Minstrel Show: Howard and Griffin

Life in Philadelphia (Unnumbered)

Life in Philadelphia, No. 12

Life in Philadelphia, No. 11

Clay: Life in Philadelphia

Jen Manion: “Prison Sex and Solitary Confinement”

On the publication of Jen Manion’s book Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, October 7, 2015), OutHistory is featuring an original essay by Manion. It discusses how sex between men in early…

AB Second Largest Minority

Gittings Speaking

Gittings Protesting

Marc Stein: Dewey's Sit-in, Philadelphia, April 25, 1965

In 1965 Drum magazine called it “the first sit-in of its kind in the history of the United States.” To honor the fiftieth anniversary of this major act of LGBT resistance, historian Marc Stein presents contemporary reports of the sit-in at Dewey’s…