Oxford LibGuides: LGBTQ+ History Resources: Race

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The Harlem Renaissance in Black Queer History
This article, published by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture, discusses the queer aspects of the Harlem Renaissance, a period of African-American cultural revival in New York in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Bishopsgate Institute: Black Lesbian and Gay Centre
This is a collection of items, mostly newsletters and other ephemera, associated with the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre, an organisation founded in 1985 that aimed to address issues facing LGBTQ+ people of colour.
Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group: Race and Sexuality
This article discusses a number of items that are contained within the collections of The Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group’s archive collection.
KYKY Archives
"KyKy is a digital archive and educational resource for lesbian, queer, gender non conforming, and trans people of the African Diaspora." The archive includes photographs, magazines, newspaper articles and ephemera.
National Museum of African American History & Culture: LGBTQ
This is a list of items within the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture that have been labelled with the 'LGBTQ' tag. It predominantly includes photographs, works of art, and digital copies of publications.
Queer Asian American Collection (University of Illinois Chicago)
"The Queer Asian American Collection documents the rich and vibrant stories of the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, intersex, and gender non-conforming Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and South Asian communities in Chicago. The collection contains materials gathered by the Queer Asian American Archive, founded in 2014 by Dr. Laura Sachiko Fugikawa and liz thomson."
Race, sexuality and identity in Britain and Jamaica : the biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963 / Gemma Romain.
"This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson ... He was a black migrant to interwar Britain; an aristocrat's valet in rural Wales; a Black queer man in 1930s London; an artist's model; a law student, a recruit to the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps and Prisoner of War during the Second World War." This book is available through SOLO.
Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
In this article, produced by The Open University, Dr Anita Naoko Pilgrim explores a historical tendency in Britain 'to ascribe lesbianism to BAME women and ‘other’ nations.'

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