LibGuides: LGBTQI+ Resources: LGBTQI History

Just for Fun!

LGBTQ+ History Solitaire
Just for fun - you can play online solitaire with this deck featuring people who made a difference.

Local LGBTQI History

St. Louis LGBT History Project
"The St. Louis LGBT History Project's mission is to preserve and promote the diverse and dynamic history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community of Greater St. Louis." Includes a timeline, local history archives, and many other resources.
Guide to LGBTQ Experience in Missouri
State Historical Society of Missouri. Manuscripts, photographs, and published works, plus links to other websites.
Lavender Legacies Guide: Missouri
This page, compiled by the Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable (part of the Society of American Archivists), provides information on and links to LGBT archives and history projects in Missouri.

Film & Video

Stonewall Uprising
Stonewall Uprising is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary, and forms part of the organization's American Experience series. This companion website includes the documentary itself, available for viewing online in its entirety, as well as related articles and a timeline of the gay rights movement.

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Educational videos available for video streaming.
Films on Demand is a collection of more than 40,000 educational videos available for video streaming. Titles are organized into subject and other categories. Most videos are divided in to segments which may be searched and viewed individually.

Films on Demand User’s Guide

LGBTQ History Websites

ACTUP Oral History Project
The purpose of this site is to preserve "the legacy of ACT UP, while also revealing the complexity and diversity of the organization and the immense ingenuity and talent that made it possible for ACT UP to change the face of AIDS in America."
Digital Transgender Archive
"The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world."
glbtq Archives
Closed Aug. 1, 2015; this is the archive site.
This comprehensive online resource features articles on the arts, literature, and the social sciences, as well as cultural commentary. The editors and contributors are academics.
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 website includes access to some digital archival materials.
OutHistory
"OutHistory.org presents evidence-based features on U.S. lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history; homosexual and heterosexual history; the history of people who did not conform to dominant norms of sexuality and gender -- and people who did."
Resources in LGBTQ History in the United States: 1900 to 2019
Bibiographic essay orginally published in Choice (November 2019) by Lisa N. Johnston; website by ACRL-Choice.

E-books

These specific-subject encyclopedias are available online with an STLCC login. More e-books can be found using ArcherSearch.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Events
This e-book from Salem Press covers noteworthy GLBT people and events from the mid-1800s into the 2000s. It also includes links to relevant websites.
Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements
From Credo Reference
The Lesbian and Gay Movements
Published in 2015, this book covers the history of lesbian and gay political movements. From the Credo Reference database.
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History
From Credo Reference

History

Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex by Elizabeth Reis
Call Number: 362.196 R375b
Publication Date: 2021
Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality by Hanne Blank
Call Number: 306.764 B6426s
Publication Date: 2012
Transgender History by Susan Stryker
Call Number: 306.768 S928t
Publication Date: 2008