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You have a right to a past! Help OutHistory.org fight against forgetting
OutHistory.org encourages members of the LGBTQ community and their friends to create content on the site. We use MediaWiki software (like Wikipedia) to promote the public's participation. Just log in. Then click on CREATE on the top yellow bar. Carefully add your title, and then click again. You will be in EDIT mode and you will be able to type in your text.
PREVIEW your document to see what it looks by clicking on SHOW PREVIEW at the very bottom of the screen. Then be sure to SAVE it by clicking on SAVE PAGE, also at the bottom of the screen. You can also upload images via UPLOAD near the bottom of the left red bar. If you have any questions, please contact the OutHistory.org Coordinator at: outhistory@gc.cuny.edu
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Visualizing the Man-Monster: 1836Historians Jonathan Ned Katz and Tavia Nyong’o present "Visualizing the Man-Monster," an original on-line exhibit created for the debut of Pop-Up Soho, a production of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History. |
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Search OutHistory.org by Topic, Resource Type, or Other Interesting WaysSearch OutHistory.org by Century and by DecadeSearch OutHistory.org by U.S. States and by U.S. Counties |
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Rob Frydlewicz: Vatican Scapegoats Gay Seminarians, November 29, 2005OutHistory initiates a blog, the personal take of Rob Frydlewicz on people and events in the past as seen through one man's rose-hued lenses. Who is Rob? See: Rob Frydlewicz: History Through My Pink-Colored Glasses: Main Page |
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Winners: Since Stonewall Local Histories ContestView the winners and all the entries in the contest sponsored by OutHistory.org to research and write the local history of your village, town, city, county, or state since Stonewall in 1969. |
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ExhibitsExplore a list of historical exhibits on OutHistory.org. For example, look at Postcards: Masculine Women, Feminine Men; early-20th c. |
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Support OutHistory.org: Donate On Line or By MailHelp OutHistory.org keep making history. Every penny counts! From 2011 on, OutHistory.org depends completely on donations from individuals like yourself, who understand that preserving the LGBT past is a form of activism -- and a valuable public service. |
Participate: Help OutHistory.org Make HistoryOutHistory.org is unique in providing a freely accessible, non-profit, MediaWiki-based forum for LGBTQ community members and their friends to write and publish the documented history of the LGBT community. The focus for now is on the U.S. and its international relations. |
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The Daniel Hurewitz BlogHappy Birthday Audre Lorde! Audre Lorde would have been 77 on February 18, 2011, and hers is a voice that we would so benefit from hearing these days. Read this and other blogs by historian Daniel Hurwitz |
Liberating the LGBTQ Past to Understand the Present & Inspire the Future
OutHistory.org: Fighting Against Forgetting!
OutHistory.org is a freely accessible, community created, non-profit website on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and, yes, heterosexual history produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, directed by James Wilson. In its first four years it was supported by a generous grant from the Arcus Foundation (ending December 31, 2010), and contributions from individuals. OutHistory was awarded the 2010 Allan Berube Prize in Public History by the Committee on LGBT History of the American Historical Association.
- OutHistory.org Staff
- Coordinator: Lauren Gutterman: outhistory@gc.cuny.edu
- Founder, Co-Director: Jonathan Ned Katz, Independent Scholar and Author: (jnk134@mac.com)
- Co-Director: Daniel Hurewitz, Assistant Professor, Hunter College, NYC: daniel.hurewitz@hunter.cuny.edu
- Co-Director: Karen Miller, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and History, LaGuardia Community College: kamiller@lagcc.cuny.edu
For more about OutHistory see About.