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Red Scare, Lavender Song: Moranda Smith, Viola Brown, and Civil Rights Unions, 1943-1969, by Annabelle Heckler
This exhibit shares stories of two of the extraordinary Black women who powered the largest upsurge in union organizing in U.S. history. Moranda Smith and Viola Brown organized a union that inspired workers across the South, dreamed beyond workplace…
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Ordinary and Extraordinary: The Many Social Transitions of Rollin Kedzie Morgan (1880–1966), by Elizabeth A. Allen
This biographical exhibit traces the life of Rollin Morgan, a white, white-collar trans man with ties to southern Vermont whose race, socioeconomic class, and rurality shaped his social transitions from 1901 to 1910. Published originally on…
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The Lesbian Switchboard of New York City, 1972-1997, by Hannah Leffingwell
This exhibit focuses on the Lesbian Switchboard of New York City, a grassroots informational referral and peer counseling hotline staffed by lesbian volunteers from 1972 to 1997. The exhibit highlights the role of the Switchboard in local women’s…
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Building Queer New Worlds: The Emergence of Queer Ethnoracial Literary Anthologies, 1982-2024, by Corey D. Clawson
This exhibit introduces a set of groundbreaking queer ethnoracial literary anthologies that were published in the United States in and beyond the 1980s. Published originally on OutHistory in January 2026.
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Queer Galleries and Art Spaces in the East Village, 1980-1994, by Jenny Mohan
This exhibit introduces queer galleries and performance spaces in New York City's East Village from 1980 to 1994. Published originally on OutHistory in June 2025.
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Mary Powell Burrill
Mary Powell Burrill Birthday Bio
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Lucy Diggs Slowe
Lucy Diggs Slowe Birthday Bio
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Annie Rensselaer Tinker
Annie Rensselaer Tinker Birthday Bio
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Gail Laughlin
Gail Laughlin Birthday Bio
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LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, edited by Megan E. Springate, 2016
This exhibit features LGBTQ America, a theme study that the National Park Foundation and National Park Service (NPS) published in 2016; the NPS deleted the report from its website in 2025. The exhibit also includes The Pride Guide, an associated…
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The Queer History of Women's Suffrage: Scholarship and Censorship in 2025, by Wendy Rouse
This exhibit features Wendy Rouse's "The Very Queer History of the Suffrage Movement," which the National Park Service published in 2020 but altered and then deleted in 2025. The exhibit includes an introduction by Rouse and copies of…
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Disabled Gay and Lesbian Activists in the Homophile Movement, 1930s-1980s, by Moira Armstrong
A collection of biographies of disabled gay and lesbian activists in the homophile movement. Published originally on OutHistory in October 2024.
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Charles Silverstein
Charles Silverstein
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Curtis Chin
Curtis Chin Birthday Bio
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Eve Adams
Eve Adams Birthday Bio
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Urvashi Vaid
Urvashi Vaid Birthday Bio
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Beauford Delaney
Beauford Delaney Birthday Bio
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston Birthday Bio
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Birthday Bio
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Augustus Granville Dill
Augustus Granville Dill Birthday Bio