Browse Exhibits (253 total)
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) and the United States, by Jonathan Ned Katz
The story of the German sexual emancipation pioneer and his references to the United States. Adapted from Jonathan Ned Katz's column, "Katz on History," The Advocate, April 25, 1989, pages 47-48. The essay was titled "The First Gay Revolutionary, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: A Daring Pioneer of Sexual Emancipation." Last edit: February 24, 2023.
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Larry Kramer's The American People, Vol. 1 (2015): Responses
Larry Kramer's The American People, Volume I, Search for My Heart, A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015) is a fictional meditation on history, especially on gay and lesbian history. Kramer and other activists founded the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in New York in 1987. He is also known for his novel Faggots (1978), the play The Normal Heart (1985), and as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Destiny of Me (1992). OutHistory solicited and published responses to The American People by historians, other scholars, and the public.
Leo Adams: A Gay Life in Letters, 1928-1952, by Michael S. Miller
An exhibit based on original research in the extensive archive of a gay man who saved his correspondence. Adams (1903-1995) was born in Menominee, Michigan, moved to Chicago for several years, and then lived in New York for most of his life. Published originally on OutHistory in 2011.
Lesbian Mothers Oral History Project, 2023-2026, by Nancy Lee Marquis
This exhibit.... Published originally on OutHistory in ? 2026.
Lesbians in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1999, by Esther Newton and Her Students
"Lesbians in the Twentieth Century" was created by Professor Esther Newton and the graduate and undergraduate students in the seminar on "Lesbian History" that she taught in Fall 2006 at the University of Michigan. Newton and her students agreed to contribute an extended version of the site to OutHistory and develop it further in Fall 2008, the second time that Newton taught her lesbian history course.
LGBT African Americans (2014), by Kali Henderson and Dionn McDonald
A collection of biographies to celebrate Black History Month, first published on OutHistory on January 23, 2014.
LGBT Direct Action Bibliography, Chronology, and Inventory, 1965-1976, by Marc Stein
An introduction to more than 1150 LGBT direct action demonstrations and protests in the United States from 1965 to 1976, with an overview report, annotations, bibliographic references, and tags. Published originally by OutHistory and Queer Pasts in March 2023. Updated in October 2025.
LGBT Identities, Communities, and Resistance in North Carolina, 1945-2012, by David Palmer and His Students
A project produced by thirty-three students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of their requirements for the advanced undergraduate seminar U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Histories. The project was developed with the intent to enrich popular understandings of modern American LGBTQ histories through the lens of a state underrepresented in this area of scholarship. Entries are grouped topically. For more information about the collection, the course, or individual entries, contact the course instructor David Palmer at palm@email.unc.edu. Published originally on OutHistory in 2012.
LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, edited by Megan E. Springate, 2016
This exhibit features LGBTQ America, a theme study that the National Park Foundation and National Park Service (NPS) published in 2016; the NPS deleted the report from its website in 2025. The exhibit also includes The Pride Guide, an associated workbook published by the NPS in 2019, and a statement by LGBTQ historians who have done work with the NPS.
LGBTQ Controversies at the University of Iowa in the 1990s, by Mickey Eliason
Excerpts of a forthcoming memoir, Airing the Dirty Laundry: Queer in the Academy, by a former faculty member at the University of Iowa. Published originally by OutHistory in 2023.
LGBTQ Life in Iowa City, Iowa, 1967-2010
Timeline of the evolution of LGBTQ life in Iowa City, with photographs and documents. First published on OutHistory in 2013.
LGBTQ Life in Watauga County, North Carolina, 1969-2009, by Kathryn Staley
This exhibit is adapted from Staley, Kathryn. “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Life at Appalachian State University.” Master’s Thesis, Appalachian State University, 2009.
LGBTQ+ People Have Been Here Before: The Power of Our History, by Marc Stein and the OutHistory Advisory Board
This essay responds to new efforts to censor, distort, erase, and falsify LGBTQ+ (and especially trans and queer) history in 2025 and 2026. The bibliography that follows, updated with recommendations from Gerard Koskovich, compiles government directives, media coverage, and organizational responses. Published originally on OutHistory in 2025; updated in 2026.
Lillian Winters Lived as Man in St. Louis, 1900-1909, by Jonathan Ned Katz
First published on OutHistory in 2020.
Looking Out of the Frame: Camelot’s Gay Court, 1933-1963, by Claire Bond Potter
President John F. Kennedy was famous for his vivid, and some might say almost compulsive, heterosexuality. But straight men can have a gay side, and JFK’s life was filled with prominent gay men. First published on OutHistory in 2013.
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965): A Museum Show and Opening the Archive, by Kaitlyn Greenidge and Kevin Mumford
An exhibit on the queer intersectionality of African American writer Lorraine Hansberry, focusing on a 2013-2014 museum exhibit, an overview of Hansberry's life and work, and copies of Hansberry's correspondence with The Ladder.
Lorraine Hansberry: An Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain by Judith Smith
An interview with a documentary filmmaker who received a National Endowement for the Humanities grant in support of the first full-length documentary feature on Lorraine Hansberry. The interview was conducted by a consulting humanities scholar on the Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project team.
Lucien Price: Homosexual Emancipation Pioneer (1883-1964), by Jonathan Ned Katz
An introduction to Junius Lucien Price, whose series of novels, All Souls, make him a pioneering homosexual author and resistor. Born in Kent, Ohio, Price attended Harvard University, worked as a journalist in Greater Boston, and began writing gay-themed novels in 1919.
Ma Rainey's "Prove It On Me Blues," 1928, by Jonathan Ned Katz
An introduction to Gertrude "Ma" Rainey's resistance anthem. First published by OutHistory in 2014.