Arthur Kingsley Porter, 1883-1933, by Andrew Houchens

This exhibit addresses the homosexuality of Arthur Kingsley Porter, who chaired Harvard University's Art History Department. An earlier profile of Porter, authored by Jonathan Ned Katz, was published by OutHistory in 2021 and revised in 2024.…

Elmwood

FAIR Act

Angela Calomiris (1916-1995): A Spy in the Lesbian Herstory Archives, by Lisa E. Davis

An introduction to and overview of the story of Angela Calomiris, a working-class lesbian who was a key informant for the FBI in the 1940s against the Communist Party.

An 18th Century Transsexual, 1788, by Clair Kronk

A brief introduction to an 18th century medical account of a trans person in a Paris hospital.

"Where Perversion Is Taught": The Untold History of a Gay Rights Demonstration at Bucks County Community College, May 9, 1968, by Marc Stein

An exhibit on a 1968 student protest at Bucks County Community College after the college president cancelled an event featuring Mattachine Society New York leader Richard Leitsch. Published originally on OutHistory in 2021.

"An Understanding...Held Them Together": John Sterling and James Bloss, 1870-1918, by Jonathan Ned Katz

In 1864, John William Sterling graduated from Yale College. About 1870, in his mid-twenties, Sterling met James Orville Bloss, who was three years younger. The two formed a relationship of almost 50 years, and lived together in New York City for most…

Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: Queer Women in the Urban South

[ID: a book cover of La Shonda Mims’s Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: Queer Women in the Urban South. All of the words of the title are in capital letters. The title is depicted in a typewriter font, and all of the title words are in black,…

Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the American West

Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown

Work! A Queer History of Modeling

[ID: a book cover of Elspeth H. Brown’s Work! A Queer History of Modeling. All of the text is depicted at the top of the cover, with the subtitle and author’s name appearing in a small, black, serif font on the right. To the left of that, in italics,…

Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left

[ID: a book cover of Emily K. Hobson’s Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. The background of the cover is warm lavender. Most of the cover is taken up by a cut-off five-point star with a thick red outline. Inside…

Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940

Katz, Christiana, pp. 304-305

Katz's analysis of the slave owner Edward Gorsuch and ex-slave William Parker, major participants in the fugitive slave resistance, Christiana, PA, Sept. 11, 1851. From Katz's book Resistance at Christiana.

Katz, Christiana, pp. 302-303

Katz, Christiana, pp. 300-301

A Brief History of GAY: Canada's First Gay Tabloid, 1964-1966

Challenging the Conspiracy of Silence: My Life as a Canadian Gay Activist

Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964-1975

Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964-1975