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Welcome to the LGBTQ Studies research guide. Here you will find information about finding databases, books and reference materials, and course guides related to the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues. You may also want to reference the Sociology research guide for additional information.

Commonly used resources:

LGBT Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window Archival runs of many of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests, including the preeminent US and UK titles (The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively). Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1954-2015.
LGBTQ+ Rights This link opens in a new window Charts the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries as well as the inequalities that still exist today, including an interactive timeline, subject-coded court cases, scholarly articles, books, pamphlets, reports, and more. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1813-present.
LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window Documents LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection includes documents ranging from letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights as well as memoirs, biographies, poetry, letters and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community. Terms of Use.

Suggested Books in LGBTQ Studies

A Positive View of LGBTQ: Embracing Identity and Cultivating Well-Being

Through personal stories from people with a variety of backgrounds and gender and sexual identities, readers will learn more about expressing gender and sexuality; creating strong and intimate relationships; exploring unique perspectives on empathy, compassion, and social justice; belonging to communities and acting as role models and mentors; and, enjoying the benefits of living an authentic life.

Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare

Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard’s plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that Shakespeare can be queered but also the many ways that Shakespeare can enrich queer theory.

Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol

Opacity and the Closet interrogates the viability of the metaphor of “the closet” when applied to three important queer figures in postwar American and French culture: the philosopher Michel Foucault, the literary critic Roland Barthes, and the pop artist Andy Warhol. Nicholas de Villiers proposes a new approach to these cultural icons that accounts for the queerness of their works and public personas.

How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time

How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal worlds by amateur readers centuries later.