The Pink and the Blue: Lesbian and Gay Life at Yale and in Connecticut, 1642-2004, by Jonathan Ned Katz

Moving chronologically from early colonial laws to twentieth-century movement activism, this exhibit addresses LGBTQ+ people and politics in Connecticut, focusing especially on Yale University. The exhibit was originally presented in May 2004 with…

Celebrating Gay American History at Fifty, by Jonathan Ned Katz

To mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, this exhibit reprints the 1992 edition of Jonathan Ned Katz’s Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (1976; New York: Crowell, 1992) and…

Judith Teixeira

Judith Teixeira Birthday Bio

Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Birthday Bio

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…

Stone Walls of Idaho: Queer Inmates of the Idaho State Penitentiary, 1872–1973, by Micah Hetherington

An exhibit on the criminalization and medicalization of same-sex attraction and gender diversity through nine inmate stories from the Idaho State Penitentiary in Boise, Idaho. Published originally on OutHistory in May 2026.

Ordinary and Extraordinary: The Many Social Transitions of Rollin Kedzie Morgan (1880–1966), by Elizabeth A. Allen

This biographical exhibit traces the life of Rollin Morgan, a white, white-collar trans man with ties to southern Vermont whose race, socioeconomic class, and rurality shaped his social transitions from 1901 to 1910. Published originally on…

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…

Leona Huntzinger

Leona Huntzinger Birthday Bio

(Annie) Elizabeth Hopkinson

(Annie) Elizabeth Hopkinson Birthday Bio

Mary Powell Burrill

Mary Powell Burrill Birthday Bio

Lucy Diggs Slowe

Lucy Diggs Slowe Birthday Bio

Alice (Ruth Moore) Dunbar Nelson

Alice (Ruth Moore) Dunbar Nelson Birthday Bio

Margaret Chung

Margaret Chung Birthday Bio

Viola Belle Squire

Annie Rensselaer Tinker

Annie Rensselaer Tinker Birthday Bio

Mary Austin Sperry

Mary Austin Sperry Birthday Bio

Gail Laughlin

Gail Laughlin Birthday Bio

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…