Last updated: 3.1.25
UnErased Resources focus on highlighting trans, gender diverse, gender nonconforming, and intersex histories. This is part of one of our direct responses as an association to the recent actions by the US administration. We’d like this section to be helpful to those newer to this history who come with open minds, such as students, educators, and librarians. This page will be continuously updated — if you have a resource that you feel should be included, please get in touch with the co-chairs at clgbth.cochairs@gmail.com!
Events
University of Victoria, Moving Trans History Forward 2025 – March 27–30, 2025 (hybrid)
The Moving Trans History Forward conference is a biennial, international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational conference presented by UVic’s Chair in Transgender Studies.
The 2025 edition of the conference will be offered in a hybrid format, taking place both in person at the University of Victoria’s NEW Conference Centre, Sŋéqə ʔéʔləŋ (Sngequ House), and online March 27–30, 2025 (#MTHF25).
Websites and Podcasts
On Trans Community and History, Media and Public Speaking (from Dr. G. Samantha Rosenthal)
Samantha Rosenthal (she/her/hers) is an award-winning author and academic. Her multi-genre writing includes peer-reviewed scholarship, original reporting, opinion, and creative writing (both fiction and non-fiction). Samantha’s subject area specializations are American history and politics; gender, sexuality, and LGBTQ+ communities; health and the environment; and music.
Making Gay History is a nonprofit organization that addresses the absence of substantive, in-depth LGBTQ+-inclusive American history from the public discourse and the classroom. By sharing the stories of those who helped a despised minority take its rightful place in society as full and equal citizens, we aim to encourage connection, pride, and solidarity within the LGBTQ+ community—and to provide an entry point for both allies and the general public to its largely hidden history.
Queer as Fact: A Queer History Podcast
UnErasing LGBTQ History and Identity: a Podcast by History UnErased
For educators, students, and absolutely anyone who wants to learn, teach, and engage with LGBTQ history, this is your podcast! In Deep Dives & Backstories you will meet history-makers with some fascinating – and empowering – stories.
This exhibit features Wendy Rouse’s “The Very Queer History of the Suffrage Movement,” which the National Park Service published in 2020 but altered and then deleted in 2025. The exhibit includes an introduction by Rouse and copies of both the original 2020 essay and the altered 2025 version.
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, launched in 2015 by historic preservation professionals, is an award-winning cultural heritage initiative and educational resource. Its mission is to broaden people’s understanding of LGBT history by exploring the places where that history was made. Through our interactive website, public programs, and social media, we make visible hundreds of historic places, from the 17th century to the year 2000, that reflect the diversity of LGBT New Yorkers and the community’s influence on America.
American Association of University of Professors
The AAUP is a nonprofit membership association of faculty and other academic professionals. Headquartered in Washington, DC, we have members and chapters based at colleges and universities across the country.
Teaching/Curriculum Resources
GQH is a collection of free resources for teachers that talks about gender and sexuality in different cultures from ancient times to the present. It contains lists of books, short presentations, primary and secondary readings, and lesson plans.
Learning for Justice (filter for “Gender & Sexuality)
Learning for Justice is a community education program of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that cultivates and nurtures dialogue, learning, reflection and action from those closest to and harmed most by injustices in the South.
One Institute — LGBTQ+ History Lesson Plans
One Institute has partnered with the UCLA History-Geography Project, OUT for Safe Schools at LA LGBT Center, and ONE Archives at the USC Libraries to host K-12 curriculum symposiums and provide LGBTQ+ history lesson plans for educators at no cost.
UC History Social Science Project — LGBTQ History
UCBHSSP has worked with teachers and scholars over the last few years to think about how to support teachers in implementing the FAIR Act. While the FAIR Act applies explicitly to US History, we have also worked with world history teachers on asking questions of gender and sexuality about the past.
