Jonathan Ned Katz, who presented at our Radical Archives event in NYC, posted this call for contributions to the Radical Reference NYC announcements list:
OutHistory Requests Histories of LGBT Employee Groups<!--break!>
Jonathan Ned Katz, director of OutHistory.org, the website on U.S. lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, today called on knowledgeable members of the public to create on-site histories of LGBT corporate employee groups. Any logged-in users can contribute to the site, Katz explained. "We’d especially like to have histories of LGBT employee organizing at Google and IBM, at other electronic media companies, and at other corporations," said Katz. He added: "We are also asking users to create histories of organized LGBT groups within unions, and among LGBT professionals."
"I’ve started three open, user-created, stub entries on OutHistory," said Katz, who hopes that the public will begin to fill in the missing histories. The entries can be accessed on OutHistory through their group titles:
LGBT Employee Groups: A History;
LGBT Union Groups: A History;
and LGBT Professional Groups: A History.
OutHistory.org is a freely accessible, nonprofit, educational website produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, an institute of the City University of New York, under a two-year grant from the Arcus Foundation. Jonathan Ned Katz can be reached at outhistory@gc.cuny.edu
