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Volunteer: Help OutHistory Make LGBTQ and Heterosexual History

Users are encouraged to participate in creating content and administering OutHistory, following the site’s Contributors’ Guidelines. For copyright information, see Terms of Use at the bottom of this page.

Kinds of Volunteers Needed and Ways to Participate

* Administrators: People with administrative skills may volunteer to help with the administration of OutHistory.org by emailing outhistory@gc.cuny.edu.

* Artists: Visual and audio artists may contribute on-line art works inspired by LGBTQ history. To volunteer an art work email outhistory@gc.cuny.edu.

* Authors: Authors may contribute out-of-print but still valuable historical articles and books to which the copyright has reverted to the author. They may also contribute still valuable unpublished historical chapters deleted from published books, and never published historical articles. To volunteer a text email outhistory@gc.cuny.edu.

* Collectors: Collectors of LGBTQ artifacts of all kinds can scan and volunteer to exhibit on OutHistory selections of their most visually interesting, unique, and valuable items. To volunteer an exhibit based on a collection, email outhistory@gc.cuny.edu. For an example, also see: Jonathan Ned Katz: My Collectibles and Collecting

* Content Providers: Content Wanted Priorities: LGBT Legal History: U.S. and Worldwide; LGBT Marriage: A History; LGBT Organizational Histories; LGBT People and the U.S. Military: A History.

Content on OutHistory marked by a yellow "Open" box is created collaboratively by anyone with data, documents, and source citations to share.

Content marked by a gray box and labeled "Protected" is volunteered by or solicited from named writers, independent scholars, institutionally-based researchers, archivists, collectors, and the public

* Copy editors: People with copy-editing skills may volunteer to copy edit OutHistory entries by emailing outhistory@gc.cuny.edu.

* Creators of New, Open, Collaborative Articles: All logged-on users may create new, open, collaboratively created articles by carefully choosing a title, including a date if possible, typing the title in the search box, and opening, editing, and saving the article. Please use the "Format for Open, Collaborative Entries" found in the Help section.

Content on OutHistory marked by a yellow "Open" box is created collaboratively by anyone with data, documents, and source citations to share.

* Creators of New, Open, Collaborative Stub Articles: Create new open, collaboratively created entries for which there is no or little content, then, if you wish, begin fill in the incomplete article. Please use the "Format for Open, Collaboratively Created Entries" found in the Help section.

Content on OutHistory marked by a yellow "Open" box is created collaboratively by anyone with data, documents, and source citations to share.

* Creators of New Protected Articles: All logged-on users may contribute new articles signed by them, and protected against editing by anyone but them and site administrators. To volunteer a signed, protected article email outhistory@gc.cuny.edu.

* Creators of New Timeline Entries: In "Edit" mode, at the bottom of all entries an "Article timeline" asks users to fill in "From" and "To" years, and, if available, months and days. Filling in "From" and "To" years will ensure that a "Timeline" search via "MORE" will result in a list of articles that fall within that year or years.

* Creators of New Timeline Stub Entries: Users can suggest or add a timeline stub.

* Discussants: All users can freely discuss the site or discuss a particular article or timeline entry, including stub articles (see below). Suggestions for additions to or changes in the site and in entries will be seriously considered by all of us who work to improve the content to the site.

* Editors: People with editorial skills may volunteer to help edit OutHistory entries by emailing outhistory@gc.cuny.edu.

* Financial Contributors: Users of OutHistory.org can contribute financially to its development and maintenance by donating to it.

* Fundraisers: People with fundraising skills can contribute to OutHistory's fundraising strategies by emailing outhistory@gc.cuny.edu.

"* Photographers: Professional and amateur photographs may contribute photos relevant to LGBTQ history by emailing outhistory@gc.cuny.edu, and asking for instructions on uploading. Or just consult "Help" and "Uploading".

* Researchers: People with research skills may search stub articles and fill in missing information, and search research requests and fill in the requested data.

* Teachers: Teachers and Students can work with each other to submit content to the site. Before participating, please study the Contributors’ Guidelines.

* Uploaders of Content: Users can offer documents: audio recordings, court records, diaries, letters, photographs, publications, movies, video, or other evidence relevant to LGBTQ history for which permission to publish has been obtained.

If you want to participate in some way, but your questions are not answered here or elsewhere on the site, please email OutHistory at outhistory@gc.cuny.edu