Proud to be Working Class and Queer in 2020, by Anne Balay

Pride month opens in 2020 at a moment of crisis for the USA and for its unions.

Poems by Jonathan Ned Katz

A series of poems written by OutHistory's founder over many years. Published originally in 2023.

Phyllis Lyon (1924-2020): Feminist Lesbian Icon, Human and Civil Rights Advocate, Friend, Mentor, by Marcia Gallo

A historian recalls the life of an early lesbian activist. First published on OutHistory in 2020.

Patricia Highsmith/Jonathan Ned Katz Correspondence, 1980

In June 1980, OutHistory founder Jonathan Ned Katz wrote to Patricia Highsmith, asking her about her book The Price of Salt (1952), perhaps the first novel about lesbians that ended happily. This exhibit, first published on OutHistory in 2019,…

New Preface to Gay American History, 1992, by Jonathan Ned Katz

From the "revised" edition of Gay American History (Meridian/New American Library, a division of Penguin Books, 1992). The only revision was this new preface, written in 1991.

Neil Derrick (1931-2018), by Edward Field

An introduction, by his long-time partner, to the life and work of a gay writer who specialized in "soft-porn." Born in Visalia, California, raised in Exeter, California, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Derrick…

My Beloved Friend Carol Joyce (1926-2020), by Jonathan Ned Katz

Forced by the coronavirus pandemic to vacate the safe-house she occupied with her husband, Bob, Carol Joyce moved with him and a beloved cousin, Isabel Soffer, to Soffer’s country home. There, Carol, who had withdrawn in old age into herself, was…

Adam Badeau (1831-1895): Civil War Officer and Presidential Biographer

This exhibit features notes from an anonymous OutHistory contributor about a Civil War officer and biographer of U.S. President Ulysses Grant.

Adam Badeau

Marc Stein, c. 1994

Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental"

Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity

Marc Stein, 2014

Michelle: San Francisco Drag Performer, 1960s and 1970s

Michelle, also known as Mike Michelle, was a popular and well known drag performer during the late 1960s and early 1970s in San Francisco. First published on OutHistory in 2022.

Finocchio Souvenir Magazine (1983)

Memories of the Revolution: A Home For Wayward Girls, 2016, by Holly Hughes

Excerpted from Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the WOW Cafe Theatre, co-edited by Holly Hughes, Jill S. Dolan, and Carmelita Tropicana (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016).

Melville's Secret Sex Text: Decoding His 1849 Novel Redburn, by Jonathan Ned Katz

Adapted from an essay about Henry Melville's novel in The Village Voice Literary Supplement, April 1982, pages 10-12. Copyright Jonathan Ned Katz. First published on OutHistory in 2020.

Lucien Price: Homosexual Emancipation Pioneer (1883-1964), by Jonathan Ned Katz

An introduction to Junius Lucien Price, whose series of novels, All Souls, make him a pioneering homosexual author and resistor. Born in Kent, Ohio, Price attended Harvard University, worked as a journalist in Greater Boston, and began writing…

Lillian Winters Lived as Man in St. Louis, 1900-1909, by Jonathan Ned Katz

First published on OutHistory in 2020.

LGBTQ Life in Watauga County, North Carolina, 1969-2009, by Kathryn Staley

This exhibit is adapted from Staley, Kathryn. “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Life at Appalachian State University.” Master’s Thesis, Appalachian State University, 2009.