Oral Histories
The OutHistory website contains oral histories from the LGBT movement.
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Out and Elected in the USA: 1974-2004, by Ron Schlittler
A survey, through black and white portraits and texts, of many pioneering openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender individuals elected to public office in the United States beginning in the 1970s. For information on a touring exhibit version of…
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Queer Bronzeville, 1900-1985, by Tristan Cabello
The history of African American gays and lesbians on Chicago's South Side. First published on OutHistory in 2012.
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Polk Street History Project, 1950s-2010s, by Joey Plaster
Polk Street’s history through the lens of neighborhood change in the early twenty-first century. Polk Street was San Francisco’s premier gay male center in the 1960s and 1970s. First published on OutHistory in 2012.
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Stonewall Riot Police Reports, June 1969, by Jonathan Ned Katz
To honor the 40th anniversary celebration, in June 2009, of the Stonewall Riots, OutHistory for the first time published nine pages of New York City Police Department records created early on the morning of the rebellion’s starting date, June 28,…
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Philadelphia LGBT History Project, 1940-1980, by Marc Stein
Transcripts of interviews on Philadelphia LGBT history from the 1940s to the 1970s, along with an introduction by the interviewer, who completed much of this work as part of his Ph.D. dissertation research at the University of Pennsylvania. The…