LGBTQIA+: Archive collections and websites

National archive of press cuttings, campaigning material and other resources relating to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities based at the Bishopsgate Institute, London

Archives and printed materials held at the Central Library

LGBT resources in the Library's United States collections

Deposited with London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) in 2010, the archive documents the Black LGBT community’s contribution and ‘lived experience’ in London, the UK and internationally

Collection holding some material relating to gay, lesbian and transgender workers. See the research guide for more information on how to search the collection.

Guide to searching the collection for LGBT-related material

a representative selection of the broad range of materials in LSE (London School of Economics) Library and The Women's Library @ LSE

Centre for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) culture and education in South Africa.

Based in San Fransisco, USA

Repository for books, magazines, films, videotapes, journals and newspaper articles, unpublished papers, photographs, artwork, letters, personal papers, memorabilia, and ephemera related to trans history housed in the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Michigan

The largest LGBTQ circulating library in the United States

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries is the largest repository of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) materials in the world

Online oral histories and testimony of same-sex and same-gender attracted women collected by and housed in Special Collections and Rare Books at Simon Fraser University, Canada

The Broken Futures Project offers archival material and genealogical research detailing historical prosecutions of sex between men in Berkshire’s Crime and Punishment Archives, 1861 to 1967. The project is delivered by Support U, the LGBT+ support and wellbeing charity in the Thames Valley and was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund in 2019.

An online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. Based in Worcester, Massachusetts at the College of the Holy Cross, the DTA is an international collaboration among more than fifty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections.

A socialist journal produced by men 1975-1980

timeline highlights some of the more hidden facets of mainly British lesbian history through magazines, journals, newspaper clippings, badges and ephemera that are all held in the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre at Glasgow Women's Library.

Video, photos and audio resources from the archives based in New York.

British Library website exploring the development of LGBTQ identities and communities in the UK

Podcasts

Personal stories that reflect the strength, diversity and challenges of the community

Aims to 'to preserve, describe, and make available the history of sexual minorities in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area'

Ground-breaking feminist 20th-century magazine running from 1972-93

Recording the history of British Alternative Theatre in the 1960s, 70s and 80s through interviews and the collecting of archive material.

a representative selection of the broad range of materials in LSE (London School of Economics) Library and The Women's Library @ LSE