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The lists of sources provided in this guide are not exhaustive, but will provide you with general background information on your topic. Please see the Information Desk for additional guidance.
In addition to the reference works listed below, be sure to also look at general encyclopedias and reference works focusing on subjects not specific to GLBT issues. For example, you may find information about gay and lesbian rights in a reference book about human rights or social movements.
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HQ76.3 U5 E53 2004 Lgbt, encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in American Information Services Cook Library |
HQ76.13 G37 2000 Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia Information Services Cook Library |
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HQ75.15 R43 2000 Reader’s guide to lesbian and gay studies Information Services Cook Library |
HQ75 .H63 1998 Completely queer: the gay and lesbian encyclopedia Information Services Cook Library |
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HQ76.3 U5 S75 1998 St. James Press gay and lesbian almanac Information Services Cook Library |
HQ75.2 G39 1997b Gay and lesbian biography Information Services Cook Library |
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HQ76.3 U5 G367 1996 The gay almanac Information Services Cook Library |
HQ76.5 .R53 1996 The gay and lesbian movement: references and resources Information Services Cook Library |
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HQ75.6 U5 L35 1996 The lesbian almanac Information Services Cook Library |
HQ75.6 U5 W571 1995 Out in all directions: a treasury of gay and lesbian America Information Services Cook Library |
The periodicals listed below are “suggested” titles only. Remember not to limit yourself to just GLBT publications. This is an interdisciplinary field and you may find useful articles in many other journals, magazines and newspapers.
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The Advocate E-journal, 1996-to date |
Gay and lesbian issues and psychology review E-journal, 2005-to date |
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The gay and lesbian review worldwide E-journal, 1994-to date |
GLQ E-journal, Vol. 5, no. 3 (1999); Vol. 6 (2000)-to date |
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The Harvard gay and lesbian review E-journal, 1994-to date |
International journal of transgenderism E-journal, 1997-2002 |
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The James White Review E-journal, 2000-2004 |
Journal of gay & lesbian social services E-Journal, 2000-v.19 (2007) |
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Journal of homosexuality, E-journal, 1974-to date |
Lambda book report E-journal, 1994-to date |
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Lesbian-gay law notes E-journal,1994-2006 |
Lesbian news E-journal, 1996-to date |
From the USM Libraries homepage under”Find Items>Find by subject” you may choose subject databases in which to search for articles by subject. If you are studying GLBT writers, you may want to choose the subject “Literature.” If you are studying GLBT health issues, you will want to choose the subject, “Health/Medicine/Nursing.” Even though there are no databases specifically for GLBT subjects this is an interdisciplinary field and many of the general and subject databases will be useful.
Remember that this list is only a small sample of what is available. Use the suggested "Subject Begins With" search terms to explore the library holdings on your own or ask for help at the InfoServ Desk.
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KF4754.5 Z9 M49 2007 Queers in court: gay rights law and public policy Stacks Cook Library |
HQ1033 .P47 2006 Same-sex marriage Stacks Cook Library |
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HQ77.9 .T716 2006 Transgender rights Stacks Gulf Coast Library |
HQ76.8 U5 K73 2005 Gay rights Information Services Cook Library |
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HQ1034 .U5 C34 2004 Same-sex marriage in the United States: a focus on the facts Stacks Cook Library |
HQ 76.8 U5 G359 2003 The gay rights movement Stacks Cook Library |
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KF4754.5 .G47 1999 The constitutional underclass : gays, lesbians, and the failure of class-based equal protection Stacks Cook Library |
HQ76.8 U5 G39 1999 Gays and lesbians in the democratic process: public policy, public opinion, and political representation Stacks Cook Library |
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KF4754.5 .E84 1999 Gaylaw : challenging the apartheid of the closet Stacks Cook Library |
HQ76.5 .H86 1999 Historical dictionary of the gay liberation movement: gay men and the quest for social justice Information Services Cook Library |
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HQ76.8 .U5 M55 1998eb Freedom to differ: the shaping of the gay and lesbian struggle for civil rights Online NetLibrary |
HQ76.8 .U5 O89 1998 Out of the past: the struggle for gay and lesbian rights in America [videorecording] 2nd Floor South Cook Library |
