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Free. Interesting. Reliable. Educational. It's About Time! Welcome to this prototype in development of OutHistory.org, a website about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history. Directed by historian Jonathan Ned Katz, and coordinated by Lynley Wheaton, OutHistory is produced by The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and funded by a two-year grant from the Arcus Foundation. For more about OutHistory.org, see About. To date, OutHistory has 2,488 articles. Discuss Please explore the site and comment on it using the "Discuss" option on this page. Comment on a particular entry by using the "Discuss” section of each article. Create Content This is a site to which we urge users to contribute content. Take a look at the Participate page and find out how to create entries, submit documents, and offer research, copyediting, administrative, graphic design, and other skills. If you are ready to create content, see Help for first steps. Donate: And please visit the Donate page and help fund the development of this site.

Featured Exhibits OutHistory’s featured exhibits are curated by scholars or presented by knowledgeable researchers or collectors. They provide a focused look at a few, particular aspects of LGBTQ history. If you can help us expand the range of queer histories covered in future exhibits, please email outhistory@gc.cuny.edu. Out and Elected in the U.S.A Photographed, Researched, and Written by Ron Schlittler Between April 1998 and November 2002, Ron Shlittler traveled across the United States interviewing and photographing people who were openly gay or lesbian and who had at some time been elected to public office in the U.S. This exhibit showcases Schlittler's remarkable historical work, and provides information on 115 elected officials. Lesbian Theater Curated by Mimi McGurl This exhibit focuses on lesbian theatre history with an emphasis on the story of New York’s WOW Café and Theatre. This exhibit provides a wealth of primary sources from the personal papers of the founders of the theatre. If you have any additional photographs, programs, or other materials about WOW, please let us know or add that information to our database. Queer Youth - On Campus and in the Media Curated by Sharon Ullman This queer youth exhibit focuses on activism on college and high school campuses as well as representations of queer youth in the media. This exhibit was researched by Bryn Mawr and Haverford students for a class on the History of Sexuality in America. Topics range from the Gay Straight Alliances to the Gay Liberation Front, to hate crimes perpetrated against at-risk youth in the second half of the twentieth century. If you are a teacher or student at another college or university, please tell us about the history of LGBTQ organizing on your campus. The Pre-Gay Era in the USA Curated by C. Todd White This exhibit features homosexual rights organizations and publications in the U.S. from the 1950s to 1969. It provides exciting primary sources such as articles from ONE and Tangents magazines, a complete inventory of ONE’s Blanche M. Baker Library as it was in 1965, biographical profiles of key activists of the era, images of covers of pulp novels from the 1950s and ’60s, and a complete index of the contents of ONE, Mattachine Review, and The Ladder. Chicago Curated by John D’Emilio The first of what we hope will be many exhibits concentrating on the history of a particular city, town, or geographical area, this exhibit presents some important documents LGBTQ Chicago, from 19XX through 2008. People of African Descent Curated by Tavia Nyong’o Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Colonial America: The Age of Sodomitical Sin Curated by Jonathan Ned Katz The years from 1706 to 1776 are, of course, the founding era of what became the United States, years that historian Jonathan Ned Katz calls "The Age of Sodomitical Sin." In the early years of this era, in these American colonies, the penalty for sodomy was death, and a number of executions are documented. Why was sodomy, usually conceived of as anal intercourse between men, thought of as treason against the state, and punished so harshly? And what do we know of sexual and intimate relationships between women in these years? This exhibit presents or references all the original documents that Katz collected in his books Gay/Lesbian Almanac and Gay American History, as well as evidence discovered since those publications. Transgender Curated by XXXXXXXXXX, with the assistance of Tey Meadow This exhibit presents documented accounts of people whose ways of acting and dressing, and whose identifications did not conform with the dominant gender and sexual norms of their time. Asking how each of these people perceived and named themselves, and how others responded to them, provides insights into the changing social and historical organization of gender and sexuality through the examination of particular lives. Native Americans Curated by XXXXXXXX Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Postcards: Masculine Women and Feminine Men Images from the collection of Marshall Weeks A collection of forty colorful, amusing postcards dating to the early-twentieth-century reflect that era's popular culture, and its concerns about "masculine" women, "feminine" men, "fairies" and "sissy boys." For viewers today these postcards are entertaining and revealing of an era.

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Lesbian Theatre

Curated by Mimi McGurl

This exhibit focuses on the lesbian theatre with an emphasis on the history of New York’s WOW Café and Theatre. This exhibit provides a wealth of primary sources from the personal papers of the founders of the theatre.

Queer Youth - On Campus and in the Media

Curated by Sharon Ullman

The queer youth exhibit focuses on activism on college and high school campuses as well as representations of queer youth in the media. This exhibit was researched by Bryn Mawr and Haverford students for a class on the History of Sexuality in America. Topics range from GSA’s to GLF to hate crimes perpetrated against at risk youth in the second half of the twentieth century.

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