Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) is "dedicated to bringing about full LGBT equality to America's military and ending all forms of discrimination and harassment of military personnel on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity."
"The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, this dynamic research tool includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work." From the Digital Commons Network
An advocacy organization in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive that works to preserve LGTBQ+ films. The annual Outfest Film Festival showcases queer cinema from around the world.
"These media examples address criminalization, medicalization of, and stigma against LGBTQ identities in an historical context, looking at Stonewall, AIDS crisis and activism.
Gives media examples that help address how individuals come to understand their gender from a young age through socially constructed ideas about what masculinity and femininity mean.
Outbeat Radio is a program for, about, and produced by members of the Sonoma County LGBT Community, which airs on North Bay Public Media, 104.9 FM KRCB each and every Sunday evening at 8pm.
"Autostraddle has won numerous awards since its inception, notably the 2015 GLAAD Media Award, and it has been been nominated for many others, including the GLAAD Digital Journalism Award. Its Arts & Popular Culture: Film and TV sections provide reviews, news, and analysis of recent films and films in production, as well as for TV series." From LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook
Founded in 1971 and known as B.A.R. until 2011, it was distributed free to patrons of San Francisco bars. The Bay Area Reporter is particularly notable for its reporting on the AIDS/HIV crisis.
A newspaper from the 1970's that not only advocated for gay rights but also covered stories that never would have been published in the mainstream media. Provides a brief overview of other gay publications of the time.
"The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities." From the QZAP Zine Archive.
From the Digital Transgender Archive, "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."
This Internet Archive Collection " collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity."
Its mission is to collect and preserve items relating to the lesbian experience. The first items collected ranged from love letters to personal papers that would have been otherwise destroyed.
The LGBT Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN) encourages "scholarly study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) religious movements around the world."
"People with a History presents the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people [=LGBT]. It includes hundreds of original texts, discussions, and [soon] images, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world."
The website closed in 2015, but the encyclopedia is archived here and includes essays, interviews and other entries in the arts, literature, social sciences, and history.
Directory of web pages from the University of California, Santa Barbara that includes general resources, women's studies & feminist theory, queer studies, and men's studies. Although some links may be broken, the titles of the sites may suggest additional ways to search for information.
Women and Gender Studies websites developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). Includes OER titles, feminist Open Access Journals, book reviews, open courses, and more to explore.