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KF4754.5 H645 1997 Homosexuality and the Constitution Stacks Cook Library |
HQ76 .W33 1997 We are everywhere: a historical sourcebook of gay and lesbian politics Stacks Cook Library |
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HQ76.5 .R53 1996 The gay and lesbian movement: references and resources Information Services Cook Library |
HQ76.3 U5 N48 1994 Gay and lesbian rights: a reference handbook Information Services Cook Library |
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HQ76.5 .A33 1995 The rise of a gay and lesbian movement Information Services Cook Library |
HQ76.8 U5 L65 1994 Long road to freedom: the Advocate history of the gay and lesbian movement Stacks Cook Library |
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HQ76.8 U5 M36 1992 Making history: the struggle for gay and lesbian equal rights, 1945-1990: an oral history Stacks Cook Library |
HQ76.3 .U5 B43 1989 Before Stonewall: the making of a gay and lesbian community [videorecording] 2nd Floor South Cook Library |
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HQ76.8 .U5 D45 1983 Sexual politics, sexual communities: the making of a homosexual minority in the United States, 1940-1970 Stacks Cook Library |
Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
Gay rights United States
Gay liberation movement United States
Gay liberation movement United States history
Homosexuality Law and legislation United States
Same-sex marriage United States
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ML3838 .P365 2006 Listening to the sirens: musical technologies of queer identity from Homer to Hedwig Stacks Cook Library |
ML63 .Q44 2002 Queer episodes in music and modern identity Stacks Cook Library |
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ML63 .G49 1995 Queer noises: male and female homosexuality in twentieth century music Stacks Cook Library |
N72 .H64 G39 1994 Gay and lesbian studies in art history Stacks Cook Library |
Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
Gay musicians
Homosexuality and art
Homosexuality and music
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PS153 .G38 .S39 2003 Gay voices of the Harlem renaissance Stacks Cook Library |
Z1037 .D24 2000 Lesbian and gay voices: an annotated bibliography and guide to literature to children and young adults Brooks Reading Room McCain Library |
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PS310 .H66 M3 1998 The homosexual tradition in American poetry Stacks Cook Library |
PS374 .H63 W66 1998eb Unlimited embrace: a canon of gay fiction, 1945-1995 Online NetLibrary |
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PN3352 .H65 B73 1997 Queer fictions of the past: history, culture and difference Stacks Cook Library |
PN56 .H57 .G365 1995 The Gay and lesbian literary heritage: a reader’s companion to the writers and their works, from antiquity to the present Information Services Cook Library |
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PN374 .H63 C66 1993 Contemporary gay American novelists: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook Information Services Cook Library |
PN56 .H57 G36 1993 Gay & lesbian literature Information Services Cook Library |
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PS153 .G38 .F87 1993 Gay and lesbian American plays: an annotate bibliography Information Services Cook Library |
Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
Lesbians in literature
Gay men in literature
Gay men drama
Homosexuality in literature united states
Homosexuality male in literature
Lesbianism in literature
Lesbian writings American
Homosexuality and literature
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PN1992.8 .H64 B43 2006 Gay TV and straight American Stacks Cook Library |
P94.5 .G38 H57 2004 The history of gay & lesbian images on television [videorecording] 2nd Floor South Cook Library |
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PN1995.9 .W6 M359 2000 Framed: lesbians, feminists, and media culture Stacks Cook Library |
PN1992 .8 .H64 o33 1998 Off the straight and narrow: lesbians, gays, bisexuals & television [videorecording] Reading Room Cook Library |
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P96 .D622 .U63 1997 Between the sheets, in the streets: queer, lesbian, and gay documentary Stacks Cook Library |
HQ75.5 .O93 1996 Outlooks: lesbian and gay sexualities and visual cultures Stacks Cook Library |
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PN1995.9 .L48 I45 1995 Immortal, Invisible: lesbians and the moving image Stacks Cook Library |
HQ1090 .S54 1994 Male impersonators : men performing masculinity Stacks Cook Library Gulf Coast Library |
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HQ76.3 .U5 Q44 1994 Queer words, queer images: communication and the construction of homosexuality Stacks Cook Library |
PN1995 .9 .H55 P37 1993 Gays and lesbians in mainstream cinema: plots, critiques, casts and credits for 272 theatrical and made-for-television Hollywood releases Stacks Cook Library |
Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
Homosexuality on television
Lesbianism in motion pictures
Gays identity
Lesbians identity
