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==Work in Progress for OutHistory.org== | ==Work in Progress for OutHistory.org== | ||
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| + | ==Breitkopf== | ||
| + | David Breitkopf will be creating an entry on Tennis in LGBT History. | ||
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| + | ==Collaborative Open Entries in Progress== | ||
| + | Among the collaborative entries in progress are: | ||
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| + | :[[Abraham Lincoln, Sexuality and Intimacy: 1809-1865]] | ||
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| + | :[[Curtis Sittenfeld: "American Wife," September 2, 2008]] | ||
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| + | :[[James Buchanan: April 23, 1791-June 1, 1868]] | ||
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| + | :[[Lynne Cheney: "Sisters," November 1981]] | ||
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| + | :[[Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben: September 17, 1730-November 28, 1794]] | ||
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| + | :[[Walt Whitman, Sexuality, and Intimacy: 1819-1892]] | ||
| + | :(this, the first active collaboration, began on July 3, 2008); | ||
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| + | :[[ZAP! Art and the Gay and Lesbian Revolution, 1969-present]] | ||
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==D'Emilio== | ==D'Emilio== | ||
| − | D'Emilio | + | John D'Emilio is producing a series of original essays on Chicago's LGBTQ history for OutHistory.org, ''The Windy City TImes'', and for ChicagoGayHistory.org, a website with which OutHistory is collaborating. These include: |
| − | :" | + | : 1 "Gay Power" - about the intensification of police harassment in 1966. |
| + | : 2 "Let's Dance" - about the efforts of early gay and lesbian liberationists in Chicago to make same-sex dancing possible. | ||
| + | : 3 "In the News" - in 1966 the ''Chicago Daily News'' published a multi-part series on gay life in Chicago. | ||
| + | : 4 "Pulp Madness" - looks at the phenomenon of lesbian pulp fiction of the 1950s and 1960s. | ||
| + | : 5 "A Woman for All Generations" - a look at the life of Valerie Taylor, a lesbian pulp author, homophile activist, lesbian feminist and gay liberation militant. | ||
| + | : 6 "Bayard Rustin in Chicago" - trying to imagine the impact of Rustin's publicly known gay identity among civil rights and other progressive activists in Chicago. | ||
| + | : 7 "Risky Business" - a discussion of "street fairy" life and culture in the 1960s in Chicago. | ||
| − | Texts from D'Emilio's ''Making Trouble: Esays on Gay History, Politics, and the University'', will include: | + | |
| + | In addition, D'Emilio has given OutHistory permission to reprint numbers of his out of print and previously published essays that reflect on the writing of LGBTQ History. They will be scanned and posted as soon as time permits. The material already online includes: [[D'Emilio: "Allan Bérubé's Gift to History," May-June 2008]]. Texts from D'Emilio's ''Making Trouble: Esays on Gay History, Politics, and the University'', will include: | ||
:"Capitalism and Gay Identity" | :"Capitalism and Gay Identity" | ||
:"Dreams Deferred: The Birth and Betrayal of America's First Gay Liberation Movement" | :"Dreams Deferred: The Birth and Betrayal of America's First Gay Liberation Movement" | ||
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:"Not a Simple Matter: Gay History and Gay Historians" | :"Not a Simple Matter: Gay History and Gay Historians" | ||
:"Making and Unmaking Minorities: The Tension Between Gay History and Politics" | :"Making and Unmaking Minorities: The Tension Between Gay History and Politics" | ||
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| + | ==Dinshaw== | ||
| + | Carolyn Dinshaw will be adding an entry on Lucy Ann Lobdell, "the female hunter" of Sullivan County | ||
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| + | ==Duberman== | ||
| + | With the permission of Martin Duberman, material from the "Documents" section of Duberman's out-of-print book ''About Time: Exploring Gay History'' will be placed on OutHistory.org, making them newly available. | ||
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| + | ==Grier== | ||
