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40 Years of History in the Heartland: UNL and Lincoln, Nebraska
LGBTQA history of Lincoln, NE, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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A Gay Youth Group, the FBI, and the Community, November 28, 1984
The story of the Gay and Lesbian Youth of New York and it's involvement with the FBI.
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A View From My Window: The Christopher Street Liberation Day March, 1970-1985
Explore fifteen years of the New York City Pride Parade through Suzanne Poli's exceptional photographs.
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Activism and Organizing Timeline
OutHistory presents a timeline tracing the actions of LGBTQ activists throughout history. This chronology includes many different acts of protest, from poetry to riots, opening up our notions of what should be considered activism over time.…
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Ada Bello: Reed Erickson, Pioneering Transgender Activist and Philanthropist
Reed Erickson, as the title and content of this exhibit makes clear, was a pioneering transgender activist who used the wealth which his class privilege provided to support public education and activism about transgender lives and issues at a time…
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African American LGBTQ Timeline
In light of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, OutHistory presents a timeline chronicling the distinct and important history of LGBTQ people in African American communities. Our aim is to create a thorough representation of black queer history that pays…
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Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens: 1777-1783
Hamilton's letters to Laurens recall that he and Laurens inhabited a world that was not divided between “heterosexual” and “homosexual,” a world in which same-sex love and intimacy was not considered tainted by “sexuality.”
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Alice Mitchell Murders Freda Ward, 1892
This murder in Memphis, TN, began to draw new, national attention to intense, passionate, and sometimes sexual (and soured) intimacies between women. Includes new research on African American lesbian history: Emma Williams' murder of Eleanor…
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Allan Bérubé’s Talk Released: “No Red-Baiting! No Race-Baiting! No Queen-Baiting!”
“No Red-Baiting! No Race-Baiting! No Queen-Baiting!” is a 90-minute illustrated talk narrated by the late Allan Bérubé on the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union. The talk tells the surprising and inspiring story of how ship stewards and other workers…
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Almeda Sperry to Emma Goldman: 1912
A collection of love letters to Emma Goldman, the anarchist leader, vividly conveys the emotions and varied life experience of Almeda Sperry, their complex author. The letters detail and evoke Sperry's tender-brutal relationship with her husband…
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An Early Conversation about Gay and Lesbian Archives: From the Pages of The Gay Insurgent, 1978
A conversation between Jim Monahan and Joan Nestle on preserving gay and lesbian history.
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As Interest in Lorraine Hansberry Grows, A Documentary Filmmaker Steps in
An interview with documentary filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain
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Asian American LGBTQ Timeline
OutHistory presents a timeline chronicling the history of LGBTQ people in Asian American communities, noting the ways that intersectional forces have shaped queer Asian existence in the US. This timeline is very much a work-in-progress, so OutHistory…
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Aspects of Queer Existence in 19th-Century America
Containing unique items from the personal collection of Rich Wilson, this exhibit focuses on 19th-century queer experience in the United States.
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Big Lives: Profiles of LGBT African Americans
A collection of biographies to celebrate Black History Month
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Bleeding Blue, White, and Rainbow in State College, PA
LGBTQ life at Penn State.
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Campaign for a New York City Transgender Rights Law
A historical account of the campaign for a transgender rights law in New York City that occured between 2000 and 2002. This exhibit was created by Pauline Park, co-chair and co-founder of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA).
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Challenging Gender Boundaries: A Trans Biography Project
A collection of biographies written by the students in Dr. Catherine Jacquet's trans*, gender non-conforming, and intersex history class
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Channing G. Joseph: The Black Drag Queens Who Fought Before Stonewall
During Black History Month 2016 OutHistory.org is proud to present the fascinating original research discoveries of journalist Channing Joseph about parties organized by cross-dressed African American men in Washington, D.C., in the 1880s and 1890s.
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Chicago Stories
A series of articles by John D'Emilio written for the Windy City Times about Chicago's gay history and his own career as an historian of sexuality.