LBGTQ+ History

TDSB Virtual Resources

Rosedale Heights Virtual Library ⇨Catalogue (books, videos, websites) ⇨ Find (databases,eBooks, Encyclopedias)

• • The Canadian Encyclopedia ⇨ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in Canada

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library ⇨ eBooks: Sex & Gender , Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America

Google search phrase: "lgbt* library guides edu" - Using this phrase will result in 100s of library guide pages from post-secondary libraries and a plethora of links to fabulous resources, all of which can't be listed here. Happy searching!

Databases

• InterAlia, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal for queer theory (open source)

Magazines: available at the Toronto Public Library

Websites - Canadian History

• The Arquives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives

• Canadian Queer History Firsts Timeline

• Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony

• LGBTQ Digital Collaboratory

• The Drummer's Revenge: LGBT History and Politics in Canada (Blog)

Social & Political Activism - Articles, Chapters, Essays & Interviews

• QUEER CANADIAN HISTORY TIMELINE - PRE-COLONIZATION TO PRESENT (PDF) (The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity)

• CBC Doczone: Gay Revolution Timeline (CBC)

• CanLit Guides /Canadian LGBTQ* History: An Introduction (UBC)

• 12.7 Queer and Other Histories (BC Campus Open Education)

• Sexual Orientation (Canada's Human Rights History)

• A turning point in our history’: Remembering Canada’s first major gay-rights protest (CBC)

• 10 Canadian LGBTQ stories that need to be made into films or TV series

• 15 LGBTQ Activists of the Past and Present You Should Know

• Super Queeros (CBC)

International Resources

• Digital Transgender Archives

• Transgender Oral History Project

• Out History (USA)

• People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History

• Voice of the Shuttle: Gender & Sexuality Studies - A huge list of links

Podcasts

• Uncover S3: The Village: E7 Out of the Closet (I might make this required listening)

• The Sound of Pride: Stonewall at 50 (NPR)

• Nancy Podcast: What Do We Have in Common? (wnycstudios.org)

• Always Here.

• Queer As Fact: A Queer History Podcast

• Yesterqueer: A Comedic Exploration of Gays Gone By

• Making Gay History (USA)

• OUTWORDS (theoutwordsarchives.org) (USA)

Television, Film & Documentary

• The LGBTQ+ experience in Canada (CBC Curio Playlist)

• IMAGE+NATION@NFB LGBTQ PLAYLIST / Gay Culture & The NFB (National Film Board)

• LGBT History (YouTube Channel 554 videos)

• Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights - 2011-2015 (Documentaries York University)

• PBS LGBT Pride Month: films, series and short stories (some are not available in Canada)

• 'Queer Hutterite': Photographer reflects on colony life in documentary

• Prairie Pride: How Winnipeg became a hub of queer history

• Gaycation (Vice.com)