OutHistory in Progress

Work in Progress for OutHistory.org

OPEN ENTRY: This entry is open to collaborative creation by anyone with evidence, citations, and analysis to share, so no particular, named creator is responsible for the accuracy and cogency of its content. Please use this entry's Comment section at the bottom of the page to suggest improvements about which you are unsure. Thanks.

D'Emilio

D'Emilio has given OutHistory permission to reprint numbers of his out of print and previously published essays that reflect on the writing of LGBTQ History. They will be scanned and posted as soon as time permits. The material includes: "Allan Berube's Gift to History". Texts from D'Emilio's Making Trouble: Esays on Gay History, Politics, and the University, will include:

"Capitalism and Gay Identity"

"Dreams Deferred: The Birth and Betrayal of America's First Gay Liberation Movement"

"The Homosexual Menace: The Politics of Sexuality in Cold War America"

"Gay Politics, Gay Community: San Francisco's Experience"

"Gay History: A New Field of Study"

"Not a Simple Matter: Gay History and Gay Historians"

"Making and Unmaking Minorities: The Tension Between Gay History and Politics"

Grier

Barbara Grier has allowed OutHistory.org to republish her bibliography on The Lesbian in Literature, a still useful research tool, to which the administrators of OutHistory will gradually add images of book jackets and other images.

Katz

Jonathan Ned Katz has given OutHistory permission to publish two original, never-before-published essays. The first is already on the site: Americans in Württemberg Scandal, 1888/Part 1. The second is: "Were the Nineties Gay?" Written for American Heritage Magazine, revised at the editor's request, then rejected when the editor got cold feet about publishing an article on gay history. OutHistory will also republish all of the out-of-print, out-of-copyright material in Katz's books Gay American History (1976) and Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983). This includes all out-of-copyright material on:

African Americans

the American colonial era

cross-dressing women and a few men

marriage and homosexuality

military service and homosexuality

Republications of Katz's essays will include:

"Katz on History" [18 articles from a column in The Advocate]

"Melvillve's Secret Sex Text" [on the novel Redburn], published in the Village Voice Literary Supplment.

McCaskell

Tim McCaskell is writing an entry on AIDS activism in Canada.

McGurl

Mimi McGurl is continuing to add to her entry on the WOW Theater from original sources.

Nestle and Marshall

Joan Nestle and Daniel Marshall, based in Australia, are working on a book project together and will create an entry in progress on OutHistory.org on its subject: LGBTTIQ Archives: Their Founding and Future.

Their call for data follows at: Nestle, Marshall: "Archiving Pleasures"; a history, in progress

Newton

Esther Newton is will be teaching a course on lesbian history and working with her students to add documents to the section she curated with the help of former students on Lesbians in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1999.

Palmer

Steven Palmer is researching and will be writing a text for an exhibit on LGBTQ hippie culture in San Francisco.

White

C. Todd White is continuing to add to the documents in his exhibit on The Pre-Gay Era in the USA, on the Homosexual Rights Movement in the US, 1950-1969

Whitman

A collector of colorful Walt Whitman memorabilia will be photographing choice items for display on OutHistory.org.

Collaborative Entries in Progress

Collaborative entries have been initiated on (1) Abraham Lincoln, Sexuality, and Intimacy; (2) Walt Whitman, Sexuality, and Intimacy (the first active collaboration began on the latter entry on July 3, 2008); and (3) ZAP! Art and the Gay and Lesbian Revolution.

Submit

If you would like to submit out-of-print or never-published work to which you own the copyright, please email the Project Coordinator at outhistory@gc.cuny.edu