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GLBT Resources

ACTUP Oral History Project

"ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) revolutionized gay politics, giving new and forceful meaning to the slogan "out of the closets and into the streets." ...Jim Hubbard and ...Sarah Schulman have created a Web site of oral histories of individuals who participated in this significant political movement.

GenderWatch

Full-text of 170 publications providing in-depth perspective on gender studies. Also includes Women's Studies & Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender studies.

glbtq

An encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture

LGBT Life - EBSCO

LGBT Life (formerly: GLBT Life) contains full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,and Transgendered journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,300 terms.

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

"...[T]he collection's scope [has] an international...focus. ..[S]earching is now available by author, title, subject, and personal or corporate name.

OutProud

Web site for OutProud, The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth. They provide a wide range of resources for youth and educators.

The Other Queer Page

Over 800 sorted links & growing of the best of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual & Queer resources available on the Web, ranging from coming out to getting involved in the fight for equal rights.

Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History - From Antiquity to World War II

Gay and Lesbian History

Available on-line through CREDO Reference, this is a uniquely authoritative and comprehensive reference work on the key men and women in the history of homosexuality from antiquity to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes biographies, with references, on figures - famous, notorious or unknown - in politics, social activism, culture and the arts, medicine, religion and other fields throughout Europe, North and South America, South Africa and Australasia.