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Historian
Jonathan Ned Katz, an independent scholar and history activist, has published five books on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual U.S. past. He is the founder of OutHistory.org, the major website on the U.S. LGBT past. Two of his other books focus on African American history, and another is a memoir.

Artist
Katz is also a visual artist. His long career as a painter began in his childhood with a precocious set of pictures of a motherly woman at a stove and another of the woman at an open refrigerator. His child paintings and later art can be seen on his art website jnkArt.com. As a teenager, Katz won entrance as an art student to the public High School of Music and Art. An exhibit of Katz’s art opened in 2013 at the Leslie Lohman Museum, in New York City. It was initiated and curated by the noted art historian Jonathan David Katz (the two are not related).In his old age, Katz's art focuses on lively, expressive paintings of naked men. A few recent works are political. A beat-up old sign includes a flashing red light and the words "Fascism Warning!"   

As a historian, Katz studies same-sex and different-sex relationships and changes in the social construction of sexuality and gender over time. His works stress language as one important tool that humans use to construct radically different, historically specific sexualities, genders, and sex/gender systems.

Katz’s books have helped to create the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, and, more generally, of sexual and gender history. His publications have received the highest scholarly accolades, and he has taught a sexual history class and curated a major historical exhibit at Yale ("The Pink and the Blue: Lesbian and Gay Life at Yale and in Connecticut, 1642-2004"). He also presented a keynote address at Harvard, and headed a faculty seminar at Princeton.

Katz's most recent book, The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams, the biography of a pioneering lesbian activist, was featured in The New York Times and New Yorker.

Katz is that rare bird, a pioneering, innovative historian who lacks any college degrees. (He does not encourage young scholars to try the same career path.)

In 2004, at age 66, Katz returned to visual art, a talent of his childhood, teens and youth. His lifetime of visual art-making can be seen at jnkArt.com.

Jonathan Ned Katz (left) and Jonathan David Katz at Yale, 2003. Yale Bulletin and Calendar, February 14, 2003, Volume 31, Number 18.

BOOKS

The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams (Chicago Review Press, May 18, 2021)

PUBLICITY, REVIEWS

Jim Downs, "Rediscovering Eve Adams, the Radical Lesbian Activist," The New Yorker, June 26, 2021:

Emily Palmer, "Overlooked No More: Eve Adams, Writer Who Gave Lesbians a Voice". New York Times, July 2, 2021:

Noem Sienna, “Ten Unanswered Questions: An Unconventional Interview with Eve Adams,” In geveb Journal of Jewish Studies. Praises "Katz’s thrilling and meticulously-researched biography,” adding: "Katz’s book is a sensitive portrait of Adams’ life, highlighting both the challenges faced by LGBTQ people in early 20th-century America and their significance for understanding the art, literature, and politics of the period." 2021-12-13. 

Julie R. Enszer, review: Jewish Book Council. “a stun­ning new biog­ra­phy . . . . Les­bian Love is aston­ish­ing. . . . con­tributes to an array of fields of inquiry: Jew­ish his­to­ry, Holo­caust stud­ies, les­bian his­to­ry, and les­bian lit­er­ary his­to­ry. It also demon­strates the cun­ning inge­nu­ity of queer his­to­ri­ans in piec­ing togeth­er lives of LGBTQ peo­ple who have pre­vi­ous­ly been exclud­ed. . . . a com­pelling pic­ture of Adams’s life . . . ." June 21, 2021.

Michael Elias, review: Foreword.com. “fascinating . . . . presented in full, rich terms.” 2021-05-00.  

Casandra Langer, review: The Gay and Lesbian Review. “Katz has given back to us an extraordinary and courageous lesbian. Chava/Eve/Eva would have remained lost to us . . . but for his dedication to rediscovering her life and work.” November-December, 2021, pages 32-33.

June Sawyers, review Booklist: : "a haunting tale sympathetically told by Katz. This is an impressive feat of research as well as an important story about an unsung and, until now, invisible figure in gay history." April 1, 2021. 

Kathy E. Ferguson, review: FifthEstate.org: "Katz has done a remarkable job of researching the life of Eve Adams. He has tracked down an impressive span of sources, and diligently followed numerous directions of research . . .  He shows what else was going on in literary, political, racial, sexual, national and international contexts, giving Eve Adams’ life needed context. He is right that “Lesbian Love” was a brave title and that it made a great deal of trouble for her. He calls Eve “one of the country’s first lesbian justice activists” and that is a history worth recognizing." FifthEstate.org, #410, Fall 2021, pp. 14-16 print edition.

Eran Zahavy, feature: "My grandfather was her [Eve Adams'] brother," Haaretz (Tel Aviv, Israel),. August 16, 2021.

Anne Charles, Lamda Literary: review: "a study in detective work. . . , Katz’s employment of shading actual historical events to offer context serves the volume well as it details often-overlooked occurrences or points up the class, race and gender implications of well-known events," January 20, 2022.

Alisa Solomon interviews Jonathan Ned Katz about his Eve Adams biography. "Rediscovering a Pathbreaking Queer Jewish Writer," Jewish Currents: June 10, 2021.

ENDORSEMENTS 
“Jonathan Katz has rescued from oblivion one of Emma Goldman’s least-known associates, and in so doing treats contemporary readers to a colorful and original take on one of the most famous and infamous periods of American history. The book’s concentration on US persecution of homosexuals during this time is an eye-opener.”
--Vivian Gornick, author of Emma Goldman and Unfinished Business 

“Lost for almost a century, here is the incredible story of the first major defense of queer female lives and desires penned in the United States and its violent suppression by the American government, told by one of the most eminent queer historians. This book will be a landmark of queer history.”
--Laurie Marhoefer, author of Sex and the Weimar Republic and Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor of History, University of Washington

