Time Period
Browse material on the OutHistory website by time period.
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Timeline: Terminology (Fairy and Light in the Loafers), 1892-1993
This timeline is a collaborative work-in-progress that has had many contributors over a long period of time. Some of the language used and concepts referenced, influenced by colonialism, imperialism, racism, sexism, and anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs and…
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Timeline: The History of Sexuality and Gender History, 1811-1983
A chronological list of research on the history of sexuality and gender with a focus on the United States and England. This timeline is a collaborative work-in-progress. Some of the language used and concepts referenced, influenced by colonialism,…
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Timeline: Transgender History
This timeline is a collaborative work-in-progress that has had many contributors over a long period of time. Some of the language used and concepts referenced, influenced by colonialism, imperialism, racism, sexism, and anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs and…
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Timeline: Transgender U.S. History, 1528-2020
This timeline is a collaborative work-in-progress that has had many contributors over a long period of time. Some of the language used and concepts referenced, influenced by colonialism, imperialism, racism, sexism, and anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs and…
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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…
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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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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.
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Transmasculine People in the U.S. Press, 1876-1939, by Emily Skidmore, with Marissa Brameyer
An introduction to approximately sixty individuals who were assigned female at birth and lived as men from the 1870s to the 1930s in the United States. Published originally on OutHistory in 2022 and updated in 2023.
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Lucien Price: Homosexual Emancipation Pioneer (1883-1964), by Jonathan Ned Katz
An introduction to Junius Lucien Price, whose series of novels, All Souls, make him a pioneering homosexual author and resistor. Born in Kent, Ohio, Price attended Harvard University, worked as a journalist in Greater Boston, and began writing…
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Lillian Winters Lived as Man in St. Louis, 1900-1909, by Jonathan Ned Katz
First published on OutHistory in 2020.
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Eve Adams Archive, by Jonathan Ned Katz
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
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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.
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Discovering a Trove of Magnus Hirschfeld Documents, 2009-2012, by Donald W. McLeod
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.
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Arthur Kingsley Porter, 1883-1933
This exhibit introduces Arthur Kingsley Porter, an American archaeologist, art historian and medievalist who chaired Harvard University's Art History Department.
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"An Understanding...Held Them Together": John Sterling and James Bloss, 1870-1918, by Jonathan Ned Katz
In 1864, John William Sterling graduated from Yale College. About 1870, in his mid-twenties, Sterling met James Orville Bloss, who was three years younger. The two formed a relationship of almost 50 years, and lived together in New York City for most…
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Gene Pearson: The Canadian Nightingale, 1899-1932, by Donald W. McLeod
An exhibit on the rediscovery of female impersonator and singer Gene Pearson. Published originally on OutHistory in 2020.
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Sexuality and the Modern American Gossip Magazine, 1879-1950s, by Christopher Michael Elias
The growth of gossip magazines and tabloids during the first half of the twentieth century was partially fueled by the industry's embrace of sensational topics such as murder, violence, crime, and corruption. But no subject seemed to attract…
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Americans in Württemberg Scandal, 1888, by Jonathan Ned Katz
This four-part entry, based on Jonathan Ned Katz's original research, details a scandal that erupted in Württemberg, Germany, in 1888, involving its king and three American men, Richard Mason Jackson, Charles Woodcock, and Donald Hendry. This…
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Mary Casal, pseudonym of Ruth Fuller Field (1864-1935): The 1930 Autobiography of an American Lesbian, by Jonathan Ned Katz
The Stone Wall, the autobiography of Ruth Fuller Field, was published under the name "Mary Casal" in Chicago in 1930. The text presents the extraordinarily frank sexual and affectional life history of an American lesbian. OutHistory…
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Margaret Haig Thomas (1883-1958): Lusitania’s Queer Cargo, by Christianne Anastasia Gadd
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Luisitania on May 7, 1915, OutHistory presented an original research report on one of its fascinating women passengers. First published on OutHistory on May 4, 2015.