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  Glasgow Women's Library Lesbian Archives and Information Centre

  Glasgow Women’s Library is home to one of the most significant LGBT Historical collections in the UK. With material spanning from the 1920s to the present day, the collection holds some really significant archives and artefacts of UK and International LGBT History.
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  Yale Manuscripts & Archives

  Contains the Tasical Sex and Leather Collection, the Good Vibrations Collection, a Queer Zine collection, the Pysique collection, the Penelope Homosexual Language Study, the Homophobia collection, as well as the papers of many individuals. The Yale University Libraries contain a collection of nearly 15 million print and electronic volumes that are housed in 15 libraries, including Sterling Memorial, Beinecke, and Bass libraries, the Center for Science and Social Science Information (CSSSI), as well as many other school and departmental libraries. Our collections range from ancient papyri and early printed books to digital collections and electronic databases; and they transcend a wide array of formats including text, photographs, video, audio, data, maps, and ephemera. The library includes over 10 special collections units, two of which, Beinecke and Manuscripts and Archives have significant holdings documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history.
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  Wellcome Library

  The Wellcome Library is the worlds largest repository for the study of medical history and offers a growing collection of material relating to contemporary medicine and biomedical science in society.
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  LGBTQ+ Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries

  University of Southern Maine's Special Collections administers the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine which includes the LGBTQ+ Collection.The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer+ Collection Southern Maine collects and preserves the history of Maine’s LGBTQ+ communities. We collect the papers of individuals and the records of organizations active in these communities. The collection includes all forms of material culture from printed books, pamphlets, posters, to manuscripts, diaries, to objects, buttons, T-shirts, banners, games, a wide variety of ephemera, to photographs and audiovisual material. Following professional standards, we carefully guard the privacy of individuals involved in the collections.
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  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.
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  Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)

  GALA is a centre for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) culture and education in Africa. Our mission is, first and foremost, to act as a catalyst for the production, preservation and dissemination of knowledge on the history, culture and contemporary experiences of LGBTI people.
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  Bishopsgate Institute UK Leather Archive

  The UK Leather Archive at Bishopsgate Institute seeks to document and celebrate the history and heritage of the Gay/Bi leather, rubber and fetish communities in the UK, and to provide access to the archive to researchers, students and the general public for education and research. The collection consists of magazines, pamphlets, posters, ephemera, t-shirts and artefacts, alongside minutes, financial records and other archival material from numerous Motor Sports Clubs (MSCs) and groups across the UK. There is also much material regarding the leather, rubber and fetish scene and organisations in Europe.
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  Bibliothèque nationale de France | National Library of France

  The Bibliothèque nationale de France is the national library of France, located in Paris. It is the national repository of all that is published in France and also holds extensive historical collections.
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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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  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]