John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds Birthday Bio

Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Birthday Bio

Willi Ninja

Willi Ninja Birthday Bio

Brandon Teena

Brandon Teena Birthday Bio

The Three Sapphos of 1900: What Bryn Mawr College Can Teach Us about the Icons Who Put Lesbian Culture on the Map, by Suzanne Stroh and Samantha Pious

This exhibit traces the development of the “Sapho 1900” phenomenon in Paris to three lesbians who came of age in the United States: the performance artist Eva Palmer and the poets Natalie Barney and Renée Vivien. At Bryn Mawr College, they clashed…

Gil Cuadros

Gil Cuadros Birthday Bio

Miguel Algarín

Miguel Algarín Birthday Bio

Red Scare, Lavender Song: Moranda Smith, Viola Brown, and Civil Rights Unions, 1943-1969, by Annabelle Heckler

This exhibit shares stories of two of the extraordinary Black women who powered the largest upsurge in union organizing in U.S. history. Moranda Smith and Viola Brown organized a union that inspired workers across the South, dreamed beyond workplace…

Ordinary and Extraordinary: The Many Social Transitions of Rollin Kedzie Morgan (1880–1966), by Elizabeth A. Allen

This biographical exhibit traces the life of Rollin Morgan, a white, white-collar trans man with ties to southern Vermont whose race, socioeconomic class, and rurality shaped his social transitions from 1901 to 1910. Published originally on…

Judith Teixeira (1880–1959): A Bisexual Woman Poet of the Roaring Twenties, by Samantha Pious

A biographical exhibit on Judith Teixeira, the earliest known bisexual woman poet of modern Portugal. Teixeira was the lover of Olga de Moraes Sarmento, the feminist writer and editor who eventually became the life-partner of the pioneering motorist…

Searching for Men “of the Right Sort”: The Letters of Harold W. Curtis to Henry Blake Fuller, 1897–1898, by Donald W. McLeod

This exhibit explores the letters of Toronto-based British student Harold W. Curtis to U.S. gay writer Henry Blake Fuller, which included comments about queer life in several Canadian cities in the 1890s. Published originally on OutHistory in…

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.…

Leona Huntzinger

Leona Huntzinger Birthday Bio

(Annie) Elizabeth Hopkinson

(Annie) Elizabeth Hopkinson Birthday Bio

Mary Powell Burrill

Mary Powell Burrill Birthday Bio

Lucy Diggs Slowe

Lucy Diggs Slowe Birthday Bio

Alice (Ruth Moore) Dunbar Nelson

Alice (Ruth Moore) Dunbar Nelson Birthday Bio

Margaret Chung

Margaret Chung Birthday Bio

Viola Belle Squire

Annie Rensselaer Tinker

Annie Rensselaer Tinker Birthday Bio