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LGBT History

24 Hour Museum
Some articles to mark LGBT History Month
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/trlout_gfx_en/TRA33973.html
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART33987.html
Alan Turing
An excellent comprehensive site with a wealth of information and pictures of Alan Turing known as the father of computers.
www.turing.org.uk
Androphile Gay History Project
“The World History of Male Love”.
www.androphile.org
A Spectacle in Color: The Lesbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age Harlem
An essay on the Lesbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age Harlem .
xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/blues/garber.html
The Borthwick Institute: pages on sources for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered History
Inspired by the 2005 Lesbian and Gay History Month. As part of the University of York and as an archive used by students, academics and members of the general public we wanted to produce a website which would encourage researchers to consider LGBT history and provide a teaching resource (aimed largely but not only at undergraduate courses) with general research guidance and sample “case studies” from the 16th to the 18th centuries, taken from the documents we hold here. A grant to design and develop the site was provided by the University of York’s Equality and Diversity in the Curriculum Project from the HEFCE Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund.
www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/guideleaflets/lbg/doc1.htm
Brighton Our Story: 200 years of lesbian and gay history
Site of the Brighton our story project with detailed history of LGBT Brighton.
www.brightonourstory.co.uk
Canadian LGBT archives
Lots of info including photos of past and present LGBT people.
www.clga.ca
Gay Greats
Congratulations to Fyne Times great new site. Gay Greats can be found at:
www.fyne.co.uk/index.php?section=50
Gay History
This site has been archived and is not being developed any more. It has been replaced by www.glbtq.com
Gay history and literature
Essays written by author and editor Rictor Norton.
rictornorton.co.uk
GLBT History Month
The United States’ version of LGBT History Month. The website includes short biographies and videos of leading LGBT people as well as a time line.
www.glbthistorymonth.com
The GLBT Historical Society Library and Archives
Contain materials primarily about GLBT life in Northern California. We also have some material from under-represented groups from around the world and about GLBT life prior to 1970. Also has pictures of same sex marriages before 2004 .
http://www.glbthistory.org/
GLBTQ
Aiming to be the most comprehensive, accessible, and authoritative encyclopaedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (glbtq) culture.
www.glbtq.com
Gay Left
Gay Left was a socialist journal which was produced by a collective of gay men between 1975-1980. It drew upon both gay liberation ideas and Marxism. It contained contributions from a number of current and former members of both NATFHE and AUT.
A website of the journal is now being set up and can be reached at www.gayleft1970s.org. It is a work in progress and so far only four of the ten issues are available in pdf format. You can read the contents pages of the other six and I am assured that their entire contents
will be available in pdf format by the end of the month.
www.gayleft1970s.org
Greenham Common
The Greenham Common women 25 years on.
www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,,1868489,00.html
The Hall-Carpenter Archives (HCA)
Named after the authors Marguerite Radclyffe Hall and Edward Carpenter, founded in 1980. National LGB archive for the UK They have three different archives each on a separate site in London : 1) The Hall-Carpenter Archives main collection (papers of campaign organisations, periodicals and printed ephemera) 2) The Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (cuttings from national, local and foreign newspapers, badges and banners) 3) The HCA Oral History collection (oral history tapes and transcripts).
hallcarpenter.tripod.com
Using HLF funding in 2005-2006, The Hall-Carpenter Archives created a Directory of Lesbian and Gay Research in UK Universities and Colleges:
hallcarpenter.tripod.com/hca/univ.html
Icons Gallery
Great resource about iconic LGBT people
www.circa-club.com/icongallery.php
International Association of Gay and Lesbian Children of Survivors of the Holocaust
The site offers resources on the Holocaust.
www.infotrue.com/gay.html
Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights
A history page.
lgbtlabour.org.uk
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Historical and Celebrity Figures
home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/celebs-list.html
LGBT History
From Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_history
Northwest History Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project (USA)
“Sexual minority history in the Seattle area and the Pacific Northwest”, the site also has suggestion for a questionnaire to use when gathering oral history from LGBT people.
home.earthlink.net/~ruthpett/lgbthistorynw
Nottinghamshire’s Rainbow Heritage
Celebrates Nottinghamshire’s LGBT lives, hidden history and culture. The website has a local and national timeline, audio clips, Youtube links, links to all those useful booklets and research documents produced by Stonewall, Childline, NUT, ACAS, FFLag etc all on one page, every edition of our LGBT magazine QB + an LGBT board game. Need material for LGBT History month? The site contains enough display material to fill the Albert Hall – download what you need.
www.nottsrainbowheritage.org.uk
Outrage!
Images from the Outrage archive including demo outside Peter Tatchell’s trial for his disruption of the Archbishop of Canterbury; queer rembrance day and demo at the Church of england General Synod. Some great pics!
rosecottage.me.uk/OutRage-archives/gall98.htm
Paragraph 175
Educational resources based around the documentary Paragraph 175 . Paragraph 175 was a 1871 German law, amended by the Nazis and kept on the German law books until 1969, because of it some of the victims who were there for homosexuality were sent directly to prison and that it took years for them to be recognised as victims of the concentration camps (The official apology from the German government came in 2001!!!).
www.tellingpictures.com/outreach/index.html
Pink Triangle
The History of the Gay Male and Lesbian Experience during World War II.
www.pink-triangle.org.uk
Reclaiming History
Some famous LGBT people throughout history.
www.uic.edu/depts/quic/history/reclaiming_history.html
Section 28 in Manchester
An on line exhibition of photographs and memorabilia, from the City Council’s collections and from the People’s History Museum, that details the history of the campaign in Manchester against Section 28.
www.manchester.gov.uk/bestvalue/equality/section28/
Trans history
A growing resource on trans history.
www.squidoo.com/transhistory
UK gay rights timeline
From Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_Kingdom
Untold London
History website run by the Museum of London, including section on where to find gay history in the capital’s museums and galleries.
www.untoldlondon.org.uk
Working Class Lesbians
BBC Radio 4 documentary on working class lesbians.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20060809.shtml