Research Guides: LGBTQ Research: Overview

Databases and Online Resources

Transgender Libguide from Univ Minn
Useful guide for Transgender research includes resources [journals, reference titles, data sets, databases]; search terms and search strategies; funding sources.
GLBTQ Archive: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, & Queer Culture
Find articles, encyclopedia entries, essays and more, covering gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture.

LGBT Magazine Archive
Traces the history and evolution of myriad aspects of LGBT history and culture, including legal contexts, health, lifestyle, politics, social attitudes, activism, gay rights, and arts/literature.
LGBT Thought and Culture
An online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day

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.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Archive at UNT
a repository for records documenting the history and culture of the LGBT communities in the South and the Southwest. This major collecting initiative documents people, places, and events through primary source materials, including letters, photographs, newspapers and magazines, scrapbooks, diaries, audio-visual materials, organizational records, posters, flyers and objects.
GLBT Historical Society Online Collections
Find the Bay Area Reporter, and other primary sources, including photographs and papers, important to 20th century American LGBT history.

Journals

Canadian Online Journal for Queer Studies in Education
This journal is devoted to supporting and disseminating research and theory that promotes social justice for all queer people, and encourages critical examination of queer discourse across disciplines and dialogue on multiple and intersecting forms of oppression based on gender, race, class, ability, religion, etc.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Interdisciplinary and international in scope, GLQ publishes scholarship, criticism, and commentary in areas as diverse as law, science studies, religion, political science, and literary studies. Its aim is to offer queer perspectives on all issues touching on sex and sexuality.
Journal of Homosexuality
The Journal of Homosexuality is devoted to scholarly research on homosexuality, including sexual practices and gender roles and their cultural, historical, interpersonal, and modern social contexts. In addition to research on human sexuality, articles in this journal also explore the political, social, and moral implications of research on human sexuality.
Sexualities, Evolution and Gender
Examines the psychology of gender-specific behaviors, including gender roles, gender differences and gender relations.
Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
The Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association is the first peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal devoted entirely to the healthcare needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations. This journal publishes a wide variety of clinical research, review articles, and nonfiction essays, and reflects the varied healthcare needs of the 'population under study.'

more... less...

Articles from this journal must be borrowed from other libraries. Use the link to interlibrary loan on the library homepage.

Background Information

History of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Equality
This is an overview of key dates in not just Stonewall's history but in the development of lesbian, gay, bi and trans history in terms of social, political and legislative change, representation and visibility.
LGBT History Month
"LGBT History Month celebrates the achievements of 31 lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender Icons. Each day in October, a new LGBT Icon is featured with a video, bio, bibliography, downloadable images and other resources."
People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History
People with a History presents the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people. It includes hundreds of original texts, discussions, and [soon] images, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world.

Need more help?

Chat Email Schedule Appointment

Keywords in Library Search

Materials on LGBT and Queer Studies can be found in multiple disciplines, for instance in the collections on literature, communications and mass media, English, American history, religion, education and social services.

Search for a specific topic within LGBT studies to start. For example, "transgender youth", "same sex marriage", "Stonewall uprising".
Terms have changed over time, and different disciplines use different terms. Searching under "homosexuality" may produce results that are historical or clinical. Searching under "queer" may produce largely cultural or literature studies.
Other keywords that could be used are "Gay", "GLBT", "LGBT", "Transgender" and "Transgendered" "Sexual orientation" and "Gender identity."