Adams Cover

Eve Adams biography

Prince Studio

Peter Sewally/Mary Jones, June 11, 1836

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.

Henry Robinson

Jewett

Greene Street map

Mary Jones Lithograph

Queering the Economy: Stories from Queer Economic History

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…

Christopher Michael Elias: Sexuality and the Modern American Gossip Magazine

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…

The Universities and the Gay Experience