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LGBTQ+ Research Resources
A Note on the Sorting of the List: While organizations are listed by their locations in order, some may collect items focused on their regional location, and others may collect items from the national or international LGBTQIA+ community. Therefore, in each major section, organizations within each region are sorted in order of which are most locally focused to which focus further outward, starting first with those local to the Pacific Northwest, then moving alphabetically down the list.
Primary Sources
| LOCATION | ORGANIZATION | COLLECTION | DESCRIPTION | |
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| U.S. | WASHINGTON | King County Department of Records and Licensing Archives: Exhibits | Responding to AIDS: The Seattle-King County Department of Public Health 1982-1996 | |
| A History of the King County Women's Program: The First Years: 1978-1985 | Established in 1978 during a period when there was renewed and widespread national interest in the social, political and economic status of the American woman. Many activists became part of what has been called “second-wave feminism”, the “women’s rights movement,” or “women’s liberation.” | |||
| UW Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project | LGBTQ Activism in Seattle History Project | Explores the history of the LGBTQ activism in Seattle and western Washington - contains video oral histories, documents, and photos | ||
| UW Libraries, Special Collections | Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project oral histories, 1995-2015 | Oral history collection of LGBTQ+ and heterosexual narrators focusing on their experiences before the activist period, and activism from early days to the present. | ||
| Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Project | N/A | Oral history collecting, LGBT memorabilia, and tracing the geographical distribution of LGBT-related venues and living spaces. | ||
| MOHAI (Museum of History and Industry) | N/A | Search by subjects, interviewee, creator, etc. | ||
| CALIFORNIA | Lambda Archives of San Diego | N/A | Search the archives for images, videos, recordings, and more materials about the LGBTQ+ History of San Diego | |
| June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives | Video Archives and Digital Collections | Event documentation, personal oral histories, and talks about our collections; t-shirts, buttons, and more coming soon | ||
| GLBT Historical Society | Online Resources and Online Exhibitions | Materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity. | ||
| UCLA Library for Oral History Research | N/A | Search under multiple topics/collectionss to find LGBT history-related interviews and recordings | ||
| ONE Archives | Exhibitions | Art shows and public programs that explore the complexity of LGBTQ history through the lens of arts, culture, and contemporary issues. | ||
| ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries | ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives | Collections of personal papers from activists, artists, and ordinary citizens, as well as records from LGBTQ political, social, educational, and cultural organizations. | ||
| UC San Diego Library | UC San Diego: LGBTQ History in Government Documents: Timeline of Documents | Fact sheets, Executive Orders, court cases, and other official documents related to LGBTQ+ issues in the government | ||
| FLORIDA | Stonewall National Museum & Archives | Virtual Exhibitions; Archives by Topic; and Online Interviews | The Archives contain serials, papers, objects, textiles, sound recordings, and other media. | |
| GEORGIA | Georgia State University Library | LGBTQ Digital Collections | Miscellaneous materials documenting the Georgia LGBTQ community. | |
| ILLINOIS | Leather Archives & Museum | Online Exhibits and Online Catalog | Community archives, library, and museum of Leather, kink, fetish, and BDSM history and culture. | |
| Gerber/Hart Library & Archives: Midwest LGBTQ History & Culture | Online Exhibits | Collection items of individuals, organizations, and businesses, as well as publicly distributed items. | ||
| MASSACHUSETTS | http://www.historyproject.org/The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston | DOCUMENTED (digital repository); Exhibitions; projects (current and prior); virtual events | Documenting and preserving the history of New England’s LGBTQ communities through images, documents, videos, interviews, and more | |
| NEW YORK | NY Public Library: Digital Collections | Gay & Lesbian History | Three related digital collections available for online viewing with photos, documents, and more | |
| ACT UP Oral History Project | Interviews (recordings and PDF transcripts) | A collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York. | ||
| Lesbian Herstory Archives | Online Collections | Gathers, preserves and provides access to records of Lesbian lives and activities. | ||
| Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art | Online Collections; Online Events | The only dedicated LGBTQ+ art museum in the world with a mission to exhibit and preserve LGBTQ+ art and foster the artists who create it. | ||
| RHODE ISLAND | Brown University | Pembroke Center Oral History Project | These oral histories record the experiences of the women, transgender, and gender non-binary students, alums, and faculty and staff who were at Brown University and Pembroke College as early as 1907; accompanied by transcripts, photos, bios | |
