Pride Month: Welcome

TSER (Trans Student Educational Resources)

"The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. Based in Boston, Massachusetts at Northeastern University, 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."

"The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity. Founded in 1985, we are recognized internationally as a leader in the field of LGBTQ public history."

"Designed to be a repository for the preservation of the history of LGBTQ life first in the state of Alabama and then the entire Southeast."

"The Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather and preserve records of Lesbian lives and activities, providing access to materials relevant to their lives."

"LGBT materials in the New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the most significant LGBT archives in the United States. Part of the library’s digital collections, the items available are the result of an ongoing project to document LGBT history with a concentration on LGBT life and activist organizations founded in New York. In 1988, NYPL received a significant collection of archives collected by the International Gay Information Center that dated back to the beginnings of the movement in the 1950s. The searchable materials include photos of notable members of the arts community, archives from the AIDS activist art collective Gran Fury, audiovisual materials from the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and a selection of activist photography, dating from the early Gay Rights marches from the 1960s, as well as finding aids."

"ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries is the largest repository of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records, and personal papers. ONE Archives has been a part of the University of Southern California Libraries since 2010."

"OutHistory.org was founded in October 2008 by Jonathan Ned Katz, author of Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (1976) and other books on the history of sexuality and gender."

"...[A] list of archive collections in the U.S. and Canada. Many of the entries are for small organizations or city-specific archives, which hold collections that are not digitized but provide contact information for researchers...The larger organizations have digital collections linked."

"The ACT-UP Oral History Project is a collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York."

"The LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory connects archives across Canada and the U.S. to produce a digital history hub for the research and study of gay, lesbian, queer, and trans* oral histories."

"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."

"StoryCorps OutLoud launched in 2014 on the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Dedicated to documenting and sharing stories from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people from across the United States, OutLoud is an extension of our longstanding commitment to preserving LGBTQ stories in a time of profound change in social attitudes about sexuality and gender identity in our country...All interviews are stored at the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center: https://storycorps.org/discover/outloud

"The indispensable Internet Archive is home to the oldest continuously published LGBTQ newspaper in the United States, the Bay Area Reporter. Founded in 1971 and known as B.A.R. until 2011, it was distributed free to patrons of San Francisco bars. The Bay Area Reporter is particularly notable for its reporting on the AIDS/HIV crisis. Another resource for researchers is the searchable database of more than 10,000 obituaries and death notices published from 1979 to 2009 as a project in partnership with San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society. "

" Independent Voice is a treasure trove of regional, small press, and activist magazines and newspapers compiled by librarians and scholars who represent a diverse selection of areas of study. Search by title or visit the “Series” tab to choose LGBT. The list of publications available via the site includes a number of titles significant to the early years of the LGBTQ movement. Highlights include ONE: The Homosexual Magazine (holdings: 1954–66) published by The Mattachine Society of Los Angeles. It was the first gay-positive magazine available in the United States. The Los Angeles branch of the Daughters of Bilitis’ The Lesbian Tide (holdings: 1974–80) was the first national newspaper for lesbians."

" 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.
To get started with the zine archive try browsing through the collections or searching for specific terms. Our main collection is organized as alphabetical by title ("Zines E-H" for example.) We generate metadata (information about the zine) from the zines themselves, try searching on a keyword (e.g. queercore), a year (e.g. 1996) or place (e.g. Toronto.). "

"This is a project in the form of a LibGuide by librarians Jesse Silva at the University of California-Berkeley and Kelly L. Smith of the University of California-San Diego. Using research tools such as CQ and Lexis-Nexis Academic, they have brought together U.S. government documents that trace the history of rights for LGBTQ Americans into one resource. Their LibGuide was born out of their 2016 presentation at the Federal Depository Library Conference. Their slides are attached as a useful document explaining their research. Documents are linked using a timeline that begins in 1830 and ends with the Supreme Court’s 2018 Masterpiece Cakeshop case. All of the documents included are freely available. The authors also include a bibliography for supplementary reading."

"Welcome to the LGBTQ Game Archive, documenting the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer content in games (currently digital, but we do hope to expand). This site is a research project organized by Adrienne Shaw, a faculty member at Temple University’s Lew Klein College of Media and Communication. Previous work on this project is funded in part by a grant from Refiguring Innovation in Games (ReFig) and Temple University’s Digital Scholarship Center. As we do not have funding at the moment, we always appreciate volunteers to keep things going!"