OutHistory.org Prizes
The American Historical Association's Committee on LGBT History issued the following press release:
"The Allan Bérubé Prize, underwritten by the GLBT Historical Society in
San Francisco, is awarded for outstanding work in public or
community-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer
history.
This year’s inaugural Bérubé Prize is awarded to OutHistory (founded
by Jonathan Ned Katz, staffed by Lauren Gutterman, produced by the
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City of University of New
York Graduate Center, and funded by individual donations and grants
from the Arcus Foundation), and to the Polk Street Oral History
Project (produced by Joey Plaster with the support of the GLBT
Historical Society in San Francisco, the California Council for the
Humanities, and the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies).
OutHistory (OutHistory.org<) is an extraordinary website that
features a wide range of LGBT historical materials and exhibits generated and
produced by a diverse and ever-growing collection of students,
scholars, and others interested in LGBT history. With impressive
accomplishments during its short life and even greater potential for
growth in the future, OutHistory is a deserving recipient of the
inaugural Bérubé Prize.
For different reasons, the Polk Street Oral History Project
(www.glbthistory.org/PolkProject<) is equally deserving. Based on a
study of a San Francisco neighborhood in transition, this project has
consisted of a multimedia exhibit, a radio documentary, an oral
history component, and a set of community-based conversations. The
well-designed web-based elements provide ample evidence of the
project’s sensitive explorations of race, class, gender, and
sexuality; its focus on homelessness, poverty, drugs, and AIDS; and
its interest in the voices and experiences of LGBT youth, immigrant,
transgender, poor, and working-class cultures.
Part of the Polk Street Oral History Project is featured on OutHistory.org as well. Check it out here:
Many thanks to all our contributors for making OutHistory.org a success!
