Documents
The OutHistory website contains document-focused collections from the LGBT movement.
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Jumping Overboard: Interpreting Evidence About Same Sex-Love
An exploration of the brief but significant life of educator Juliette Derricotte
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Transgender Children in Antebellum America
This exhibit explores a series of stories published in children’s books and magazines in antebellum America. Some portray children being punished for transgressing gender roles, others expose the range of traits, actions, habits, and expressions that…
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LGBT Identities, Communities, and Resistance in North Carolina, 1945-2012
LGBT Identities, Communities, and Resistance in North Carolina, 1945-2012” is a project produced by thirty-three students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of their requirements for the advanced undergraduate…
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Rainbow Richmond: LGBTQ History of Richmond, VA
Richmond is an old place, at least in American terms. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people have always been a part of its history. This exhibit is dedicated to all those who challenged the norms of society, who lived free and honest lives,…
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Man-i-fest: FTM Mentorship in San Francisco from 1976 - 2009
Man-i-fest follows the letters of Lou Sullivan to David, highlighting the topics and mentors that shape the FTM community in San Francisco from 1976-2009. The central items in the exhibit will come from Gateway: the newsletter of Golden Gate…
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The History of the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, San Francisco, California, 1971-2004
This is a short history of the Alice B. Toklas Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Democratic Club. This history explains how the club got started in San Francisco, California as the first registered LGBT Democratic Club in the nation. The history…
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Earl Lind (Ralph Werther-Jennie June): The Riddle of the Underworld, 1921
OutHistory is deeply grateful to Randall Sell, for allowing us to publish his discovery, and to Ted Faigle, for all his work transcribing the manuscript.
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Colonial America: The Age of Sodomitical Sin
The years from 1607 to 1783 constitute the founding era of what became the United States. This exhibit presents or references all the original documents that Jonathan Ned Katz collected in his books Gay American History (1976) and Gay/Lesbian Almanac…
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Documents and Photos Related to the Campaign for a Gay Rights Bill in NYC
This exhibit provides a glimpse of events and documents that have helped change New York City laws as they relate to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. The materials shown here are housed at the La Guardia and Wagner…
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Native Americans / Gay Americans 1528-1976
These documents on male and female homosexuality among American Indians present years of testimony from a wide variety of observers: military men, missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, settlers, and later, medical doctors, anthropologists, and…