Exhibits
"A View From My Window: The Christopher Street Liberation Day March, 1970-1985"Explore fifteen years of the New York City Pride Parade through Suzanne Poli's exceptional photographs. |
Blog on HistoryJoan Nestle, co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives offers a series of musings on lesbian history in these pages. |
Campaign for a New York City Transgender Rights LawRead about the campaign for a transgender rights law in New York City between 2000 and 2002. This exhibit was created by Pauline Park, co-chair and co-founder of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA). |
Colonial America: The Age of Sodomitical Sin, 1607-1776Learn about sexual activity and its punishment in the founding era of what became the United States. |
Come Out! MagazineLook through PDFs of Come Out! magazine, a gay liberation-era publication. |
Coming Out Into Come Out!Read about the coming out experience of Gay Liberationist Perry Brass. |
Edward Field: 1924-presentLearn about the life of gay poet Edward Field. |
Gender-Crossing Women, 1782-1920Examine primary documents reprinted from Jonathan Ned Katz's Gay American History about the lives of women who lived as men. |
John D'Emilio: History and Me, 1950-2008Read John D'Emilio's series of articles for the Windy City Times about Chicago's gay history and his own career as an historian of sexuality. |
Jonathan Ned Katz, Recalling My Play "Coming Out!" June 1972Read Jonathan's contemporary reflections on his 1972 play. |
The Lesbian in LiteratureThis page features a searchable edition of Barbara Grier's bibliography The Lesbian in Literature. |
Lesbians in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1999Scholar Esther Newton and her graduate students explore the history of lesbian identity from 1900 to 1999 in this exhibit. |
National Coming Out DayRead about the history of National Coming Out Day, October 11th. |
Native Americans/Gay Americans; 1528-1976Look through this collection of primary documents describing homosexuality among Native Americans. |
Out and Elected in the USA: 1974-2004Learn about 107 openly gay or lesbian people elected to public office in the U.S. before 2004 in this exhibit, photographed, researched, and written by Ron Schlittler. |
Photography Collection: Gender Bending WomenExplore photographs from the early-twentieth century of women wearing masculine clothing. Photos in this exhibit were submitted by collector Sharon Weinman. |
Polk Street History ProjectCheck out this exhibit about LGBTQ communities in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, created by 2008 OutHistory.org Fellowship winner Joey Plaster. |
Postcards: Masculine Women, Feminine Men; early-20th c.These postcards from the collection of Marshall Weeks depict "masculine" women and "sissy boys." |
The Pre-Gay Era in the USA: 1950-1969C. Todd White’s exhibit describes homosexual rights activists, organizations, and publications in the U.S. before the Stonewall riots. |
Queer BronzevilleLearn about the development of queer communities in Bronzeville, a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. This exhibit was created by 2008 OutHistory.org Fellowship winner Tristan Cabello. |
Queer Youth: On Campus and in the Media, 1947-2007Undergraduate students at Haveford and Bryn Mawr created this exhibit about activism on college and high school campuses as well as queer youth in the media. |
Stonewall Riot Police ReportsExamine newly obtained documents revealing the name of a woman and three men arrested at the Stonewall riot! |