Hunting Homosexuals at Southern Miss, 1955-1965, by Jonathan Ned Katz, Douglas Bristol, and Andrew Israel Ross

OutHistory presents 92 pages of previously unpublished documents on the hunt for homosexuals, sex “deviates,” and “perverts,” 1955-1965, by the president and deans of Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi),…

Mississippi Southern College

Mississippi Flag

James R. Switzer

William D. McCain

Post Card: Greetings from Hattiesburg Mississippi

[ID: A postcard from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States. Central to the card is the word "Hattiesburg," which is shown in a partially cursive, round bubbly font. Inside of the word is a realistic illustration showing images of different…

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Alma Routsong, Author of "Patience and Sarah" (1967): A 1975 Interview by Jonathan Ned Katz

For Women's History Month in 2016, OutHistory republished an interview by Jonathan Ned Katz with Alma Routsong. On January 20, 1975, the author of Patience and Sarah spoke to Katz about discovering her lesbianism and her development as a…

Radclyffe Hall

Patience and Sarah cover

Kay Tobin Lahusen

Mary Ann Willson color

Alma Routsong

Isabel Miller with flowers

Isabel Miller color

Cover and typography by Edward Gorey. Doubleday Anchor Books, 1957.

Cover of Redburn by Edward Gorey.

Researching Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program, by Douglas M. Charles

OutHistory is pleased to publish an original essay by historian Douglas M. Charles discussing the research for his 2015 book Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program (University Press of Kansas).

Prison Sex and Solitary Confinement in Pennsylvania, 1790-1829, by Jen Manion

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

Jews, Blacks, and Lesbian Teens in the 1940s: Jo Sinclair’s "The Changelings" and “The Long Moment,” by Elly Bulkin

An essay by Elly Bulkin about Jo Sinclair, pen name of Ruth Seid (1913-1995), a working-class Jewish lesbian writer. Sinclair's positive portrayals of 1940s lesbians and norm-breaking teen, her fictional explorations of Jewish identity, and her…

The Black Drag Queens Who Fought Before Stonewall, 1880-1900, by Channing G. Joseph

During Black History Month in 2016, OutHistory presented original research discoveries about parties organized by cross-dressed African American men in Washington, D.C., in the 1880s and 1890s.