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December 2023

 

Dear OutHistory Friends and Fans,

 

            What a year it has been! Thanks to our many content and financial contributors, OutHistory continues to grow and develop. As we conclude our first year under new leadership (with the ongoing and generous support of founder Jonathan Ned Katz), we are reflecting on what we have accomplished and thinking ahead to next year.

 

         Please signal your support by making a tax-deductible donation by year’s end (Tax I.D. Number: 13-2612524)!

 

            What did your contributions support in 2023?

 

--We introduced sixteen new and updated exhibits on diverse aspects of LGBTQ history, all highlighted on our homepage!

 

--We reorganized our homepage so that all of our exhibits can be more easily found. We also tagged more than 200 of our exhibits, making them easier to search by subject, period, place, and name!

 

--We posted hundreds of times on our organizational Facebook page, our public Facebook forum, and X/Twitter, highlighting exhibits that merit attention during Black History Month, Women’s History Month, International Day of Transgender Visibility, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Jewish American Heritage Month, LGBTQ+ Pride Month, Latinx Heritage Month, LGBTQ+ History Month, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Transgender Day of Remembrance, and more!

 

--We added more than 20 historical works to OutHistory’s bookshelf and more than 40 birthdays to our This Week in History feature!

 

--We created a fabulous 20-person board of advisors, filled with experts on history, culture, politics, archives, libraries, and non-profit management.

 

            As for next year, we plan the following new initiatives:

 

--We will publish more exhibits, add more books, showcase more birthdays, and expand our social media presence. This will include recovering more than twenty previously-released exhibits that were on our previous platform but never were migrated to the current one.

 

--We are launching the OutHistory Fellowship Program, offering four $1500 awards for content contributors working on under-represented topics. If our current fundraising drive is successful, we anticipate offering more fellowships and higher stipends in the future.

 

--We will start publishing an OutHistory newsletter to provide more regular updates on our work, reach new audiences, and express appreciation to our contributors.

 

--We are collaborating with academic and community-based partners to support OutHistory public history internships and student projects.

 

--We will begin the process of improving the visual accessibility of OutHistory exhibits (in alignment with the Americans with Disabilities Act).

 

            Online donations are now welcome (Tax I.D. Number: 13-2612524).

 

You also can send checks made out to “Fund for the City of New York” (please write OutHistory in the memo line) to: Fund for the City of New York, Attn: OutHistory, 121 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013.

 

            We appreciate each and every contribution, no matter how small, though we encourage you to be as generous as possible.

 

            Thank you for supporting LGBTQ+ public history!

 

            Marc Stein

            OutHistory Director

 

OutHistory Advisory Board:

 

Daniel Bao – GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco)

Elspeth Brown – University of Toronto and The Arquives

Julio Capó Jr. – Florida International University and the Stonewall National Museum & Archives

Josh Cerretti – Western Washington University

Rachel Corbman – University of Toronto and Lesbian Herstory Archives

Thomas Glave – State University of New York at Binghamton and Writing West Midlands (UK)

Emily K. Hobson – University of Nevada, Reno

Channing Gerard Joseph – Princeton University

Jonathan Ned Katz – OutHistory founder and founding director

Tamara de Szegheo Lang – Queen’s University (Ontario)

Víctor M. Macías-González – University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

Jen Manion – Amherst College

Juan Carlos Mezo-González – University of Toronto

Sage Milo – Book Shelf Editor

La Shonda Mims – Middle Tennessee State University

Jorge Olivares – Colby College

Joseph Plaster – Johns Hopkins University

Claire Potter – The New School for Social Research and Public Seminar

Nayan Shah – University of Southern California

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu – University of California, Irvine