Eve Adams Archive, by Jonathan Ned Katz

This exhibit documents the story of radical lesbian Eve Adams and her long-lost book Lesbian Love. If you have comments, suggestions, or questions, or make new document discoveries concerning the life and times of Eve Adams, please email Katz at…

Envisioning the World We Make, 2016-2021, by Jonathan Ned Katz

See also: The Standard Model of the Social-Historical Universe, by Jonathan Ned Katz

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

A 2023 essay by Sara Slager, a Boston-based researcher who graduated in May 2022 from Simmons University with a BA in Women's and Gender Studies and a double minor in History and Education. In May 2023, she will graduate with a Masters of Arts…

Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses

[ID: The cover of Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses by Alex D. Ketchum. The background of the cover is a mid-toned lavender with a simplistic, two-toned drawing of a beet with leaves in a…

Cambridge Women's Center

Front-view of the Cambridge Women's Center before the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

Left on Pearl

Movie poster for the 2016 film Left on Pearl, which focuses on the 1970s Bread and Roses building takeover. This event led to the creation of the Cambridge Women's Center.

Our Bodies, Ourselves

The original cover of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Doctors Treat LGBTQ+ People: A Troubled History, 1866-2020, by Jonathan Ned Katz

An excerpt of Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (T.Y. Crowell, 1976), 129-34, along with a bibliography and sample document.

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.

COVID Quarantine Meditation, May 13, 2020, by Anne Balay

Professor, trucker, and union organizer Anne Balay reflects on Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (2020) in an original OutHistory feature.

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,…

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.

Blue-Collar Queers: An Introduction to Steel Closets, 2014, by Anne Balay

Anne Balay tells OutHistory about her book Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers, which is based on interviews with LGBT steelworkers in northwestern Indiana about their experiences of class, gender, and sexual identity…

Atlanta Since Stonewall, 1969-2009, by Wesley Chenault

Atlanta Since Stonewall, 1969-2009: A Local History brings to life a segment of the city’s LGBTQ past, highlighting nationally recognized and little-known personalities, places, and events. Through photographs, printed materials, ephemera, and links…

Arthur Kingsley Porter, 1883-1933, by Andrew Houchens

This exhibit addresses the homosexuality of Arthur Kingsley Porter, who chaired Harvard University's Art History Department. An earlier profile of Porter, authored by Jonathan Ned Katz, was published by OutHistory in 2021 and revised in 2024.…

Elmwood

FAIR Act

Angela Calomiris (1916-1995): A Spy in the Lesbian Herstory Archives, by Lisa E. Davis

An introduction to and overview of the story of Angela Calomiris, a working-class lesbian who was a key informant for the FBI in the 1940s against the Communist Party.

An 18th Century Transsexual, 1788, by Clair Kronk

A brief introduction to an 18th century medical account of a trans person in a Paris hospital.

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

An exhibit on a 1968 student protest at Bucks County Community College after the college president cancelled an event featuring Mattachine Society New York leader Richard Leitsch. Published originally on OutHistory in 2021.