A list of LGBTQ+ online resources with a variety of interesting archives (with many thanks, once again, to Daniel Smith at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary). Check them out!
LGBTData.com serves as a no-cost, open-access clearinghouse for the collection of sexual orientation & gender identity data and measures.
LGBTQ+ SourceLGBTQ+ Source is the definitive database for LGBTQ+ studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
The ACT UP Oral History Project is a collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York. The purpose of this project is to present comprehensive, complex, human, collective, and individual pictures of the people who have made up ACT UP/New York. The collection includes videos and transcripts from interviews.
Wearing Gay History began as a graduate student project at George Mason University in the Fall of 2014. The site currently includes shirts from most of the 50 states and over 25 different countries.
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.
The glbtq project was founded in 2000 by Publisher Wik Wikholm to create the world's largest encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture and history and to deliver it online.
This site out of San Francisco has digitized copies of historic publications and recordings from history. The site contains much about San Francisco history.
Gender Studies Database combines the Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship.
The LGBTQ+ Studies Web Archive collects and preserves online content which documents LGBTQ+ history, scholarship, and culture in the United States and around the world. Sites include domestic and international non-profit organizations, journalism and news, creative works and expressions, historical records, and more.
The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN) is an innovative venture in preserving history and encouraging scholarly study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) religious movements around the world.
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries, the largest repository of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) materials in the world. Founded in 1952 as ONE Inc., the publisher of ONE Magazine, the ONE Archives Foundation, Inc. is the oldest active LGBTQ organization in the United States.
This site is an online repository of documents, photos, ephemera, oral histories, bibliographies, and articles about LGBTQ history. The site spans the colonial era to today.
"Project Q&A is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in Montgomery County, Kansas. The mission of Project Q&A is to raise awareness for the LGBTQ community through education, empowerment, and visibility."