“Any new volume of LGBT history by Jonathan Ned Katz is cause for excitement. This time he invites us to accompany him on the trail of the elusive but riveting Eve Adams, a Jewish lesbian ‘agitator,’ author, and activist who began life in Poland, emigrated to the United States, was entrapped by the FBI, convicted of writing an obscene book titled Lesbian Love, and was deported back to Hitler-dominated Europe where she was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz. To read this book is to sit in the presence of a great private detective presenting his meticulously assembled case, clue by clue. He conjectures with imagination, but never loses sight of his carefully researched facts. The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams recounts the racy story of a racy storyteller, threatened by J. Edgar Hoover’s tortured homophobia on one continent, and the fatal Jew-hatred of the Nazis on another. Katz’s book inspires me as a Jew, a rabbi, a dyke, an activist, and an organizer. We experience Eve’s vitality through the vignettes of Lesbian Love, included in its entirety, but I was—and think most readers will be—most profoundly moved by Katz’s own voice, that of a mensch and a groundbreaking queer Jewish activist who all his life has pursued justice through the work of a historian. In The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams one gay Jew of passion and commitment tells the story of another. In so doing, Katz illuminates an exciting legacy of which any reader will want to be a part.”
--Senior Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah

“The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams is a detective story, a thriller, an exploration of queer history, a tragedy, and finally an act of loving recovery. The until-now lost story of Eve Adams is the story of the struggles, the persistence, and the triumphs of queer people in America, even in the face of death. Jonathan Ned Katz has carefully and splendidly uncovered not only the story of Adams, but of the complicated history of radical politics and resistance that have always been part of the queer movement. Brilliantly researched and deeply moving The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams is an extraordinary contribution to queer history.” 
—Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States

A compelling, engaging, and moving narrative. I found myself with tears in my eyes at the end, and filled with gratitude. Astonishing.
— Noam Sienna, Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, author of A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969

“This is a truth-stranger-than-fiction narrative that is compelling, gripping and revelatory. Through imaginative research, Katz has uncovered the story of a Jewish immigrant who was both a political radical and an open lesbian a century ago. He has restored to history a life that we need to know about.”
—John D’Emilio, author of Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives

“On these pages, Eve Adams rises up, loves, rebels—her times, eerily resembling our own. I was in the audience of Katz’s first public gift to us, his documentary play Coming Out! Decades later, I am so grateful to be in his audience once again, and to welcome home Eve Adams.” 
—Joan Nestle, co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and author of A Restricted Country

“Absolutely wonderful, so timely, so important! Eve Adams played a courageous pioneering role in Lesbian history, fighting US government officials’ homophobic, anti-radical, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, right-wing acts during the 1920s and 1930s that censored, attacked, and destroyed many lives.” 
—Deborah Edel, cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives

“This amazing feat of research restores lesbian pioneer Eve Adams to her proper place in American LGBTQ history. It also makes her extremely rare 1925 book, Lesbian Love, available to the public for the first time since it was censored for obscenity and used as a pretext to have her deported. Katz shows us once again how much astonishing LGBTQ history remains out there to be explored and shared.”
—Hugh Ryan, author of When Brooklyn Was Queer

“An audacious lesbian pioneer, long hidden from both LGBT and Jewish history, Eve Adams finally gets her due in this wonderful book. Eve, a poor immigrant from Poland, became a lesbian bar owner, bon vivant, activist, and early chronicler of queer culture. Her life offers a window into radical working-class bohemians in New York and Chicago in the early 20th century. Her persecution reveals the ways social conservatives, anti-Semites, and anti-immigrant forces conspired to rid the country of “undesirables”—with tragic consequences. The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams offers powerful lessons for today”
—Arlene Stein, author of Unbound and Reluctant Witnesses

“Bohemian lesbians, radical activism, police entrapment—this first biography of Eve Adams offers an immigrant history unlike any other! Adams arrives in the US in 1912, adventures around the country with other “hoboettes,” sells leftie literature on the street, runs a queer tea shop in Greenwich Village, and writes a book about her women friends and lovers. The US Bureau of Investigation, led by a young J. Edgar Hoover, is having none of it. With the help of the police, agents concoct a deportation case against the young Polish Jew, even as Europe descends into fascist-led anti-semitism.”
--Elizabeth Heard, adjunct professor, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University.

“This book documents an important part of early 20th century LGBT American and European history. The research is extraordinary and Katz’s writing brings Eve Adams to life as she presides over her former Greenwich Village tearoom at 129 MacDougal Street. Adams was a brave, inspiring, and determined soul hounded out of the United States for being a lesbian, and she suffered the ultimate punishment for living her own true life.”
—Ken Lustbader, cofounder of NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

“Once again, through indefatigable sleuthing informed by historical erudition and political sophistication, Jonathan Ned Katz has uncovered and reconstructed a lost LGBTQ life. And what a life! Anarchist, lesbian, Jew, writer, anthropologist, and freedom fighter Eve Adams lived her beliefs and her desires boldly and died the victim of small-mindedness and barbarity. A fascinating, groundbreaking book.”
—Judith Levine, journalist and author of The Feminist and the Sex Offender

“Praises for Jonathan Ned Katz, who keeps rescuing from oblivion fascinating 20th century LBGTQ pioneers, including the Lesbian bohemian Eve Adams. As a bonus we get to read her taboo-breaking book Lesbian Love.”
—Alix Kates Shulman, author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen and coeditor of Women’s Liberation!

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Coming of Age in Greenwich Village: A Memoir with Paintings, published in conjunction with Katz's solo art show in February 2013. Ebook
Print

Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2001. It was co-winner of the John Boswell Prize awarded by the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History of the American Historical Association, in 2003.

The Invention of Heterosexuality was published by Dutton/Penguin in 1995 with a foreword by Gore Vidal and afterword by Lisa Duggan. It has been translated and published in Brazil, France, and Mexico, and reprinted by the University of Chicago Press in 2007. It was cited by U.S. Supreme Court in its majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, June 2003, the ruling that, in effect, found U.S. sodomy laws unconstitutional.[1]

Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary, first published by Harper & Row, in 1983, and reprinted by Carroll & Graf in 1994 was number 21 on the list of 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books, a project of the Publishing Triangle, the association of lesbians and gay men in publishing. 
Reviews:
Leila J. Rupp, Signs, Vol. 9, No. 4, The Lesbian Issue (Summer, 1984), pp. 712-715. "Katz has once again immeasurably enriched lesbian/gay history by collecting a wealth of material about lesbian and gay lives. . . . Katz has provided us with abundant resources for further study. . . ."

Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. was first published by T.Y. Crowell in 1976, reprinted by Avon in a mass market paperback in 1977, by Harper & Row as a trade paperback in 1985, and by New American Library, in 1992.

