The internet offers a unique opportunity to discover a virtually endless number of websites focused on the preservation of information about the history and development of the LGBTQ community.
We have attempted to list as many of those resources here as we could find.
They are conveniently organized below. Please feel free to use them in your quest for knowledge about our queer past.
LGBTQ+ Archival Links:
INTERNATIONAL:
AUSTRALIA:
CANADA:
CENTRAL/ EASTERN EUROPE:
ENGLAND/ U.K./GB:
FRANCE:
GERMANY:
HUNGARY:
NEW ZEALAND:
SOUTH AFRICA:
SWITZERLAND:
UNITED STATES:
National LGBTQ Resources
Library of Congress
Society of American Archivists LAGAR
Stonewall National Museum & Archives
US - Rural
JD Doyle's Queer Music Heritage Website
World Queer Story
USC
OutHistory - Jonathan Ned Katz
Gay Bar Archives [Queer/LGBTQIA+ Safe Spaces]
OUTWORDS Los Angeles
Digital Transgender Archives
US Digital Public Library Association
National Center for Civil and Human Rights
The Committee on LGBT History
National Park Service [2016]
Queer Comics Database
National Center for Lesbian Rights
UNITED STATES:
GAY ARCHIVES BY STATE
ALABAMA:
ARIZONA:
- Arizona Queer Archives
- Hip Historian Blog
- Arizona LGBT History Project
- Hip Historian Videos
- Ion AZ Magazine Archives
- Arizona State University BJ Bud Collection
ARKANSAS:
CALIFORNIA:
- [Central Coast] SLO Queer History Archive
- LA UCLA LGBTQ Archives
- Los Angeles - Outwords Archives
- Los Angeles Queer Maps Project
- Los Angeles - Lavender Effect
- Los Angeles - Mazer Lesbian Archives
- SF SF Gay History
- SF GLBT Historical Society
- SF James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Archives
- SF Jack Curtis Dubowsky's Submerged Queer Spaces
- SF Castro LGBTQ Cultural District
- SD San Diego Lambda Archives
- San Diego Gay Bar History
- Northridge- California State University Bullough Collection
- One National Archives [USC]
- CSU Fullerton Queer Studies Resources
- SF Bay Area Reporter Digital Archives
COLORADO:
CONNECTICUT:
DELAWARE:
FLORIDA:
- USF LGBTQ Collections
- USF LGBTQ + Research Collections
- Gulfport Public Library LGBTQ Resources
- Stonewall Museum Website [Ft Lauderdale]
- Stonewall NMA Website [Ft Lauderdale]
- UCF GLBTQ History
- LGBTQ History Museum of Central Florida
- GayBarchives Florida Bar Tribute
GEORGIA:
- The Georgia LGBTQ Archives Project
- GSU LGBT Digital Collections
- Emory University LGBTQ Collections
- Gay Atlanta Flashback
- Touching Up Our Roots GA LGBTQ Story Project
- Atlanta LGBTQ History Project
- Auburn Ave. Library African American Lesbian and Gay Print Culture Collection
- GayBarchives Atlanta Gay Bar Tribute
- Atlanta Gay Publications
HAWAII:
ILLINOIS:
INDIANA:
IOWA:
KANSAS:
KENTUCKY:
MAINE:
MASSACHUSETTS:
- The History Project
- The Boston Phoenix Archives
- Northeastern University LGBTQIA+ Archives
- Bear History Project
- Amherst College Library and Marshall Bloom Collection
- U Mass - Amherst LGBTQ Special Collections
- Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Sexual Minorities Archives/New Alexandria Lesbian Library
MINNESOTA:
- U of MN Library Tretter Collection - GLBT Studies
- MN Historical Society - MNopedia LGBTQIA+ Resources
- Over the Rainbow: Queer and Trans History in Minnesota
MISSISSIPPI:
MISSOURI:
MONTANA:
NEBRASKA:
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
NEW JERSEY:
NEW MEXICO:
NEW YORK:
- Gay Center Archives
- Greenwich Village Historic Preservation
- OutHistory
- NYC Trans Oral History
- Fordham University Archives & Digital Collections
- The CENTER Archives
- OUTWEEK Internet Archives
- Lesbian Herstory Archives
- NYC LGBT Sites
- Fire Island Pines Historical Society website
- Buffalo [NY] Bar History
- CUNY LGBT Gender & Sexuality Studies
NORTH CAROLINA:
NORTH DAKOTA:
OHIO:
PENNSYLVANIA:
- William Way LGBT Community Center [Phila]
- Philadelphia LGBT Mapping Project
- Pittsburgh Queer History Project
- Lafayette College Queer Archives Project
- Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive
- Philadelphia Area LGBT Collections Survey
SOUTH CAROLINA:
TENNESSEE:
TEXAS:
VERMONT:
VIRGINIA:
WASHINGTON/ PACIFIC NORTHWEST:
WASHINGTON DC:
WISCONSIN:
ADDITIONAL QUEER RESOURCES:
U.S. Mapping Gay Guides:
U.S. LGBT T Shirt Archives:
U.S. Gay & Lesbian Review:
Leather Archives & Museum
Legal Resources NY
Religious Resources
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
LGBTQ Video Game Archive
Queer Digital History Project
glbtq encyclopedia project
Jim Burroway Digital Archives
GayBarchives Oral History Videos
Fordham University Archives LINKS