The Holiday Pride:
A Pittsburgh LGBT+ Community Museum

This isn't quiet a book review. This book has a special place in my heart and I wanted to reflect on what it means to me.

A look into the mechanics that went into the creation of our pirate DND module!

In Search of Gay America by Niel Miller is a very fun and interesting read about the 'common gay' in America.

The future may look a little bleak, but there can be a lot of hope.

What is public memory and what does it matter? This is just a brief discussion on the road blocks to studying history.

Voyant is a text-mining tool that is very useful for understanding large bodies of work. We take a look at it as a tool for history.

What's with this website? What are we doing? When are we going to talk about Pittsburgh more?

This is a book review of Susan Stryker's Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution.

A little peek behind the curtain on how we came to interview Scott Noxon.

The Ladder was an influential and important work during its run. It was the place for lesbians learn about themselves.

A little bit about how we read and process books for the book reviews.

This is a short case study on AI and it's uses as a tool for education.

Making Gay History is a collection of oral histories from major players in the history of the queer movement in the US.

How Silas managed to get to interview Chuck Honse.

By Al Preston             Lesbians have often been hidden from the narrative of queer history in America. Many of the early movements...

By Al Preston             A huge theme of this project and of queer history in general is discovery of identity. Many queer historians...

By Al Preston When I first learned about the 1969 Stonewall riots, I heard the story I’m sure many have learned. Yet another police raid...

By Al Preston Pittsburgh has a diverse and complicated history. That was a fact I was not fully aware of when I arrived for the first...