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Barbara Gittings: Founding the New York Daughters of Bilitis in 1958, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Barbara Gittings interviewed by Jonathan Ned Katz in 1974 about her development as a Lesbian, and about the founding and early history of the New York Daughters of Bilitis.
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Bars and the Queer Economy, 2017, by Jeffrey Escoffier and Christopher Mitchel
Writing about queer bars and drag culture in the 1972 classic Mother Camp, Esther Newton observed that queer communities had “an economics but no economy.” In this exhibit, Jeffrey Escoffier and Christopher Mitchell address the economics of gay bars…
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Bleeding Blue, White, and Rainbow in State College, PA, 1969-2010
The author of this feature on LGBTQ life at Penn State asked to remain anonymous. Published October 23, 2013.
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Blue-Collar Queers, an Introduction to Steel Closets, 2014, by Anne Balay
Anne Balay provided OutHistory with an original introduction to her book, Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers, published by the University of North Carolina Press, in 2014.
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Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1967), by Marc Stein
This was originally published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1967 ruling in Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which upheld the deportation of Clive Michael Boutilier, a Canadian citizen and U.S.…
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Carl Schlegel: Pioneering U.S. Gay Activist, 1906-1907, by Jonathan Ned Katz
The proselytizing of one of the earliest U.S. homosexual emancipation activists, the Rev. Carl Schlegel, was documented for the first time and published June 1, 2019, on OutHistory to honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. Last edit:…
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Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and "The Female World of Love and Ritual," A 2021 Interview by Matthew Hauptman
An interview with the author of a groundbreaking 1975 essay on lesbian history.
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Challenging Gender Boundaries: A Trans Biography Project by Students of Catherine Jacquet
A collection of biographies written by the students in Catherine Jacquet's Fall 2012 class at the University of Illinois, Chicago. The class was titled "Gender Non-Conformity in Historical Perspective."
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Chicago Stories, 2008, by John D'Emilio
A series of articles by John D'Emilio written for the Windy City Times about Chicago's gay history and his own career as an historian of sexuality. Published on OutHistory February 5, 2013.
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Colonial America: The Age of Sodomitical Sin, 1607-1783, by Jonathan Ned Katz
The years from 1607 to 1783 constitute the founding era of what became the United States. In the early years of this era, in these American colonies, the penalty for sodomy was death, and a number of executions are documented. Sodomy was usually…
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Come Out! Newspaper, 1969-1972
This exhibit presents digital copies of Come Out!, the newspaper of New York City's Gay Liberation Front.
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Coming Out Into Come Out!, 1969-1972, by Perry Brass
Gay activist Perry Brass tells of his work with the Gay Liberation Front in New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including his story of coming out of the closet publicly through the GLF's newspaper Come Out!.
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Coming Out! A Documentary Play, 1972, by Jonathan Ned Katz
A collection of items about a gay liberation play, including 2013 reflections by the author (OutHistory's founder), reviews, and excerpts.
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Comrades and Lovers, A Documentary Play, by Jonathan Ned Katz
A theater piece, first performed in 1989-1992 and authored by OutHistory's founder, about love between men in the life of Walt Whitman, adapted from the words of Whitman, John Addington Symonds, and others, condensed from their letters, diaries,…
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Constructing the Heterosexual, Homosexual, Bisexual System, by Jonathan Ned Katz
This feature explores the human production of the terms and concepts "heterosexual," "homosexual," and "bisexual," which are presented here as evidence of the construction of a historically specific social order or…
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Corvallis and Oregon State University Gay Activism, 1969-2004, by Thomas Kraemer
This exhibit describes post-Stonewall gay activism at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon and events that motivated the formation of the first officially recognized gay student group at OSU in 1976.
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COVID Quarantine Meditation, May 13, 2020, by Anne Balay
Anne Balay, professor, trucker, and union organizer, meditates on Matt Brim's Poor Queer Studies in an original OutHistory feature.
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Denver's Battle Against Public Sexual Activity, 1940s-1970s, by Keith L. Moore
An exhibit on sexuality in Denver, focusing on crackdowns on "sexual immorality" and the rise of a flourishing gay culture. First published on OutHistory in 2015.
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Dewey's Sit-in in Philadelphia, 1965, by Marc Stein
In 1965 Drum magazine called it “the first sit-in of its kind in the history of the United States.” To honor the fiftieth anniversary of this major act of LGBT resistance, Marc Stein presented reports of the sit-in at Dewey’s restaurant in Center…
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Discovering a Trove of Magnus Hirschfeld Documents, 2009-2012, by Donald W. McLeod
An exhibit on the discovery of documents related to the life and times of German Jewish sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935). Published originally on OutHistory in 2020.