| + | Barbara Grier has allowed OutHistory.org to republish her bibliography on ''The Lesbian in Literature'', a still useful research tool, to which the administrators of OutHistory will gradually add images of book jackets and other images. | ||
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| + | ==Holsaert== | ||
| + | For our Art About History section, Faith S. Holsaert will permit OutHistory to upload and distribute her long short story, "Chosen Girl," about two women, one African American and one white, in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, as told by the observant daughter of the white woman. (We just need the time to upload this. Meanwhile it is viewable online at page 7 of: http://home.comcast.net/~wapshot1/summer08/TKE.NF2004.pdf) | ||
==Katz== | ==Katz== | ||
| − | Jonathan Ned Katz has given OutHistory permission to publish two original, never-before-published essays. The first is already on the site: [[Americans in Württemberg Scandal, 1888/Part 1]]. The second is: "Were the Nineties Gay?" Written for ''American Heritage Magazine,'' revised at the editor's request, then rejected when the editor got cold feet about publishing an article on gay history. | + | Jonathan Ned Katz has given OutHistory permission to publish two original, never-before-published essays. The first is already on the site: [[Americans in Württemberg Scandal, 1888/Part 1]]. The second is: "Were the Nineties Gay?" Written for ''American Heritage Magazine,'' revised at the editor's request, then rejected when the editor got cold feet about publishing an article on gay history in such a respectable publication. OutHistory will also republish all of the out-of-print, out-of-copyright material in Katz's books ''Gay American History'' (1976) and ''Gay/Lesbian Almanac'' (1983). This includes all out-of-copyright material on: |
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| − | OutHistory will also republish all of the out-of-print, out-of-copyright material in Katz's books ''Gay American History'' (1976) and ''Gay/Lesbian Almanac'' (1983). This includes all out-of-copyright material on: | ||
:African Americans | :African Americans | ||
| − | : | + | :American colonial era |
| + | :Chicago LGBTQ history | ||
:cross-dressing women and a few men | :cross-dressing women and a few men | ||
| + | :homosexual emancipation movement before 1969 | ||
| + | :lesbian history (including lesbian theater history) | ||
:marriage and homosexuality | :marriage and homosexuality | ||
:military service and homosexuality | :military service and homosexuality | ||
| + | :youth on campus and in the media | ||
Republications of Katz's essays will include: | Republications of Katz's essays will include: | ||
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"Melvillve's Secret Sex Text" [on the novel Redburn], published in the ''Village Voice Literary Supplment''. | "Melvillve's Secret Sex Text" [on the novel Redburn], published in the ''Village Voice Literary Supplment''. | ||
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| + | Unpublished entries prepared for ''Gay/Lesbian Almanac'' and not used. | ||
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| + | ==Kinsman== | ||
| + | Gary Kinsman is writing an article on the history of the national security campaigns against queers in Canada. | ||
==McCaskell== | ==McCaskell== | ||
| − | Tim McCaskell | + | OutHistory will republish Tim McCaskell article on AIDS activism in Canada. |
==McGurl== | ==McGurl== | ||
Mimi McGurl is continuing to add to her entry on the WOW Theater from original sources. | Mimi McGurl is continuing to add to her entry on the WOW Theater from original sources. | ||
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| + | ==Nestle== | ||
| + | Joan Nestle is inaugurating an ongoing "Blog on History," a series of personal meditations on the LGBTQ past that will also be solicited by OutHistory from a variety of other people. | ||
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| − | + | Esther Newton is will be teaching a course on lesbian history and working with her students to add documents to the section she curated with the help of former students on [[Lesbians in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1999]]. | |
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| + | ==Palmer== | ||
