Curtis Chin at Book Signing, 2023.

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant book cover, 2023.

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant book cover, 2023.

Curtis Chin

Curtis Chin photograph by Michelle Li/Studio Plum Photography.

Sex Variants Title Page

Henry, Sex Variants (book spine)

Jan Gay, movie This Nude World

Jan Gay, On Going Naked (book )

Jan Gay and Zhenya PHOTO

Amber Hollibaugh

Amber Hollibaugh Birthday Bio

Allan Bérubé

Allan Bérubé Birthday Bio

Gene Pearson

Gene Pearson Birthday Bio

Magnus Hirschfeld

Magnus Hirschfeld Birthday Bio

Henry Gerber

Henry Gerber Birthday Bio

James (Jim) Egan

James (Jim) Egan Birthday Bio

Urvashi Vaid: The Vassar and Boston Years, 1975-83, by Marc Stein

This exhibit focuses on Urvashi Vaid (1958-2022), a leading LGBTQ activist of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The exhibit includes three components: a roundtable interview featuring three friends of Urvashi’s from her years at…

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.

Urvashi Vaid, Amy Hoffman, Richard Burns, Cindy Patton, and Eric Rofes (top); Tom Huth and Kevin Cathcart (bottom), Boston, MA, c. 1983.

Urvashi Vaid, Amy Hoffman, Richard Burns, Cindy Patton, and Eric Rofes (top); Tom Huth and Kevin Cathcart (bottom), Boston, MA, c. 1983. Courtesy of Richard Burns.

Urvashi Vaid and Richard Burns, Boston, MA, c. 1983.

Urvashi Vaid and Richard Burns, Boston, MA, c. 1983. Courtesy of Richard Burns.

Urvashi Vaid, Tim McFeeley, Kevin Cathcart, Eric Rofes, and Richard Burns, Herring Cove Beach, Provincetown, MA, c. 1983.

Urvashi Vaid, Tim McFeeley, Kevin Cathcart, Eric Rofes, and Richard Burns, Herring Cove Beach, Provincetown, MA, c. 1983. Courtesy of Richard Burns.

Jade McGleughlin (bottom), Urvashi Vaid (middle left), Richard Burns (top), and Sue Hyde (middle right) in Boston, MA, c. 1983.

Jade McGleughlin (bottom), Urvashi Vaid (middle left), Richard Burns (top), and Sue Hyde (middle right) in Boston, MA, c. 1983. Courtesy of Richard Burns.