Number 3 on list of 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books, a project of the Publishing Triangle, the association of lesbians and gay men in publishing.

Featured in the Whitney Museum’s “The American Century: Art and Culture - Part 2, 1950-2000” (curated by Lisa Phillips, 1999-2000), along with other books constituting cultural touchstones of the last half of the twentieth century.

Review: Nancy Naglin "'People faint when the subject is broched,' Spengler, 1906." Chicago Tribune, Nov. 21, 1976, p.143 via Newspapers.com.

New Books at Brooks Memorial Library includes Katz's GAH. The Brattleboro Reformer (Brattleboro, VT), January 14, 1977, p. 10, via Newspapers.com

GAH listed in new adult non-fiction added to the Rutland Free Library. Rutland Daily Herald (Rutland, VT), Feb. 8, 1977, p. 14, via Newspapers.com. 

Katz public talk, February 17, 1977, Ell Student Center Studio Theater, Northeastern University, via The Boston Globe, Feb. 10, 1977, p. 73, via Newspapers.com.

Television: "All the People," Ch. 2, Katz and clinical psychologist Don Clark interviewed. The San Francisco Examiner, Feb. 19, 1977, p. 33, via Newspapers.com. 

Interview with Katz by Robert Levey, "The History of Gay America," (includes Katz photo), The Boston Globe, Mar. 4, 1977, p. 13, via Newspapers.com.

Tim Denesha, "Song of Himself, The Homoerotic Writings of Walt Whitman." Credits Katz's GAH for docuemnts. Buffalo 5th Freedom, (Buffalo, NY), April 1, 1977, p. 5, via NewspaperArchive.com

Television: Phil Donahue interview with Don Embinder, publisher of Blueboy, and Jonathan Katz (repeat of earlier show). The Miami News, May 14, 1977, p. 42, via Newspapers.com. 

Review: Allen J. Share, "Sexually out of place in American history." The Courier Journal (Louisville, KY), Mar. 6, 19977, p.75 via Newspapers.com

Television: Good Day, "A discussion of American homosexuals with feminist Germain Greer and Jonathan Katz author of Gay American History," March 10, 1977 via Tallahassee Democrat (Tallahassee, FL). March 6, 1977, p. 90 via Newspapers.com.

Katz Public Talk, Emelin Theater, Mamaroneck, NY, March 16, 1977. Announcement: "Gay history," The Hearld Statesman (Yonkers, NY), March 12, 1977), p. 7.

Review: Sal Licata, "Gay in America, then and now." The Los Angeles Times, March 27, 1977, p. 7, via Newspapers.com.

Katz Public Talk Sponsored by New Paltz Gay Community, State University College of New Paltz: March 17, 1977 New Paltz, NY, via Poughkeepsie Journal (Poughkeepsie, NY), p. 15. 

Katz speaks on "Gay Roots" at the Kent Student Center, sponsored  by the Kent Gay Liberation Front, Daily Kent Stater (Kent, OH), April 22, 1977, p. 6, via Newspaper Archive.com. 

Joseph Mann Library, Adult Non-Fiction lists Katz's GAH. Manitowoc Herald-Times (Manitowoc, WI), June 16, 1977, p. 7, via Newspapers.com

"New at the Library," lists Katz's GAH, Pampa Daily News (Pampa, TX), June 22, 1977, p. 5, via Newspapers.com.

Radio: Studs Terkel, "Jonathan Katz, editor of 'Gay American History, discusses homosexuality in American life, KCBS, Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), August 20, 1977, p. 20.

Wilington Public Library, display of books including Katz's GAH. Wilmington News-Journal (Wilmington, OH), August 30, 1977, p. 7, via Newspapers.com.

Gay American History is featured briefly as a plot device in "A Night at the Adonis", a gay male pornographic movie produced in 1978, in a scene in which a barely dressed hunk is seen reading the book.[2]

On African-American history, Katz published two books: 

Resistance at Christiana: The Fugitive Slave Rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania, 1851, published by T.Y. Crowell, January 1, 1974. A review in The Los Angeles Times by Robert Kirsch called this history "a detailed and deeply moving work, carefully, meticulously researched," adding: "Don't miss this book." Historian of the American slave system, David Brion Davis called Katz's history "extremely informative."[3] A public exhibit about the Christiana resistance was held in Harlem, in New York City, at the Countee Cullen Library. See "Fugitives’ 1851 Antislavery Riot Is Detailed in an Exhibition Here," New York Times, Sept. 8, 1974. 
Black Woman: A Fictionalized Biography of Lucy Terry Prince, a biography for young people, was co-authored with Katz's father Bernard Katz, and published by Pantheon in 1973.

Goodbye to Berlin! 100 Jahr Schwulembewegung, edited by Andreas Sternweiler (1997). Katz and Allan Berube co-curated contributions to a major exhibit in Berlin on LGBT history and their work is fully documented in this book memorializing that exhibit.  

EDITING
"Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature" published by Arno Press-New York Times, in 1975. For his editing of that series, Katz was that year the recipient of the annual Gay Book Award, of the American Library Association Task Force on Gay Liberation.

Reviews of "Homosexuality":

A. Earl Hershberger review of Homosexuality: Lesbian and Gay Men in Society, History and Literature, edited by Jonathan Katz, Buffalo 5th Freedom, (Buffalo, NY), July 1, 1976, pp. 8-9, via NewspaperArchive.com.

Anonymous, "From Our Mailbag," unsigned letter referring to earlier review of July 1976, by A. L. Hirshberger of the Arno Press series of reprints of important books on homosexuality. Criticizes failure to reprint ONE magazine/Tangents magazine, and credit the Homosexual Information Center (Los Angeles). September 1, 1976, Buffalo 5th Freedom, (Buffalo, NY), pp.4, 18, via NewspaperArchive.com. 

OutHistory.org
In 2007 and 2008, Katz initiated and directed the development of OutHistory.org, this website on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual history, produced originally by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, an institute at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The site's production was funded by a two-year grant from the Arcus Foundation and donations from individuals. The site officially launched on October 21, 2008. The Arcus Foundation provided a second two-year grant to support OutHistory's "Since Stonewall Local LGBT Histories Contest" Arcus funding officially ended January 1, 2011.