| + | Steven Palmer is researching and will be writing a text for an exhibit on [[Palmer: Queer and Hippie Counter Cultures: 1965-1975|Queer and Hippie Countercultures: 1965-1975]], in San Francisco and elsewhere in the U.S. He is interessted in suggestions which may be left in the Discuss section of his entry. He is interested in any data or documentation about the drag performer "Michelle". | ||
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| + | ==Weeks== | ||
| + | In the future, OutHistory hopes to be filling in more of the basic historical data available about the postcards exhibited in Marshall Weeks' marvelous collection of [[Postcards: Masculine Women, Feminine Men; early-20th c.]] | ||
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| + | ==White== | ||
| + | C. Todd White is continuing to add to the documents in his exhibit on [[The Pre-Gay Era in the USA]], on the Homosexual Rights Movement in the US, 1950-1969 | ||
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| + | ==Whitman, Walt (subject)== | ||
| + | A collector of colorful Walt Whitman memorabilia will be photographing choice items for display on OutHistory.org. | ||
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| + | An open collaborative entry is in progress on Walt Whitman, Sexuality, and Intimacy. | ||
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| + | An entry is planned on Walt Whitman, Sexuality, Biographers and Critics. | ||
==Submit== | ==Submit== | ||
| − | If you would like to submit out-of-print or never-published work to which you own the copyright, please email the Project Coordinator at outhistory@gc.cuny.edu | + | If you would like to submit out-of-print or never-published work to which you own the copyright, please email the Project Coordinator at outhistory@gc.cuny.edu OutHistory content creators retain the commercial, for-profit use of their entries and permit the free, educational, not-for-profit use. <comments /> |
Latest revision as of 20:44, 2 December 2010
Work in Progress for OutHistory.org
Breitkopf
David Breitkopf will be creating an entry on Tennis in LGBT History.
Collaborative Open Entries in Progress
Among the collaborative entries in progress are:
- Walt Whitman, Sexuality, and Intimacy: 1819-1892
- (this, the first active collaboration, began on July 3, 2008);
D'Emilio
John D'Emilio is producing a series of original essays on Chicago's LGBTQ history for OutHistory.org, The Windy City TImes, and for ChicagoGayHistory.org, a website with which OutHistory is collaborating. These include:
- 1 "Gay Power" - about the intensification of police harassment in 1966.
- 2 "Let's Dance" - about the efforts of early gay and lesbian liberationists in Chicago to make same-sex dancing possible.
- 3 "In the News" - in 1966 the Chicago Daily News published a multi-part series on gay life in Chicago.
- 4 "Pulp Madness" - looks at the phenomenon of lesbian pulp fiction of the 1950s and 1960s.
- 5 "A Woman for All Generations" - a look at the life of Valerie Taylor, a lesbian pulp author, homophile activist, lesbian feminist and gay liberation militant.
- 6 "Bayard Rustin in Chicago" - trying to imagine the impact of Rustin's publicly known gay identity among civil rights and other progressive activists in Chicago.
- 7 "Risky Business" - a discussion of "street fairy" life and culture in the 1960s in Chicago.
In addition, D'Emilio has given OutHistory permission to reprint numbers of his out of print and previously published essays that reflect on the writing of LGBTQ History. They will be scanned and posted as soon as time permits. The material already online includes: D'Emilio: "Allan Bérubé's Gift to History," May-June 2008. Texts from D'Emilio's Making Trouble: Esays on Gay History, Politics, and the University, will include:
- "Capitalism and Gay Identity"
- "Dreams Deferred: The Birth and Betrayal of America's First Gay Liberation Movement"
- "The Homosexual Menace: The Politics of Sexuality in Cold War America"
- "Gay Politics, Gay Community: San Francisco's Experience"
- "Gay History: A New Field of Study"
- "Not a Simple Matter: Gay History and Gay Historians"
- "Making and Unmaking Minorities: The Tension Between Gay History and Politics"
Dinshaw
Carolyn Dinshaw will be adding an entry on Lucy Ann Lobdell, "the female hunter" of Sullivan County
Duberman
With the permission of Martin Duberman, material from the "Documents" section of Duberman's out-of-print book About Time: Exploring Gay History will be placed on OutHistory.org, making them newly available.
