2021 Fall Elective: American Cultural History: Gender and Sexuality

OutHistory contains primary sources about "people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" in US history.

"A collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York."

FBI. "Begun in 1950, the Mattachine Society was an early homosexual rights advocacy organization. It became the subject of an FBI internal security investigation between 1953 and 1956."

Lesbian Herstory Archives.

Rainbow History Project.

"The History Project is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization that was founded in 1980 in order to document and preserve the history of Boston's GLBT communities."

Fordham University. People with a History presents the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people.

Northeastern University. "We Raise Our Voices: Celebrating Activism for Equality and Pride in Boston's African American, Feminist, Gay and Lesbian, and Latino Communities."

"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."

University of Southern California. "The oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world."

University of Rochester Libraries. "The Empty Closet is one of the oldest continuously published LGBT papers in the United States. "

"DYKE A Quarterly of Lesbian Culture and Analysis, was published in NY City in the mid 1970s. Editors Liza Cowan and Penny House created a magazine that was as beautiful as it was radical, and as personal as it was political."

"Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union organization."

Collections relate to suffrage and women's culture and politics in US History.

Library of Congress

Middle Tennessee State University's Walker Library. Collection of links to digitized primary source collections related to American Women's History.

Harvard University. Court cases. "Includes American, British, and Irish cases 1815-1914 involving domestic violence, bigamy, seduction, breach of promise to marry, and the custody of children."

Harvard University

Duke University. "Manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s."

Drexel University

ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section

New York University

"The Jewish Women's Archive has developed online exhibits that use digital technology to explore in-depth the struggles and successes of American Jews."

Collaborative project of George Washington's Mount Vernon and the Center for History and New Media

Bryn Mawr College. "An online locus of scholarship on the history of women’s higher education."

Collection of primary sources put together by the Library of Congress.

"THE HERETICS uncovers the inside story of the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement for the first time in a feature film or video. Joan Braderman, director and narrator, follows her dream of becoming a filmmaker to New York City in 1971. By chance, she joins a feminist art collective at the epicenter of the 1970’s art world in lower Manhattan. In her first person account, THE HERETICS charts the history of a feminist collective from the inside out."