History
The civil rights of LGBTQ individuals in the United States have changed dramatically over the past decades. Much works remains ahead, but a lot has been accomplished as a community. This page provides reputable historical resources about the LGBTQ community.
Rethinking what we thought we knew
Rethinking the AIDS crisis (Text)
Rethinking Stonewall (Text)
Rethinking the Red Scare (Text)
Rethinking the Harlem Renaissance (Text)
Before Stonewall
Ladies In The Streets: Before Stonewall, Transgender Uprising Changed Lives (Podcast)
Compton's Cafeteria Riot (Text)
Screaming Queens (Documentary)
The Stonewall Riots Didn’t Start the Gay Rights Movement (Text)
Don't Let History Forget About Compton's Cafeteria Riot (Text)
Los Angeles’s Cooper’s Do-nuts (1959) and Black Cat Tavern (1967) (Text)
Dewey’s Coffeehouse Sit-in in Philadelphia (1965) (Text)
The Mattachine Society Sip-in, New York City (1966) (Text)
Stonewall
Marsha P. Johnson, a black transgender woman, was a central figure in the gay liberation movement (Text)
LGBT Center NY: Stonewall Forever (Documentary)
PBS: Stonewall Uprising (Documentary)
Minnesota connections
Minneapolis Interview Project (Text)
The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project (Interactive)
The Gay 90s: An Oral History (Text)
Minnesota Rep. Susan Allen Is Two-Spirit, a Lesbian, and She Won’t Be Assimilated (Text)
Minnesota Men of Color (Text)
Minnesota History Center LGBTQ Collection (Text/Interactive)
Minneapolis becomes the first US city to protect transgender people (Text)
Karen Thompson named legal guardian of her life-partner (Text)
Minnesota legalizes same-sex marriage (Text)
Voices from the past
Lesbian Herstory Archives (Text)
Library of Congress LGBTQ+ Resources (Text/Interactive)
Wearing Gay History (Images)
Mapping the Gay Guides (Text/Interactive)