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The University of Winnipeg Two-Spirit Archives
The mission of the Two-Spirit Archives is to develop an internationally-renowned centre for research that supports the needs of the Two-Spirit community; makes Two-Spirit people visible in our documentary heritage; and supports the research, teaching, learning, and community mandates of the University. It is guided in its development by the Two-Spirit Archives Advisory Council, which ensures Two-Spirit people are central to preserving the history of their contributions to society and in strengthening their community. -
University of Victoria Transgender Archives
The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria is committed to the preservation of the history of pioneering activists, community leaders, and researchers who have contributed to the betterment of trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people. Since 2007, we have been actively acquiring documents, rare publications, and memorabilia of persons and organizations associated with activism by and for trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people. Our records span over 160 meters or 530 linear feet (1.5 football fields long), go back over 120 years, and are in 15 languages from 23 countries on six continents. Our collections comprise the largest trans archives in the world. We are accessible to everyone, free of charge. -
Mark S. Bonham Centre Sexual Representation Collection
The Sexual Representation Collection (SRC) is Canada’s largest university-based collection of pornography. In addition, it includes a significant collection of materials related to the social and legal regulation of sexual representations in Canada. The collection contains roughly 2,000 VHS videocassettes and DVDs, 1,000 magazines, 500 pulp novels, hundreds of 35mm slides, floppy discs, 8mm film, 8mm cassette tapes, and 267 linear feet of personal papers, legal documents, reports, art, kink objects, and unique ephemera dating from the 1950s to the present. SRC is administered by the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. The SRC aids in the recovery and preservation of pornography, and materials related to their social and legal regulation, production, circulation, and consumption. Its mission is to acquire, preserve, organize, and give public access to information and materials in any medium about sexual representation, with particular attention paid to feminist, queer, and kink material. -
USM Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine
The University of Southern Maine’s Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine collects material documenting the ongoing histories of diverse communities. Current collections represent the African American, Jewish, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer+ communities. The Center promotes diversity and civil rights through research, education, and outreach. -
The University of Texas at San Antonio LGBTQ Collection
UTSA Special Collections builds, preserves, and provides access to distinctive archival, photographic, and printed materials, with a particular commitment to documenting the diverse histories and development of our region. We embrace the changing digital landscape by actively exploring new ways to enhance access to our collections. We support the university's ascent to premier research university status by building nationally recognized collections that inspire new knowledge, serving researchers at UTSA and from around the world. -
ArQuives
Since 1973, The ArQuives (The ArQuives) has been acquiring and preserving material documenting LGBTQ+ history. The ArQuives’s mandate is to acquire, preserve, organize, and provide public access to information and materials in any medium, by and about LGBTQ+ people, primarily produced in or concerning Canada. The ArQuives houses papers and records documenting many Canadian LGBTQ+ individuals and organizations. The ArQuives houses the world’s largest collection of LGBTQ+ periodicals. We currently have over 9,700 unique titles in the collection. The guide “Our Own Voices: A Directory of Lesbian and Gay Periodicals, 1890s to 2000s”, compiled by long-time The ArQuives volunteer Alan Miller, lists more than 7,200 titles from all over the world, most of them held at The ArQuives. The ArQuives’s first volunteer archivist, James Fraser, contains over 11,000 titles from both Canadian and international authors. The collection consists of both non-fiction and fiction, including a large collection of “pulp” fiction. Material in the James Fraser Library is non-circulating and available for reference only. The Moving Images collection includes films, filmstrips, videocassettes, DVDs, and digital media. The collection consists of all genres, including, but not limited to: feature films, documentaries, footage recorded from television programs, original productions, and erotica. -
Browne Popular Culture Library
The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States. Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Our collection strengths include research materials on popular fiction, popular entertainment, and the graphic arts. As an archive, our collection does not circulate, with the exception of our DVD collection. A large part of our collection is searchable via the library catalog and we maintain research guides and finding aids for browsing the remainder of the collection. -
Independent Voices
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. -
The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony
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 -
Sourcebook -- People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans* History
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] -
Dig Sex: The Digital Sexuality Archive
The Digital Sexuality Archive is a gateway to a plethora of digital resources concerning the history of sex and sexuality. Use DIG Sex to locate digital archives and collections that contain primary sources for your research project. You can search by subject place time period type of collection and more. Scroll down through each item's content to find the URL that will take you to the digital archive or collection that contains materials relevant to your search. -
AIDS Activist History Project
AIDS activists changed the world. They organized strategized and put their bodies on the line.As a part of the AAHP we have been learning about AIDS activists’ work in the Canadian context. We are interviewing social movement organizers who were active in the 1980s and 1990s in Halifax/Nova Scotia Montreal Ottawa Toronto and Vancouver. We have also gathered ephemera from archives and from AIDS activists across Canada. So far we have conducted over 60 interviews and recovered over 600 pieces of ephemera which are (or will be!) available for display in our collection.Now we invite you to discover more about the history of AIDS activism. We invite you to to read the interview transcripts watch the videos and check out our (ever-growing collection) of ephemera. You can visit our interview ephemera feature and memorial pages. -
AEGIS Publications
Between 1990 and 1998 the American Educational Gender Informational Service Inc. published materials including medical bulletins pamphlets articles and results from research. The topics covered in these publications include gender identity in a medical context gender realignment surgery hormone therapy and health-related risks during and after transitioning. Included are 13 issues of AEGIS News which was founded by Dallas Denny in October 1990.