 
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: Austin
Lesbian Activists of the 70's Herstory Project
www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~gsiesing/ala/index.html
The ALA site documents the
history of lesbian activism in Austin, Texas, and its relationship with
feminism in a timeline that extends from 1969 to 1983.
Gay History: Beverly's Home Page
www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/1769/nl1.html
Beverley's Home Page is hosted by
Beverly Greene and boasts a page about gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender
symbols and a lesbian history page entitled Women
Loving Women in Herstory. The Herstory page includes an
original essay, miscellanea about lesbian history, and extensive
thumbnail bios of famous lesbians in history.
Gay History: The Bear
History Project
www.bearhistory.com
The Bear History Project site
is still a work in progress, but it is under continuous construction. The
site's nude photos may make it unsuitable for some younger or delicately constituted
viewers.
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: Castro
Sweep Police Riot
members.aol.com/SFPDRiot/sweep.html
This site tells the story of
a police riot against gay and lesbian people in San Francisco's Castro
district in 1989. The site includes photos and documents instances
since the riots that show how police abuse gay people with impunity,
even in America's gayest town.
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
photos and illustrations that has never been published before.
Gay History:
Sito di Giovanni Dall'Orto
http://digilander.libero.it/giovannidallorto/
Writer and historian
Giovanni Dall'Orto includes original historical essays and many
photographs related to gay history, especially in Italy on his personal
site. The essays are written in Italian.
Gay
History: A Family History
www.channel4.com/nextstep/family_century
This
British educational web site describes family life in the 20th Century
and includes a page on changing British attitudes toward homosexuality.
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: Gay and
Lesbian History of the U. S.
edweb.sdsu.edu/people/cmathison/gay_les/
San Diego State hosts Gay
and Lesbian History in the U. S. which features a timeline spanning
from 1900 to 2000 with short annotations and biographical notes. The
site does not appear to have last been updated since 1997.
Gay History:
A Gay History of the
World
http://home.gay.com/bryonytrinity/gayhist.html
This personal home page on gay.com includes an
interesting article summarizing GLBT history by Anitra Budd and
Angela Waldoch.
Gay History: The
History Project
quniverse.com/historyproject/
Established in 1980, The
History Project is a Boston based group dedicated to documenting the
past of underrepresented American populations and devoted to
multiculturalism. The site reports on the group's projects -
including their book Improper Bostonians - and features an
informative multicultural gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender timeline.
Gay History: Kademos:
L'amour au Masculin
www.multimania.com/jgir/
This French gay history site
is published entirely in French, appropriately enough, but anglophones
can still enjoy the rich collection of historical photos.
Gay History: The
History of the Names Project
167.160.195.60/html/nameshistory.htm
This one page history of the
Names Project and the Aids Memorial Quilt tells the story
of the development of one of the most powerful gay symbols ever devised.
Gay History: New
York City: a gay history
www.angelfire.com/ny/gayhistory/index.html
New York City: a
gay history tells the stories of some of NYCs landmark gay spots -
and many spots that don't quite qualify for landmark status - in
Greenwich Village, Times Square, and, of course, Chelsea. The
extensive site includes many photos that you'll never see anywhere else.
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: The
Other Queer Page
http://im1ru12.org/toqp/
You'll find more than 1400
links sorted into seven major categories on The Other Queer Page.
The History and Herstory section contains more than 20 links to queer
history sites.
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 interested in the academic study of gay history,
or even if you're not, 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 and excellent
bibliographical resources.
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: Rainbow
Icon Archive
www.enqueue.com/ria/index.html
The Rainbow Icon Archive
is an attractive site that describes movement symbols and their history
and sells books for Amazon.com.
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: Russian
Gay History
www.middlebury.edu/~moss/RGC2.html
The Encyclopedia of
Homosexuality's article on Russian History is reprinted at Russian
Gay History and includes a bibliography and links to info about its
author.
Gay History: The
Sappho Project
www.lesbian.org/sappho-project
The Sappho Project is
dedicated to revealing the creative work of Sappho though art works and
a touring exhibition. You'll find a mini-bio of Sappho, tour info,
and photos of art work on their web site.
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: The
Sodomites' Guide to Colonial Sydney
www.ozemail.com.au/~vombatus/index.html
The Sodomites' Guide to
Colonial Sydney is an introduction to Sydney, Australia's gay history from colonial prison-colony times to the development of an
Aussie gay ghetto.
Gay History: Stonewall
and Beyond
www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/events/sw25
Columbia University's
library hosted an exhibition on gay and lesbian history in 1994. Stonewall
and Beyond is a lavishly illustrated web site based on the
exhibition.
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 to
the present. You'll find that taken together, the timeline points
add up to an effective overview of the high points in lesbian
history.
Gay History: Sydney
Gay and Lesbian History Walk Radio Series
www.geocities.com/historywalk/
Sydney, Australia's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence lead a series of
award-winning recordings that introduce Sydney's gay and lesbian history.
GayHistory: Alan
Turing Home Page
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 Turning Home Page provides an unusually
deep treatment of its subject and includes extensive links to Turing
related resources.
Gay History: Tides
of Men
www.lesbigay.com/tides
Tides of Men is a
compilation of oral histories from gays in British Columbia from 1936 to
the present arranged in an "online book" format. The
site is incomplete and it can be tough to navigate (you'll get a 404
error when you click some of the buttons) but persistence will pay
off. Even though books on the web don't usually work, these
stories are so engaging, you'll probably be transfixed.
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 and the origins of the pink triangle
symbol and more.
Gay History: Uncle
Donald's Castro Street
www.backdoor.com/CASTRO
Uncle Donald's Castro
Street is a unique collection of photos of the Castro street
neighborhood events starting in the 1970s. You'll see celebrations
of the high points of the Castro's Calendar: Halloween, the Castro
Street Fair, and, of course, the gay parades. Fun and informative.
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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