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links:  Gay History

The sites listed here have been chosen because they tell stories of modern gay history or visually document it.  The recommended sites are highlighted because they are rich in historical material.  Though they express a variety of often conflicting points of view, each has something unique to offer.

Gay History:  Artifacts and Disclosures

www.lgbtheritage.org

The University of Michigan's Lavender Information and Library Association presents 100 years of GLBT history in this online exhibit.  The site allows scanning by theme, region, or timeline and features dozens of capsule biographies of people who matter in Michigan's GLBT past.

Gay History:  The Blacklist

www.blackstripe.com/blacklist

The Blacklist, compiled by Prof. Chuck Tarver, is a unique online resource that provides hundreds of biographical thumbnails describing black gay and lesbian notables.  This exhaustive site is rich in links to gay and African American sites.

Gay History:  Celebration 2000

www.angelfire.com/fl3/celebration2000

Celebration 2000 is a fan page devoted to Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, one of the heroes of gay and lesbian liberation.  The page includes a timeline of Ulrichs' life and contributions, an essay on Ulrichs' impact, and an assemblage of more than 40 photos and illustrations, many published here for the first time.  

Gay History:  Gay History and Literature

www.infopt.demon.co.uk/gayhist.htm

Rictor Norton (Mother Clap's Molly House, The Myth of the Modern Homosexual) developed and maintains Gay History and Literature, a richly illustrated and ever-expanding site.  It features Norton's original essays - including some on his controversial attack on Social Constructionism - along with a bibliography and many reprints of historical documents from 17th and 18th Century London.

Gay History:  One Institute International Gay and Lesbian Archives

www.usc.edu/isd/archives/oneigla/

The One Institute International Gay and Lesbian Archives site includes news of acquisitions and collections along with original articles on historical topics, many written by the late Jim Kepner, a forefather of gay history in the United States.  The site also includes information about the Lesbian Legacy Collection.

Gay History:  The OSCHOLARS

homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars

Editor D.C. Rose has created The OSCHOLARS, a monthly online journal devoted to Oscar Wilde and his Circle.  You'll find everything from Wilde trivia to serious articles about his work.

Gay History:  Out of the Past:  400 Years of Gay History in America

www.pbs.org/outofthepast/home.html

Wow.  This beautifully designed site uses an interactive timeline to introduce a series of brief stories about important moments in Gay American History.  Some sites are all sizzle, some are all steak, but Out of the Past's stunning design combines with careful research to deliver both.

Gay History:  People With a History

www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/index.html

If you're seriously interested in the academic study of gay history, don't miss this site.  The first sentence you will see there describes its mission well:  "People with a History presents the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people [=LGBT]. It includes hundreds of original texts, discussions, and [soon] images, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world."

Maintained by Dr. Paul Halsall, this comprehensive site has the theoretical sophistication you would expect from a college professor, and covers a variety of historical periods.  You'll also find reprints of reviews of gay history books published by the American Historical Association Committee for Lesbian and Gay History.

Gay History:  Planet SOMA's Folsom Street in the 70s.

www.planetsoma.com/sf1970/

This site about gay life South of San Francisco's Market Street during the 1970s is almost as fun as SOMA in the '70s.  The archival photos of the bars and baths that made SOMA what it was accompany a textual tour.  Elsewhere, Somaboy, the site's creator, presents an original essay on the development of gay culture in the American South that summarizes complex historical developments in one easy gulp.  Some of the people in the site's photos are naked, so if you're easily offended, don't look.

Gay History:  Rowse History Center

www.sbu.ac.uk/~stafflag/history.html

The Knitting Circle, a web site sponsored by the Lesbian and Gay Staff Association of London's South Bank University includes the Rowse History Center, one of the most active gay history sites on the web.  It benefits from frequent additions, and boasts rich bibliographical resources.  Dozens of original articles and rich bibliographical resources focused on British gay history make the site useful for casual viewers and scholars alike.  

Gay History:  Jim Sears Home Page

www.jtsears.com

This site is a lot more than a home page.  Prof. James T. Sears, author of Lonely Hunters, has developed a timeline of American gay history and provides bibliographical and internet link resources.  Dr. Sears is a scholar of gay history in the American South, so this copiously illustrated site uniquely documents the gay past below the Mason-Dixon line.

Gay History:  Swade's Tribal Chant

www.swade.net-swadepages-les_hist.htm

Lesbian history is poorly represented on the web, but Swade's Tribal Chant makes up for it.  The site boasts a timeline that stretches from Sappho's girl's school in the 580s BC to the present.  A quick overview of the high points in lesbian history.

Gay History:  Triangles Roses

www.chez.com/triangles

Triangles Roses contains many articles (most in French, a few in English) and dozens of photographs related to the nazi persecution of homosexuals in Europe.  The archival photographs document the nazi origins of the pink triangle symbol and more.

gay history:  Alan Turing

www.turing.org.uk/turing/

Alan Turning was one of the leaders of the British code breaking efforts at Blechley Park during World War II, and one of the inventors of the digital computer.  Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing:  The Enigma, tells the story of Turing's life as a gay genius and describes his tragic suicide.  The Alan Turing Home Page provides an unusually deep treatment of its subject and includes extensive links to Turing related resources.

Gay History:  The World History of Male Love

www.androphile.org

androphile.org is a visually stunning site in a state of constant evolution.  It includes photos of art and articles about male love before 1900.  Speakers of Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian will all enjoy the site because its polyglot crew has translated it into all these languages.  And it's fun, too.

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