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

Seminar in the City OutHistory.org is holding a free workshop series beginning Thursday, October 7th, at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room C 196.02, from 6-8 pm. At the workshop you'll learn how to use OutHistory.org to preserve and publicize your personal history, writings, artwork or collections.

Today's History: The OutHistory Blog Gay Suicides Stay in the News Clearly if, over the last 40 years, we have successfully changed the homophobic culture of a large number of American workplaces, then we do, in fact, have the tools and skills to change the culture of America's schools as well. We just need to borrow those tools from one environment and apply them to another.... Link to the OutHistory Blog for reflections on this recent news story.

In Amerika they Call Us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the 1970s 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.

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La Guardia and Wagner Archives, City Council Collection 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.

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

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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, 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.

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In a story headed “Schomburg Center in Harlem Acquires Maya Angelou Archive”, the New York Times reports:

Ms. Angelou said that transparency about her life and work connected her to a long African-American tradition of preserving and retelling personal history.

“Hold those things that tell your history and protect them,” she said. “During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‘I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.’ ”(Felicia R. Lee, “Schomburg Center in Harlem Acquires Maya Angelou Archive,” October 26, 2010. Accessed October 27, 2010.)

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