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The website on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and, yes, heterosexual U.S. history that anyone with data and sources can edit

History of the Community, for the Community, by the Community

OutHistory.org: It's About Time!

What's NEW on OutHistory.org?

The best way to search OutHistory? Use the search box & try different terms. A future site redesign will improve the searches.

Search OutHistory.org by Century and by Decade

Search OutHistory.org by U.S. States and by U.S. Counties

Search OutHistory.org by Topic, Resource Type, or in Other Interesting Ways

Rich Wilson: Aspects of Queer Existence in 19th-Century America

A collector offers nineteenth-century LGBT images from his collection. Items in this on-line exhibit are more than just old prints, photographs, and books. They are artifacts telling us about our past.

CLAGS: Radically Gay, The Life & Visionary Legacy of Harry Hay, September 27-30, 2012

Celebrating Harry Hay on the 100th Anniversary of his birth.

Harry Hay: Founding the Mattachine Society, 1948-1953

Harry Hay: The House Un-American Committee, 1955

Photos of Harry Hay at Jonathan Ned Katz's: early 1983

Jim Steakley: Harry Hay, 1982

LGBT Identities, Communities, and Resistance in North Carolina, 1945-2012

Outhistory is grateful to 33 students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and their teacher David Palmer, for creating this multi-part entry on a state underrepresented in LGBT scholarship.

Press Release: Frank Millet, Archie Butt, and the Titanic at 100

Stories of two men who died on the Titanic. See also: Marie Grice Young and Ella Holmes White: Same-Sex Intimacy on the Titanic, 1912

Winners and All the Entries in OutHistory's Local Histories Contest

View the winners and all the entries in the contest sponsored by OutHistory.org to research and write the local LGBTQ history of your village, town, city, county, or state since Stonewall in 1969.

Exhibits

Explore some of the major historical exhibits on OutHistory.org. For example, look at Postcards: Masculine Women, Feminine Men; early-20th c.

Visualizing the Man-Monster: 1836

Historians Jonathan Ned Katz and Tavia Nyong’o present "Visualizing the Man-Monster," an original on-line exhibit created for the debut of Pop-Up Soho, a production of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History.

Rob Frydlewicz: Vatican Scapegoats Gay Seminarians, November 29, 2005

OutHistory initiates a blog, the personal take of Rob Frydlewicz on people and events in the past as seen through one man's rose-hued lenses. Who is Rob? See: Rob Frydlewicz: History Through My Pink-Colored Glasses: Main Page

Scoops: History First Published on OutHistory.org

Some of the original, community-created historical entries appearing on this website.

Mysteries to Solve: Historical Detective Work You Can Do

Research these clues and add your findings to OutHistory.org

Content Under Construction

See a list of some of the major content on OutHistory in the process of being created -- and see if you can help!

Participate: Help OutHistory.org Make History

You have a right to a past! Help OutHistory.org fight against forgetting

OutHistory.org encourages members of the LGBTQ community and their friends to create content on the site. We use MediaWiki software (like Wikipedia) to promote the public's participation in five easy steps.

1 Just log in.

2 Then click on "CREATE" on the top yellow bar and carefully add your title in the box.

3 Click again and you will be in EDIT mode and you can type your text under your page title.

4 Preview your document to see what it looks by clicking on "Show Preview" at the very bottom of the screen.

5 Then be sure to save your entry by clicking on "Save Page", also at the bottom of the screen.

You can also upload images via UPLOAD near the bottom of the left red bar. If you have any questions, please contact the OutHistory.org Co-Director Jonathan Ned Katz at jnk123@mac.com

OutHistory.org is unique in providing a freely accessible, non-profit, MediaWiki-based forum for LGBTQ community members and their friends to write and publish the documented history of the LGBT community. The focus for now is on the U.S. and its international relations.

Liberating the LGBTQ Past to Understand the Present & Inspire the Future

OutHistory.org: Making Up for Lost Time!

OutHistory.org is a freely accessible, community created, educational, non-profit website on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and, yes, heterosexual history.

Since September 2011 OutHistory is being directed by historians John D'Emilio at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in consultation with Jonathan Ned Katz, the independent scholar and founder of the site. Claire Bond Potter as a co-director in July 2013.

In its first four years, OutHistory was produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies directed, first, by Paisley Currah, then by Sarah Chinn, and most recently by James Wilson.

During its four founding years OutHistory was supported by a generous grant from the Arcus Foundation which ended December 31, 2010.

OutHistory was awarded the 2010 Allan Berube Prize in Public History by the Committee on LGBT History of the American Historical Association.

OutHistory.org Staff

'Co-Directors

Jonathan Ned Katz, Founder and Independent Scholar, New York City; John D'Emilio, Professor of History, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, and Claire Bond Potter, Professor of History, The New School for Public Engagement, New York City.