Starting in September 2011 OutHistory was co-produced by John D'Emilio, at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Starting in 2014 OutHistory was co-produced by Claire Bond Potter, at The New School Digital Humanities Program, New York City. 

KATZ'S ORIGINAL RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS
FIRST PUBLISHED ON OutHistory.org:

Americans in Württemberg Scandal, 1888

Analyzing Allen Bernstein’s “MILLIONS OF QUEERS (Our Homo America)”

Carl Schlegel: The First US Gay Activist, 1906-1907

Envisioning the World We Make, Social-Historical Construction, a Model, a Manifesto, 1 Introduction

Edna Thomas ("Mary Jones"): "a tenderness I have never known," January 1937. Identifies the African American actress Edna Thomas as the 1937 case history of  “Mary Jones, published by Dr. George Henry. For her time Thomas was amazingly positive about her lesbian experience. Evocative photos of Thomas are included.

FBI and Homosexuality Chronology: Introduction

Herbert Spiers: November 8, 1945-March 2, 2011

Hunting Homosexuals at Southern Miss: 1955-1965

Introduction to Homophobia in Mississippi, 1958

John Wesley Carhart: “Norma Trist; or Pure Carbon: A Story of the Inversion of the Sexes” (September 26, 1895)

John William Sterling and James Orville Bloss, 1870-1918

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and America

Missing Documents of LGBTQ History

Stonewall Riot Police Reports: Introduction: Newly Obtained Documents Reveal Names

Werther/June Research

Theater Pieces

Coming Out! A Documentary Play About Gay and Lesbian Life and Liberation, was presented by the Gay Activists Alliance in New York City in June 1972, and presented again in 1973 at an off-off Broadway theater. A version of the script was published by Arno Press-NY Times, in 1975, in a series edited by Katz. A discussion of Katz's play is contained in Theater of the Real by Carol Martin (Palgrave Macmillan, November 27, 2012), 34-38 (viewable at various online sites).

Comrades and Lovers, another theater piece, on the conflict between Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds, was produced by Poets' Theater, Cambridge, Mass., in 1992; by Bailiwick Theater, Chicago, 1992; and by SAME, Atlanta, in 1991. Public readings were presented by the English Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1991; by 3-Dollar Bill Theater, New York City, 1990, and by the Fund for Human Dignity, in New York City in 1989.

Essays

In addition to the original essays published on OutHistory, listed above, numbers of Katz's other essays are published or republished on OutHistory.org. 

"The Trump Tape Prompted This Gay Man to Share His Terrifying Story," The Advocate, Nov. 1, 2016.

"As a kid growing up in Greenwich Village . . ." in Greenwich Village Stories, A Collection of Memories, ed. by Judith Stonehill (Greenwich Village Historical Society/Universe, no date).

"'Millions of Queers': A View from 1940." Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide. Jan/Feb 2015, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p23-26. Reprints Katz's analysis on OutHistory of Allen Bernstein's 1940 defense of homosexuality. 

"Making Intimacy, Making History," keynote address, Harvard University, April 12, 2013, at a conference devoted to same-sex friendship in history.

"Coming of Age in Greenwich Village: A Memoir With Paintings," Huffington Post, February 15, 2013. The Huffington Post also included a biography of Katz.  

"Coming to Terms: Conceptualizing Men's Erotic and Affectional Relations with Men in the U.S., 1820-1892, " presented at the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies and published in The Queer World, edited by Martin B. Duberman, in 1997. The latter book also includes Katz’s essay "Introduction: 'Homosexual' and 'Heterosexual' History."

"Introduction: 'Homosexual' and 'Heterosexual' History," in The Queer World: The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, edited by Martin B. Duberman, in 1997, pages 177-180. 

"Sex Is In Our Heads, Not in Our Genes," Katz's op-ed piece against biological determinist theories of sexual orientation, was published in New York Newsday, in April 1995, and is republished on OutHistory.org. One result of this essay was that Katz appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show, for about 58 seconds, on May 5, 1997. As a follow-up to Winfrey's interview with Ellen Degeneres and her then-lover Anne Heche (April 30, 1997), Oprah Winfrey invited guests on her program to discuss the social and political implications of a fluid sexual orientation (as described by Heche). The first program had raised serious questions about the origins of sexual orientation, and the implications of causal factors.

“Introduction" to the reprint of Donn Teal’s The Gay Militants, published by St. Martin's Press, in 1995.

"The Age of Sodomitical Sin, 1607-1740," from his Gay/Lesbian Almanac, was reprinted in Reclaiming Sodom, edited by Jonathan Goldberg in 1994.

"The Political Economy of Pleasure: Toward a Theory of the Historical Organization of Erotic Activity, with Special Reference to Heterosexuality" was delivered at Harvard University, in 1990, at the 4th Annual Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference; at the American Historical Association, in 1990; at SUNY-Buffalo, in 1991; at the New York Institute for the Humanities, in 1991; at Penn State in 1992; at the University of New Hampshire in 1992; and at Carleton College, in 1994. This was substantially revised as Envisioning the World We Make and published on OutHistory on February 2, 2016.

"The Invention of Heterosexuality," an essay, was first published in Socialist Review, in Jan.-Mar. 1990; and reprinted many times. It is included in Privilege: a Reader, ed. by Michael S. Kimmel and Abby L. Ferber, 2003; Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study, ed. by Paula S. Rothenberg, 2006 and 2007. It is partially reprinted as "The invention of Heterosexuality: The Debut of the Heterosexual" in Sexualities & Communication in Everyday Life: A Reader, ed. by Karen E. Lovaas, Mercilee M. Jenkins, Thousand Oaks, California/London : SAGE, 2007. Reprinted in German translation as "Die Erfindung der Heterosexualität" in 100 Jahre Schulenbewegung, edited by Manfred Herzer (1998). 

“Were the '90s Gay?" was commissioned by American Heritage Magazine, and written and revised in 1990, but was never published in that periodical.

"Katz on History," includes columns on lesbian and gay history, published in The Advocate, 1988-1990. Some of these are republished on OutHistory.org. Katz's editor provided some of the titles.

"Splendor in the Leaves of Grass." [Recalls the life and experience of Gavin Arthur, grandson of the 21st president of the United States, and Arthur's sexual encounter with Edward Carpenter.] Advocate. 1/2/90, Issue 541, p. 40. 2p. 

