OutHistory (1 Articles with 1,298 total views)
OutHistory.org tells stories about the queer past and people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, and, yes, heterosexual, through the work of both professional historians, independent researchers, and memoirists.
March, 2021
OutHistory includes Philadelphia LGBT Interviews
OutHistory, the public history website founded by Jonathan Ned Katz, has posted another seven of Marc Stein's oral history transcripts from his Philadelphia LGBT history project: https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/philadelphia-lgbt-interviews. This brings the total number of transcripts to 31; approximately 10 more will be posted in the future. In honor of Black History Month, please note that two of the seven new transcripts focus on African American lesbians Sharon Owens and Elizabeth Terry. These join the transcripts of two other African American oral history narrators: Anita Cornwell (author of Black Lesbian in White America) and "Jay Herman" (longtime professor of history at Swarthmore College). The other five new transcripts feature Becky Davidson (member of Philadelphia Radicalesbians in the 1970s); Jeffrey Escoffier (leader of Philadelphia's Gay Activists Alliance in the 1970s); Carole Friedman (leader of Philadelphia's chapter of the Daughter of Bilitis and the Homophile Action League in the 1960s and 1970s); Norman Oshtry (lawyer of Clark Polak, one of Philadelphia's leading gay activists in the 1970s); and Mark Segal (leader of the Gay Raiders in the 1970s and longtime publisher of Philadelphia Gay News). Topics covered include coming out to family and friends; bars, neighborhoods, and relationships; legal and political struggles; and movement activism in the 1960s and 1970s.


