OutHistory's sixth quarterly newsletter (with a thematic focus on the U.S. South) was published earlier this month; subscribers get it right away and we post it on OutH a few weeks later. To access the newsletter and to subscribe: outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

OutHistory is pleased to announce "Queer Pasts: A 2025 Interview with the Founding Editors," by Isaac Fellman. This exhibit features an interview with the coeditors of QP, a digital history database. The exhibit also provides titles and abstracts for all QP projects. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

The OutHistory Fellowship Program supports the presentation of high-quality LGBTQ+ historical exhibits on OutHistory (outhistory.org). In 2026, OFP will provide 4 US$1800 fellowships for projects on under-represented topics in North American LGBTQ history. For more: outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

OutHistory is beginning to compile a bibliography on the war on LGBTQ+ history, featuring government directives, media stories, and organizational responses. We welcome suggestions for additional items to include at [email protected]. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

For Transgender History Month, OutHistory celebrates the transgender activists and history-makers who fought for equality, cared for our community, and inspired those that followed. Check out “Finding Annette: Uncovering Trans History in Idaho, 1950-70,” by Sophie McMahon at the link in our bio.

Jenny Mohan documents in this new exhibit on OutHistory spaces in the East Village that showcased groundbreaking work that spanned across theater, painting, sculpture, drag, music, and performance art. To learn more, head to outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

This exhibit, originally published in 2015 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first Annual Reminder, collects primary sources, oral histories, research into participants and a bibliography of additional sources. Head to the link in our bio to learn more.

“Disabled Gay and Lesbian Activists in the Homophile Movement, 1930s-1980s, by Moira Armstrong,” is an exhibit originally published in 2024, but is worth revisiting today. To learn more, head to the link in our bio.

In June 2009, OutHistory honored the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots by publishing nine pages of New York City Police Department records created early on the morning of the rebellion’s starting date, June 28, 1969. Head to the link in our bio to learn more.

For our June fundraising campaign, we're highlighting our most recent work, which includes: Disabled Gay and Lesbian Activists in the Homophile Movement, 1930s-1980s, by Moira Armstrong. Please signal your support for our work with a donation: outhistory.org/donate

Marc Stein has meticulously inventoried more than 1000 LGBT direct action demonstrations and protests in the United States from 1965 to 1975, with an overview report, annotations, bibliographic references, and tags. To read more, check out the link in bio.

Rave review in Jrnl of Am Hist. Please signal your support with a donation: outhistahory.org/donate "OutHistory is thoroughly impressive. Its immense diversity of content and its mission to make the queer histories of the US and Canada accessible to millions make it indispensable." -Eric Gonzaba

Thanks to all who have contributed to our June fundr campaign! As we continue to raise $, we're highlighting recent exhibits, including: "LGBTQ America: A Theme Study," ed by Megan E. Springate, 2016, outhistory.org/.../national.... Please signal your support with a donation: outhistory.org/donate.

For our June fundraising campaign, we're highlighting our most recent work, which includes: Danny Cockerline: Toronto’s Patron Saint of Whores and Hustlers (1960-1995), by Ryan Conrad, outhistory.org/exhibits/sho... Please signal your support for our work with a donation: outhistory.org/donate

For our June fundraising campaign, we're highlighting “I Will Always Be There in the Front Lines Fighting”: The Defiant Art and Activism of Pei-Hsien Lim (1953-1992), by David K. Seitz outhistory.org/exhibits/sho... Please signal your support for our work with a donation: outhistory.org/donate

For our June fundraising campaign (outhistory.org/donate), we're highlighting our most recent work, which includes: "Queer Transformations at San Francisco State, 1969-1974," by Marc Stein: outhistory.org/exhibits/sho... Please signal your support for our work with a donation: outhistory.org/donate

For our June fundraising campaign, we're highlighting our most recent work, which includes: "Trumping the Trumpians: OutHistory and American Oversight, 2025," by Marc Stein: outhistory.org/exhibits/sho... Please signal your support for our work with a donation: outhistory.org/donate

Trumping the Trumpians introduces and reprints a set of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed against the Trump Administration. Prompted by and in partnership with OutHistory, American Oversight filed these requests in May 2025. To read more, head to the link in our bio.

