Allan Bérubé Birthday Bio
Gene Pearson Birthday Bio
Magnus Hirschfeld Birthday Bio
Henry Gerber Birthday Bio
James (Jim) Egan Birthday Bio
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…
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. Courtesy of Richard Burns.
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. Courtesy of Richard Burns.
Jade McGleughlin (bottom), Urvashi Vaid (middle left), Richard Burns (top), and Sue Hyde (middle right) in Boston, MA, c. 1983. Courtesy of Richard Burns.
Gay Community News 10th Anniversary Celebration, Boston, MA, 1983. Courtesy of Richard Burns.
Urvashi Vaid, Joyce Netke, Leslie Hiebert, and Catherine Hanssens in Boston, May 1983, courtesy of Catherine Hanssens
Mickey Eliason, Iowa Magazine, Feb. 2002.
[ID: The cover of The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet by Avery Dame-Griff. The cover depicts a Windows 99-style screen with two windows open and two file folder icons and a trash icon in the background. The title is situated in…
[ID: The cover of Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness & Homosexuality After World War II by Jennifer Dominique Jones. The background of the cover is completely black. In the foreground, a black and white photograph of a Black…
Northeastern University School of Law Class of 1983, including Urvashi Vaid, Boston, MA, 1983. Courtesy of Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections.
Amy Hoffman, Richard Burns, and Urvashi Vaid with Gay Community News Banner at U.S. Out of El Salvador Rally at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., May 1981. Courtesy of the Bromfield Street Educational Foundation records at Northeastern University…
Gay Community News Staff and Volunteers, including Urvashi Vaid, c. 1983. Courtesy of the Bromfield Street Educational Foundation records at Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections.
Cindy Patton, Amy Hoffman, Richard Burns, Harry Seng, and Neil Miller at Gay Community News 10th Anniversary Celebration, 1983. Photograph by Marie Favorito. Courtesy of the Bromfield Street Educational Foundation records at Northeastern University…