Look at articles, photographs, newsletters, and other documents related to queer history, 1940-2000s. Includes materials from Lesbian Herstory Archives, New York Public Library, and others. Learn more about this collection.
Search for articles in LGBTQ+ newspapers and magazines from 1950s-present, as well as scholarly journals covering queer and trans topics. (To find PDFs, look for the Access Options link.)
Digital history exhibits featuring primary sources and critical introductory essays including "Reclamation Projects: An Archive of Queer Latinidad, 1850-1921" and "Power, Politics, and Race in the 1968 Philadelphia Study of Prison Sexual Violence."
Films from around the world focused a broad range of topics related to gender and sexuality.
Alternative press magazines and news from the 1950-1990s. Includes LGBTQ publications like ONE Magazine and Philadelphia Gay News (from 1976-1982 ; see later issues of PGN). Open-access from JSTOR.
Oral histories, videos, photographs, and other sources related to queer life. Main focus is the San Francisco Bay Area. (See Online Exhibitions and Primary Source Sets.)
Find digitized historical materials related to the lives of trans and gender non-conforming people. Focuses on pre-2000 materials. (Try Primary Source Sets if you're not sure where to start.)
Explore digitized sources from the William Way Center's Wilcox Archives, including oral histories and videos. Focus is on Philadelphia area history. Learn more about the collection.
Find digitized sources from the Lesbian Herstory Archive's collection, including extensive spoken word and video, queer t-shirts, LHA newsletters, and photos.
Resources for exploring the history of early queer and trans communities online, particularly pre-2010.
Extensive collection of queer zines that have been scanned. Particularly strong for finding zines from pre-2010. QZAP's goal is to create a “living history” archive of past and present queer zines.
