Alice (Ruth Moore) Dunbar Nelson Birthday Bio
Two historians, Jonathan Ned Katz and Tavia Nyong’o, present and analyze the story and visual depiction of Peter Sewally/Mary Jones, a Black transgender person in New York City, in 1836. First published on OutHistory in 2017.
Reed Erickson used the wealth which his class privilege provided to support public education and activism about transgender lives and issues at a time when very little public attention was focused on the topic. Ada Bello, who wrote this account of…
A survey, through black and white portraits and informational texts, of many pioneering openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people elected to public office in the United States beginning in the 1970s. Published originally on OutHistory in…