In February, we concluded our manifesto by declaring: We have been here before. And we are not going away. Every contribution you make helps ensure the truth of that promise. Please consider making a donation today at outhistory.org/donate

Happy Pride Month, everyone! OutHistory Director Marc Stein was featured in an article about the use of the word “Pride” for our yearly celebration on NPR last week. Check out “Word of the Week: How ‘pride’ shifted from vice to a symbol of LGBTQ empowerment” by Juliana Kim at the link in our bio.

Our June newsletter is out soon! Featuring OutHistory exhibits on LGBTQ+ immigration, a new exhibit on "Queer Transformations at San Francisco State, 1969-1974” by Marc Stein, and profiles of new OutHistory staffers. Subscribe at the link in our bio!

Prompted by and in partnership with OutHistory, American Oversight has filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the State Department, the National Park Service, the Department of Education, and the National Archives and Records Administration.

We’re thinking today of Urvashi Vaid, who passed on this day three years ago. Vaid was a leading LGBTQ activist of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and was the executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1989-1992. To read more, head to the link in our bio.

Our list of LGBTQ+ history grants, fellowships and prizes was developed initially by OutHistory intern Moira Armstrong in 2024. It was updated most recently in May 2025. Check the list out at the link in our bio.

Donald W. McLeod spent years tracking down surviving works from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft . OutHistory has his story. To read more, head to the link in our bio.

For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, learn about the iconic Esther Eng, the world's first female Chinese American filmmaker. Read more about the trailblazing Eng at the link in bio.

Deborah Sampson was born in Plympton, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1760. In 1782, Sampson dressed as a man, adopted the name Robert Shirtliff, enlisted in the Continental Army, and fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War. To read more, head to the link in our bio.

On this day 60 years ago, three teenagers staged a sit-in at Dewey’s Restaurant in Center City, Philadelphia. They were protesting the restaurant’s multiple denials of service based on sexual orientation, gender expression, and cultural nonconformity. To read more, head to the link in our bio.

Jonathan Ned Katz interviewed Barbara Gittings in 1974 about her development as a Lesbian, and about the founding and early history of the New York Daughters of Bilitis. To read that interview, and another she did in 1993 with OutHistory director Marc Stein, head to the links in our bio.

Marc Stein has meticulously inventoried more than 1000 LGBT direct action demonstrations and protests in the United States from 1965 to 1975, with an overview report, annotations, bibliographic references, and tags. To read more, check out the link in our bio.

"Francis Davis Millet and Charles Warren Stoddard, 1874-1912" introduces and reproduces the correspondence of artist Francis Davis Millet and writer Charles Warren Stoddard. To learn more about Millet and Stoddard and to read letters from Millet, head to the link in our bio.

Did you know that in addition to exhibits, OutHistory also has a collection of queer history timelines? A THREAD:

Queering the Titanic, 1912 This exhibit introduces several of the LGBTQ people who sailed on the Titanic and several of the same-sex relationships, possibly intimate, that developed between people on the ship that sank in 1912. Read more at the link in bio.

Our March Newsletter is now live! Read, subscribe, and peruse the newsletter archives at the link in bio.

On Right to Read Day during National Library Week, OutHistory Director Marc Stein was featured on Banned Books: Why Young People Need Them, a project of Academics for Liberty in Reading and Learning. Stein covered Mike Curato's book Flamer. To see more, go to tinyurl.com/FlamerBanned

Remembering Harry Hay on what would have been his 113th birthday. Learn about Hay, the controversial founder of the Mattachine Society, in this OutHistory exhibit by Ben Miller. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

LGBTQ+ People Have Been Here Before: The Power of Our History, by Marc Stein and the OutHistory Advisory Board.

Jan Gay: The Lesbian Sex Researcher That History Forgot, by @michaelwaters.bsky.social. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

Jan Gay: The Lesbian Sex Researcher That History Forgot, by @michaelwaters.bsky.social. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

The Queer History of Women's Suffrage: Scholarship and Censorship in 2025, by @wendylrouse.bsky.social

I'm pleased to introduce Fred Maxon, OutHistory's new Social Media Coordinator. Fred will be posting regularly for OutHistory on Fbook, Insta, & Bluesky. Originally from update NY, Fred is now a writer/researcher in Chicago.

LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, edited by Megan E. Springate, 2016 This exhibit features a theme study that the National Park Foundation and National Park Service (NPS) published in 2016; the NPS deleted the report from its website in 2025.

LGBTQ+ People Have Been Here Before: The Power of Our History, by Marc Stein and the OutHistory Advisory Board.