Hunter O'Hara, age 11

Hunter O'Hara's Mother and Sister

Complaint Report
Against David Van Ronk by Officer Gilbert Weisman

Complaint Report Against David Van Ronk by Officer Gilbert Weisman Date and Time of Arrest: 2 am, 6/28/69

Stonewall Riot Police Report

Title page: Norma Trist

Title page: Norma Trist

Photo: Carhart (old age)

Photo: Carhart (old age)

Photo: Carhart (middle age)

Photo: Carhart (middle age)

Photo: Carhart (young)

Photo: Carhart (young)

Cover: Norma Trist

Cover: Norma Trist

John Wesley Carhart: “Norma Trist; or Pure Carbon: A Story of the Inversion of the Sexes,” 1895, by Jonathan Ned Katz

This exhibit introduces Carhart's 1895 novel, with a title character who utters the most affirmative defense of genital-orgasmic love relations between women published in English in the nineteenth century.

Documentary Film about Harvey Milk

The Times of Harvey Milk, a documentary film directed by Rob Epstein and produced by Richard Schmiechen, is released. It tells the story of Harvey Milk’s career as an activist and openly gay politician in San Francisco in the 1970s, as well as of…

Ma Rainey's "Prove It On Me Blues," 1928, by Jonathan Ned Katz

An introduction to Gertrude "Ma" Rainey's resistance anthem. First published by OutHistory in 2014.

Gertrude "Ma" Rainey

Close-up of Rainey

Canadian Government Imposes Employment Restrictions

In Cabinet Directive Number 24, the Canadian government adopted the policy that persons with “defects in their character” which may lead to indiscretion or blackmail should be denied employment in any government job that gave access to classified…

German Reichstag Committee Approves Decriminalization

A committee of the Reichstag, the German national legislature, approves a bill to decriminalize homosexual acts between adults in private. But the growing power of the Nazis made it impossible for the bill to be debated by the whole legislature and…

London Gay Liberation Front

The first meeting of what becomes the London Gay Liberation Front is held at the London School of Economics. 19 people attend. Over the next several weeks hundreds come to follow-up meetings in response to flyers distributed in gay locales in the…

Paul Monette

Paul Monette, Writer

James Baldwin and the FBI: "Isn't James Baldwin That Well Known Pervert," 1960-1974, by Douglas Field

An exhibit about the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's surveillance of African American writer and activist James Baldwin in the 1960s and 1970s. First published on OutHistory in 2014.

Allen Bernstein with a friend, writer Alix Kates Shulman, Portland, Maine, July 2001.

[Photo courtesy of Alix Kates Shulman.]

Allen Bernstein's "MILLIONS OF QUEERS (Our Homo America)" [Text Version]