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Create an exhibit about the history of LGBTQ life in your town, village, county, city or state over the past 40 years. '''17 ENTRIES''' so far...[[Exhibit Entries| Take a look at the competition]]
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'''LGBT social spaces are probably more defined by their flux than their continuity.''' The number of bars, restaurants, shops and organizations that have come into existence, burned bright, and then faded away far exceeds the number that have remained constant year after year. Indeed, it is no doubt the rarity of the long-lasting institutions that makes them so significant.  '''''NEXT Magazine'' in New York has just published a Manhattan map''' showing the local haunts that closed their doors for a final time during the last decade. It's an impressive collection of places that, for a time, seemed like permanent fixtures. And yet, time rolls along. Take a [http://www.nextmagazine.com/nexus/rip-cemetery-manhattans-gay-bars-clubs look] and make sure you enlarge it!
 
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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, supported by a generous grant from the Arcus Foundation, and contributions from individuals. For more about OutHistory see [http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/About About].  
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer History

by the LGBTQ Community: Fight Against Forgetting

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Since Stonewall Local Histories Contest

Contest deadline has passed! Winners of the Since Stonewall Local Histories Contest will be announced at the end of June. Check out the more than 30 local LGBTQ history exhibits submitted!


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Highlighted this Week on OutHistory.org: Faith S. Holsaert's "Chosen Girl"

Read this long short story, set in 1950s Greenwich Village, about the love between two women, one white, one black, as observed by the white woman's daughter.


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Exhibits

Explore a thorough listing of historical exhibits on OutHistory.org.


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Participate: Help OutHistory.org Make History

Create exhibits, edit pages, comment on entries, upload photos, audio, video, help administer OutHistory.org. CAN YOU PROVIDE US WITH A HISTORICAL SCOOP, a bit of data that's new and interesting? If so, email OutHistory's co-director Jonathan Ned Katz at jnk123@mac.com


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Find out how you can donate to help keep OutHistory.org alive. Every penny counts!



About OutHistory

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, supported by a generous grant from the Arcus Foundation, and contributions from individuals. OutHistory has been awarded the 2010 Allan Berube Prize in Public History by the Committee on LGBT History of the American Historical Association For more about OutHistory see About. <comments />