LGBTQ+ Literary Resources

More than 1,300 posters documenting the AIDS education and informing of the public campaign from 1982 to the present. There are more than 60 countries and over 100 languages represented in these posters.

This archive is a collection of digitized historical materials, digital materials in general, and information on archival holdings across the world.

One of the oldest and still being published LGBT papers in the U.S. There are full text digitized issues from 1971 to the year before the current one.

A collection of essays and valuable information regarding gays and lesbians across history. There are two sections dedicated to primary documents, Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England and Homosexuality in Nineteenth-Century England.

Medieval texts that shows gender roles, how sex and gender were constructed and well as how married life was for Medieval people. (Be aware that there are dead links listed within the site.)

A collection of documents from the civil rights movement for LGBT people consisting of photographs, posters, artwork and ephemera from the New York Public Library.

A timeline of LGBTQ history represented through congressional reports, presidential documents, court cases and other federal resources.

The largest repository of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer materials in the world. They even have a digital collection.

A broad source for reading about the history and some of the people who are part of the LGBT spectrum. There are a lot of sources that can be found here, including timelines that chronicle important events. There are different visual materials, oral histories and documents.

Gives an outline of LGBTQ history across all time periods and parts of the world. This site includes many original texts, and discussions. (Also part of Fordham's Internet History Sourcebook)

Brown University has put together a reading list of different theory texts. They also have lists of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Journals, Libraries, Archives, and Museums, and Fiction and Films that will be helpful for anyone looking for a place to start with any of these subjects.

The Library of Congress has a growing collection of zines. The Zine Web Archive was created to supplement the physical zine collection. Collection priorities include zines by people of color, women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ and transgender and gender non-conforming individuals and organizations.