| WASHINGTON, D.C. | Library of Congress | LGBT Pride Month: Audio & Video | Recorded poetry & literature, interviews, LGBTQ history, keynote presentations, Veterans History Project, StoryCorps | |
| LGBTQ+ Politics and Political Candidates Web Archive | The U.S. Women's and Girls' Magazines Web Archive consists of websites of women's media which previously existed as print magazines, but are now published solely on the web. | |||
| ONLINE | Kameny Papers | N/A | Dr. Franklin E. Kameny, an early prominent gay civil rights activist, saved every relevant artifact, making this archive perhaps the most complete archive in the gay civil rights movement. | |
| FBI Records: The Vault | Mattachine Society | An early homosexual rights advocacy organization. It became the subject of an FBI internal security investigation between 1953 and 1956. | ||
| JSTOR | Independent Voices | Open access digital collection of alt-press newspapers, magazines and journals - produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alt-lit magazines. | ||
| OutHistory | Search online archive or view Featured content | Search LGBTQ+ history by time period, US location, person, visual or oral history collection, subject, or documents; reference bibliographies and timelines | ||
| Internet Archive Global Events | Internet Archive Global Events: 2013 Supreme Court Hearings on DOMA/Prop 8 | News articles, blogs, organizational websites, and social media related to the 2013 Supreme Court hearings and subsequent rulings for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California's Proposition 8. | ||
| Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation | U.S. Women’s and Girls’ Magazines | |||
| U.S. STATS | ONLINE | US Census Bureau: Explore Census Data | American Community Survey (ACS); Same-Sex Couples | The ACS helps people understand changes in their communities; Census Bureau surveys collect info about same-sex couples. The level of detail varies. |
| Center for Disease Control (CDC) | Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS); LGBT Health | Learn about how states are using BRFSS data to support and evaluate projects, monitor trends and needs, assess risks, provide training, etc.; learn about the needs and perspectives of LGBT folks to help eliminate disparities | ||
| UCLA School of Law, Williams Institute | LGBT People in the US Not Protected by State Non-Discrimination Statutes | Independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law, including demographics. Includes LGBTStats, articles on LGBT policy and law. | ||
| Movement Advancement Project (MAP) | LGBT Population | Series of maps showing raw LGBT populations, population density, LGBT adults and couples raising children, and table-formatted representations of this data | ||
| 2015 US Trans Survey | Read the Full Reports (English & Spanish) | A second iteration of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS), measuring how things are now and how they have changed over the 5 years since the release of the NTDS. | ||
| Pew Research Center | A Survey of LGBT Americans: Attitudes, Experiences and Values in Changing Times (June 13, 2013) | This report is part of a series, LGBT in Changing Times, that explores attitudes about sexual orientation and identity. The series is based on several Pew Research surveys. | ||
| Social Justice Sexuality Project | 2010 Data & Survey | One of the largest national surveys of Black, Latinx, AAPI, and multiracial LGBTQIA+ people, with 5,000+ respondents from 50 US states and Puerto Rico. | ||
| Cambridge University Press | Historical Statistics of the United States; see also: Guide to the Millennial Edition regarding temporal periods | Includes: Population; Work and Welfare; Economic Structure and Performance; Economic Sectors; Governance and International Relations | ||
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| INTERNATIONAL | AUSTRALIA | AQuA (Australian Queer Archives) | Collections | Material from the lives and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex, queer, Brotherboy and Sistergirl (LGBTIQ+) Australians. |
| CANADA | Archives Gaies du Québec (Gay Archives of Quebec) | The Walls Have Ears (audio exhibit); Stories from Our Lives; Stories from LGBTQ2S+ Communities in Quebec; Videos; Le Berdache magazine | Manuscripts, images, recordings, and other memorabilia pertaining to the LGBTQ+ of Quebec. Site in Québeçoise Français. | |
| The ArQuives | Archives & Collections | Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives - A/V, posters, photos, and more | ||
| ENGLAND/U.K. | Gay History & Literature | N/A | Essays by Rictor Norton, a London-based American writer on literary and cultural history, with a focus on gay history. | |
| GERMANY | Schwules Museum | Search the catalog; Virtual events (online exhibits & tours, & more) | The non-profit association Verein der Freundinnen und Freunde eines Schwulen Museums in Berlin e.V. (Friends of a Gay Museum in Berlin) is responsible for the Schwules Museum. | |
| INDIANA | Kinsey Institute: Indiana University | Search the library catalog | The Kinsey Institute Collections encompass print materials, film and video, fine art, artifacts, photography, and archives from over 6 continents. | |
| NETHERLANDS | IHLIA | Online Collection | The largest LGBTI collection in Europe, with small portion of collection online. Site in Dutch. | |
| WASHINGTON, D.C. | Library of Congress | Library of Congress: LGBTQ+ Studies Web Archive | Online content documenting LGBTQ+ history, scholarship, and culture in the US and worldwide: non-profit organizations, journalism and news external link, creative works and expressions, historical records, etc. | |
