Issue:  Vol. 40 / No. 35 / 2 September 2010
 

Resource: LGBT archives

Books

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Here at the Bay Area Reporter, we are often asked about archival resources for gay media and gay books, so we present a partial list of many LGBT libraries/archives in the US, and their websites. They deserve support, donations of time, materials, energy and money, in saving our 60 years of history in working for the civil rights of LGBT Americans.

Burritt Library (CT) gagliardi@ccsu.edu

Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific NW (Portland) info@glpn.org

Gerberhart Library (Chicago) info@gerberhart.org

GLBT Archives of Philadelphia Archives (gay center) archives@waygay.org

GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco) info@glbthistory.org

GLBT History Month (Equality Forum) (PA) info@equalityforum.com

GLBTQ Inc. info@glbtq.com

Gulf Coast Archive & Museum (Houston) info@gcam.org

Happy Foundation (Gene Elder) (San Antonio) elder4tomato@yahoo.com

Homosexual Information Center (Inc.) (Cal State, Northridge) tangentgroup.org, ctgrant@mac.com

James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center (San Francisco, part of city library) www.sfpl.org

June Mazer Lesbian Archives (West Hollywood) mazerarchives@earthlink.net

Kinsey Institute (not just LGBT) Kinsey@indiana.edu

Lambda Archives of San Diego info@lambdaarchives.org

Lavender Library, Archives & Cultural Exchange of Sacramento info@lavenderlibrary.org

Leather Archives archives@leatherarchives.org

Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable

Lesbian Herstory Archives (New York) www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org

LGBT Religious Archives Network info@lgbtran.org

Lombardi-Nash (has Urania manuscript) (FL) mal123nash@aol.com

Madeline Davis GLBT Archives of Western New York-Buffalo phoenix.md@verizon.net

Milwaukee LGBT History Project webmaster@mkelgbthist.org

Museum of Sex (not just LGBT) info@museumofsex.com

Nancy & Joe McDonald Rainbow Library (OK) www.okeq.org

National Archives of GLBT History (gay center) archive@gaycenter.org

National Museum of Women in Arts (not just LGBT) (DC)

Northeast Ohio LGBT Archives (Cleveland) reference@wrhs.org

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project www.lgbthistorynw.org

Ohio Lesbian Archives ohiolesbianarchives@yahoo.com

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives LA (USC) askone@onearchives.org

outhistory.org (CLAGS, New York project)

Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives lisa@pnwlesbianarchives.org

Phil Johnson Historic Archives & Research Library & Gay Center (Dallas) library@rcdallas.org

Quatrefoil Library (MN) info@qlibrary.org

Sexual Minorities Archives (Northhampton, MA) betpower@yahoo.com

Stonewall Library & Archives (FL) info@stonewall-library.org

Sunflower Archives (KS) mfarchives@aol.com

Terry Mangan Memorial Library (gay center, CO) info@glbtcolorado.org

Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies (MN) trett007@umn.edu

William Nichols Archives (University of Louisville)  willnich@aol.com & kyarchives@aol.com

World Erotic Art Museum (not just LGBT) (Miami)  info@weam.com

This list is not comprehensive. Many other university libraries have collections, such as the University of Texas, Cornell, Harvard, etc. (Courtesy of Gayellow Pages.)


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