a community archive devoted to the collection preservation and sharing of trans histories organized in collaboration with the New York Public Library

The Pittsburgh Queer History Project (PQHP)  is an oral history and media archive focusing on LGBT nightlife in Pittsburgh PA from 1960 to 1990. Founded by Harrison Apple in 2012 the project began as an investigation of gay-owned-and-operated after-hours nightclubs. Within these nightclubs LGBT Pittsburghers used fraternal organization charters as semi-legal shelters and created an after-dark community of labor and love. These emergent communities of membership formed the basis of a self-aware gay and lesbian community which combatted police harassment and the AIDS epidemic while facing the swift economic decline of Pittsburgh. In the years following heavy outmigration from steel cities like Pittsburgh these histories have become all but forgotten.

The QDHP is an ongoing effort to document pre-2010 LGBTQ digital spaces online. Our current projects include a catalog of early LGBTQ online communities an archive of transgender-related Usenet newsgroups and interactive maps of TGNet one of the first international transgender-specific BBS networks. For more information see the FAQ page.

America in Transition is a documentary series exploring relationships community and social issues with trans people of color.

We Who Feel Differently is a database documentary that addresses critical issues of contemporary queer culture. 

Independent Voices produced by Reveal Digital is a digital collection of alternative press newspapers magazines and journals drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists dissident GIs campus radicals Native Americans anti-war activists Black Power advocates Hispanics LGBT activists the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

Whether to protest satirize or show pride the LGBT community’s often ignored history can be seen vividly in the clothing we often throw out. We invite you to browse through the t-shirts and explore the short exhibits to more thoroughly understand the history of LGBT communities around the country with select t-shirts from the past forty years. We also invite you to consider how t-shirts can serve as valuable tools to see into our local and national history. Most of the t-shirts housed at the selected archives were worn within the past twenty years. Yet in many ways they sometimes seem to represent an America of the distant past. What has changed? What remains the same? We encourage you to think about how other seemingly mundane items in your daily life might one day help to explain your own history. Enjoy the collections.

The Manuscripts and Archives Digital Images Database (MADID) contains digital reproductions of photographs posters drawings text documents and other images taken from the research collections of Manuscripts and Archives Yale University Library. These images comprise only a small percentage of the department's holdings being those requested by departmental patrons over the past several years.

The Library's digital collections cover a wide variety of topics including asylums food sex and sexual health genetics public health and war. Published books pamphlets archives posters photographs and film and sound recordings are completely free to view. Digitised materials are released under a variety of Creative Commons non-commercial attribution and Public Domain licenses.

The Gender and Women’s Studies Collection brings together in digital form primary and secondary materials relating to the the exploration of politics history and society from a transnational and multicultural women’s perspective. Although this collection is still in its infancy future additions may include archival as well as published materials and may be drawn from a variety of formats: books manuscripts prints photographs audio and video and more. Our first submissions to the collection include grassroots posters from two separate Indian feminist organizations. The first Olakh (meaning Identity) and the second Sayihar. The posters have been collected from different women’s groups and feminist organizations from all over India. These posters are not simply beautiful pieces of material culture created by individual artists. Most of the posters are the outcome of a collective political process in which community members activists students and/or survivors brainstorm together to translate a deep social concern into words and images. The second group of materials come from the collections of Dovie Horvitz and consists of over 1300 images and scanned texts representing objects and printed matter that reflect the lives of women from the mid 1800s through the mid 1900s. The items themselves were collected by Mrs. Dovie Horvitz over almost two decades and remain her property.

The tag for the Public Domain Review about sex and sexuality. Founded in 2011 The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art literature and ideas.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather and preserve records of Lesbian lives and activities so that future generations will have ready access to materials relevant to their lives. The process of gathering this material will uncover and collect our herstory denied to us previously by patriarchal historians in the interests of the culture which they serve. We will be able to analyze and reevaluate the Lesbian experience; we also hope the existence of the Archives will encourage Lesbians to record their experiences in order to formulate our living herstory. We will collect and preserve any materials that are relevant to the lives and experiences of Lesbians: books magazine journals news clippings (from establishment Feminist or lesbian media) bibliographies photos historical information tapes films diaries oral histories poetry and prose biographies autobiographies notices of events posters graphics and other memorabilia.

