Jake regularly speaks to audiences ranging from high school and college classes to community centers, corporations, and government agencies about the importance of LGBTQ+ history.
PODCASTS
- “How Did Queer People Experience Nazi Germany?” on Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness
- “Looking Danger in the Eye” – The Story of LGBTQ Hero Frieda Belinfante on 12 Years that Shook the World by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
- History: The Podcast of the Historical Association
- But What Does it Mean? The Pink Triangle and Its Many Different Roles (by Sydney Reuter, BA thesis project, George Mason University, 2021)
NATIONAL & COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
- NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project – “Silence = Death: Reclaiming the Pink Triangle in AIDS-Era New York” conversation with Avram Finkelstein (December 2024)
- Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum (October 2024)
- The Florida Holocaust Museum (March 2024)
- Holocaust Museum Houston (June 2023)
- Congregation Rodeph Shalom, the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, JProud, and the William Way LGBT Community Center – International Holocaust Remembrance Day Event (Jan. 2022)
- Toronto’s Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre (June 2021)
- Cara-Friend, an organization that empowers the LGBTQ+ community in Northern Ireland (Jan. 2021)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Guest on Facebook Live episode: “The Nazi Persecution of Gay People” (June 2020)
- Washington DC Library Association
(June 2020) - Olney Theatre Center
(Aug. 2019) - OutWrite Literary Festival: panel moderator for: Stonewall’s Long Shadow: Activism, Writing, and Queer Identity (Aug. 2019)
- The DC Center for the LGBT Community: discussion on “Hidden Histories: Writing, Research, & Queer Lives” (Aug. 2019)
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
- College of St. Benedict / St. John’s University
(Oct. 2024) - Ashland University
(Oct. 2024) - Christopher Newport University
(September 2024) - Queensborough Community College
(March 2024) - Cal Poly Humboldt
(March 2024) - Emory University
November 2023) - Fort Hays State University
(April 2023) - Middle Tennessee State University
(April 2023) - University of Alabama-Birmingham
(April 2023) - Roanoke College
(Feb. 2023) - University of Lynchburg
(Feb. 2023) - Andrew College
(Jan. 2023) - Pennsylvania State University
(Oct. 2022) - College of Charleston
(Oct. 2022) - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
(Sept. 2022) - Manhattan College
(Sept. 2022) - Valdosta State University
(Sept. 2022) - Humboldt State University
(March 2022) - Albright College
(April 2022) - Florida International University
(Jan. 2020)
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs – National Virtual Pride Event (Nov. 2024)
- United Kingdom Department of Transport for International Holocaust Memorial Day
(Jan. 2021) - United States Library of Congress for the 50th Anniversary of the
Stonewall Uprising
(June 2019) - Les “Oublie-e-s” de la Memoire (The “Forgotten Ones” of Memory) for a series of lectures, discussions, and ceremonies in conjunction with the government of Paris, France to commemorate the LGBTQ+ victims of the Holocaust (March 2018)
CORPORATIONS
- AXIS Capital
(January 2024) - Konica Minolta
(October 2022) - Plaid, Inc.,
(June 2021) - Capital One
(June 2018)
Dr. Jake Newsome 