Browse Exhibits (261 total)
Ellen Eyre and Walt Whitman: The Blackmailer's Story, 1862, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Ellen Eyre's attempt to entice Walt Whitman into a rendezvous has received significant attention. But here for the first time is the fullest account yet of the extraordinary blackmailer, based on a careful survey of newspaper reports and scholarly responses. This exhibit was produced with the research assistance of Tyler Albertino. Published originally on OutHistory in March 2025. Updated in August 2026.
Elver Barker and Mattachine Denver: A 2002 Interview, by Peter Boag
This exhibit features a 2002 oral history interview of Denver Mattachine activist Elver Barker by historian Peter Boag. It also includes a transcript of the Sixth Annual Convention of the Mattachine Society, which took place in Denver in 1959. Published originally on OutHistory in November 2025.
Esther Eng (1914-1970): Filmmaker, Restaurateur, Gender Rebel, by Christianne A. Gadd
Esther Eng made a name for herself as the world's first female Chinese American filmmaker, a successful restaurateur, and—rejecting social expectations—a woman who felt little need to hide her romantic and sexual relationships with other women. First published on OutHistory in 2016.
Eve Adams Archive, 1891-1943, by Jonathan Ned Katz
This exhibit documents the story of radical lesbian Eve Adams and her long-lost book Lesbian Love. If you have comments, suggestions, or questions, or make new document discoveries concerning the life and times of Eve Adams, please email Katz at jnk123@mac.com. Non-commercial use of the materials presented here is encouraged, but please credit the Eve Adams Archive on OutHistory. All commercial use requires the permission of the author. Published originally on OutHistory in 2021; updated most recently in September 2025. On the OutHistory bookshelf, see The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2021), by Jonathan Ned Katz.
Eve Adams: Documents, by Jonathan Ned Katz
See also:
Eve Adams: Chronology, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Eve Adams: Corrections, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Eve Adams: Pictures, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Eve Adams: Research Suggestions, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Eve Adams: Teaching Topics & Materials, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Non-commercial use permitted. All commercial use, in any commercial media, of the first and only biography of Eve Adams by Jonathan Ned Katz remain the property of the author. For inquiries contact Katz at jnk123@mac.com Last edit: March 29, 2023.
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. Published originally on OutHistory in April 2024.
Forty Years of History in the Heartland: UNL and Lincoln, Nebraska, 1967-2010, by Pat Tetreault
An exhibit about the University of Nebraska, 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. Published originally on OutHistory in April 2013.
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.
Gavin Arthur and Edward Carpenter's Night of Love (1923), by Jonathan Ned Katz and Joey Cain
Two OutHistory researchers fact check the evidence about the possible sexual intimacy of Chester Alan Arthur III, grandson of U.S. president Chester Arthur, and Edward Carpenter, English socialist and sex reform advocate. Published originally on OutHistory in October 2025.
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.