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Judith Teixeira (1880–1959): A Bisexual Woman Poet of the Roaring Twenties, by Samantha Pious
A biographical exhibit on Judith Teixeira, the earliest known bisexual woman poet of modern Portugal. Teixeira was the lover of Olga de Moraes Sarmento, the feminist writer and editor who eventually became the life-partner of the pioneering motorist…
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Searching for Men “of the Right Sort”: The Letters of Harold W. Curtis to Henry Blake Fuller, 1897–1898, by Donald W. McLeod
This exhibit explores the letters of Toronto-based British student Harold W. Curtis to U.S. gay writer Henry Blake Fuller, which included comments about queer life in several Canadian cities in the 1890s. Published originally on OutHistory in…
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Building Queer New Worlds: The Emergence of Queer Ethnoracial Literary Anthologies, 1982-2024, by Corey D. Clawson
This exhibit introduces a set of groundbreaking queer ethnoracial literary anthologies that were published in the United States in and beyond the 1980s. Published originally on OutHistory in January 2026.
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Justice Weekly and Homophile Publishing in Toronto, 1953–1972, by Donald W. McLeod
An examination of the Toronto tabloid Justice Weekly as a source of queer-positive articles, mostly reprinted from the U.S. homophile press, in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. Published originally by OutHistory in November 2025.
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Gavin Arthur's and Edward Carpenter's Night of Love, by Jonathan Ned Katz and Joey Cain
Two OutHistory researchers fact check the evidence about the possible sexual intimacy of Chester Alan Arthur III, grandson of U.S. president Chester Arthur, and Edward Carpenter, English socialist and sex reform advocate. Published originally on…
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Queer Galleries and Art Spaces in the East Village, 1980-1994, by Jenny Mohan
This exhibit introduces queer galleries and performance spaces in New York City's East Village from 1980 to 1994. Published originally on OutHistory in June 2025.
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Queer Transformations at San Francisco State, 1969-1974, by Marc Stein
This exhibit, drawn from a collaborative faculty-student research project, focuses on LGBTQ history at San Francisco State in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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“I Will Always Be There in the Front Lines Fighting”: The Defiant Art and Activism of Pei-Hsien Lim (1953-1992), by David K. Seitz
A biographical exhibit on Pei-Hsien Lim, a gay Malaysian-Chinese artist and activist who made major contributions to struggles against racism, homophobia, and AIDS in San Francisco, Toronto, and Vancouver. Published originally on OutHistory in 2025.
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LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, edited by Megan E. Springate, 2016
This exhibit features LGBTQ America, a theme study that the National Park Foundation and National Park Service (NPS) published in 2016; the NPS deleted the report from its website in 2025. The exhibit also includes The Pride Guide, an associated…
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Matchmaking’s Lineage: A 2024 Interview with E.G. Crichton, by Tamara de Szegheo Lang
An interview with the author of Matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts (2023). Published originally on OutHistory in January 2025.
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Disabled Gay and Lesbian Activists in the Homophile Movement, 1930s-1980s, by Moira Armstrong
A collection of biographies of disabled gay and lesbian activists in the homophile movement. Published originally on OutHistory in October 2024.
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The Midwest's "Queer Mecca": 40 Years of GLBTQ History in Bloomington, Indiana, 1969-2009, by Susan Stryker's Students
This exhibit explores the LGBTQ history of Bloomington, Indiana, especially related to Indiana University. Published originally on OutHistory in 2010. Updated in 2024.
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Queering the Titanic, 1912
This exhibit introduces several of the LGBTQ people who sailed on the Titanic and several of the same-sex relationships, possibly intimate, that developed between people on the ship that sank in 1912. The individuals and relationships discussed…
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Francis Davis Millet and Charles Warren Stoddard, 1874-1912, by Jonathan Ned Katz and Claude M. Gruener
This exhibit introduces and reproduces the correspondence of artist Francis Davis Millet and writer Charles Warren Stoddard. Published originally on OutHistory in 2012. Updated in 2024.
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Queer Sources from Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community, 1870s-2020s, by Moira Armstrong
This exhibit follows up on the recent book Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2024), which covers themes, figures, and events from the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first…
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"Everything I Learned": A 2023 Interview with Curtis Chin, by Judy Wu
An interview with Curtis Chin, focusing on his 2023 memoir Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. Published originally on OutHistory in 2024.
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Kaliflower and the Homosexual Revolution of 1969, by Eric Noble
An exhibit on relationships between the counterculture and the early gay liberation movement in San Francisco, focusing in particular on the Kaliflower commune. Published originally by OutHistory in 2023.
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Two U.S. Reviews of Andre Gide's Corydon (1949-50), by Jonathan Ned Katz
An exhibit featuring excerpts of two U.S. responses to the publication, in English translation by Hugh Gibb, of Andre Gide's defense of homosexuality in Corydon, with comments by Frank Beach (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1950). Corydon was…
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Do You Know Jonathan Ned Katz?: A 2023 Interview with Director Philip Harrison, by Joseph Plaster
A 2023 interview about the documentary film-in-progress Do You Know Jonathan Ned Katz?, which focuses on OutHistory's founder.
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Sally: A 2023 Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Deborah Craig, by Julie R. Enszer
A 2023 interview about the documentary film-in-progress Sally, which focuses on lesbian feminist author and activist Sally Gearhart.