Discovering a Trove of Magnus Hirschfeld Documents, 2009-2012, by Donald W. McLeod

An exhibit on the discovery of documents related to the life and times of German Jewish sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935). Published originally on OutHistory in 2020.

COVID Quarantine Meditation, May 13, 2020, by Anne Balay

Professor, trucker, and union organizer Anne Balay reflects on Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (2020) in an original OutHistory feature.

Comrades and Lovers, A Documentary Play, by Jonathan Ned Katz

A theater piece, first performed in 1989-1992 and authored by OutHistory's founder, about love between men in the life of Walt Whitman, adapted from the words of Whitman, John Addington Symonds, and others, condensed from their letters, diaries,…

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and "The Female World of Love and Ritual," A 2021 Interview by Matthew Hauptman

An interview with the author of a groundbreaking 1975 essay on lesbian history.

Blue-Collar Queers: An Introduction to Steel Closets, 2014, by Anne Balay

Anne Balay tells OutHistory about her book Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers, which is based on interviews with LGBT steelworkers in northwestern Indiana about their experiences of class, gender, and sexual identity…

Atlanta Since Stonewall, 1969-2009, by Wesley Chenault

Atlanta Since Stonewall, 1969-2009: A Local History brings to life a segment of the city’s LGBTQ past, highlighting nationally recognized and little-known personalities, places, and events. Through photographs, printed materials, ephemera, and links…

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.…

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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

[ID: The cover of Stranger Intimacy: Constructing Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West by Nayan Shah. The cover is a monochrome photograph of an Asian man with dark skin and a head covering with a long, white beard. He wears…

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

[ID: The cover of Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown by Nayan Shah. The cover shows two collaged images atop each other. The foremost image shows a group of tan-skinned Chinese American men and boys in a line. They…

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

[ID: The cover of Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940 by Julio Capó Jr. The top half of the cover is a vivid watercolor illustration of several nude, muscular figures on a sandy beach surrounded by trees. Behind them, in the distance, light…

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.