Oxford LibGuides: LGBTQ+ History Resources: General

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BFI: Queer Britain
This collection of films, produced by the British Film Institute, aims to showcase "screen representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lives over the past century."

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Archives
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Archives Center Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Collection
"This collection contains a variety of periodicals, photographs, correspondence, business and advertising ephemera (corporate and non-profit, personal), organizational records and ephemera, created by, for, and in reaction to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community."
The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives
This resources contains a collection of digital exhibitions produced by The ArQuives, an independent LGBQT+ archive based in Canada.
Bishopsgate Institute: LGBTQIA+ Archives
"Bishopsgate Institute’s Special Collections and Archives holds one of the most extensive collections on LGBTQIA+ history, politics and culture in the UK. It covers the late nineteenth century onward."
The British Newspaper Archive Blog; LGBTQ+ History
This is a series of blog posts produced by The British Newspaper Archive which look at LGBTQ+ history. The posts draw from material in their archival collections.
GLBT Historical Society: Digital Collections
This is an archive, including a large number of videos and audio recordings, owned by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society, a US based organisation.
Hampshire’s LGBT History
This blog post, published by the Hampshire Archives Trust, discusses Hampshire's LGBT History. The author discusses some archives where material related to this area of history can be found.
Indonesian Queer Zines of the 80s, 90s, and 00s
This digital exhibition showcases some of the small-scale, independently published magazines that formed an important part of LGBTQ+ culture in Indonesia from the 1980s to the 2000s. It draws on the collections of the Queer Indonesia Archive.
Invisible Histories
"Invisible Histories locates, collects, researches, and creates community-based, educational programming around LGBTQ history in the Deep South."
The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection
"The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection is home to over 500 collections of queer and trans archival materials accessible to the public. We are open to community members and organizations as well as undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff from any college or university to use on site at the Andersen Library."
LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana
"Our mission is promoting and encouraging the protection and preservation of materials that chronicle the culture and history of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community in Louisiana."
LGBT Foundation Archive
"The LGBT Foundation Archive, located at Archives+ at Manchester Central Library, includes materials relating to our organisational history as well as the wider history of LGBTQ+ communities in Greater Manchester."
LGBT History NI
This is an archive of digital material related to LGBTQ+ history in Northern Ireland.
LGBTQ Cymru
"This website is a collaboration between Swansea University and Hanes LHDT+ Cymru / LGBTQ+ Research Group Wales to provide a platform for contributors sharing information about LGBTQ+ history in relation to Wales."
LGBTQIA+ Issues in Records at the National Archives
"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) engages, educates, and inspires multiple audiences to discover and explore the records of the American people. Its collection documents the experience of the full range of our diverse society, with records that constitute a rich documentary history of the experience of LGBTQIA+ individuals."
LSE: LGBT+ Collections
This article highlights the archival collections of the London School of Economics that relate to LGBTQ+ history. This includes the Hall-Carpenter Archives, named for pioneers Radclyffe Hall and Edward Carpenter.
The National Archives: How to look for records of... Sexuality and gender identity history
This guide, produced by The National Archives, is designed to help researchers to find records related to LGBTQ+ history.
The National Archives: Sexuality and Identity
This blog post highlights materials related to LGBTQ+ people that are contained in the collections of the National Archives of the United Kingdom.
North East Wales LGBTQ+ Timeline
This timeline, produced by the North East Wales Archives, looks at the history of LGBTQ+ people in Wales from the 17th century to the present day.
Queer Indonesia Archive
"The Queer Indonesia Archive is a digital archiving project committed to the collection, preservation and celebration of material reflecting the lives and experiences of queer Indonesia."
Rainbow History Project Digital Collections
This is the archive of the Rainbow History Project, whose stated mission is to "to collect, preserve, and promote an active knowledge of the history, arts, and culture of metropolitan Washington DC’s diverse LGBTQ communities."

English Heritage: LGBTQ+ History
This page contains a number of articles from the English Heritage relating to the history of LGBTQ+ people in England.
Gay History and Literature: Essays by Rictor Norton
This is a collection of essays by Rictor Norton, an independent scholar who focuses on LGBTQ+ history.
History of Gender Commons
This is a collection of open access articles from US University repositories, covering a wide range of topics on sexuality, women's rights, and gender.
LGBT Histories in Hampshire
In this podcast, produced by the Hampshire Archives Trust, Dr Clifford Williams, a historian who studies the history of the early gay and lesbian youth groups in England, discusses LGBTQ+ histories in Hampshire.
National Museums Liverpool: LGBTQ+ collections
"These collections reflect historic and contemporary LGBTQ+ life, experiences and culture and offer new interpretations of the material from Walker Art Gallery, Museum of Liverpool, Lady Lever Art Gallery and Sudley House. They reveal the contributions of LGBTQ+ people in a range of fields, from music to art and design, to social activism and politics."
People with a History: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History Sourcebook
This is a collection of sources related to LGBTQ+ history, produced by Fordham University.
Pride of Place: England's LGBTQ Heritage
This collection of articles "uncovers and celebrates places of LGBTQ heritage across England, ranging from the frontiers of Roman Britain to the gay pubs and clubs that remain important in our lives today."
Queer History Links
This is a webpage full of links to websites about Gay and Lesbian history. It was compiled by Rictor Norton, an independent researcher whose main interests are in LGBTQ+ history.
Welsh Parliament: Collecting LGBTQ+ histories
"To mark LGBT+ History Month and in the run up to the Senedd elections, Mark Etheridge, curator at St Fagans National Museum of History has selected key items from the museum’s collection that highlight the importance of political activism and of using your voice."
A ‘Queer Medieval’ Reading List
This blog post gives an extensive list of primary and secondary readings relevant to LGBTQ+ history in the Medieval period.

LGBTQ+ History Resources: General

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The National Archives: Hidden Love

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