[ID: The cover ofFashioning Sapphism: The Origins of A Modern English Lesbian Culture,by Laura Doan. The cover depicts a black and white photograph of a white woman wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and striped tie; she makes eye contact with the…
[ID: The cover of Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War, by Laura Doan. The background of the cover is dark blue with the silhouette of a plane depicted in a deeper blue in the top right corner. The plane…
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter
Barbara Jordan's autobiography
E. Lynn Harris
Beauford Delaney
Audre Lorde and Frances Clayton
James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
William Blackstone
Havelock Ellis, Sexologist
Langston Hughes, Writer
The Washington Post begins a 5-part series titled “Those Others: A Report on Homosexuality.” It was the most extensive journalistic discussion of gay life to appear in the U.S. press to that point, and included quotations from homophile movement…
A special committee of the U.S. House of Representatives issues a report recommending that military personnel who had served in World War II and who had been discharged dishonorably should have their discharges upgraded to honorable. The committee’s…
Josiah Quincy, Jr. (February 23, 1744 – April 26, 1775)
John Adams (October 30 [O.S. October 19] 1735 – July 4, 1826)
A collection of biographies to celebrate Black History Month, first published on OutHistory on January 23, 2014.
“But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow damned up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and…
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes