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Secret Skies: The Queer Airmen of Tuskegee, by Michael Schreiber
During World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen helped shatter racial barriers as the first Black aviators in U.S. military history. But for the queer members of this celebrated brotherhood, that triumph was bittersweet, waged in silence for a nation that…
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Quakers and the Rise of the Gay Liberation Movement, 1946-1972, by Brian T. Blackmore
This exhibit highlights Quaker endeavors and projects aimed at supporting the advancement of gay, lesbian, and bisexual rights in the United States from 1946 to 1973. During this period, Quakers established the first organization in the nation aimed…
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Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel Birthday Bio
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Randy Wicker
Randy Wicker Birthday Bio
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Gladys Bentley
Gladys Bentley Birthday Bio
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton Birthday Bio
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Peter Sewally
Mary Jones Birthday Bio
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Willi Ninja
Willi Ninja Birthday Bio
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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…
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Historians Under Fire: Two Case Studies of Federal Censorship in the National Park Service, 2025-2026, by Gail Dubrow
This exhibit reproduces a presentation by University of Minnesota architectural historian Gail Dubrow at the January 2026 American Historical Association annual convention in Chicago. Published originally on OutHistory in May 2026.
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Miguel Algarín
Miguel Algarín Birthday Bio
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Queer Galleries and Art Spaces in the East Village, 1980-1994, by Jenny Mohan
This exhibit introduces queer galleries and performance spaces in New York City's East Village from 1980 to 1994. Published originally on OutHistory in June 2025.
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Mary Powell Burrill
Mary Powell Burrill Birthday Bio
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Lucy Diggs Slowe
Lucy Diggs Slowe Birthday Bio
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Annie Rensselaer Tinker
Annie Rensselaer Tinker Birthday Bio
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Gail Laughlin
Gail Laughlin Birthday Bio