OutHistory in Progress
Work in Progress for OutHistory.org
John D'Emilio
D'Emilio has given OutHistory permission to reprint numbers of his out of print and previously published essays that reflect on the writing of LGBTQ History. They will be scanned and posted as soon as time permits. The material includes:
- "Allan Berube's Gift to History"
Texts from D'Emilio's Making Trouble: Esays on Gay History, Politics, and the University, will include:
- "Capitalism and Gay Identity"
- "Dreams Deferred: The Birth and Betrayal of America's First Gay Liberation Movement"
- "The Homosexual Menace: The Politics of Sexuality in Cold War America"
- "Gay Politics, Gay Community: San Francisco's Experience"
- "Gay History: A New Field of Study"
- "Not a Simple Matter: Gay History and Gay Historians"
- "Making and Unmaking Minorities: The Tension Between Gay History and Politics"
Joan Nestle and Daniel Marshall
Nestle and Marshall are working on a book project together and will create an entry in progress on OutHistory.org on its subject: LGBTTIQ Archives: Their Founding and Future.
- Their call for data follows:
- Archiving Pleasures: an international history of the founding and the future of LGBTIQ archives
- Call for contributions for new book by Joan Nestle, co-founder Lesbian Herstory Archives, NYC and Daniel Marshall, La Trobe University / Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
- The Project
- Thirty years ago, in places as far apart as New York City and Melbourne, LGBTIQ activists and their allies built community archives from almost nothing. In so doing, they innovated new archival practices, built new ways of
doing community around the archives' collections and in many ways transformed conventional ideas about what archiving was, what was worth collecting and whose history ultimately counted.Thirty years on these archives face new questions and at the same time their founders are looking more and more to another generation to continue their work.
- Scope of book
This book will chart the historical development of LGBTIQ archives around the world, using first hand accounts of those who dreamt and built such collections, moving from the 1960s to the present time. Now is the time to publish such a work, as these archives and their founders undertake intergenerational handover and transition. This book will focus on the tensions and the pleasures of divergent ways of doing queer archiving that are brought into focus by international and intergenerational perspectives.
- Your Contributions
- We seek:
- Personal accounts of the creation of LGBTIQ archives since the 1970s.
- Reflections by users of collections, including reflections on the types of communities (e.g. grassroots, institutional, public), knowledges, pleasures and tensions produced by these archives;
- Contemporary experiences of generational transition within
archives; and
- The challenges faced by LGBTIQ archival projects in the 21st century.
- Manuscripts can be between 10 -15 manuscript pages. However, it is
our desire for the book to incorporate a range of writing styles - including critical and historical essays, memoir, roundtable discussions and commentaries using excerpts from archival materials such as oral histories or photographs. We will always be available to talk with our contributors as they develop ideas about their contributions. Contributions are welcome in all languages.
- Please send us a description of your proposed contribution by September 1, 2008. Drafts are due by 1 December 2008.
- Joan Nestle, Co-founder, Lesbian Herstory Archives, NYC, USA: cellonest@yahoo.com
- Dr Daniel Marshall, La Trobe University: Daniel.Marshall@latrobe.edu.au
- 1st Floor, 215 Franklin St. Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
- Dr Daniel Marshall, Research Fellow,Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society La Trobe University, Room 1.12, 1st Floor, 215 Franklin St Melbourne 3000, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9285 5160. Email: Daniel.Marshall@latrobe.edu.au URL: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/staff/daniel.html
Jonathan Ned Katz
Katz has given OutHistory permission to publish a number of original, never-before-published essays, and all of the out-of-print, out-of-copyright material in his books Gay American History (1976) and Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983). This includes all out-of-copyright material on:
- African Americans
- American colonial era
- cross-dressing men and women
- marriage and homosexuality
- military service and homosexuality
Republications of Katz's works will include:
"Katz on History" [18 articles from a column in The Advocate] "Melvillve's Secret Sex Text" [on the novel Redburn], published in the Village Voice Literary Supplment.
Katz's works on OutHistory will also include a never published essay written for American Heritage Magazine: "Were the Nineties Gay?
Tim McCaskell
McCaskell is writing an entry on AIDS activism in Canada.
Mimi McGurl
McGurl is continuing to add to her entry on the WOW Theater from original sources.
Collaborative Entries in Progress
Also in work are collaborative entries on Abraham Lincoln; ZAP! Art and the Gay and Lesbian Revolution; Walt Whitman, Sexuality, and Intimacy.
If you would like to submit out-of-print or never-published work to which you own the copyright, please email the Project Coordinator at ??????