"We'wha Went To Washington." [On the Zuni Native American transgender person's visit to Washington D.C. in 1886 as a cultural emissary from the Zuni Indian nation, and host anthropologist Matilda Coxe Stevenson.] Advocate. 9/12/89, Issue 533, p. 40. 2p. 

"Huntering Witches in Massachusetts, 1960." [How the story of an anti-gay and antipornography effort destroyed Newton Arvin and other gay male lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.] Advocate. 8/15/89, Issue 531, p. 44. 2p.

"The Stonewall Rebellion." [On the Stonewall Riot of 1969 as recounted in a contemporary letter by Edmund White to friends.] Advocate. 6/20/89, Issue 527, p. 39. 2p. 

"The First Gay Revolutionary." [On Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a "uranian" journalist who raised the issue of decriminalization of sex between men in 1865.] Advocate. 4/25/89, Issue 523, p. 47. 2p.

"A Tale of Resistance." [Recalls the achievements of Bayard Rustin, a gay rights pioneer in the U.S. and Rustin's exposure by Senator Strom Thurmond.
] Advocate. 3/28/89, Issue 521, p. 34. 2p.

"The President's Sister and the Bishop's Wife." [Documents a romantic relationship between Rose Cleveland, sister of former U.S. President Grover Cleveland, and Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple, wife of Minnesota Episcopal Bishop Henry Whipple.] Advocate. 1/31/89, Issue 517, p. 34. 2p. Katz is one of those interviewed for a podcast about Rose and Evangeline, KFAI's MinneCulture If You Knew All I Could Tell You, produced for KFAI.org FM (Twin Cities, MN), by Kira Schukar, April 13, 2023.

"Miss Willson and Miss Brundage." [Focuses on a lesbian relationship in the U.S. in the early years of 19th century between primitive painteer Mary Ann Willson and her friend "Miss Brundage."] Advocate. 12/6/88, Issue 513, p. 45. 2p.

"Glimpses of Gay Arcadia." [Examines series of novels by Lucien Price with a homosexual emancipation theme, his view of American male homosexuality, and the rebirth of Greek homosexual love in the modern world.] Advocate, 11/8/88, Issue 511, p. 52. 2p. 

"Sassy and Strong." [Profiles the late U.S. African American, lesbian activist Mabel Hampton; her early life; early realization regarding her sexual preference; her assessment of her life.] Advocate. 2/27/90, Issue 545, p. 46. 1 p.

"John Addington Symonds Pops the Question." [Relates the relationship between John Addington Symonds and Walt Whitman, touching on the decriminalization of sodomy.] Advocate. 1/30/90, Issue 543, p43. 1p. 

"Of Vice and Men." [Homosexuality in the U.S. Navy, and the purity crusade initiated by chief machinist Ervin Arnold upon his arrival at the Newport Naval Training Station, R. I., in the early-20th-century.] Advocate. 12/5/89, Issue 539, p35. 1p. 1 

"Signs of the Times." [Explores the history of gay liberation symbols; use of the lambda symbol; adoption of the pink triangle.
] Advocate. 10/10/89, Issue 535, p49. 1p. 1 

"Up from Underground." [Tracks the early use of the term "gay" in American publications. Analyzes the historical development of the term, and origin of the word; presents early documented use of the term gay to mean homosexual.] Advocate. 5/23/89, Issue 525, p40. 

"The Adventures of Roderick Random." [Discusses the book 'The Adventures of Roderick Random,' by Tobias Smollett in which a section focuses on the topic of homosexual relationships between men of the 18th century.] Advocate. 1/3/89, Issue 515, p54. 1p. 1 

"Alexander Hamilton's Nose." [Discusses excerpts from the letters of Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens, written while both were aides to General Washington in the American Revolutionary Army; decodes erotic references in Hamilton's letters.] Advocate. 10/11/88, Issue 509, p29. 1p. 1 

"Abe and Josh, Mary and Mercy." [Focuses on the romantic friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed and that of Mary Todd, Lincoln's fiancee, and Mercy Levering during the 19th century.]



 Advocate. 9/13/88, Issue 507, p47. 1p. 1

"Hidden Hitchings." Focuses on the ambivalent history of same-sex unions in the United States; same-sex marriage as a traditional value among Native Americans; considers marriage as an affirmative model for lesbians and gays.  Village Voice. 1/9/96, Vol. 41 Issue 2, p. 26. 1p.

“The Time of Our Lives: Thoughts on Lesbian and Gay History," an essay, was included in the catalog of first photographic exhibit on New York City Lesbian and Gay History, produced by the Office of the Mayor, in June 1988.

"Melville's Secret Sex Text" (on the novel Redburn), The Village Voice Literary Supplement, in 1982. It is republished on OutHistory.

"Why Gay History?" a historiographical essay, was published in The Body Politic (Toronto), August 1979), 19-20. It was a revision of a talk that Katz presented earlier: "Homosexual History: It’s Import and Implications.” Keynote address, conference titled Constructing a History of Power and Sexuality, sponsored by New York University Graduate History Society and NYU Women’s Center, March 31, 1978.

“The Founding of the Mattachine Society: An Interview with Henry Hay,” an excerpt from Katz's Gay American History was republished as  Radical America 11, no. 4 (1977).

Reviews, Interviews by Katz

Interview with Allan Berube appeared in The Advocate after Berube won a MacArthur "genius award". Citation forthcoming.

Review of Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, edited by Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson appeared in The Village Voice, in 1983.

Review of Mary Ryan’s Womanhood in America appeared in the Body Politic, 1977-78.

Review of Dennis Altman’s Homosexual Oppression and Liberation appeared in The Nation, on July 2, 1973, the first gay political book reviewed in that periodical.

Review of "AIDS: Humanistic Perspectives," held in New York City in 1988, sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities.

"An Interview with Jose Louis Font" by Katz was published in Vision: A Journal of Film Comment (volume 1, number 2), Summer 1962.

Film reviews by Katz appeared in the Antioch College newspaper, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1956 and/or 1957.

Journalism as a writer for and Features Editor of Overtones, the publication of the High School of Music and Art, was published between 1952-1956.

Editing

Gay Men's Health Crisis Annual Report, 1986-87 and 1988-89; editing.

New Media and Public History

The Impact of CLAGS (the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies) on Queer Studies & LGBTQ Communities, City University of New York Graduate Center, February 4, 2016. Panel presentation.

