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Curing Psychiatry and Psychology: A 2015 Interview with Charles Silverstein, by Philip Clark

A transcript of a 2015 interview with the author of The Joy of Gay Sex (1977), with comments about the struggle to change the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness in the 1970s. Originally published by OutHistory in 2023.
Sally: A 2023 Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Deborah Craig, by Julie R. Enszer

A 2023 interview about the documentary film-in-progress Sally, which focuses on lesbian feminist author and activist Sally Gearhart.
When Henry Wrote to Jim: The Letters of Henry Gerber to Jim Egan, 1951, by Donald W. McLeod

An essay and primary source exhibit on the 1951 correspondence between Henry Gerber, an early U.S. gay rights leader, and Jim Egan, an early Canadian gay rights advocate. Published originally on OutHistory in 2023.
Timeline: Walt Whitman and Same-Sex Sex Intimacy, 1848-2021

A chronology of references to same-sex desire and sexual activity in the life of Walt Whitman and in the works of Whitman's biographers and critics. This timeline is a collaborative work-in-progress. Some of the language used and concepts…
Who Was Jennie June (1870-1950)?, by Channing Gerard Joseph

An exhibit that describes the work done to identify the author of groundbreaking memoirs from the early 1900s. Originally published on OutHistory in 2022.
The Marlin Beach Affair: From Homosexual "Presence" to Gay "Community," by Fred Fejes

The 1976 controversy over the Marlin Beach, a beachfront hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that openly sought a gay clientele, demonstrates the social, political and media dynamics that shaped the emergence of that community. Published originally on…
Society for Human Rights, 1924, by Jonathan Ned Katz

The original charter for the Society for Human Rights in Chicago, Illinois, with information about its founder, Henry Gerber, republished from Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History (1976).
Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson, 1846-1918, by Jonathan Ned Katz

An essay, originally published in The Advocate in 1989, about U.S. President Grover Cleveland's sister Rose and her partner.
Revolution: American Colonial Settlers Make a New Nation, 1775-1860, Jonathan Ned Katz

Links for exhibits on Alexander Hamilton/John Laurens and Moreau de Saint Méry, along with profiles of Frederick von Steuben and Deborah Sampson, published originally on OutHistory in 2020.
Religion and Homosexuality in the United States, by John D'Emilio and His Students

An essay by historian John D'Emilio "On Teaching Religion and Homosexuality in the U.S.," and six chronologies on religion and homosexuality in the United States. First published on OutHistory in 2014.
Queering African American History: A Bibliography, by Kevin J. Mumford

OutHistory is grateful to historian Kevin J. Mumford for creating this bibliography, and for research assistance he sends special thanks to Olivia Hagedorn, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign. First…
Poems by Jonathan Ned Katz

A series of poems written by OutHistory's founder over many years. Published originally in 2023.
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.
Lillian Winters Lived as Man in St. Louis, 1900-1909, by Jonathan Ned Katz

First published on OutHistory in 2020.
Fraternities, Sex Between Men, The Closet, 1993, by Thomas Glave

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…
Envisioning the World We Make, 2016-2021, by Jonathan Ned Katz

See also: The Standard Model of the Social-Historical Universe, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Doctors Treat LGBTQ+ People: A Troubled History, 1866-2020, by Jonathan Ned Katz

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.
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and "The Female World of Love and Ritual," A 2021 Interview by Matthew Hauptman

An interview with the author of a groundbreaking 1975 essay on lesbian history.
Hunting Homosexuals at Southern Miss, 1955-1965, by Jonathan Ned Katz, Douglas Bristol, and Andrew Israel Ross

OutHistory presents 92 pages of previously unpublished documents on the hunt for homosexuals, sex “deviates,” and “perverts,” 1955-1965, by the president and deans of Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi),…