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Revision as of 13:35, 1 July 2008
Documenting the LGBTQ past in the USA. It's Timely!
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Featured Exhibits
Help OutHistory Make History
Here's how to participate in this website in development on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and, yes, heterosexual history.
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To date, OutHistory has 2,488 articles. Users can "Search" keywords, search by month, day, and year, by century or decade, or by time era, or view featured Exhibits, survey Contents, or browse a Random Page. Provide Content As an experiment in history by the people, all logged on users with data, documents, citations, or skills to share can create entries, or edit, add to, and improve any entry except those with a named creator, or those closed to protect their content. Practice editing in the Sandbox. For how to create entries, volunteer data, documents, citations, and edits, and to help with research, fact-checking, copyediting, administration, technical matters, graphic design, fundraising, publicity, and any other aspect of the site see Participate. |
Discuss Content
All users can comment on the site via the Discuss option on the Main Page top bar. All users can comment on a particular entry via the "Discuss” section of that entry.
All users can search: Stub Categories (a list of all categories for which there is no or little content) and Stub Articles, and begin to fill in the data and citations. All users can also view the category Research Requests to fill in missing information. All users can also create new stub entries for topics they would like to see filled in.
To help fund the development and continued life of this site see Donate. |
Two Sources of Content
OutHistory has two souces of content: (1) entries provided by named creators which can only be edited by those creators and site administrators, marked by a gray box and "Protected Entry" text. Here is an example:
(2) Content provided by any signed on user and open to public collaboration, marked by a yellow box and "Open Entry" text. Here is and example:
OutHistory in Brief
OutHistory.org is directed by Jonathan Ned Katz and produced by The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), located at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The CLAGS OutHistory Project Director is Lauren Gutterman. The site's coordination, design, and maintenance are funded in 2007-2008 by a grant from the Arcus Foundation, and its content is provided by volunteers. For more about OutHistory.org, see About.