Grier
Barbara Grier has allowed OutHistory.org to republish her bibliography on The Lesbian in Literature, a still useful research tool, to which the administrators of OutHistory will gradually add images of book jackets and other images.
Holsaert
For our Art About History section, Faith S. Holsaert will permit OutHistory to upload and distribute her long short story, "Chosen Girl," about two women, one African American and one white, in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, as told by the observant daughter of the white woman. (We just need the time to upload this. Meanwhile it is viewable online at page 7 of: http://home.comcast.net/~wapshot1/summer08/TKE.NF2004.pdf)
Katz
Jonathan Ned Katz has given OutHistory permission to publish two original, never-before-published essays. The first is already on the site: Americans in Württemberg Scandal, 1888/Part 1. The second is: "Were the Nineties Gay?" Written for American Heritage Magazine, revised at the editor's request, then rejected when the editor got cold feet about publishing an article on gay history in such a respectable publication. OutHistory will also republish all of the out-of-print, out-of-copyright material in Katz's books Gay American History (1976) and Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983). This includes all out-of-copyright material on:
- African Americans
- American colonial era
- Chicago LGBTQ history
- cross-dressing women and a few men
- homosexual emancipation movement before 1969
- lesbian history (including lesbian theater history)
- marriage and homosexuality
- military service and homosexuality
- youth on campus and in the media
Republications of Katz's essays will include:
"Katz on History" [18 articles from a column in The Advocate]
"Melvillve's Secret Sex Text" [on the novel Redburn], published in the Village Voice Literary Supplment.
Unpublished entries prepared for Gay/Lesbian Almanac and not used.
Kinsman
Gary Kinsman is writing an article on the history of the national security campaigns against queers in Canada.
McCaskell
OutHistory will republish Tim McCaskell article on AIDS activism in Canada.
McGurl
Mimi McGurl is continuing to add to her entry on the WOW Theater from original sources.
Nestle
Joan Nestle is inaugurating an ongoing "Blog on History," a series of personal meditations on the LGBTQ past that will also be solicited by OutHistory from a variety of other people.
Nestle and Marshall
Joan Nestle and Daniel Marshall, based in Australia, are working on a book project together and will create an entry in progress on OutHistory.org on its subject: LGBTTIQ Archives: Their Founding and Future.
- Their call for data follows at: Nestle, Marshall: "Archiving Pleasures"; a history, in progress
Newton
Esther Newton is will be teaching a course on lesbian history and working with her students to add documents to the section she curated with the help of former students on Lesbians in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1999.
Palmer
Steven Palmer is researching and will be writing a text for an exhibit on Queer and Hippie Countercultures: 1965-1975, in San Francisco and elsewhere in the U.S. He is interessted in suggestions which may be left in the Discuss section of his entry. He is interested in any data or documentation about the drag performer "Michelle".
Weeks
In the future, OutHistory hopes to be filling in more of the basic historical data available about the postcards exhibited in Marshall Weeks' marvelous collection of Postcards: Masculine Women, Feminine Men; early-20th c.
White
C. Todd White is continuing to add to the documents in his exhibit on The Pre-Gay Era in the USA, on the Homosexual Rights Movement in the US, 1950-1969
Whitman, Walt (subject)
A collector of colorful Walt Whitman memorabilia will be photographing choice items for display on OutHistory.org.
An open collaborative entry is in progress on Walt Whitman, Sexuality, and Intimacy.
An entry is planned on Walt Whitman, Sexuality, Biographers and Critics.
Submit
If you would like to submit out-of-print or never-published work to which you own the copyright, please email the Project Coordinator at outhistory@gc.cuny.edu OutHistory content creators retain the commercial, for-profit use of their entries and permit the free, educational, not-for-profit use. <comments />
