LGBTQA history of Lincoln, NE, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The story of the Gay and Lesbian Youth of New York and it's involvement with the FBI.
Explore fifteen years of the New York City Pride Parade through Suzanne Poli's exceptional photographs.
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.…
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…
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…
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.”
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…
“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…
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…
A conversation between Jim Monahan and Joan Nestle on preserving gay and lesbian history.
An interview with documentary filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain
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…
Containing unique items from the personal collection of Rich Wilson, this exhibit focuses on 19th-century queer experience in the United States.
A collection of biographies to celebrate Black History Month
LGBTQ life at Penn State.
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).
A collection of biographies written by the students in Dr. Catherine Jacquet's trans*, gender non-conforming, and intersex history class
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.
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.