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HV1449 .H42 2007 The health of sexual minorities : public health perspectives on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations Stacks Gulf Coast Student Services Center |
RA564.9.H65 H36 2006 The handbook of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender public health : a practitioner's guide to service Stacks Gulf Coast Library |
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GV708.8 .A43 2005 In the game: gay athletes and the cult of masculinity Stacks Cook Library |
HQ75.115 .G39 2004 Gay and lesbian aging : research and future directions Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949- Stacks Jackson County |
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HQ76.2.U5 B35 2003 The man who would be queen : the science of gender-bending and transsexualism Stacks Gulf Coast Library |
QP81.6 .B76 2002eb (Online) Reinventing the male homosexual : the rhetoric and power of the gay gene Online NetLibrary |
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RC607.A26 M88 2001 Dancing in a wheelchair : one family faces HIV/AIDS Stacks Cook Library |
GV708.8 .G75 1998 Strong women, deep closets : lesbians and homophobia in sport Stacks Cook Library |
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HQ76.25 .L497 1996 Queer science : the use and abuse of research into homosexuality Stacks Cook Library |
HQ76.25 A52 1995 Anatomy of desire [videorecording] Reading Room Cook Library |
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GV706.32 .O94 1994 Out for a change : addressing homophobia in women's sports [videorecording] Reading Room Cook Library |
Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
Gay athletes
Homophobia in sports
Lesbian athletes
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HQ76.3 .U5 L66 2007 Long before Stonewall: histories of same-sex sexuality in early America Stacks Cook Library |
HQ76.25 .M44 2006 Contacts desired: gay and lesbian communications and community, 1940s-1970s Stacks Cook Library |
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HQ76.25 .M56 2006 Out of the past: gay and lesbian history from 1869 to the present Stacks Cook Library |
HQ76.2.G72 L655 2005 Queer London: perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 Stacks Cook Library |
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HQ76.3 .E8 R63 2004 Strangers: homosexual love in the nineteenth century Stacks Cook Library |
HQ76.25 .F7 2000 Homophobia: a history Stacks Cook Library |
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HQ76.3 .U52 M74 1999 Men like that: a southern queer history Stacks Cook Library |
HQ76 .Q43 1999 Queer sites: gay urban histories since 1600 Stacks Cook Library |
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HQ76.3 .U5 K37 1992 Gay American history: lesbians and gay men in the U.S.A: a documentary history Stacks Cook Library |
Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
Homosexuality united states history
Lesbianism united states history
Gay history
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UB418 .G38 G35 1996 Gay rights, military wrongs: political perspectives on lesbians and gays in the military Stacks Cook Library |
D769.2 .B46 1995 Coming out under fire [videorecording] Reading Room Cook Library |
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UB418 .G38 S55 1994 Conduct unbecoming: gays and lesbians in the U.S. military Stacks Cook Library |
UB418 .G38 C36 1994 Serving in silence Stacks Cook Library |
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UB418 .G38 R39 1993 Military necessity & homosexuality Stacks Cook Library |
Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
United States Armed Forces Gays
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BL795 .H6 C65 1998 Cassell’s encyclopedia of queer myth, symbol, and spirit: gay, lesbian and bisexual, and transgender lore Information Services Cook Library |
BR115.H6 P53x 1995 Holy homosexuals : the truth about being gay or lesbian and Christian Stacks Cook Library |
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BR115.H6 W74 1995 Wrestling with the angel : faith and religion in the lives of gay men Stacks Cook Library |
BX5995.B66 A3 1986 Gay priest : an inner journey Stacks Cook Library |
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HQ76.3.E8 B67 1980 Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality : gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century Stacks Cook Library |
Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
Homosexuality Religious aspects Christianity
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Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation http://www.glaad.org/ |
GLBT National Help Center http://www.glnh.org/hotline/index.html |
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International Foundation for Gender Education http://www.ifge.org/ |
Lambda Legal http://www.lambdalegal.org/ |
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GLSEN National http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html |
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force http://www.thetaskforce.org/ |
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PLFAG http://community.pflag.org/ |
Renaissance Transgender Association http://www.ren.org/ |