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Sally: A 2023 Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Deborah Craig, by Julie R. Enszer

When Henry Wrote to Jim: The Letters of Henry Gerber to Jim Egan, 1951, by Donald W. McLeod

Transgender Men, 1876-1936, by Emily Skidmore

The Marlin Beach Affair: From Homosexual "Presence" to Gay "Community," by Fred Fejes

State LGBT History Education Laws, 2011-2021, by Marc Stein

“We Were The Movement": Lesbian Activism in the Boston Reproductive Rights Movement, by Sara Slager

LGBT Direct Action Bibliography, Chronology, and Inventory, by Marc Stein

The Eve Adams Archive, by Jonathan Ned Katz

Who Was Jennie June?, by Channing Joseph

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and "The Female World of Love and Ritual," A 2021 Interview, by Matthew Hauptman

Lucien Price: Homosexual Emancipation Pioneer (1883 - 1964), by Jonathan Ned Katz

"Where Perversion Is Taught": The Untold History of a Gay Rights Demonstration at Bucks County Community College, May 9, 1968, by Marc Stein

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