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.…

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…

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

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…

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.

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…

Eve Adams

Eve Adams Birthday Bio

Beauford Delaney

Beauford Delaney Birthday Bio

Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan Birthday Bio

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston Birthday Bio

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes Birthday Bio

Jane Addams

Jane Addams Birthday Bio