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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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The Lesbian Switchboard of New York City, 1972-1997, by Hannah Leffingwell
This exhibit focuses on the Lesbian Switchboard of New York City, a grassroots informational referral and peer counseling hotline staffed by lesbian volunteers from 1972 to 1997. The exhibit highlights the role of the Switchboard in local women’s…
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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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Elver Barker and Mattachine Denver: A 2002 Interview, by Peter Boag
This exhibit features a 2002 oral history interview of Denver Mattachine activist Elver Barker by historian Peter Boag. It also includes a transcript of the Sixth Annual Convention of the Mattachine Society, which took place in Denver in 1959.…
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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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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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Jan Gay: The Lesbian Sex Researcher That History Forgot, by Michael Waters
This essay was first published on March 2, 2022, by Harper’s Bazaar magazine, which retains the copyright. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author and publisher. This reprint includes citations by the author (not included in the…
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The High Risk Project Society: Intracommunity Support in Transgender Vancouver, 1992-2001, by Phoenix Walker
An exhibit on the High Risk Project Society, which supported trans people in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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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.
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Timeline: Terminology (Fairy and Light in the Loafers), 1892-1993
This timeline is a collaborative work-in-progress that has had many contributors over a long period of time. Some of the language used and concepts referenced, influenced by colonialism, imperialism, racism, sexism, and anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs and…
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Timeline: Transgender History
This timeline is a collaborative work-in-progress that has had many contributors over a long period of time. Some of the language used and concepts referenced, influenced by colonialism, imperialism, racism, sexism, and anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs and…
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Timeline: Transgender U.S. History, 1528-2020
This timeline is a collaborative work-in-progress that has had many contributors over a long period of time. Some of the language used and concepts referenced, influenced by colonialism, imperialism, racism, sexism, and anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs and…
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William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne, 1962-1985, by Heather White
Two men's life together shows how Christian traditions of spiritual brotherhood could shelter same-sex love from social scrutiny. Originally published on OutHistory in 2020.
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What Are We For? Harry Hay and the Left, 1953-1964, by Ben Miller
OutHistory presents Ben Miller's adaptation of his senior honors thesis, Children of the Brain: The Life, Theory, & Activism of Harry Hay, 1953-1964, written for the New York University Department of History in 2014. Originally published on…
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Transmasculine People in the U.S. Press, 1876-1939, by Emily Skidmore, with Marissa Brameyer
An introduction to approximately sixty individuals who were assigned female at birth and lived as men from the 1870s to the 1930s in the United States. Published originally on OutHistory in 2022 and updated in 2023.
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Tish, Female Impersonator: A 2012 Interview by Silvia Sanza
Tish (Joseph Touchette) has had a long career as a professional female impersonator. In 2012 he was interviewed by his Greenwich Village neighbor, Silvia Sanza. OutHistory is grateful to Ms. Sanza for permission to reproduce her interview. First…
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The Standard Model of the Social-Historical Universe, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Two versions of a theoretical essay by OutHistory's founder. See also: Envisioning the World We Make, 2016-2021, by Jonathan Ned Katz.
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The Marlin Beach Affair: From Homosexual "Presence" to Gay "Community," by Fred Fejes
The 1976 controversy over the Marlin Beach, a beachfront hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that openly sought a gay clientele, demonstrates the social, political and media dynamics that shaped the emergence of that community. Published originally on…
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The Homosexual at Williams College, 1971-2021, by Daniel R. Pinello
On the fiftieth anniversary of Daniel R. Pinello's coming out in an essay on the front page of the Williams College student newspaper, OutHistory republished, with the author's permission, Pinello's work.
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The Gay Academic Union: The Proceedings of Its First National Conference in New York City, 1973, by John D'Emilio
OutHistory presents the proceedings of the November 25, 1973 Gay Academic Union Conference, with a new introduction by John D'Emilio, who was also a GAU founder. "The Universities and the Gay Experience," this 105-page document,…