OutHistory

OutHistory

Screenshot of OutHistory.org homepage
Available in	English
Owner	University of Illinois at Chicago
Created by	Jonathan Ned Katz
Slogan(s)	It's About Time!
Website	OutHistory.org
Alexa rank	4,238,020 (April 2014[update])
Commercial	No
Launched	2004
Current status	Online

OutHistory is a website about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and heterosexual history, and, more generally, gender and sexual history. OutHistory comprises elements of an almanac, archive, article, bibliography, book, encyclopedia, library, and museum.

OutHistory.org was produced in its first four years by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), located at the City University of New York Graduate Center. In August 2012, the site moved its institutional home to the University of Illinois at Chicago, under the direction of John D'Emilio.

The site was founded and is co-directed by Jonathan Ned Katz. The site was designed originally by Cidamon, a New York-based web design and development company, using Open-source software. The content of OutHistory.org is provided by volunteers. While the site went live in 2004, the official launch of the current OutHistory.org took place October 21, 2008.

OutHistory is produced by University of Illinois at Chicago, under the direction of John D'Emilio.

The site was previously produced by The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), under the guidance of its director, James Wilson. CLAGS is an institute at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The site's Director and initiator is Jonathan Ned Katz. The site's Coordinator was Lauren Gutterman.

This first prototype of OutHistory.org focused on a number of featured Exhibits on LGBTQ history in the United States, and included a variety of other content. The site's founder, Jonathan Ned Katz, dreams "that this site will eventually contain the largest, freely accessible, annotated bibliography on the subject of LGBTQ and heterosexual history".