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New and Updated Projects in 2026
Confronting Erasure, Rejecting Visibility, and Demanding to Be Seen: Transmasculine Stories from U.S. Archives, 1940-1975, by Sam Brooks
The Pink and the Blue: Lesbian and Gay Life at Yale and in Connecticut, 1642-2004, by Jonathan Ned Katz
The Power and Difficulty of Coalition Work: A History of Seattle’s Freedom Day Committee, 1975-2000, by Chris Smith
Lesbian Mothers Oral History Project, 2023-2026, by Nancy Lee Marquis
Out and Elected in the USA: 1974-2000, by Ron Schlittler
LGBTQ+ American History before 1830, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Celebrating Gay American History at Fifty, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Queering the Bicentennial: Patriots, Protesters, Pornographers, and Profiteers in the 1970s, by Marc Stein
OutHistory Highlights
This exhibit traces the development of the “Sapho 1900” phenomenon in Paris to three lesbians who came of age in the United States: the performance artist Eva Palmer and the poets Natalie Barney and…
This exhibit reproduces a presentation by University of Minnesota architectural historian Gail Dubrow at the January 2026 American Historical Association annual convention in Chicago. Published…
An exhibit on the criminalization and medicalization of same-sex attraction and gender diversity through nine inmate stories from the Idaho State Penitentiary in Boise, Idaho. Published originally on…
A conversation with Tina Aguirre, Gerard Koskovich, and Jen Reck discussing their 2026 booklet "The Castro: The Story of San Francisco's Best-Known LGBTQ+ Neighborhood" and the legacies of LGBTQ+…
The transcript of a panel discussion about the world of LGBTQ+ rare books held at the San Francisco Antiquarian Book Fair on Saturday, February 28, 2026, and co-sponsored by the GLBT Historical…
This exhibit shares stories of two of the extraordinary Black women who powered the largest upsurge in union organizing in U.S. history. Moranda Smith and Viola Brown organized a union that inspired…
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Check out our recent fundraising letter. Support OutHistory by donating online or sending a check made out to OutHistory and mailed to OutHistory, P.O. Box 14336, San Francisco, CA 94114. Donations are tax-deductible (tax identification number 41-3750354).
New and Updated Projects in 2026
Confronting Erasure, Rejecting Visibility, and Demanding to Be Seen: Transmasculine Stories from U.S. Archives, 1940-1975, by Sam Brooks
The Pink and the Blue: Lesbian and Gay Life at Yale and in Connecticut, 1642-2004, by Jonathan Ned Katz
The Power and Difficulty of Coalition Work: A History of Seattle’s Freedom Day Committee, 1975-2000, by Chris Smith
Lesbian Mothers Oral History Project, 2023-2026, by Nancy Lee Marquis
Out and Elected in the USA: 1974-2000, by Ron Schlittler
LGBTQ+ American History before 1830, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Celebrating Gay American History at Fifty, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Queering the Bicentennial: Patriots, Protesters, Pornographers, and Profiteers in the 1970s, by Marc Stein
