Browse Exhibits (236 total)
FIERCE: Empowering LGBT Youth of Color, New York City
FIERCE is a membership-based organization building the leadership and power of LGBTQ youth of color in New York City. Text by FIERCE, compiled by Andre Banks, Thomas J. Lax and Ellen Vaz. Photographs courtesy of FIERCE © 2010. All Rights Reserved.
Finding Annette: Uncovering Trans History in Idaho, 1950-70, by Sophie McMahon
An exhibit on Annette, an Idaho transwoman who was featured in Tranvestia magazine and was at the center of a Pacific Northwest trans social network in the 1960s.
Forty Years of History in the Heartland: UNL and Lincoln, Nebraska, 1967-2010, by Pat Tetreault
An exhibit about the University of Nebrasks, Lincoln, and Lincoln, Nebraska, compiled from organizational minutes and files, personal communications, and media articles. Some of the online research of the Daily Nebraskan archives was conducted by Jacy Farris.
Founding Google's Gayglers in 2004, by Bennet Marks
An account of the founding of Google's LGBT employee group in 2004 and an article about the founder and his partner. Published originally on OutHistory in 2019.
Francis Davis Millet and Charles Warren Stoddard, 1874-1912, by Jonathan Ned Katz and Claude M. Gruener
This exhibit introduces and reproduces the correspondence of artist Francis Davis Millet and writer Charles Warren Stoddard. Published originally on OutHistory in 2012. Updated in 2024.
Fraternities, Sex Between Men, The Closet, 1993, by Thomas Glave
Thomas Glave was a student at Bowdoin College when he published what turned out to be an inflamatory essay in the Bowdoin student newspaper, The Bowdoin Orient, on February 19, 1993 (p. 15). OutHistory reprinted that essay with Glave's permission in 2017.
To see Glave's essay larger click on it three times.
Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C., 1971-2010
The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C., is the oldest continuously active gay rights organization in the United States. Founded on April 20, 1971, as the Gay Activists Alliance, the group dedicated itself to securing the "full rights and privileges" of citizenship for the gay community through "peaceful participation in the political process."
Gay History in Nevada and Las Vegas, 1969-2009, by Dennis McBride, Crystal Van Dee, and Paul Ershler
The Las Vegas OutHistory project
Gay Liberation in New York City, 1969-1973, by Lindsay Branson
An exhibit focusing on the strains of activism that dominated the LGBT political scene in New York City and across the country from 1969 to 1973.
Gender Benders, 1782-1920, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Here are primary documents about the lives of persons identified at birth as female, who later lived and sometimes identified as male, now understood as "transgender."
Reprinted from Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, 1976). Published originally on OutHistory in 2008.
Note by Jonathan Ned Katz added March 6, 2019 and revised August 8, 2024:
In regard to people in the past, it seems to me now that we best honor them (and our own present desire to understand them) by trying to discover the changing historical terms and concepts by which they understood themselves over their lifetimes. We also need to understand the changing historical terms and concepts by which others understood them over time.
It now also seems important to ask how all those terms and concepts expressed social judgments and were implicated in the power relations of individuals and classes, social systems, structures, and institutions.
Gene Pearson: The Canadian Nightingale, 1899-1932, by Donald W. McLeod
An exhibit on the rediscovery of female impersonator and singer Gene Pearson. Published originally on OutHistory in 2020.
Gore Vidal/Jonathan Ned Katz Correspondence, 1982-2001
Transcribed texts of novelist Gore Vidal’s brief and humorous thirteen letters to historian Jonathan Ned Katz, often on the theme of heterosexuality and, sometimes, homosexuality.
Great Moments in Fort Lauderdale LGBT History: The First Gay Cruise, 1974, by Fred Fejes
An introduction to a 300-person gay cruise, organized by the Islanders Club of New York, that set sail from Fort Lauderdale in 1974. Published originally by OutHistory in 2020.
Groovy Guy Contest, Los Angeles, 1968-1991, by Jeff Auer
Brief history (with many pictures) of a gay pageant that ran from 1968 to 1991 in Los Angeles. Published originally on OutHistory in 2012.
Harry Hay: Founding the Mattachine Society, 1948-1953, by Jonathan Ned Katz
A 1974 interview with Harry Hay about founding the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles. Published originally in Jonathan Ned Katz's Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (1976).
Herbert Spiers, 1945-2011, by Jonathan Ned Katz
A biography and obituary of AIDS activist Herbert Spiers. Spiers was a founding member of Toronto Gay Action and ACT UP, New York.
Historical Musings, 2008, by Joan Nestle
A series of "musings on lesbian history," originally contributed as "Blog on History" by Joan Nestle, co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Copyright © Joan Nestle 2008. All rights reserved. Published originally on OutHistory in 2011.
History in Houston, 40 Years After Stonewall, 1969-2009
An exhibit on the post-Stonewall LGBT history of Houston, Texas.
Homophile Movement Oral Histories, 1950-1969, by John D'Emilio
A collection of twenty-three LGBTQ oral histories completed by John D'Emilio in the 1970s.