Social History for Every Classroom (SHEC) — Military History and the LGBTQ+ Community
Created by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Social History for Every Classroom (SHEC) is a database of primary documents, classroom activities, and other teaching materials in U.S. history. SHEC (formally HERB) reflects ASHP/CML’s mission of making the past, and the working people and ordinary Americans who shaped it, vivid and meaningful.
California History-Social Science Project — LGBTQ Primary Sources
Researched and annotated by Wendy Rouse, PhD in collaboration with the California History-Social Science Project, this collection of primary sources are designed for use in the K-12 classroom. Each set includes context, focus questions, further readings, and a plethora of primary sources to help teachers infuse their curriculum with LGBTQ voices.
WeTeachNYC — Hidden Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories in United States History
Hidden Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories in United States History examines individuals who questioned and broke the normed expectations of gender and/or sexuality, and who were therefore often “hidden” from the traditional historical record. These individuals influenced the social, political, cultural, and economic landscape of the United States in so many ways, and their contributions continue to shape our collective history and identity.
WeTeachNYC — Hidden Voices Lesson Plans
These 20 lessons build on content found in the Hidden Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories in United States History guide, and provide models for teaching the Profiles and Portraits of an Era found in the book. All of the lessons contain new and exciting sources, including primary sources from local and national archives to make your curriculum more LGBTQ+ inclusive.
History UnErased is putting LGBTQ history in its rightful place — the classroom — and uniting all “We the People” through a richer, more inclusive story of America with our Intersections & Connections curriculum.
Anti Defamation League — Lesson Plans
ADL is a leading anti-hate organization. ADL Education provides lesson plans and resources to help examine bias in themselves, others and society.
GLSEN provides lesson plans and activities to support teachers and students create safe schools.
Trans-Authored News and Current Event Analysis
News and discussion on trans legislation and life.
Translash: Telling Trans Stories to Save Trans Lives
TransLash Media shares the authentic experiences of trans and gender-nonconforming people through journalism and nonfiction storytelling.
Blogger and tech whiz Mady Castigan has produced a custom tool to identify all the federal webpages vandalized or suppressed entirely by the MAGA Regime due to LGBTQ+ and related content.
LGBTQ+ People and Their History Are Here to Stay by Rebecca Davis
History Teaches . . . The Fight Over Gender is the Fight About Everything by Felicia Kornbluh
History Databases
OutHistory is a public history website that aims to generate, present, and promote high-quality evidence-based LGBTQ historical research for LGBTQ and general audiences. We also work to foster the development and growth of broad and diverse communities of people interested in learning about and producing LGBTQ histories. We are especially interested in under-represented histories and historical research that contributes to positive social change. Most but not all of the current content focuses on the United States and Canada, sometimes in larger transnational contexts.
GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco)
Explore digitized archival materials from the GLBT Historical Society archives! Archival materials are made available for educational and research purposes. An exceptionally rich offering of digitized archival collections and periodicals, research guides, online exhibitions, and primary source sets for educators.
Public Responses and Statements
Statement from the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project about Digital Erasure at Stonewall
The GLBT Historical Society Museum & Archives in San Francisco has signed on as a lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal to block the MAGA Regime’s campaign to erase transgender and queer people from history and to ban us from the present. The suit targets three executive orders.
Publications
Jules Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018).
With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation—pioneers in a field of new obstacles and hurdles. Histories of the Transgender Child shatters this myth, uncovering a previously unknown twentieth-century history when transgender children not only existed but preexisted the term transgender and its predecessors, playing a central role in the medicalization of trans people, and all sex and gender.
Jules Gill-Peterson, A Short History of Trans Misogyny (Verso Press, 2024).
The trans panic has not always been with us: it was invented
Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson’s richly detailed narrative takes us from New York, London, and Paris to the colonial districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai’i to tell a richly detailed story of the emergence of trans misogyny.
Jen Manion, Female Husbands: a Trans History (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands – people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women – were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, violence, and threat of punishment.
Susan Stryker, Transgender History: the Roots of Today’s Revolution (Seal Press, 2017), 2nd ed.
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.
Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender (Seal Press, 2022).
Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance.