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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…
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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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“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.
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Archibald Butt: Presidential Aide and Titanic Victim, 1865-1912, by James Gifford
This exhibit introduces Archibald Butt, a journalist and U.S. presidential aide who died on the Titanic. The exhibit includes an interpretation of his life as queer by James Gifford. Published originally on OutHistory in 2012. Updated in 2024.
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Francis Davis Millet and Charles Warren Stoddard, 1874-1912, by Jonathan Ned Katz and Claude M. Gruener
This exhibit introduces and reproduces the correspondence of artist Francis Davis Millet and writer Charles Warren Stoddard. Published originally on OutHistory in 2012. Updated in 2024.
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Urvashi Vaid
Urvashi Vaid Birthday Bio
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Urvashi Vaid: The Vassar and Boston Years, 1975-83, by Marc Stein
This exhibit focuses on Urvashi Vaid (1958-2022), a leading LGBTQ activist of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The exhibit includes three components: a roundtable interview featuring three friends of Urvashi’s from her years at…
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U.S. Homophile Internationalism: Archive and Exhibit, 1953-1964, by Marc Stein, Tamara de Szegheo Lang, Shlomo Gleibman, Sage Milo, Dasha Serykh, Carly Simpson, and Healy Thompson
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;…
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Esther Eng (1914-1970): Filmmaker, Restaurateur, Gender Rebel, by Christianne A. Gadd
Esther Eng made a name for herself as the world's first female Chinese American filmmaker, a successful restaurateur, and—rejecting social expectations—a woman who felt little need to hide her romantic and sexual relationships with other women.…
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Autobiographical Reflections, 1924-2009, by Edward Field
Edward Field's autobiographical entries about life, love, and his escapades around the world. This is a considerably revised version of Field's entry in Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series, Volume 27 (published in 1997 by Gale).…