"OutHistory.org: Creating a website on LGBTQ History," presented at Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Special Collections (ALMS) Conference, in 2008.

"Making Our History: 30 Years of Work and Questions," was presented at the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center Inaugural Conference, in 2006, in Kingston, NY. A version of the same talk, "Making Sexual History: A Quarter Century of Work and Questions," was presented at Dartmouth College in 2004.

Curator, With Allan Bérubé, of the U.S. section of an exhibit on the international history of the gay movement, presented at the Berlin Academy of the Arts, and produced by the Gay Museum of Berlin and the Academy, in 1997.

Invited participant at a conference sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, 1992, to plan the 25th- anniversary exhibit commemorating the Stonewall Resistance and the birth of the modern gay rights movement. The exhibit opened at the New York Public Library in June 1994.

Initiator of the June proclamation by New York City Mayor of "Lesbian and Gay Pride and History Month," 1987 through 1989, and edited a calendar of History Month events in 1988 and ‘89.

Letter to the Editor, New York Times, about his own play 'Coming Out!' and Al Carmines' play 'The Faggot' was published August 12, 1973, Section: AL, Page 114.

Letter to the Editor, New York Review of Books, November 2, 1995, vol. 42, no. 17, re a discussion of biological determinism, "Genes and Sexuality: An Exchange," accessed January 27, 2016 from: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/11/02/genes-and-sexuality-an-exchange/

Audio and Video

"Neighborhood Voices," historical consultant for a video documentary on Greenwich Village in the 1950s, produced for WNYC-TV, 1985 by Amber Hollibaugh and Barbara Kerr.

"Words," script for an educational documentary on the changing terms defining those called lesbian and gay, was funded by Pennsylvania Humanities Council and Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force, in 1984.

"Black Pioneers," scripts for Volumes I and II, produced by Caedmon Records, with Eartha Kitt and Moses Gunn, in 1968-1969.

"Inquest at Christiana," as Jon Katz, script and producer, radio play first broadcast on WBAI-FM, New York City, February 11, 1968. Streaming audio version accessed October 27, 2020, from: https://archive.org/details/pra-BB3818.18A
Description, cast: http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bb381809a 

"The Dispute Over the Ownership of Anthony Burns," script for radio play about a fugitive slave case,  presented on WBAI-FM, in April 23, 1967. Streaming: https://archive.org/details/pra-BB3830.07  Description: https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bb383007

Aging in the LGBT Community

On July 21, 2012, Katz was honored by Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) at a gathering at Cherry Grove, Fire Island, at the home of Jack Dowling. Jonathan and co-honoree, Amber Hollibaugh, were described as veteran GLBT activists, and writers, and as “two champions of change,” as SAGE Executive Director Michael Adams called them. Jonathan recounted the history of Ruth “Peter” Worth, Holocaust survivor, who included the name “Peter” in her U.S. naturalization papers and bought her house in the Grove in the 1940s. At her death, she left bequests to SAGE and Lambda Legal and her home in the Grove to Amber.

On February 2, 2011, Katz and poet Edward Field celebrated Katz's 73rd birthday at New York City's gay community center, titled Coming Out As Old. Katz presented samples of his most recent visual art work, and Field read his poems about being old and about sex. The event was sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, OutHistory.org, and SAGE.

November 11, 2010, Katz moderated the opening panel of activist elders at a national conference in NYC, produced by SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders.

The meeting - The Future of Aging is in Our Hands: A National Conference and Expo for LGBT Older Adults - addressed a range of issues from public policy, personal finances and health and wellness. Issues included the reauthorization of the federal Older Americans Act, activism and aging, HIV/AIDS, sexuality, spirituality, finding financial and legal security, retirement, caregivers and self-empowerment.

In 2010, on February 5, Katz spoke at New York City's LGBT Center, about expanding from the study of sexual history to the creating of sexual art, reinventing himself, and coming out as a visual artist at age 72. He exhibited and discussed examples of his sensual paintings of male nudes. Sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the LGBT Center, and SAGE. A retrospective of Katz's art is available at: JonathanNedKatzArt.com

October-November 2009, Katz co-directed a six-session workshop for SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders), on how to create and edit content on OutHistory.org.

In 2008, on the occasion of his birthday, Katz organized a panel “Coming Out As 70: Old as Personal and Political,” with Terry Boggis, Thomas Glave, and Amber Hollibaugh, presented by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Center Voices, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and SAGE, at the LGBT Community Center, in New York City. Katz presented a lecture: "Gay, Old, Single--and Kicking!"

In 2006 Katz was a panelist on aging, sexuality, and intimacy, at New York University’s Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality.

In 2005, he facilitated two workshops on gay aging, singleness, sexuality, and intimacy, sponsored by SAGE in New York City.

Katz first came out as old in 2004, at age 66, at the Annual Conference of SAGE (Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Elders), in a talk "On Being Gay, Old, and Single."

Teaching

In addition to teaching at Yale, conducting a faculty seminar at Princeton, and presenting a keynote address at Harvard, in the Spring of 2017, at New York University's Draper Program, part of the university's Graduate School of Arts and Science, Katz co-taught a class titled "Queering the Web: A Practical, Digital Inquiry into the History of Sexuality and Gender." He co-taught the course again in 2018.

As an Adjunct at Eugene Lang College, New York City, Katz taught a course on "Heterosexuality: Its History and Politics," in 1995; a course on "Theories of Sexuality: Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual History," the same year; and a course on "Sexuality in U.S. History," in 1991.

As an Adjunct in the New York University History Department Katz taught a course on "Sexuality in U.S. History," in 1984.

Honors

Katz’s 1977 interview with Tony Segura, a 1950s gay activist, is cited in The New Yorker, October 5, 2021. Waters, Michael. “American Chronicles: The Book Club That Helped Spark the Gay-Rights Movement,” The New Yorker, October 5, 2021.

Masha Gessen profiled Katz in The New Yorker in "Coming Out and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall," June 28, 2019.

Jim Downs, "Writing Gay History: How the story itself came out." Humanities, The Magazine of The National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Edition. Focuses on Katz's work. 

