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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Resources

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.

General Reference

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.

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
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
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
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
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
Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
Gays
Bisexuals
Transexual
Lesbians
Gays United States
Gays history
Gay men United States biography

Periodicals

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.

The Advocate
E-journal, 1996-to date
Gay and lesbian issues and psychology review
E-journal, 2005-to date
The gay and lesbian review worldwide
E-journal, 1994-to date
GLQ
E-journal, Vol. 5, no. 3 (1999); Vol. 6 (2000)-to date
The Harvard gay and lesbian review
E-journal, 1994-to date
International journal of transgenderism
E-journal, 1997-2002
The James White Review
E-journal, 2000-2004
Journal of gay & lesbian social services
E-Journal, 2000-v.19 (2007)
Journal of homosexuality,
E-journal, 1974-to date
Lambda book report
E-journal, 1994-to date
Lesbian-gay law notes
E-journal,1994-2006
Lesbian news
E-journal, 1996-to date
Databases

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.

Suggested Resources by Subject

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.

Activism, Civil Rights and the Law
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
HQ77.9 .T716 2006
Transgender rights
Stacks
Gulf Coast Library
HQ76.8 U5 K73 2005
Gay rights
Information Services
Cook Library
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Art and Music
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
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

Drama and Literature
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
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
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
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
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

Film, Identity, and the Media
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
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
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
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
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

Health, Science and Sports
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
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
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
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
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
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

History
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
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
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
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
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

The Military
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
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
UB418 .G38 R39 1993
Military necessity & homosexuality
Stacks
Cook Library

Suggested ANNA "Subject Begins With" search terms:
United States Armed Forces Gays

Religion, Folklore and Myth
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
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
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

Web Resources
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
http://www.glaad.org/
GLBT National Help Center
http://www.glnh.org/hotline/index.html
International Foundation for Gender Education
http://www.ifge.org/
Lambda Legal
http://www.lambdalegal.org/
GLSEN National
http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
http://www.thetaskforce.org/
PLFAG
http://community.pflag.org/
Renaissance Transgender Association
http://www.ren.org/
The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries
118 College Drive No. 5053 Hattiesburg MS 39406-5053
http://www.lib.usm.edu/help/help_guides/GLBT.html