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About the GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco) The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender Historical Society (GLBTHS) collects, preserves, and interprets the history of GLBT people and the communities that support them. We sponsor exhibits and programs on an on-going basis. Our exhibit galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. The archives of the GLBTHS is one of the world's largest collections of primary source materials about GLBT history. Filmmakers, academics, journalists, students, and others use the archives to craft truthful and inspiring representations of GLBT people. The professionally-staffed archives and reading room are open to GLBTHS members Tuesday through Friday, 1 to 5 p.m. and to the general public on Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. The GLBTHS is a community-supported, 501c3. All contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. |
Sacramento, California
Welcome to the Lavender Library We loan books, periodicals, videos and tapes of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender interest to members, collect items that preserve the LGBT experience in the Sacramento area and sponsor lectures, exhibits and cultural events for the community. |
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Welcome The ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives houses the world's largest research library on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,and Transgendered heritage and concerns.
ONE is affiliated with but not governed by the University of Southern California (Los Angeles).
ONE relies wholly on community and corporate support. Mission Statement The ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives honors the past, celebrates the present, and enriches the future of all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. We foster acceptance of sexual and gender diversity by supporting education and research about our heritage and experience worldwide. ONE is dedicated to collecting, preserving, documenting, studying, and communicating our history, our challenges, and our aspirations. |
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Idaho |
An Idaho Gay Bibliography
This annotated bibliography includes citations to books, articles, and films that document the experience of gay people in Idaho from the early 19th century to the present day. Most of the items listed are available in Albertsons Library, Boise State University. Researchers may also want to refer to Diversity, the monthly newspaper of the Idaho gay community. Published since 1984, it is available on microfilm. |
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Illinois |
Gerber/Hart Library
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Information Resource and Archives | About the Library | | Gerber/Hart Library was founded in 1981 to be a depository for the records of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) individuals and organizations, and for other resources bearing upon their lives and experiences in American society. Gerber/Hart Library has since grown into being the Midwest's largest LGBT circulating library with over 14,000 volumes, 800 periodical titles, and 100 archival collections. Hosting various programs and events that support its beliefs that knowledge is the key to dispelling homophobia and that affirming information about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons is critical to fostering pride and self-confidence, Gerber/Hart Library seeks to not only preserve and protect items of LGBT individuals and organizations, but to be a conduit for change. Located in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, Gerber/Hart Library serves the research and recreational reading needs of the Chicago metro-area and the Midwest, and through participation in the Interlibrary Loan program, people throughout the U.S. |
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N. Greenview Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
773.761.9200 FAX 773.381.4657 Mission Statement - "The compilation, preservation and maintenance of leather lifestyle and related lifestyles [including but not limited to the Gay and Lesbian communities], history, archives and memorabilia for historical, educational and research purposes." |
Massachusetts |
 Our Mission
To document and preserve the history of Boston's LGBT community, and to share that information with the public.
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The History of the Stonewall Center
A series of homophobic incidents in 1984 led to protests and the development of a report on the campus climate for lesbian, gay, and bisexual students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. One of the report’s main recommendations was the creation of the Program for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns. The Program was established in fall 1985 as an administrative office in the Student Affairs. In 1995, the Program for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns was renamed “The Stonewall Center: A Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Educational Resource Center.”
When we opened in 1985, The Stonewall Center was just the third center of its kind on a college campus. Our center has served as a model for many other colleges and universities, and today more than one hundred LGBT campus centers and offices exist across the United States and Canada.
For more than twenty years, The Stonewall Center has served the campus and surrounding community by providing cultural and educational programming, a video and book library, a Speakers Bureau on LGBT issues, information and referrals, support for individuals who experience harassment and discrimination, advocacy for LGBT people at UMass Amherst, and community outreach through QueerE, our weekly listserv of LGBT campus and community events. |
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Missouri |
ST. LOUIS LESBIAN AND GAY ARCHIVES(1987- )
COLLECTION, 1972-1992
349 FOLDERS
WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUISIn October of 1987 the Community Liaison for Education and Research (C.L.E.A.R.), a member organization of Challenge Metro (formerly the St. Louis Gay and Lesbian Community Services), began an ambitious project. This project consisted of collecting the history of the Gay and Lesbian Community in St. Louis, and was to be called the Lesbian and Gay Archives. The nucleus of the archives was a large collection of periodicals, clippings, flyers, and brochures donated by the owner of Our World Too Bookstore, Bill Cordes. After an initial surge of activity, the archives was placed in the care of Fredric Rissover. He continued to collect material and was assisted by Bill Cordes. In the summer of 1991, Fredric made arrangements to place the collection with the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection. He continues to collect material and donates the material to WHMC annually. |
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New York |
Human Sexuality Collection (Cornell University) 
The 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 and gay history and the politics of pornography. We are actively expanding the Collection and are seeking gifts of personal papers, organizational records, rare books, and periodicals that reflect changing views on sexuality. Through this program, Cornell University is working to ensure that a more complete historical record of sexuality will be available to researchers. |
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 Statement of Purpose The Lesbian Herstory Archives exist to gather and preserve records of Lesbian lives and activities so that future generations will have ready access to materials relevant to their lives. The process of gathering this material will also serve to uncover and collect our herstory denied to us previously by patriarchal historians in the interests of the culture which they serve. The existence of these Archives will enable us to analyze and reevaluate the Lesbian experience; we also anticipate that the existence of these archives will encourage lesbians to record their experiences in order to formulate our living Herstory. We will collect and preserve any materials that are relevant to the lives and experiences of Lesbians: books, magazines, journals, news clippings (from establishment, Feminist or Lesbian media), bibliographies, photos, historical information, tapes, films, diaries, oral histories, poetry and prose, biographies, autobiographies, notices of events, posters, graphics, and other memorabilia. In 1978, Judith Schwarz joined Joan Nestle and Deborah Edel as coordinators of the Archives. By then, the Archives was filling most of the apartment and a full-scale informational campaign was well underway. To help spread the word about the Archives, the coordinators developed a traveling slide show. They took it to homes, bars, churches, synagogues, anywhere they were asked to speak. The slide show presented materials that were in the Archives and illustrated the principles and intention of its existence. It also helped to bring the message to the community that the Archives was for every Lesbian---that no one would be excluded, that every Lesbian life could and should be represented. The show helped to build pride in individuals and communities and take away the stigma of formality and exclusivity from the concept of "archives." |
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A Guide to the Collections
of The New York Public LibraryGay and lesbian studies is the examination, analysis and interpretation of the phenomenon characterized by romantic and affectional preference by individuals for others of the same sex. It is by nature cross-disciplinary, covering a wide range of intellectual bases: literature, history, religion, psychology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, medicine, law, fine arts, and others. |
Texas |
|  Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender History, Inc. was created to collect, preserve and provide access to historical items from the GLBT community in the gulf coast area of Texas. The archive shall encourage education of and research by anyone (regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or religion), interested in learning about any aspects of the GLBT community. The museum shall sponsor meetings for the dissemination of information and display of collected materials.
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Washington |
Mission statement:The Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project (NWGLHMP, or The History Project), founded in 1994, is an organization which researches, interprets and communicates the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the Pacific Northwest for the purposes of study, education and enjoyment. Recognizing that the history of this vibrant community has been sparsely and inaccurately recorded, the History Project seeks to: collect oral histories; locate photographs, ephemera, objects and documents; and work with archives to insure the preservation of these materials; and
create public programs such as exhibits, publications and presentations to communicate the collective experience we have uncovered. |
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Opening the Archives has been one of my dreams since I saw the women of the June Mazer Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles present a workshop at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival called something like: “Start your own lesbian archives” about 10 years ago! I returned to Seattle a new woman intent on saving lesbian herstory in my community by collecting the materials of organizations and individuals in the Pacific Northwest, providing a safe space for them and by making the materials accessible to the community and to interested researchers. It took a few years to get into grad school and to go through training in archival theory and practice. Along the way I've been very lucky to have several “archives angels” to keep me on track, encourage me and remind me that this work is important and needs to be done. I see the PNLA as a component in a network of current lesbian archives and lesbian archives to come. No institution can or should try to document the whole world. We won't be able to collect every lesbian record or document but we can chip away at what we do gather, put the word out there and do the work. I expect to meet many interesting people along the way. I look forward to new connections with donors and volunteers in different cities throughout the Pacific Northwest and Southwestern Canada. I know I will be enlightened, entertained, and proud to learn about our herstory and to see the Archives packed with the materials of our lives to educate our community and interested researchers and herstorians. I hope you are too! I want future generations of lesbians to know that we treasure and celebrate our endeavors, our gatherings, our love for each other, and our stories. |
| University of Washington Libraries--Special Collections
Finding aids to GLBT holdings:
Dorian Group Records -- Seattle gay organization active from 1977-1985
John M. Eccles Papers -- a Mattachine Society member formerly active in Washington state
Charles J. Harbaugh Papers -- Seattle-area therapist who was active in gay health issues
Tim Mayhew Collection on Gay Rights -- Seattle-area activist; includes papers of the Dorian Society and other local organizations
Don Paulson Papers -- interviews and photographs used in creating the book An Evening in the Garden of Allah
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Washington DC |
The Rainbow History Project
of Washington, D.C.
Preserving Our Community's Memories The Rainbow History Project formed November 4, 2000 in a meeting at the CyberStop Cafe on 17th Street NW (tolerant home of many of our meetings and oral history tapings!) following a notice placed by Mark Meinke in the Washington Blade. The notice came out of frustration at trying to identify archives and sources of information on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered history in metropolitan Washington DC. Five people showed up for that first Saturday meeting and decided to try organizing the history project; those attending were Mark Meinke, Charles Rose, Bruce Pennington, Jose Guttierez, and James Crutchfield. The group's purpose has always been to preserve our community's memories. Among our highest priority initial projects was the capturing of community members' memories for an oral history project. Our mission is to collect, preserve, and promote an active knowledge of the history, arts, and culture relevant to sexually diverse communities in metropolitan Washington DC.
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