The History Project is the only organization focused exclusively on documenting and preserving the history of New England’s LGBTQ communities and sharing that history with LGBTQ individuals organizations allies and the public.

An expanding collection of video interviews with individuals who presently or historically identified as lesbian. The oral testimonies derive from a series of collections acquired by the project which are largely Canadian in origin. Common themes…he Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony was founded in 2010. We digitize and make available online oral histories and testimony of same-sex and same-gender attracted women inclusive of Two Spirit queer bisexual and lesbian women transmen and others

The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education is an online locus of scholarship on the history of women’s higher education. The Center aims to foster inquiry and dialogue on how the history of women’s education has informed contemporary life and how it will shape the global future. Through its blog exhibits instructional lesson plans and digital collections the Center provides informative materials and a digital space for teaching and learning on these topics.

Drawn from the Harvard Law School Library’s extensive trial collections Studies in Scarlet features over 420 trial narratives involving the crimes and passions of both renowned and ordinary people.

About a thousand lesbian pulp novel covers collected online.

The Sex Worker Fest has screened over 300 movies since 1999 and videos are still being added to this archive. Our collection also includes sex worker videos we have not yet screened.

The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers researchers historians punks and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities. Our mission statement has been consistent over the past nine years: 'The mission of the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is to establish a 'living history' archive of past and present queer zines and to encourage current and emerging zine publishers to continue to create. In curating such a unique aspect of culture we value a collectivist approach that respects the diversity of experiences that fall under the heading 'queer.' The primary function of QZAP is to provide a free on-line searchable database of the collection with links allowing users to download electronic copies of zines. By providing access to the historical canon of queer zines we hope to make them more accessible to diverse communities and reach wider audiences.'

An onlune sourcebook from Fordham University. People with a History presents the history of lesbians gay men bisexuals and transgendered people [=LGBT]. It includes hundreds of original texts discussions and [soon] images and addresses LGBT history in all periods and in all regions of the world.Browse the Contents guide below to access a series of large index pages which will then link you directly to the texts and images that interest you.In addition to texts the site includes other aides to help you study or just make sense of LGBT history - note especially the guide to online bibliographies and the onsite bibliography [which is the most up-to-date and complete bibliography of LGBT history available]

OutHistory.org was founded in October 2008 by Jonathan Ned Katz author of the groundbreaking Gay American History (1976) and other books on the history of sexuality. When the Internet became part of the everyday life of millions – even billions – of people in the 21st century Katz understood that the work of archiving establishing LGBTQ chronologies and highlighting new discoveries begun in Gay American History should continue on a digital platform.

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5000 years of human creativity. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture furniture fashion textiles photography sculpture painting jewellery glass ceramics book arts Asian art and design theatre and performance.

The Vault is the FBIs FOIA Library containing 6700 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office. Included here are many new FBI files that have been released to the public but never added to this website; dozens of records previously posted on our site but removed as requests diminished; files from our previous FOIA Library and new previously unreleased files.

The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN) is an innovative venture in preserving history and encouraging scholarly study of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) religious movements around the world. LGBTQ-RAN has a two-fold basic purpose. First it assists LGBT religious leaders and groups in determining how best to preserve their records and papers in appropriate repositories. Secondly LGBTQ-RAN provides an electronic information clearinghouse for these archival collections and other historical data about LGBT religious history for the use of historians researchers and other interested persons. LGBTQ-RAN can best be understood as a 'virtual' archive. It is not a physical repository that collects and preserves papers and records. Instead LGBTQ-RAN is a resource center that enables the preservation of history and makes historical information easily accessible through this web site. Initiated in 2001 as a project of the Chicago Theological Seminary LGBTQ-RAN has been a program of the Center for LGBTQ & Gender Studies in Religion in Berkeley California since 2008

The Sex tag at NYPL. The New York Public Library Digital Collections contains 849462 items and counting. While that is a small fraction of the Library's overall holdings it is representative of the diversity of our vast collections—from books to videos maps to manuscripts illustrations to photos and more.