Bringing nearly two decades of expertise to review, analyze, and offer a professional historian’s perspective on your projects related to LGBTQ+ and Holocaust history.
Jake shares his expertise on a range of projects, including films, podcasts, exhibits, plays, novels, and social media campaigns.
Jake’s most recent consultation project was as an advisor for the Capital Jewish Museum’s exhibition “LGBTJews in the Federal City,” which explores the history, culture, and activism of the local queer Jewish community—from the congregations to the clubs to the Capitol. This landmark exhibition presents artifacts, personal stories, and photographs of the region’s Jewish LGBTQ+ places, events, struggles, and joys— intertwining more than a century of DC, Jewish, and queer histories. It will open in Washington DC in May 2025.
Jake was the Lead Historical Advisor for the film The Liberator (currently in post-production), starring Ryan Jamaal Swain, from the hit show POSE. The Liberator tells the story of a gay Holocaust researcher who struggles to tell his boyfriend’s grandfather, an American soldier who liberated Dachau, to reveal his untold story of pink triangle survivors.
Jake was the historical advisor for Unspoken, a feature film project about a closeted teenager in a religious community who discovers that he and his late grandfather may have more in common than previously believed.
In 2016, Jake served as a Content Expert Consultant on The Era of the Holocaust, a student-curated exhibit at the The Universities at Shady Grove.
Jake has also consulted with novelists and playwrights on a number of projects
that are still in production.
Dr. Jake Newsome 