Research Guides: LGBTQ+ Resources: LGBTQ+ Research Resources on the Web

LGBTQ+ History and Experience Research Resources on the Web

The following links will connect you to research resources for LGBTQ+ studies on the web and at other institutions.

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Camp Kansas City Kansas City’s voice for the LGBT and allied communities.
Dallas Voice Dallas Voice is a community archive that focuses on the LGBTQ+ experience in Texas.
Digital Transgender Archive Based in Worcester, Massachusetts at the College of the Holy Cross, the DTA is an international collaboration among more than sixty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections. By digitally localizing a wide range of trans-related materials, the DTA expands access to trans history for academics and independent researchers alike in order to foster education and dialog concerning trans history.
GLAMA: Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America The Gay and Lesbian archive of Mid-America reflects the history of the gay and lesbian community in the Kansas City area. Collections include an image gallery, scans of various KC area publications (including The Phoenix, the LGBT newsletter of Kansas City) and LGBT history articles by GLAMA curator Stuart Hinds.
GLBT Historical Society Holds approximately 800 collections of personal papers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and organizational records in San Francisco, CA.
John J. Wilcox Jr. LGBT Archives Digital Collections
Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections To foster and promote a greater understanding of human sexuality and relationships through research, outreach, education, and historical preservation. The Kinsey Institute Collections encompass print materials, film and video, fine art, artifacts, photography, and archives. The Institute has collected publications, objects, art, and data from six continents. Its holding span more than 2,000 years of human history, and run the gamut of technologies—from ink on paper, to microforms and CD-ROMs.
The Ladder: A Lesbian Review, 1956-1972 An open-access archive of The Ladder, the first ongoing monthly publication in the U.S. launched by the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), this resource offers "valuable primary source materials on women's activism a decade before the resurgence of a mass women's movement in the U.S. while chronicling the creation of modern lesbian identities, communities, and institutions. The content as well as the images found in The Ladder contribute to a deeper understanding of women's organizing in general in the post-World War II period; in particular, The Ladder supports assessments of the mid-1950s as a complicated time of nascent civil rights struggles that included gender and sexuality as well as race and economic status. It gives voice to those relatively unknown women in a handful of U.S. cities and internationally who were committed to gender equality and integration; at the same time, it shows how the Daughters utilized a strategically separatist framework in their same-sex outreach and organizing efforts."
The LGBT Community Center National History Archive An archive of items from as early as 1920 including photography, correspondence, news clippings, radio clips, video broadcasts, and personal journals.
LGBT materials in the New York Public Library Founded in 1979, the International Gay Information Center (IGIC) archives operated as a community-based repository until 1988, when the organization's directors gave the collection to The New York Public Library. The IGIC archives, along with other archives and collections subsequently donated to the Library, such as the Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay History Papers and Photographs, comprehensively document the gay and lesbian civil rights struggles in New York since the 1950s and have made NYPL one of the most important archives of LGBT history in the United States.
The LGBT Oral History Digital Collaboratory LGBTQ digital oral history is an emerging field built by dedicated activists, historians, and archivists across the web. This hub acts as a growing resource for oral histories practitioners and the public. The LGBT Oral History Digital Collaboratory is based at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives and the Lesbians Making History project; the Digital Transgender Archive; the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria; and the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony.
LGBTQ History in Government Documents Developed by UC Sandiego, this guide presents a timeline of LGBT history through full-text Congressional reports, Presidential documents, court cases, and other federal government resources.
LGBTQ Religious Archives Network The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN) is an innovative venture in preserving history and encouraging scholarly study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) religious movements around the world.
New York City Trans Oral History Project a community archive devoted to the collection, preservation and sharing of trans histories, organized in collaboration with the New York Public Library
ONE Archives The collections at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries are primarily national in scope, with special focus on LGBTQ histories in the Los Angeles region. The archives also include a number of international materials, such as books, periodicals, and posters.
OutHistory Founded in 2008 by Jonathan Ned Katz, author of Gay American History (1976), for the purpose of archiving, establishing LGBTQ chronologies, and highlighting new discoveries. Includes texts, oral histories, timelines, and visual material documenting the queer past.
QZap Zine Archive The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities.
Under the Rainbow: Oral Histories of Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Intersex and Queer People in Kansas Created in 2008 by University of Kansas librarian Tami Albin, Under the Rainbow is an oral history (collection and study of historical information through interviews) of the GLBTIQ experience in the state of Kansas.
William Way LGBT Community Center Archives Collections The Wilcox Archives documents LGBT history, generally, and the LGBT history of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, specifically. Additionally, the collections illuminate the area's homophile and early LGBT rights movements. The Archives contains named collections donated by local individuals and organizations; periodicals (magazines, journals, newspapers and newsletters) from the 1940s to the present; ephemera and newspaper clippings; textiles and artifacts (from political buttons and matchbooks to t-shirts and leather chaps); rare books and pulp fiction novels; posters, calendars, art works, and travel guides; and audio-visual material, comprised of a wide variety of media types.

Guide to LGBTQ+ Voices in The Library of Congress Collections
The collections at the Library of Congress offer rich and diverse stories of LGBTQ+ life in the United States and around the world. Explore the stories of writers, performers, activists, public figures, and service members through books, manuscripts, newspapers, recordings, and ephemera. These resources open windows into our shared American experience by highlighting the creativity, innovation, and courage of LGBTQ+ people and communities. Themes in the collections include the printed word, international studies, military life, activism, HIV/AIDS, and Entertainment. Experience Leonard Bernstein’s music manuscripts, treasures from the Library’s Walt Whitman Collections and panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt.