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The Three Sapphos of 1900: What Bryn Mawr College Can Teach Us about the Icons Who Put Lesbian Culture on the Map, by Suzanne Stroh and Samantha Pious

This exhibit traces the development of the “Sapho 1900” phenomenon in Paris to three lesbians who came of age in the United States: the performance artist Eva Palmer and the poets Natalie Barney and Renée Vivien. At Bryn Mawr College, they clashed…
"The Castro": An Interview with Tina Aguirre, Gerard Koskovich, and Jen Reck, by Reese Uteda

A conversation with Tina Aguirre, Gerard Koskovich, and Jen Reck discussing their 2026 booklet "The Castro: The Story of San Francisco's Best-Known LGBTQ+ Neighborhood" and the legacies of LGBTQ+ history in San Francisco. Published…
Collecting Queer & Trans: An Inside Look at the World of LGBTQ+ Rare Books, Archives, and Ephemera, by Eric Noble

The transcript of a panel discussion about the world of LGBTQ+ rare books held at the San Francisco Antiquarian Book Fair on Saturday, February 28, 2026, and co-sponsored by the GLBT Historical Society. Panelists included Joey Cain, Ms Bob Davis, and…
Red Scare, Lavender Song: Moranda Smith, Viola Brown, and Civil Rights Unions, 1943-1969, by Annabelle Heckler

This exhibit shares stories of two of the extraordinary Black women who powered the largest upsurge in union organizing in U.S. history. Moranda Smith and Viola Brown organized a union that inspired workers across the South, dreamed beyond workplace…
The 1993 March on Washington: A Brief Look Back, by Ron Schlittler

This exhibit looks back at the 1993 March on Washington and features Ron Schlittler's video documentary of the event and his related 1994 University of Oregon Honors College thesis, which he produced while majoring in broadcast journalism and…
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…
Queer, Asian, Everywhere: An Overview of the Transnational Activism of the Gay Asians of Toronto, 1980-2000, by Jacqueline Cho

This exhibit introduces the Gay Asians of Toronto, a queer Asian activist group based in Canada. The exhibit discusses the Gay Asians of Toronto's inception in 1980 and its local and transnational activism over the next two decades. Published…
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.
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.…
Trumping the Trumpians: OutHistory and American Oversight, 2025, by Marc Stein

This exhibit introduces and reprints a set of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed against the Trump Administration in response to federal government attacks on LGBTQ history. Prompted by and in partnership with OutHistory, American…
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.
“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.
Danny Cockerline: Toronto’s Patron Saint of Whores and Hustlers (1960-1995), by Ryan Conrad

This exhibit focuses on gay HIV-positive sex worker activist Daniel Charles Cockerline (1960-1995), who was involved in the founding of numerous sex workers’ rights organizations in Toronto, Ontario, from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. The exhibit…
The International Lesbian and Gay Association’s Suspension from the United Nations, 1993-1994, by Tyler Carson

This exhibit introduces the events leading up to the 1994 suspension of the International Gay and Lesbian Association’s consultative status with the United Nations after it was learned that its membership roster included pro-pedophilia groups such as…
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…
The Queer History of Women's Suffrage: Scholarship and Censorship in 2025, by Wendy Rouse

This exhibit features Wendy Rouse's "The Very Queer History of the Suffrage Movement," which the National Park Service published in 2020 but altered and then deleted in 2025. The exhibit includes an introduction by Rouse and copies of…
LGBTQ+ People Have Been Here Before: The Power of Our History, by Marc Stein and the OutHistory Advisory Board

This essay responds to new efforts to censor, distort, erase, and falsify LGBTQ+ (and especially trans and queer) history in 2025 and 2026. The bibliography that follows, updated with recommendations from Gerard Koskovich, compiles government…
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.
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.
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…