CONTACT: Founder, Co-Director: Jonathan Ned Katz, Independent Scholar and Author: jnk134@mac.com

For more about OutHistory see About.

A new way to donate to OutHistory.org is under construction

If you require immediate information about donating to OutHistory.org, please contact John D'Emilio at: Demilioj@aol.com

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+<h4>[[:Category:Places| Search OutHistory.org by U.S. States and by U.S. Counties]]</h4>
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+<h4>[[Rich Wilson: Aspects of Queer Existence in 19th-Century America]]</h4>A collector offers nineteenth-century LGBT images from his collection. Items in this on-line exhibit are more than just old prints, photographs, and books. They are artifacts telling us about our past.
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+<h4>[[CLAGS: Radically Gay, The Life & Visionary Legacy of Harry Hay, September 27-30, 2012]]</h4>
+Celebrating Harry Hay on the 100th Anniversary of his birth.
+<h4>[[Harry Hay: Founding the Mattachine Society, 1948-1953]]</h4>
+<h4>[[Harry Hay: The House Un-American Committee, 1955]]</h4>
+<h4>[[Photos of Harry Hay at Jonathan Ned Katz's: early 1983]]</h4>
+<h4>[[Jim Steakley: Harry Hay, 1982]]</h4>
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+<h4>[[LGBT Identities, Communities, and Resistance in North Carolina, 1945-2012]]</h4>
+Outhistory is grateful to 33 students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and their teacher David Palmer, for creating this multi-part entry on a state underrepresented in LGBT scholarship.
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+<h4>[[Press Release: Frank Millet, Archie Butt, and the Titanic at 100]]</h4>
+Stories of two men who died on the Titanic. See also: [[Marie Grice Young and Ella Holmes White: Same-Sex Intimacy on the Titanic, 1912]]
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+|
+<h4>[[Exhibit Entries|Winners and All the Entries in OutHistory's Local Histories Contest]]</h4>
+View the winners and all the entries in the contest sponsored by OutHistory.org to research and write the local LGBTQ history of your village, town, city, county, or state since Stonewall in 1969.
+|}
+----
+{|
+|-valign="top"
+|[[Image:Clagsweekspost27.jpg|150px]]
+|
+<h4>[[Exhibits | Exhibits]]</h4>
+Explore some of the major historical exhibits on OutHistory.org. For example, look at [[Postcards: Masculine Women, Feminine Men; early-20th c.]]
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+<h4>[[Visualizing the Man-Monster: Peter Sewally/Mary Jones, New York City, 1836|Visualizing the Man-Monster: 1836]]</h4>
+Historians Jonathan Ned Katz and Tavia Nyong’o present "Visualizing the Man-Monster," an original on-line exhibit created for the debut of Pop-Up Soho, a production of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History.
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+<h4>[[Rob Frydlewicz: Vatican Scapegoats Gay Seminarians, November 29, 2005]]</h4>
-In recognition of the momentous 1970s, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) will be holding a weekend long event/conference/ festival of lesbian history, culture, arts, scholarship, discussion, and performance from Friday, October 8 to Sunday, October 10th. The event will call upon experience, memory, and scholarship to represent as fully as possible the broad and wide experience of lesbians during the 1970s.
+OutHistory initiates a blog, the personal take of Rob Frydlewicz on people and events in the past as seen through one man's rose-hued lenses. Who is Rob? See: '''[[Rob Frydlewicz: History Through My Pink-Colored Glasses: Main Page]]'''
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+<h4>[[Scoops: History First Published on OutHistory.org]]</h4>
-View the winners of the "Since Stonewall Local Histories Contest". First place goes to “Man-i-fest: FTM Mentorship in San Francisco from 1976 – 2009.”  [[Stonewall Contest Winning Entries| See a complete list of winners and read what the judges had to say about the contest!]]
+Some of the original, community-created historical entries appearing on this website.
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-|<h4>[[La Guardia and Wagner Archives, City Council Collection]]</h4>
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+<h4>[[Mysteries to Solve: Historical Detective Work You Can Do]]</h4>
-Using materials from the La Guardia and Wagner Archives at La Guardia Community College, this exhibit provides a glimpse of events and documents that have helped change New York City laws as they relate to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities.
+Research these clues and add your findings to OutHistory.org
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-|<h4>[[Exhibits | Exhibits]]</h4>
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+<h4>[[Content Under Construction]]</h4>
-Explore a thorough listing of historical exhibits on OutHistory.org.
+See a list of some of the major content on OutHistory in the process of being created -- and see if you can help!
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-|<h4>[[Participate| Participate: Help OutHistory.org Make History]]</h4>
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+<h4>[[Participate| Participate: Help OutHistory.org Make History]]</h4>
-OutHistory.org is unique in providing a freely accessible, non-profit forum for LGBTQ community members and their friends, including independent and academy-based scholars, to write and publish the history of the LGBT community. The focus for now is on the U.S. and its international relations.
