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Curing Psychiatry and Psychology: A 2015 Interview with Charles Silverstein, by Philip Clark
A transcript of a 2015 interview with the author of The Joy of Gay Sex (1977), with comments about the struggle to change the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness in the 1970s. Originally published by OutHistory in 2023.
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Do You Know Jonathan Ned Katz?: A 2023 Interview with Director Philip Harrison, by Joseph Plaster
A 2023 interview about the documentary film-in-progress Do You Know Jonathan Ned Katz?, which focuses on OutHistory's founder.
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Documenting the Stonewall Riots: A Bibliography of Primary Sources, by Marc Stein
This online resource is a research supplement to Marc Stein, The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (New York: New York University Press, 2019). It provides references for primary documents related to the materials reprinted in The Stonewall…
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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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The Gay Academic Union: The Proceedings of Its First National Conference in New York City, 1973, by John D'Emilio
OutHistory presents the proceedings of the November 25, 1973 Gay Academic Union Conference, with a new introduction by John D'Emilio, who was also a GAU founder. "The Universities and the Gay Experience," this 105-page document,…
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Stepping-Off for the First March, New York City, June 1970, by Fred Sargeant
Remembering the first pride march in New York City. First published on OutHistory in 2019. Updated in 2023.
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Sexuality and Biological Determinism, 1995, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Two 1995 letters to the editor by OutHistory founder Jonathan Ned Katz.
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Queer History of Colleges and Universities
A collection of links to OutHistory projects and other materials on LGBT history in higher education, along with a timeline on Columbia University and a bibliography of sources. First published on OutHistory in 2021.
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Poems by Jonathan Ned Katz
A series of poems written by OutHistory's founder over many years. Published originally in 2023.
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New Preface to Gay American History, 1992, by Jonathan Ned Katz
From the "revised" edition of Gay American History (Meridian/New American Library, a division of Penguin Books, 1992). The only revision was this new preface, written in 1991.
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Neil Derrick (1931-2018), by Edward Field
An introduction, by his long-time partner, to the life and work of a gay writer who specialized in "soft-porn." Born in Visalia, California, raised in Exeter, California, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Derrick…
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My Beloved Friend Carol Joyce (1926-2020), by Jonathan Ned Katz
Forced by the coronavirus pandemic to vacate the safe-house she occupied with her husband, Bob, Carol Joyce moved with him and a beloved cousin, Isabel Soffer, to Soffer’s country home. There, Carol, who had withdrawn in old age into herself, was…
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Adam Badeau (1831-1895): Civil War Officer and Presidential Biographer
This exhibit features notes from an anonymous OutHistory contributor about a Civil War officer and biographer of U.S. President Ulysses Grant.
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Memories of the Revolution: A Home For Wayward Girls, 2016, by Holly Hughes
Excerpted from Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the WOW Cafe Theatre, co-edited by Holly Hughes, Jill S. Dolan, and Carmelita Tropicana (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016).
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Melville's Secret Sex Text: Decoding His 1849 Novel Redburn, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Adapted from an essay about Henry Melville's novel in The Village Voice Literary Supplement, April 1982, pages 10-12. Copyright Jonathan Ned Katz. First published on OutHistory in 2020.
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Jonathan Ned Katz: Resumé
A resumé and overview of the works of OutHistory's founder, an independent scholar, self-taught historian and visual artist.
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Gore Vidal/Jonathan Ned Katz Correspondence, 1982-2001
Transcribed texts of novelist Gore Vidal’s brief and humorous thirteen letters to historian Jonathan Ned Katz, often on the theme of heterosexuality and, sometimes, homosexuality.
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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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Envisioning the World We Make, 2016-2021, by Jonathan Ned Katz
See also: The Standard Model of the Social-Historical Universe, by Jonathan Ned Katz
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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.