U.S. Sodomy Prosecutions

Americans in Württemberg Scandal, 1888, by Jonathan Ned Katz

This four-part entry, based on Jonathan Ned Katz's original research, details a scandal that erupted in Württemberg, Germany, in 1888, involving its king and three American men, Richard Mason Jackson, Charles Woodcock, and Donald Hendry. This…

A Lady in Waiting

Hepworth 1892

Hepworth 1877

Hepworth 1862

Hepworth 1858

Queen Olga

Richard M. Jackson

Ludwig

King Karl

Johnstone Bennett Dead

Berkeley Daily Gazette

Jimmie Paulette Book Version

The Subject Speaks: An Interview with Jimmy Paul, by Svetlana Kitto

The subject of a famous Nan Goldin photograph, Jimmy Paul, speaks about his life, and about encountering an inaccurate caption on that photograph in a major queer history art show. Published originally on OutHistory in 2015.

Mary Casal, pseudonym of Ruth Fuller Field (1864-1935): The 1930 Autobiography of an American Lesbian, by Jonathan Ned Katz

The Stone Wall, the autobiography of Ruth Fuller Field, was published under the name "Mary Casal" in Chicago in 1930. The text presents the extraordinarily frank sexual and affectional life history of an American lesbian. OutHistory…

AB Second Largest Minority

Gittings Early Sixties

Gittings at Chalkboard

Gittings Washington Square