Further Resources
OUTWORDS is honored to be just one of a rich collection of websites and projects that advance LGBTQ history and storytelling. Below is a non-comprehensive list of projects that we recommend visiting. Please visit our “Connect With Us” page to send us feedback, or let us know about other sites we should include.
ACT UP Oral History Project
The ACT UP Oral History Project is a collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York. The project is coordinated by Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman…
AIDS Education Posters
Housed at the University of Rochester in upstate New York, the AIDS Education Posters project consists of 8000 posters documenting efforts to educate and inform the people of over 100 countries…
Cornell University Human Sexuality Collection
The Cornell Human Sexuality Collection seeks to preserve and make accessible primary sources that document historical shifts in the social construction of sexuality, with a focus on U.S. lesbian…
Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
Founded in 1981 in Chicago, the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives is the Midwests largest LGBTQ circulating library with over 14,000 volumes, 800 periodical titles, and 100 archival collections.
The GLBT History Society
Founded in San Francisco 1985, the GLBT Historical Society archives and museum collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support…
I’m From Driftwood
I’m From Driftwood is an archive of personal stories from contemporary LGBTQ people from all over America. IFD also includes the “What Was It Like?” initiative, which features…
James Hormel LGBTQIA Center
Part of San Francisco Public Library, The James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center is the gateway to the Library’s broader collections documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and allies…
June Mazer Lesbian Archives
First founded in Oakland, CA in 1981, the June Mazer Lesbian Archives is currently housed in West Hollywood, CA. It includes many rich resources including the True Life Oral History Project.
The Lavender Effect
Based in Los Angeles, The Lavender Effect has recorded a number of video interviews with LGBTQ activists and allies, mostly in the Los Angeles area.
Lesbian Herstory Archives
The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities…
The LGBT Community Center National History Archive
The LGBT National History Archive, a project of The Center in New York City, serves to preserve the history of the LGBT community…
LGBTQ History Digital Collaboratory
The LGBTQ History Digital Collaboratory is working to connect scholars, activists, and archives across Canada and the U.S. to produce a collaborative, digital history….
Making Gay History
Making Gay History is a podcast project, currently in its third season, in which journalist Eric Marcus mines and repurposes the rare audio interviews that he recorded in the 1980’s as research…
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
Originally founded in 1952 and currently based at the University of Southern California (USC), the ONE Archives is the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world…
Outspoken
Longtime LGBTQ activist, writer, and photographer Steven Dansky created this project which includes video interviews and photographs of many early queer pioneers and trailblazers. All product from Outspoken…
Quatrefoil Library
The mission of the Quatrefoil Library, located in Minneapolis, MN, is to collect, maintain, document and circulate gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer materials and information in a safe and accessible space…
Rainbow History Project
The mission of the Rainbow History Project is to collect, preserve, and promote an active knowledge of the history, arts, and culture relevant to sexually diverse communities in metropolitan Washington DC…
Stonewall National Museum & Archives
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL., the Stonewall National Museum & Archives is the largest LGBTQ circulating library in the US. The Archives includes 30,000 items documenting a century of LGBT cultural and social history…
The Trans + Gender Project
Founded by KJ Rawson, a professor at the College of the Holy Cross, the Trans + Gender Project includes many resources including a unique timeline relating to the history of transgender identity…
Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria
The Transgender Archives, the largest trans archive in the world, is committed to the preservation of the history of pioneering activists, community leaders, and researchers who have…
The Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Stories
The Tretter Collection at the University of Minnesota houses over 3,000 linear feet material the LGBTQ experience. It include published material, organizational personal…
Visual AIDS
Visual AIDS houses a critical record of the role that art has played in combatting the AIDS epidemic. Visual AIDS also continues to promote the use of art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists…