A conference honored the 40th anniversary of the publication of Katz's Gay American History. Titled Gay American History @ 40: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer History: Past, Present, Future, it was held May 5-6, 2016, at The New School, New York City. Conference sponsors: The New School Digital Humanities Initiative, The New School for Public Engagement, CLAGS: The Center for LGBT Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, and OutHistory.org. Katz presented "Envisioning the World We Make Continued." A video of the whole panel is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-A2i9OtYR0&feature=em-uploademail, accessed June 7, 2016. Katz's talk starts at 1:10:26.

Marc Stein. "Jonathan Ned Katz Murdered Me: History and Suicide." Process: A Blog for American History. Published and accessed March 9, 2016 from http://www.processhistory.org/stein-katz/#more-1498

Jim Downs, "Chapter 4: Gay American History [on Katz]." In Downs' Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (NY: Basic Books, March 1, 2016).

Jim Downs. "The Education of Jonathan Ned Katz." Chronicle of Higher Education, February 21, 2016. Accessed March 16, 2016.

The New York City Fresh Fruit Festival awarded Jonathan Ned Katz its Passion Fruit Award for "Outstanding Service to the Arts and LGBT Communities, April 2013.

The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History jointly awarded the 2010 Allan Bérubé Prize for outstanding work in public or community-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer history to OutHistory (founded by Jonathan Ned Katz, staffed by Lauren Gutterman, produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City of University of New York Graduate Center, and funded by individual donations and grants from the Arcus Foundation) and to the Polk Street Oral History Project (produced by Joey Plaster with the support of the GLBT Historical Society, the California Council for the Humanities, and the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies). The Bérubé Prize is underwritten by the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. In reaching its decisions, the Prize Committee prepared the following commendation:

OutHistory (OutHistory.org) is an extraordinary website that features a wide range of LGBT historical materials and exhibits generated and produced by a diverse and ever-growing collection of students, scholars, and others interested in LGBT history. With impressive accomplishments during its short life and even greater potential for growth in the future, OutHistory is a deserving recipient of the inaugural Bérubé Prize.

The 2010 Prize Committee was chaired by Marc Stein (York University) and included Nicholas Syrett (University of Northern Colorado) and Ellen Zitani (City University of New York Graduate Center).

A panel, "Gay American History: The Politics and Prose of Jonathan Ned Katz" was presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, in 2008, chaired by John D'Emilio, University of Illinois at Chicago, with comment by Elizabeth L. Kennedy, University of Arizona, and presentations by Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University, Jim Downs, Connecticut College, Karla Jay, Pace University, and Marc Stein, York University.

Katz participated in a panel discussion: "Lessons from History: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Jonathan Ned Katz' Gay American History," held at Harvard University in 2006, with Libby Bouvier of The History Project; Gary Buseck of GLAD; Luis Aponte-Pares of UMass, and Judith Smith, of UMass.

Photographed by Tom Atwood for Kings in Their Castles: Photographs of Queer Men at Home, by Tom Atwood (University of Wisconsin Press), 2002.

Photographed by Robert Giard for a series of photos of gay and lesbian writers, 1986. Published in the Giard photo book Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers (The MIT Press; 1st edition July 3, 1998). The picture is available on the website of the New York Public Library.

Photographed by Fred W. McDarrah and the photo reproduced in Gay Pride: Photographs from Stonewall to Today by Fred W. McDarran and Timothy S. McDarrah (A Cappella Books, 1994).

Recipient of Yale University's Brudner Prize, 2003, an annual honor bestowed on a leading scholar in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies.

Chosen to be annual Kessler Lecturer, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, NYC, 2002.

Chosen Co-Grand Marshal with Joan Nestle of the annual gay pride march, 1999, by the Heritage of Pride Committee.

Honored by the Monette/Horwitz Trust, 1999, "for long term research and writing contributions to the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender communities," and for fostering others' work.

Awarded The Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Sex Research, from the German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research, 1997, in Berlin, Germany. 

Community Service Award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force for twenty years of research on gay and lesbian history, 1996.

The Publishing Triangle Whitehead Award for "Lifetime Achievement in Lesbian and Gay Literature." 1995.

New York Council for the Humanities Speakers Program, on "Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual American History," 1985-1991.  

Invited participant in a seminar on "Sexuality, Gender, and Consumer Culture," at New York Institute for the Humanities, and presented papers on "The Invention of Heterosexuality" and "The Political Economy of Pleasure," 1982 and 1993. 

Keynote Address, "The Abominable Sinner Meets the Alternate Lifestyle," at a conference on "Attitudes Toward Homosexuality," Des Moines, sponsored by the Iowa Board for Programs in the Humanities and the N.E.H., 1979.

Keynote Address on "Researching Homosexuality, The Importance of Being Historical," at a conference on "Constructing a History of Power and Sexuality," at New York University, 1978.

Guest lecturer on lesbian, gay, and heterosexual American History, at the University of Chicago, Cornell, Bennington, Sarah Lawrence, the City University of New York, and many other colleges and universities.

The Papers of Jonathan Ned Katz are collected by the manuscript division of The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library.

Grants

In addition to the funding mentioned earlier, Katz received a grant to plan the development of a web site on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history from the Zebra Fund/The Funding Exchange, 2005, thanks to the generosity of the late Joan R. Heller and her partner, Dr. L. Diane Bernard.

In 1994, Katz received the Ken Dawson Award from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, to research sexual and affectional relations between nineteen-century American men.

In 1985, through a grant from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council to the Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force Katz produced an educational documentary, "Words," on the changing terms defining those now called "Lesbian" and "Gay."

In 1984 and ’85 Katz was awarded two Writer-in-Residence Grants from The New York State Council on the Arts, supported by the Fund for Human Dignity; under the service requirement of these grants Katz twice taught a free, 12-session class on Lesbian and Gay American History.

In 1979 a grant from the Louis and Pauline Cowan Foundation to the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Legal History Research Project, supported Katz's research on the legal history of homosexuals.

In 1978, Katz received a grant from the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation (to research American homosexual history.

In 1967 and ’68, he received grants from the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation to research and write plays for radio about fugitive slave cases.

Organizational Activities

In addition to the organizational activities already mentioned, Katz was a founding member of the Gay Academic Union in 1973, and a founding member of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. In 1980, he was on the original committee that founded the National Writers Union.

