma Goldman, the anarchist leader, vividly conveys the emotions and varied life experience of Almeda Sperry, their complex author. The letters detail and evoke Sperry's tender-brutal relationship with her husband Fred; her bitter-funny cash relationship with Carnegie Steel Company boss "Newt"; her loving relationship with Florence, a graphically described woman friend; her own poor working-class childhood, and her passionate, would-be affair of the heart with Emma Goldman. Adapted from Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (1976) by Jonathan Ned Katz. Republished on OutHistory April 29, 2015.

A brief introduction to an 18th century medical account of a trans person in a Paris hospital.

An introduction to and overview of the story of Angela Calomiris, a working-class lesbian who was a key informant for the FBI in the 1940s against the Communist Party.