An introduction to more than 1000 LGBT direct action demonstrations and protests in the United States from 1965 to 1975, with an overview report, annotations, bibliographic references, and tags. Published originally by OutHistory and Queer Pasts in…
A resumé and overview of the works of OutHistory's founder, an independent scholar, self-taught historian and visual artist.
In 1976, Jonathan Ned Katz published Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., the first comprehensive book of documents on U.S. homosexual history, drawing on primary sources ranging from 1566 to 1972. In 1977, on a publicity tour…
A group effort to identify the birth name of and other information about the pioneering trans author who went by the names Jennie June, Ralph Werther, and Earl Lind in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The exhibit also discusses…
Jim Oleson, the longtime partner of historian John D'Emilio, passed away April 4, 2015. To honor Oleson, OutHistory republished his obituary by Yasmin Nair. Reprinted with permission of the Windy City Times, April 5, 2015. Published originally…
In 2015, OutHistory published this original document discovery, a homophobic 1958 report by the President of Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi) in Hattiesburg. The exhibit includes the memoir of Anne Nunnally, a…
A collection of twenty-three LGBTQ oral histories completed by John D'Emilio in the 1970s.
A biography and obituary of an AIDS activist.
An introduction to a 300-person gay cruise, organized by the Islanders Club of New York, that set sail from Fort Lauderdale in 1974. Published originally by OutHistory in 2020.
Thomas Glave was a student at Bowdoin College when he published what turned out to be an inflamatory essay in the Bowdoin student newspaper, The Bowdoin Orient, on February 19, 1993 (p. 15). OutHistory reprinted that essay with Glave's…
An account of the founding of Google's LGBT employee group in 2004 and an article about the founder and his partner. Published originally on OutHistory in 2019.
This feature presents the following six sections: Eve Adams Chronology; Eve Adams Corrections; Eve Adams Documents; Eve Adams Pictures; Eve Adams Research Suggestions; Eve Adams Teaching Topics and Materials
See also: The Standard Model of the Social-Historical Universe, by Jonathan Ned Katz
A 2023 essay by Sara Slager, a Boston-based researcher who graduated in May 2022 from Simmons University with a BA in Women's and Gender Studies and a double minor in History and Education. In May 2023, she will graduate with a Masters of Arts…
Front-view of the Cambridge Women's Center before the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Movie poster for the 2016 film Left on Pearl, which focuses on the 1970s Bread and Roses building takeover. This event led to the creation of the Cambridge Women's Center.
The original cover of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves.
An excerpt of Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (T.Y. Crowell, 1976), 129-34, along with a bibliography and sample document.
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.