Browse material on the OutHistory website by time period.
This exhibit follows up on the recent book Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2024), which covers themes, figures, and events from the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first…
Eve Adams Birthday Bio
Beauford Delaney Birthday Bio
Zora Neale Hurston Birthday Bio
Langston Hughes Birthday Bio
Susan B. Anthony Birthday Bio
Jane Addams Birthday Bio
Augustus Granville Dill Birthday Bio
Esther Lape Birthday Bio
An overview of the life of a man who emigrated from Denmark to the United States in the 1890s in the aftermath of scandalous accusations about his same-sex sexual activities. Published originally by OutHistory in 2009; updated in 2024.
Mary Walker Birthday Bio
Pauli Murray Birthday Bio
Joseph Lobdell Birthday Bio
Jack Garland Birthday Bio
OutHistory presents a timeline chronicling the history of LGBTQ+ people in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, noting the ways that intersectional forces have shaped queer lives. We thank Amy Sueyoshi for getting us started, Nayan Shah…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…