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Featured Exhibits

From the exhibit Postcards: Masculine Women and Feminine Men

• Postcards: Masculine Women, Feminine Men
  (early 20th-century)

• Lesbian Theater History
  (1980)

• Pre-Gay Era, U.S.A.
  (1950s-1969)

• Queer Youth: On Campus, in the Media (1947-2007)

• Out and Elected in the USA
  (1974-2004)

• Colonial America: The Age of Sodomitical Sin
  (1607-1776)

Help OutHistory Make History

Here's how to participate in this website in development on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and, yes, heterosexual history.

Navigate Content To date, OutHistory has 2,488 articles. Users can "Search" topics of personal interest, view featured Exhibits, or Contents, or see Timelines, or explore a Random Page. Provide Content As an experiment in history by the people, all logged on users with data or documents and citations to share can create entries, or edit, add to, and improve any entry except those with a named author or curator, or those closed to protect their content. Practice editing in the Sandbox. For how to create entries, volunteer data, documents, citations, and edits, and to help with research, fact-checking, copyediting, administration, technical matters, graphic design, financial planning, publicity, and any other aspect of the site see Participate.

Discuss Content All users can comment on the site via the Discuss option on the Main Page top bar. All users can comment on a particular entry via the "Discuss” section of that entry. Fill in Stubs and Research Requests All users can search: Stub Categories (a list of all entries for which there is no or little content) and Stub Articles, and begin to fill in the data and citations. All users can also type "Research Request" in the Search box, see a list of research requests, and provide some data requested. All users can also create new stub entries for topics they would like to see filled in. Donate To help fund the development and continued life of this site see Donate.

OutHistory in Brief

OutHistory.org is directed by Jonathan Ned Katz and produced by The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), located at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The site's design and coordination are funded in 2007-2008 by a grant from the Arcus Foundation, and its content is provided by volunteers. For more about OutHistory.org, see About.