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  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.
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  M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany

  The principal purpose of The M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives is to collect, preserve, provide access to, exhibit, and encourage use of the University Libraries' unique manuscript and archival materials, the official records of the University, rare books, and printed materials. These materials are acquired by gift or purchase and serve the current and future research interests of faculty, students, and others affiliated with the University as well as other researchers from the region and beyond.
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  The Museum of Modern Art

  Collections of Note: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, Paul Rosenberg Archives, Edward Steichen Archive, Calvin Tomkins Papers, Scott Burton Papers. The Archives collects, preserves, and makes accessible nearly 90 years’ worth of the Museum’s historical records, 40 years’ worth of MoMA PS1 records, and other primary source documents concerning art and cultural history in the 20th and 21st centuries, including private archives and papers of artists, galleries, dealers, art historians, critics, and others. The holdings also include an extensive Photographic Archive and interviews conducted as part of the Archives Oral History Program. An essential resource for scholars, students, curators, conservators, writers, journalists, artists, and Museum staff, the Archives plays a crucial role in fulfilling MoMA’s mission as an educational institution.
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  The Center: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center

  The LGBT Community Center National History Archive serves to preserve the history of our community and its rich heritage. Founded in 1990 by volunteer archivist Rich Wandel, the archive provides a look into the lives and experiences of LGBT people throughout the years.
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  Stonewall National Museum and Archives

  Stonewall National Museum & Archives promotes understanding through preserving and sharing the proud culture of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their significant role in American society.
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  Sophia Smith Collection

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  New York Public Library Special Collections

  The New York Public Library holds nearly 10,000 archival and manuscript collections comprising over 50,000 linear feet of material in nearly every format imaginable. They preserve evidence (often unique and unpublished) of human activity and achievement that forms a basis for the study of political, social, economic, and cultural history. Each year, these collections inform and inspire the work of scholars, writers, artists, filmmakers, family historians, and other advanced researchers who seek and then share the new knowledge and perspectives revealed to them through these resources.
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  Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

  AIDS Epidemic Gay Pride Day Transgender transsexual cross-dressing Intersex intersexual intersexed hermaphrodite Masculinity Manhood Men Masculinities Femininity Womanhood Women Femininities Homosexuality homosexual lesbian gay queer bisexual bisexuality asexual celibacy celibate asexuality Race Ethnicity ethnic racism colonialism orientalism cultural difference Religion religious spirituality Intercourse oral anal vaginal wife-swapping swinging polyamory group sex orgy Pornography Erotica Fetish fetishism BDSM role playing masturbation masturbate onanism vibrator dildo strap-on sex toy Bestiality animals Celebrations Pride activism HIV AIDS
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  Lesbian Herstory Archives

  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.
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  Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University

  The Human Sexuality Collection seeks to preserve and make accessible primary sources that document historical shifts in the social construction of sexuality, with a focus on U.S. lesbian and gay history and the politics of pornography.
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  Columbia University Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library

  Archives & Special Collections collects, preserves, organizes, and makes available rare and unique materials documenting the history of the health sciences in general and particularly at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Our holdings include books, journals, manuscripts, photographs, prints, sound recordings, moving images and artifacts which because of their historical value, rarity, or fragility must be kept separate from the library's general circulating collection. Archives & Special Collections also has substantial records of Presbyterian Hospital (1868-1997), now New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the medical school's main teaching hospital since 1911, and the hospitals that merged with it including Babies Hospital (now Children's Hospital) and the Neurological Institute of New York. The department houses a 27,000 volume rare book library in the history of the health sciences dating from the 15th into the 20th century and holds the library's serials printed before 1876 and books printed through 1922. Other outstanding collections include the Auchincloss Florence Nightingale Collection, the Freud Library, the Hyman Collection in the History of Anesthesiology, and the Webster Library of Plastic Surgery. We also collect the personal papers of physicians, nurses, biomedical scientists and others with a connection to Columbia University, as well as from organizations and individuals in the health sciences from the New York City area. The department's image collection numbers in the thousands of items and mostly relates to Medical Center individuals, buildings, and events.
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  New York City Trans Oral History Project

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

  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.
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  Wellcome Library Digital Collections

  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.
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  The Public Domain Review: Sex

  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.
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  The Lesbian Herstory Archives

  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.
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  The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education

  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.
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  Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K. 1815-1914.

  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.
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  Queer Zine Archive Project

  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.'
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  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]
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  Outhistory.org

  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.
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  Sex Materials in the New York Public Library

  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.
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  LGBT Materials in the New York Public Library

  The LGBT 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.