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Timeline: Working-Class LGBTQ+ U.S. History, 1836-2020
This chronology on U.S. LGBTQ+ working-class history has been created with the help of Miriam Frank's book Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014), with the permission of the author.…
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Bars and the Queer Economy, 2017, by Jeffrey Escoffier and Christopher Mitchel
Writing about queer bars and drag culture in the 1972 classic Mother Camp, Esther Newton observed that queer communities had “an economics but no economy.” In this exhibit, Jeffrey Escoffier and Christopher Mitchell address the economics of gay bars…
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"Sunshine, this is Mr. Horowitz": The Flame, the Gay Bar of Ann Arbor, MI, 1949-1998, by Rostom Mesli and Brian Whitener
An exhibit on the history of The Flame, a gay bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Published originally on OutHistory in 2013.
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Chicago Stories, 2008, by John D'Emilio
A series of articles by John D'Emilio written for the Windy City Times about Chicago's gay history and his own career as an historian of sexuality. Published on OutHistory February 5, 2013.
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Lesbians in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1999, by Esther Newton and Her Students
"Lesbians in the Twentieth Century" was created by Professor Esther Newton and the graduate and undergraduate students in the seminar on "Lesbian History" that she taught in fall of 2006 at the University of Michigan. Newton and…
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Out and Elected in the USA: 1974-2004, by Ron Schlittler
A survey, through black and white portraits and texts, of many pioneering openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender individuals elected to public office in the United States beginning in the 1970s. For information on a touring exhibit version of…