A historical account of the campaign for a transgender rights law in New York City that occurred from 2000 to 2002. This exhibit was created by Pauline Park, co-chair and co-founder of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA). This exhibit builds on Pauline Park, "The Making of a Movement: The Story of the Successful Campaign for a Transgender Rights Law in New York City," the 8th Annual Mark E. Ouderkirk Lecture, The Museum of the City of New York, June 27, 2002. Copyright (c) 2008 by Pauline Park. All rights reserved. Published originally on OutHistory in February 2013.

This is a 90-minute illustrated talk narrated by Allan Bérubé (1946-2007) on the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union. Introduced by historians John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman, the talk tells the surprising and inspiring story of how ship stewards and other workers on luxury cruise liners banded together and overcame racial, sexual, and other divisions to create a militant union in the 1930s. First published by OutHistory in 2016.

A gay teacher, born in 1959, recalls the bullying he suffered as a child, and how he came through it.

A survey, through black and white portraits and informational texts, of many pioneering openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people elected to public office in the United States beginning in the 1970s. Published originally on OutHistory in 2008, updated in August 2026. For information on a touring exhibit version of the collection, contact Ron Schlittler at rlschlittler@verizon.net.

In June 1980, OutHistory founder Jonathan Ned Katz wrote to Patricia Highsmith, asking her about her book The Price of Salt (1952), perhaps the first novel about lesbians that ended happily. This exhibit, first published on OutHistory in 2019, reproduces Katz's letter and Highsmith's reply.

Transcripts of interviews on Philadelphia LGBT history from the 1940s to the 1970s, along with an introduction by the interviewer, who completed much of this work as part of his Ph.D. dissertation research at the University of Pennsylvania. The interviews are discussed in City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 (University of Chicago Press, 2000). First published on OutHistory in 2009; last update May 29, 2025.

Historian Marcia Gallo recalls the life of early lesbian activist Phyllis Lyon. In 1955, Lyon co-founded Daughters of Bilitis, the first national lesbian organization in the United States. First published on OutHistory in 2020.

A collection of John Ibson's images of African American men with other men that appear in his 2002 book, Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography. First published on OutHistory in 2015.

Polk Street’s history through the lens of neighborhood change in the early twenty-first century. Polk Street was San Francisco’s premier gay male center in the 1960s and 1970s. First published on OutHistory in 2010.

On the publication of Jen Manion’s book Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), OutHistory featured an original essay by Manion. It discusses how sex between men in early Philadelphia prisons was used as a rationale for solitary confinement.