LGBTQ+ Research

Provides an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. Based at the College of the Holy Cross, the DTA is an international collaboration among more than fifty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections.

Gender.Network is an archive of flyers, photos, artwork, cartoons, letters, poems, and other media by trans*, Two-spirit, nonbinary, and trans-adjacent activists, organizers, and artists. It currently focuses on 1960s-1990s North America. It has been created collaboratively in that these materials were identified based on many conversations, including conversations with some of the people represented in the archive.

Focused on documenting and preserving the history of New England's LGBTQ communities.

Fully downloadable report from the Royal Historical Society with links to reading lists and other sites and a separate download of data from the report.

The archive of the International Gay Information Center, along with other related archives donated to the library. Contains documents, photographs, art, postcards, and much more.

Web archive of broad range of websites maintained by and for the benefit of LGBTQ+ communities. These sites document news, events, and issues and provide information about seeking assistance.

This web archive captures digital content related to LGBTQ+ political candidates and political issues and topics at various levels of government, with a focus on lesser-known local and state politics.

Web archive that collects and preserves online content which documents LGBTQ+ history, scholarship, and culture in the United States and around the world.

"Preserving history and encouraging scholarly study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender religious movements around the world."

"Documenting the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer content in games."

Queering the Classroom is an online collection of creative and socially conscious resources completed at the University of Saskatchewan.

From the Providence Public Library: "a community archives initiative to collect and provide access to the current and past stories of LGBTQ+ people in Rhode Island. We are focused on ensuring the preservation of materials chronicling the social, cultural & political history of RI LGBTQ+ people and organizations."

"Amplifying the voices of those fighting against long histories of patriarchal dominance, the South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive documents and preserves the work of activists, grassroots organizations, and social justice movements committed to promoting the visibility and experiences of LGBTQAI+ people and women in South Asia and its diasporas." Curated by librarians from the Ivies Plus Libraries Confederation.

Website of the national organization whose mission is "to end suicide among gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning young people." The site also includes educational materials for school curricula.

Where Love is Illegal "documents and captures personal testimonies of survival from the LGBTQI+ community around the world."

A collection of interviews with surviving members of the New York chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.

"The Pembroke Center Oral History collection captures the experiences of women, transgender, and gender non-binary members of Pembroke College and Brown University from 1911 to the present."

Oral history interviews conducted in 1993 by Peter Cohen with AIDS activists who were involved with the group ACT UP in Rhode Island and New York. The interviews were used as part of Peter Cohen's dissertation research at Brown University and used extensively in his subsequent publication: Love and Anger: Essays on AIDS, Activism, and Politics (Haworth Press, 1998).