University Library News

Just in time for LGBT History Month, the Georgia State University Library has purchased the digital archive collection, Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940.

The Archives presents important aspects of LGBTQ life including an assemblage of newsletters, newspapers, and periodicals by, for, and about gays and lesbians, and extensive material related to feminism, women’s rights, and women’s concerns. It consists of 19 individual collections, with documents spanning from 1940 to 2014:

• ACT UP: The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
• Gay Activism in Britain from 1958: The Hall-Carpenter Archives
• Gay Activists Alliance, 1970-1983
• Gay and Lesbian Politics and Social Activism: Selected Newsletters and Periodicals
• Herstory Archive: Feminist Newspapers
• Gay and Lesbian Community, Support, and Spirit: Selected Newsletters and Periodicals
• International Governmental and Non-Governmental Reports and Policy Studies related to LGBTQ Issues, Activism, and  Health
• In Response to the AIDS Crisis: Records of the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 1983-1994
• International Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters
• Lesbian Herstory Archives: Subject Files
• Lesbian Herstory Archives Newsletter Collection
• LGBTQ Newspapers and Periodicals Collection from the Lesbian Herstory Archives
• Sexual Politics in Britain
• Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis
• Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis
• The Homophile Movement: Papers of Donald Stewart Lucas, 1941-1976
• Studies in Global Crisis: The International AIDS/HIV Crisis, Part 1: 1985-1999
• The Bush Administration and the AIDS Crisis
• The Mattachine Society of New York Records, 1951-1976

Looking for more LGBTQ research resources? Check out the University Library’s LGBTQIQA Studies research guide – a portal to books, periodicals, primary sources, oral histories and archival collections, and film/TV resources available via the University Library.