Selected LGBT Studies Websites
Professional Organizations | Education | Legal/Advocacy | Health/Medical | Groups & Events | Media/Literature/Arts | History | Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections
Professional Organizations
General
- One Institute: One Institute is dedicated to telling LGBTQ+ history and stories through education, arts, and social justice programs.
- Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association: An excellent site providing links to bibliographies, award winning books, and information for library professionals dedicated to serving the information needs of LGBT individuals.
Bisexual
- Bisexual Resource Center: Provides a set of resources and a forum for counseling and educating.
Transgender
- Advocates for Trans Equality: Fights for the legal and political rights of transgender people in America.
Local
- Uniting Pride Center of Champaign County: Includes a list of resources as well as information on local events.
Education
- Campus Pride: An “online community and resource network committed to student leaders and campus organizations that work to create a safer campus” without homophobia, etc. at educational institutions (Robert Ridinger).
- Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals: “Member-based organization working towards the liberation of LGBTQ people in higher education.”
- GLSEN: A national network of educators, students, and local chapters working to ensure every student has the right to safe, supportive, LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 education.
Legal/Advocacy
General
- Human Rights Campaign: The largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the country
- InterPride: International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Coordinators
- Lambda Legal: National organization “working to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV, through impact litigation, education and public policy work.”
- Movement Advancement Project: An “independent, nonprofit think tank that provides rigorous research, insight, and communications that help speed equality and opportunity for all.”
- The Williams Institute: Within the UCLA School of Law, the Williams Institute conducts rigorous, independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy.
Gay/Lesbian
- Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice: As a public foundation “rooted in LGBTQI+ communities and movements, we work in strategic partnership with foundations, individuals, and governments to ensure that their resources reach the activists who need them most and who are best positioned to make transformational impact over time.”
- ILGA World: A worldwide federation of more than 1,900 organizations from over 160 countries and territories campaigning for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex human rights.
- Outright International: “Outright is dedicated to working with partners around the globe to strengthen the capacity of the LGBTIQ human rights movement, document and amplify human rights violations against LGBTIQ people, and advocate for inclusion and equality.”
- LGBTQ+ Victory Fund: “LGBTQ+ Victory Fund supports pro-equality, pro-choice, out LGBTQ+ candidates at all levels of government”
- NCLR: National Center for Lesbian Rights: “NCLR is a non-profit, public interest law firm that litigates precedent-setting cases at the trial and appellate court levels; advocates for equitable public policies affecting the LGBTQ community; provides free legal assistance to LGBTQ people and their legal advocates; and conducts community education on LGBTQ issues.”
- National LGBTQ Task Force: “Builds power, takes action, and creates change to achieve freedom, justice, and equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people” and “organizes people and money in pursuit of liberation for all.”
- National LGBTQ+ Bar Association: “National association of lawyers, judges and other legal professionals, law students, activists, and affiliated lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender legal organizations. The LGBTQ+ Bar promotes justice in and through the legal profession for the LGBTQ+ community in all its diversity.”
Transgender
- Transgender Law Center: Champions “the right of all transgender and gender-nonconforming people to make their own choices and live freely, safely, and authentically. Prioritizing BIPOC, disabled, and HIV+ communities, we advance community-driven strategies that harness trans knowledge, power, and joy to ensure that we all not only survive but thrive at all ages and phases of life.”
- Transgender Resources from GLAAD
Health/Medical
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health (APA)
- Medline Plus Health Information: LGBTQIA+ Health (Archived version of website)
- National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center
Special Groups & Events
- COLAGE: Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
- PFLAG: Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
- Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf: “Provides links to deaf-focused organizations, and documentation on alliance bylaws and chapter information.”
Media/Literature/Arts
- Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD): “GLAAD – the world’s largest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization – increases media accountability and community engagement that ensures authentic LGBTQ stories are seen, heard, and actualized.”
- Queer Arts Resource: Since 1996 we’ve produced over 50 exhibitions that suggest the range, depth, and importance of queer artistic expression.
History
Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
Illinois
- Gerber/Hart Library (Chicago): Focus is to collect and preserve Midwest’s homosexual history. Holdings include “papers of individuals, organizations, and businesses, with particular emphasis on Chicago LGBT political and business history” (Robert Ridinger). Collection includes posters, periodicals, international newsweeklies, and histories and novels.
- Leather Archives and Museum (Chicago): Collection includes materials about the history of the leather/Levi communities throughout the world. The site discuss the museum, provides a newsletter archive, and a timeline.
- LGBTQ Spaces in Champaign County (Urbana): This is a digital exhibit from the Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library highlighting places, spaces, and businesses in Champaign-Urbana where LGBTQ people have gathered, met, and fostered community from the 1970s through the present day. This exhibit also includes information on the fight for legal protections for LGBTQ people in both the City of Champaign and the City of Urbana.
National
- Gay and Lesbian Collections AIDS/HIV Collections (New York Public Library)
- GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco): Collects primary sources about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender history and culture.
- June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives: “The only archive on this side of the continent that is dedicated exclusively to preserving lesbian history” and represent all lesbians no matter their class or race.
- Lesbian Herstory Archives (New York): Robert B. Ridinger calls this grassroots archive,”the mother of all lesbian research collections in the United States.” It holds the personal papers of Joan Nestle, Deborah Edel, and others as well as lesbian paperbacks, and documents from organizations such as the Daughters of Bilitis.
- National Transgender Library and Archives (University of Michigan)
- ONE Archives (University of Southern California)
- Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies (University of Minnesota)
- Vern and Bonnie Bullough Collection on Sex and Gender (CSU, Northridge)
International
- Australian Queer Archives (Melbourne)
- The ArQuives – Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives (Toronto, Canada): Previously known as the Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives; mission is to “acquire, preserve, organize, and give public access to information and materials in any medium, by and about LGBTQ2+ people, primarily produced in or concerning Canada.”
- GALA Queer Archive of South Africa: The archive houses a collection of historical material of gay and lesbian people in South Africa and the surrounding countries.
- IHLIA: International Homo/Lesbian Information Center and Archives: European collection with a focus on homosexual history. Includes periodicals, diaries, travel guides, erotica, posters, and audiotapes.
- Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa (formerly Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand) (Wellington)