An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton

[ID: The cover of An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton by Nicholas L. Syrett. The cover shows a collage of black and white images, some overlaid with a cool green, with text interspersed between them. The photographs and…

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life

[ID: The cover of In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life by Regina Kunzel. The cover shows the title text in an all capital black sans serif font. Drawn in graphite, the words cast a shadow over the rest of the book cover. The…

Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality

[ID: The cover of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality by Regina Kunzel. The background of the cover is a high contrast black and white photograph of two men in an otherwise dark area walking toward the light…

Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice

[ID: The cover of Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice by Stathis G. Yeros. The background is a collage-like illustration of faces, bodies, and symbols, such as heart and planetary signs. The illustrations are rendered in…

Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (2nd edition)

[ID: The cover of Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, Second Edition, edited by Leila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman. The top half of the cover has the title, subtitle, editor credits, and edition number…

Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex

[ID: The cover of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, Second Edition by Elizabeth Reis. The background of the cover shows the bare back of a person with light brown skin. All of the text is oriented on the right side of the person's…

Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism

[ID: The cover of Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism by Susanna Krivulskaya. The cover depicts an illustration of a white man with short, white hair and priest attire holding a Bible. He has a halo above his head and is…

Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights (2nd edition)

[ID: The cover of Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights by Eric Marcus. The top section of the cover is a light gray with the title and subtitle text placed in a dark gray box with a thin inner and outer border.…

Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 (1st Edition)

[ID: The cover of Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990, An Oral History by Eric Marcus. The background of the cover is black and there is a thin white line bordering text in the center of the cover. The title sits…

Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

[ID: The cover of Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth Century Paris by Andrew Israel Ross. The cover depicts an illustration of a crowd of white men in black formal attire, all wearing top hats. In the…

Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion

[ID: The cover of Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion edited by Charles H. Ford and Jeffrey L. Littlejohn. The cover depicts a detailed map of Virginia overlaid with a very light rainbow gradient, where the red starts in the bottom left…

Justice Weekly and Homophile Publishing in Toronto, 1953–1972, by Donald W. McLeod

An examination of the Toronto tabloid Justice Weekly as a source of queer-positive articles, mostly reprinted from the U.S. homophile press, in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. Published originally by OutHistory in November 2025.

Elver Barker and Mattachine Denver: A 2002 Interview, by Peter Boag

This exhibit features a 2002 oral history interview of Denver Mattachine activist Elver Barker by historian Peter Boag. It also includes a transcript of the Sixth Annual Convention of the Mattachine Society, which took place in Denver in 1959.…

Photograph of Denver, tram, c. 1940-1950

Photograph of Denver skyline, c. 1940-1950

Photograph of Colorado State Capitol in Denver, 1959

Cover of 1959 Mattachine Denver newsletter

Cover of the November 1957 issue of the Mattachine Society Denver Area Newspaper.

Photograph of the Gay Activists Alliance marching in the second annual Christopher Street Liberation Day March in New York City in 1971.

Gay Activists Alliance marching in the second annual Christopher Street Liberation Day March in New York City in 1971. Courtesy of the Leonard Fink Photography Collection, the LGBT Community Center National History Archives.

Portrait of Elver Barker painting