| ONLINE | United Nations Digital Library | Human Rights Bodies | Search for documents, votes, speeches, public domain publications, etc. | |
| Where Love Is Illegal | N/A | Sharing and Documenting LGBTI Stories of Discrimination and Survival from Around the World (an interactive project) | ||
| LGBTQ Religious Archives Network | Collections Catalog; Online Exhibitions; Oral Histories | Identifies more than 330 primary source collections from or about LGBTQ+ religious organizations or activists. Most are held in public archives. | ||
| Women Writers Project | How to subscribe to the Women Writers Online (WWO) full publications | A long-term research and publication project focusing on early women’s writing in English. Provides access to rare materials by women that otherwise would go unread and untaught. | ||
| LGBTQ Video Game Archive | N/A | A curated/researched collection of information of LGBTQ content in digital games from 1980s-present | ||
| Digital Transgender Archive | N/A | An online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. | ||
| Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation | South Asian Gender and Sexuality | The work of activists, grassroots organizations, and social justice movements committed to LGBTQAI+ people and women in South Asia and its diasporas. | ||
| #MeToo and the Women's Rights Movement in China | Captures and preserves web content related to the #MeToo movement and women's rights activities in the Greater China Region | |||
| INTERNATIONAL STATS | Pew Research Center | Gender & LGBT | Surveys, statistics, and research about gender and LGBT issues in the US and internationally | |
| Palgrave Macmillan | International Historical Statistics | Online reference of worldwide historical data | ||
| Community Marketing & Insights | N/A | LGBTQ market research firm - 100% LGBTQ-owned and -operated. (Also has over 5,000 panelists in Canada.) | ||
Secondary Sources
| LOCATION | ORGANIZATION | COLLECTION | DESCRIPTION | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. | OREGON | Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN) | N/A | Online resources include articles about queer Pacific Northwest history, Northwest queer heroes, videos, recommended books |
| CALIFORNIA | UC San Diego Library | LGBTQ History in Government Documents: Selected LGBTQ History Sources | List of recommended reading about LGBTQ+ history and government | |
| WASHINGTON, D.C. | National Museum of American History | LGBTQ History | The resources gathered on this page offer a path into the museum's efforts in finding LGBTQ+ history and making sense of it. | |
| ONLINE | Organization of American Historians | The American Historian: Queer History (May 2019 issue) | Research articles, research from the history archives, obituaries | |
| Process: a blog for American history (tag: lgbtq) | Articles tagged 'lgbtq' - Captures digital content related to LBGTQ+ political candidates and political issues and topics at various levels of government, with a focus on lesser-known local and state politics. | |||
| Internet Archive Global Events | Internet Archive Global Events: 2013 Supreme Court Hearings on DOMA/Prop 8 | News articles, blogs, organizational websites, and social media related to the 2013 Supreme Court hearings and subsequent rulings for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California's Proposition 8. | ||
| Unerased: Counting Transgender Lives | N/A | A comprehensive look at transgender murders since 2010. *The article contains links to an internal database that can no longer be found. | ||
| Georgetown Public Policy Review | Invisible in Data: The Lack of LGBTQ Data Collection | An essay on the lack of comprehensive data collection and analysis of the US LGBTQIA+ population and its implications | ||
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| INTERNATIONAL | CANADA | U Victoria: Transgender Archives | Discovery Tool | Searches the world’s largest collection of Trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and other gender-diverse publications. |
| ENGLAND/U.K. | Gay History & Literature | Homosexuality in 18th-Century England | A sourcebook of primary documents compiled by Rictor Norton - documents faithfully reproduce the language and typeface of the original sources. | |
| INDIANA | Kinsey Institute: Indiana University | Frequently Asked Questions about human sexuality; Research; News, and Events; Lecture Series | The Kinsey Institute Collections encompass print materials, film and video, fine art, artifacts, photography, and archives from over 6 continents. | |
| ONLINE | NBJC: We've Always Been Here & Ubuntu Biography Project | Ubuntu | Celebrating legacies and achievements of LGBTQ+/SGL people. | |
| LGBTQ Religious Archives Network | Biographical Sketches | Prominent figures and leaders in LGBTQ+ religious movements around the world | ||
| Black Femiminisms | Irma McLaurin Black Feminist Archive; Scholarly articles: #Sayhername and The Jezebel Speaks | Uplifting Black feminist scholar-activism and conducting research; includes the Black Feminist Digest | ||
| Women Writers Project | Exhibits and Women Writers in Review | A long-term research and publication project focusing on early women’s writing in English. Provides access to rare materials by women that otherwise would go unread and untaught. | ||
| U of Rochester: River Campus Libraries | AIDS Education Posters | 8,000+ posters documenting efforts to educate and inform people in 100+ countries in 60+ languages, 1982-present. Contains student projects using the posters, links to other resources, and interactive features. | ||
