Fifty Years of Combahee River Collective
This piece is a response to our call for submissions, Celebrating Combahee at Fifty: Black…
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Tips on Teaching K-12 LGBTQ+ History
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2023 issue of The American Historian. With all…
Digital Queers: How Computers Transformed LGBTQ Life in the United States
Initial advertisement for GenderNet, the first Bulletin Board System specifically for transgender individuals. Originally published…
“Free Our Siblings, Free Ourselves:” Historicizing Trans Activism in the U.S., 1952–1992
This article originally appeared in the May 2019 issue of The American Historian. Recent years…
Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969
This summer, millions of people around the world will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the…
Including LGBTQ Americans in Our Nation’s Heritage
National parks share the wonderfully rich and diverse heritage of America. Our parks represent the…
Region, Space, and Place in Queer History
Most queer people do not grow up in queer families or queer communities, and this…
The Baker Street Vice Ring and the Birth of the Asian American Homo
A number of historians have marked the late nineteenth century as the beginning of U.S.…
Directions for Digital HIV/AIDS History
Scholars are increasingly addressing the history of HIV/AIDS. I recently participated in the Journal of…
“Have We a New Sex Problem Here?” Black Queer Women in the Early Great Migration
In November of 1920, the black newspaper The Chicago Whip ran a front-page article with…