Reference Works
Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781452287485Publication Date: 2014-09-23
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America by Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 E53 2004 v.1ISBN: 0684312611Publication Date: 2003-12-05
The Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit by Call Number: BL795.H6 C65 1997ISBN: 0304337609Publication Date: 1997-06-01
Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780810872264Publication Date: 2013-09-19
LGBTQ Stats : Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers by Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 .D473 2017ISBN: 9781620972458Publication Date: 2017
The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender by 
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780198779346Publication Date: 2017-04-07
Historical and Legal Resources Online
- HeinOnline - Religion and the Law This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline is a premier online database covering legal history and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. This collection provides a research platform for the development, history, organization, and fundamental principles of various world religions.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States This link opens in a new windowWomen and Social Movements in the United Statesis a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. history generally at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 108 document projects and archives with almost 4,300 documents and more than 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by more than 2,200 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools
LGBTQ Archival Collections
- Digital Public Library of America - Stonewall Collection This collection uses primary sources to explore the events preceding and surrounding the Stonewall Inn riots as well as the aftermath of the riots in the gay liberation movement of the 1970s and 1980s. These sources demonstrate the continuing influence of Stonewall on America’s LGBTQ community, the civil rights movement, and American politics in general.
- Digital Transgender Archives 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.
- Gerberg/Hart Library & Archives in Chicago Gerber/Hart Library and Archives in Chicago seeks to preserve and protect items of LGBT individuals and organizations, and be a conduit for change.
- GLBT Historical Society The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity.
- GLBTQ Archives The glbtq project was founded in 2000 to create the world's largest encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture and history and to deliver it online.
- June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives The June L. Mazer Archives is dedicated to preserving and promoting lesbian and feminist history and culture.
- Lesbian Herstory Archives The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to one of the largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities
- LGBT Community Center National History Archive The LGBT Community Center National History Archive serves to preserve the history of our community and its rich heritage. Founded in 1990 by volunteer archivist Rich Wandel, the archive provides a look into the lives and experiences of LGBT people throughout the years.
- LGBT Religious Archives Network LGBT-RAN provides access to online exhibits, an online selection of biographies of key people connected to the intersection LGBTQ and religion. It also includes a catalog of LGBTQ religious archives found around the country.
- ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries is the largest repository of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records, and personal papers.
- OutHistory OutHistory.org tells stories about people in the past who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender; and people who did not conform to dominant norms of sexuality and gender.
Reading Lists
- Digital Trans Reading ListA working list of research literature at the intersection of (transgender and/or non-binary people) and (digital technology; digital, online, and social media; sociotechnical systems; and the Internet), compiled by Oliver Haimson, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) and Digital Studies Institute (DSI), and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS).