LGBTQ+ Archival Collections
My major archival sources
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries, Los Angeles
Gay and Lesbian Archives of Mid-America (GLAMA) at the University of Missouri–Kansas City Libraries
GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco
Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M), Chicago
Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies at the University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis
Online resources (Gale and ProQuest links are paywalled)
The Advocate ProQuest digital archive, 1970-2015
Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco LGBTQ newspaper
Drummer magazine (leather magazine) archives
Emphasis Mine aggregation of local archives and digitized local gay press
Gale Primary Sources: Archives of Sexuality and Gender, online database of digitized archival collections
GayBarchives archives listings
Gay Community News digital archive, Boston LGBTQ newspaper
JD Doyle Archives, Houston/Texas/regional South and queer music collections
New York Public Library digital archives of sexuality
ProQuest LGBT Magazine archive, 1954-2015
Washington Blade digital archive, Washington DC LGBTQ newspaper
LGBTQ+ collections and oral history projects (local and national collections)
The Arquives, Canada’s LGBTQ2 Archives, Toronto
Cal State University Northridge special collections (Vern and Bonnie Bullough Collection on Sex and Gender), Northridge/greater Los Angeles
Charles Botts Collection of LGBT History at University of Houston special collections
Georgia State University special collections, Atlanta
Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, Chicago
Gulf Coast Archive and Museum, Houston
Historical Society of Washington, DC
The History Project, Boston
Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University, Ithaca
Kinsey Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, Bloomington
LGBT Community Center National History Archive, New York City
LGBTQ Archive, University of North Texas, Denton (outside Dallas)
LGBTQ oral history projects directory
Lambda Archives, San Diego
New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division
Orange County LGBT collections at UC Irvine libraries, Irvine/greater Los Angeles
Rainbow History Project, Washington, DC.
Quatrefoil Library, St. Paul
Stonewall National Museum, Archives, and Library, Fort Lauderdale
Touching Up Our Roots, oral history project Atlanta
University of Southern Florida LGBTQ+ collections, Tampa
John J. Wilcox Archives of the William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia
Lesbian Collections
Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles
Black LGBTQ+ Collections
Auburn Avenue Research Library, Atlanta
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