Tertiary Sources
| LOCATION | ORGANIZATION | COLLECTION | DESCRIPTION | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. | CALIFORNIA | Teaching LGBTQ History | LGBTQ Rights Timeline in American History | Organized in units that are typically taught in middle/high school U.S. History classrooms, consistent with people and events listed in the new California History-Social Science Framework (2016). |
| ONE Archives | Lesson Plans; Teaching LGBTQ History Webinars; History Panels | Educator training and materials to support teachers in teaching students about LGBTQ+ history | ||
| FLORIDA | Stonewall National Museum & Archives | LGBTQ History Timelines and Archeion Journal | Archeion is a quarterly journal of SNMA’s archive, library, and museum. The history timeline is organized by topic. | |
| INTERNATIONAL | ONLINE | American Historical Association: Committee on LGBT History | Syllabi | Syllabi about LGBTQ+ curricula submitted by professors around the country |
| Fordham U: Internet History Sourcebooks Project | People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History | Content Notice: Some use of problematic language. Includes hundreds of original texts, discussions, and [soon] images, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world. | ||
| PHYSICAL BOOK | Charles Scribner's Sons | Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, 1st Edition | A global view of the history of LGBTQ, covering significant figures and events worldwide. Complements courses in a variety of disciplines, including history, American studies, literature, psychology, sociology and others. | |
| PHYSICAL BOOK | Cassell Publishing | Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore | Drawing upon religion, mythology, folklore, anthropology, history and the arts, the Encyclopedia is a cornucopia of queer spirituality, containing over 1,500 alphabetically arranged entries from Aakulujjuusi to Zeus. |
Compiled Sources
| LOCATION | ORGANIZATION | COLLECTION | DESCRIPTION | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. | ONLINE | Library of Congress | Freely Accessible Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology Online Resources | A collection of publicly available gender, minority studies & anthropology online resources selected by Library of Congress staff. |
| LGBT Pride Month: Resources | Social media, research guides, civil rights & the government, literature & poetry, and more | |||
| UW-Madison Libraries: The Office of the Gender and Women's Studies Librarian | LGBTQ+ Archives, Libraries, Research Centers, and Special Collections – United States | List of archives, libraries, research centers, and collections of LGBTQ+ historical items in the US | ||
| GLAA | GLAA: Preserving Our History (Archives) | Contains links to other archive websites, news articles, writing by GLAA members, and other source material | ||
| Online Archive of California | Browse institutions, libraries, collections, or map for LGBTQ publications, sources, and more. | |||
| Society of American Archivists | Lavender Legacies Guide: Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable Guide to Sources in North America | *Some listed resources may not be up to date. Contains a list of archives and museums of LGBTQ+ history in each state or territory. | ||
| Edmonds College Library | Edmonds College Library: Stonewall Uprising & LGBTQ History | List of articles, streaming films, books, history archives | ||
| INTERNATIONAL | ONLINE | UCSB: Voice of the Shuttle | Gender and Sexuality Studies: General Resources | Over 70 pages of links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the internet; a briefly annotated guide to online resources. |
| Queer Studies (a sub-topic) | ||||
| Royal Historical Society | LGBT+ Histories and Historians | Includes guides on getting started with research; reading lists; archives, networks, and heritage; gender-neutral pronouns; guidance, support, and advice; contexts and other reports. Project is designed to grow over time with updates to material. | ||
| LGBTQ Religious Archives Network | LGBTQ History Resource (religious and non-religious) | Recommendations and links | ||
| Archives Gaies du Québec (Gay Archives of Quebec) | Bibliography | Manuscripts, images, recordings, and other memorabilia pertaining to the LGBTQ+ of Quebec. Site in Québeçoise Français. | ||
| AQuA (Australian Queer Archives) | LGBTIQ+ Archives | Material from the lives and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex, queer, Brotherboy and Sistergirl (LGBTIQ+) Australians. | ||
| NYU Libraries | NYU Libraries: Gender and Sexuality Studies | Primary-Source Research Materials Beyond Bobst: This guide provides an overview of available gender and sexuality studies resources and materials. | ||
| UMichigan Library | Research Guides: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies | LGBTQ Statistics; Databases for LGBTQ Research; Article Databases & Electronic Reference; Archives & Primary Sources; Journals, Magazines & Newspapers - some may require login access | ||
| Black Femiminisms | Archives on Black Women | Databases and lists of archives, book recommendations, academia, and other resource by and about Black feminist scholars | ||
| Books on Black Feminism | ||||
| Feminist Media by Women of Color | ||||
| Academic Books by and About Black Women - 2020 Ed. | ||||
| Women's Knowledge Digital Library | N/A | An online repository of information by and about women and girls. |
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