A 2023 interview about the documentary film-in-progress Do You Know Jonathan Ned Katz?, which focuses on OutHistory's founder.
This online resource is a research supplement to Marc Stein, The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (New York: New York University Press, 2019). It provides references for primary documents related to the materials reprinted in The Stonewall…
An essay and primary source exhibit on the 1951 correspondence between Henry Gerber, an early U.S. gay rights leader, and Jim Egan, an early Canadian gay rights advocate. Published originally on OutHistory in 2023.
An archive and exhibit exploring U.S. homophile magazine references to various regions of the world in the 1950s and 1960s. The regions are (1) Africa; (2) Asia and the Pacific; (3) Canada; (4) Latin America and the Caribbean; (5) the Middle East;…
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.
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…
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, his work. Published originally by OutHistory in…
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars finally opened up. Published originally on OutHistory in April 2020.
Two 1995 letters to the editor by OutHistory founder Jonathan Ned Katz.
Links for exhibits on Alexander Hamilton/John Laurens and Moreau de Saint Méry, along with profiles of Frederick von Steuben and Deborah Sampson, published originally on OutHistory in 2020.
A historian recalls the life of an early lesbian activist. First published on OutHistory in 2020.
First published on OutHistory in 2020.
An introduction to more than 11500 LGBT direct action demonstrations and protests in the United States from 1965 to 1976, with an overview report, annotations, bibliographic references, and tags. Published originally by OutHistory and Queer Pasts in…
A resumé and overview of the works of OutHistory's founder, an independent scholar, self-taught historian and visual artist.
In 1976, Jonathan Ned Katz published Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., the first comprehensive book of documents on U.S. homosexual history, drawing on primary sources ranging from 1566 to 1972. In 1977, on a publicity tour…
Transcribed texts of novelist Gore Vidal’s brief and humorous thirteen letters to historian Jonathan Ned Katz, often on the theme of heterosexuality and, sometimes, homosexuality.
Professor, trucker, and union organizer Anne Balay reflects on Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (2020) in an original OutHistory feature.
An exhibit on a 1968 student protest at Bucks County Community College after the college president cancelled an event featuring Mattachine Society New York leader Richard Leitsch. Published originally on OutHistory in April 2021; updated in April…
Two historians, Jonathan Ned Katz and Tavia Nyong’o, present and analyze the story and visual depiction of Peter Sewally/Mary Jones, a Black transgender person in New York City, in 1836. First published on OutHistory in 2017.
This was originally published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1967 ruling in Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which upheld the deportation of Clive Michael Boutilier, a Canadian citizen and U.S.…