+You have a right to a past! '''Help OutHistory.org fight against forgetting'''
+OutHistory.org encourages members of the LGBTQ community and their friends to create content on the site. We use MediaWiki software (like Wikipedia) to promote the public's participation in five easy steps.
+:1 Just log in.
+:2 Then click on "CREATE" on the top yellow bar and carefully add your title in the box.
+:3 Click again and you will be in EDIT mode and you can type your text under your page title.
+:4 Preview your document to see what it looks by clicking on "Show Preview" at the very bottom of the screen.
+:5 Then be sure to save your entry by clicking on "Save Page", also at the bottom of the screen.
-OutHistory.org includes articles marked “Open Entry”. These are collaboratively and anonymously created by logged-on users with evidence, citations, and analysis to share. Here’s how to create an [http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Help:Create_an_Open_Entry “Open Entry”]
+You can also upload images via UPLOAD near the bottom of the left red bar. If you have any questions, please contact the OutHistory.org Co-Director Jonathan Ned Katz at jnk123@mac.com
+OutHistory.org is unique in providing a freely accessible, non-profit, MediaWiki-based forum for LGBTQ community members and their friends to write and publish the documented history of the LGBT community. The focus for now is on the U.S. and its international relations.
+|}
+----
+==Liberating the LGBTQ Past to Understand the Present & Inspire the Future==
+=OutHistory.org: Making Up for Lost Time!=
+OutHistory.org is a freely accessible, community created, educational, non-profit website on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and, yes, heterosexual history.
-OutHistory.org also includes articles marked “Protected Entry”. These are by named, logged-on creators and can be edited only by that creator or site administrators. So the named author is responsible for the entry’s accuracy, clarity, and source citations. Upon request, the Coordinator of OutHistory.org will protect an entry by a named author from changes. Here’s how to create a [http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Help:Create_a_Protected_Entry_by_a_Named_Author Protected Entry]
+Since September 2011 OutHistory is being directed by historians John D'Emilio at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in consultation with Jonathan Ned Katz, the independent scholar and founder of the site. Claire Bond Potter as a co-director in July 2013.
-For more about how to participate in OutHistory.org see [http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Help:Participate Participate]
+In its first four years, OutHistory was produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies directed, first, by Paisley Currah, then by Sarah Chinn, and most recently by James Wilson.
-{|
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-<h4>[[Why_OutHistory_Needs_Your_Support%21| Donate]]</h4>
+During its four founding years OutHistory was supported by a generous grant from the Arcus Foundation which ended December 31, 2010.
-Please contribute to help keep OutHistory.org developing. Every penny counts! From 2011 on, OutHistory.org will depend on donations from individuals like yourself, who understand that preserving the LGBT past is a form of activism -- and a valuable public service.
-|}
-=About OutHistory=
+OutHistory was awarded the 2010 Allan Berube Prize in Public History by the Committee on LGBT History of the American Historical Association.
-OutHistory.org is a freely accessible, community created, non-profit website on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and, yes, heterosexual history produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, directed by Sarah Chinn. In its first four years it was supported by a generous grant from the Arcus Foundation (ending December 31, 2010), and contributions from individuals. OutHistory was awarded the 2010 Allan Berube Prize in Public History by the Committee on LGBT History of the American Historical Association.
-'''OutHistory.org Staff'''
+===OutHistory.org Staff===
-'''Coordinator:''' Lauren Gutterman: outhistory@gc.cuny.edu
+'''Co-Directors''
-'''Founder, Co-Director:''' Jonathan Ned Katz, Independent Scholar and Author:  (jnk134@mac.com)
+Jonathan Ned Katz, Founder and Independent Scholar, New York City; John D'Emilio, Professor of History, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, and Claire Bond Potter, Professor of History, The New School for Public Engagement, New York City.
-'''Co-Director:''' Daniel Hurewitz, Associate Professor, Hunter College, NYC: daniel.hurewitz@hunter.cuny.edu
+CONTACT: ''Founder, Co-Director:'' Jonathan Ned Katz, Independent Scholar and Author:  jnk134@mac.com
-'''Co-Director:''' Karen Miller, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and History, LaGuardia Community College: kamiller@lagcc.cuny.edu
+For more about OutHistory see [[About]].
+----
-For more about OutHistory see [[About]].
+{|
-=OutHistory.org: IT'S ABOUT TIME!=
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-<comments />
+|
+<h4>A new way to donate to OutHistory.org is under construction</h4>
+If you require immediate information about donating to OutHistory.org, please contact John D'Emilio at: Demilioj@aol.com
+|}
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