Scoops: History First Published on OutHistory.org
OutHistory.org was founded to encourage members of the LGBTQ community and their friends to create content on the site. Here's a list of some of the remarkable content created by students, teachers, and the public.
Anonymous: Gay/Straight Alliance at West Windsor Plainsboro High School North, New Jersey
- A high school student writes in the first person about the formation of a Gay/Straight Alliance at her school.
Auer, Jeff: Groovy guy contest, Los Angeles and the Mr. David Contest, Florida
- Picturing the history of two gay male beauty contests. Also see other OutHistory entries by Jeff Auer.
John D'Emilio: OutHistory Entries Main Page
- A professor of history writes numbers of entries about Chicago's LGBTQ history. Simultaneously published in ChicagoGayHistory.com.
Rob Frydlewicz: History Through My Pink-Colored Glasses: Main Page
- OutHistory includes a blog, the personal take of one gay man on people and events in the past.
Gonzales, Anthony: Subway Sex Idols; New York City, 2008
- 21 Works by An Emerging Artist
Katz, Jonathan Ned: Americans in Württemberg Scandal, 1888
- A long historical essay about three Americans who got into trouble in Germany, in the late 19th century.
Katz, Jonathan Ned: Zapping the New York Academy of Medicine, April 6, 1976
- The original typescript of a speech only partly proclaimed at a political action against homophobic doctors.
Lind, Earl (Ralph Werther-Jennie June): The Riddle of the Underworld, 1921
- OutHistory announces the discovery of parts of the third volume of a transgender novel of 1921.
Nestle, Joan: Blog on History; Dexter and Diana: Voices in the Wind, 1950s-1990s
- The noted author, teacher, and co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, NY, writes an original series of memoirs for OutHistory.org.
Nestle, Joan: Blog on History; Thank You, Del Martin, 1921-2008
Nestle, Joan: Blog on History; The Kiss, 1950s-1990s
Nestle, Joan: Blog on History; Women's House of D, 1931-1974
Newton, Esther, and her Students: Lesbians in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1999
- A anthropologist curates an exhibit focusing specifically on lesbian United States history.
Park, Pauline: "Campaign for a Transgender Rights Law," NYC, June 2000-April 2002
- History of how the New York City transgender rights law came to be by one of its participants.
Pastor Schlegel Proposes to Organize Uranians in the U.S.: August 1903
- For the first time in English, OutHistory presents the documentation of a link between the homosexual emancipation movement in Germany and a German-American in the U.S.
Schlittler, Ron: Out and Elected in the U.S.A., 1974-2004
- An original exhibit of texts and photos of openly LGBT elected officials in the U.S.
Stein, Marc: Philadelphia LGBT History Project, 1945-1972
- Transcripts from Marc Stein's oral history interviews with some of Philly's leading gay activists.
Since Stonewall Local Histories Contest
- The winners and all the entries in OutHistory's popular local histories contest.
Stonewall Riot Police Reports, June 28, 1969
- OutHistory.org is the first to find and publish the original police reports of the Stonewall Riots of 1969.
Ullman, Sharon, and her Students: Queer Youth: On Campus and in the Media, 1947-2007
- A historian and her students provide an original essay about queer youth.
Weeks, Marshall: Postcards: Masculine Women, Feminine Men; early-20th c.
- A postcard collector presents numbers of his finds documenting what was thought to be gender deviance in the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