Art Work

Katz's art website is jnkArt.com http://jnkart.com/

In 2022, two of Katz's paintings of nude men were sold at the Swann Auction Galleries.

From February 15 to March 31, 2013, a one-man show of Jonathan Ned Katz’s art opened at the Leslie Lohman Museum, in New York City, initiated and curated by art historian Jonathan David Katz (the two are not related). See: http://www.leslielohman.org/exhibitions/2013/making_history_making_art.html

Katz showed his work at the annual art show at the Fire Island Pines Community Center, on August 6, 2011. Two works sold to a collector.

In April-May 2011 Katz’s tempera painting “Man” appeared in a group show, Seductions, curated by Harvey Redding at the PJS Exhibitions Gallery on 14th Street in New York City. “Man”, was sold to a collector.

On February 2, 2011, Katz and poet Edward Field celebrated Katz's 73rd birthday at New York City's gay community center with a presentation titled "Coming Out As Old." Katz presented samples of his most recent visual art work, and Field read his poems about being old and about sex. The event was sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, OutHistory.org, and SAGE.

Katz's painting, "J. as Walt Whitman," in "WALT WHITMAN’S CALAMUS AT 150," a group show celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Calamus edition of Leaves of Grass, The Hudson Guild, New York, NY, March 12, 2010–June 1, 2010. Other artists include Peter Harvey, Duane Michaels, Jim Pavlicovic, Miguel Tio, and Andy Warhol.

In 2010, on February 5, Katz spoke at New York City's LGBT Center about expanding from the study of sexual history to the creating of sexual art, reinventing himself, and coming out as a visual artist at age 72. He exhibited and discussed examples of his sensual paintings of male nudes. Sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the LGBT Center, and SAGE.

A large, retrospective collection of Katz's drawings and paintings, from childhood to the present, is available at: jnkArt.com

Katz came out as a late-blooming visual artist in an illustrated interview by Lester Strong titled “Artist’s Profile -- Jonathan Ned Katz: Turning from History to Art,” in the Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, January/February 2010, pp. 35-35.

Katz is one of the artists featured in the documentary video "Dirty Drawings," in production.

Katz drawing-painting in "Men Loving Men: Images of Love, Lust, and Longing," fundraiser for the LGBT Community Center's HIV/AIDS Youth Prevention Program and Commemorating World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, 2009

A drawing by Katz is included in Dirty Little Drawings, edited by Harvey Redding, Robert W. Richards, and Rob Hugh Rosen, and published by Bruno Gmudner Verlag in 2007.

Ten Katz art works are featured in group show, Molloy/Wright Gallery, Liberty, NY, August 19-20, 2006, along with works by photographers Catherine Opie and Marget Long.

In the mid-1970s, dissatisfied with what Katz judged to be the "cornball" quality of the art in many gay liberation posters, he produced two bold, bright, collage works (one of men holding hands, one of women holding hands) and hung these posters on the second floor wall of the Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse on Wooster Street in Soho. He was suddenly reminded of these works many years ago when viewing some film footage of the Firehouse that included a pan of his posters.

Katz created the scenery for Bertolt Brecht’s “Lesson in Understanding,” Judson Poets’ Theater, NYC, opening on February 12, 1965.

Katz created the scenery for “Leonce and Lena,” New York City off-Broadway east side theater around 1965 (further data to come).

Poetry

"Each Man's Body," poem by Katz, published in Catalyst: A Socialist Journal of the Social Services, "Special Issue: Lesbian and Gay Issues in the Social Services", No. 12 1981, page 46.

Child Writing and Speaking

At age 12, in 1950, Katz contributed to a symposium published in Parents’ Magazine asking "What Shall We Do About Television?"[4]

Katz also contributed another short essay to Parents' Magazine titled "Bringing Up Parents." (Citation forthcoming).

At age 13, Katz was the subject of a photographic story published in Life magazine on June 11, 1951, “Life Visits a Back-yard Movie Set: Jonathan Katz, 13, Films Tom Sawyer,” photographed by Esther Bubley, online at Google. Additional photos from Bubley's Life shoot are displayed at: EstherBubley.com

As a result of the Life article, the same year Katz appeared on "We the People," WNBC-TV.[5]

He also spoke about film-making on a panel about young people's hobbies, at the New York Times Fifth Annual Boys and Girls Book Fair, at the American Museum of Natural History.[6]

Young Katz was also called to the office of Broadway producer Kermit Bloomgarden to try out for the lead role in "When Late the Sweet Birds Sang" by Irving Ravitch, which previewed (without Katz) in 1953 and was canceled on the verge of opening.

Education

Katz attended the Little Red School House in Greenwich Village, 1945-1952. He attended Music and Art High School as an art major, 1952-1956. He attended Antioch College, in 1956-1957, the College City of New York, 1957-1959, the New School, 1961-1962, and Hunter College, in 1972.

Photographs of Jonathan Ned Katz

Tom Atwood's photograph of Katz appears in Kings in Their Castles: Photographs of Queer Men at Home(Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, September 2005).

In 1986, Katz was photographed by Robert Giard for a series of photos of gay and lesbian writers. The picture is available on the website of the New York Public Library. This photo was published in Giard's Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997).

At age 13, Katz was the subject of a photographic story published in Life magazine on June 11, 1951, |“Life Visits a Back-yard Movie Set: Jonathan Katz, 13, Films Tom Sawyer”, photographed by Esther Bubley.  Additional photos from Bubley's Life photographic shoot are displayed at: EstherBubley.com

Jonathan Ned Katz Interviewed

1972, September 5. Rosemary Kent, "Eye View." Interview with Katz about coming out publicly, and the forthcoming production his play Coming Out! at the Washington Square Methodist Church. Women's Wear Daily, p. 14.

1976, December or early 1977: Terry Gross, the host of Fresh Air, the radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, interviewed Katz about his book Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. If you have information about the exact date of this interview, please contact OutHistory.

1976: Studs Terkel, host of The Studs Terkel Program, aired on 98.7 WFMT Chicago, interviewed Katz about Gay American History. Accessed on May 9, 2019, from: https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/jonathan-katz-discusses-his-book-gay-american-history

Richard Hall interviewed Katz for The Advocate about his work on Gay American History.

Katz appeared as a guest on the Oprah Winfrey show. Katz appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show on May 5, 1997 to discuss sexual orientation following Oprah's interview with Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche.