Lesbian Archive and Information Centre (LAIC), Glasgow
was set up in London in 1984, then relocated to Glasgow Women's Library in 1995.
www.womenslibrary.org.uk/laic/laic.html
Note: The archive is currently in storage, and will not be accessible until they have moved to The Mitchell library, probably in 2008.
Gay Birmingham Remembered
gaybirminghamremembered.org.uk
Blackpool Rainbow Project, Lancashire
www.blackpoolrainbowproject.org.uk
OurStory Liverpool
www.ourstoryliverpool.co.uk
OurStory Scotland
www.ourstoryscotland.org.uk
Brighton Ourstory
collecting material about our lesbian and gay past - and present
www.brightonourstory.co.uk/
The Lesbian and Gay Foundation - Library and Archive, Manchester
www.lgf.org.uk/about-us/research/library-and-archive-2/
Nottingham and Notts Lesbian and Gay Switchboard History Project
www.nlgshistory.ik.com
Gay and Lesbian History at The National Archives, London
A guide giving research advice that helps you to use the catalogue & collections at The National Archives
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=357
The Women's Library, London
formally run by the Fawcett Society, who ran the Library from 1926 to 1977;
its archives include papers from the Older Lesbian Network, the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group, and the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre - plus books and periodicals
www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/
The London Metropolitan Archives
have been increasing their LGBT collections recently, and hold regular one-day conferences on LGBT History
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/leisure_heritage/libraries_archives_museums_galleries/lma/
Gay history and literature, by Rictor Norton
www.infopt.demon.co.uk/gayhist.htm
Proud Heritage
www.proudheritage.org
The Knitting Circle, South Bank University, London
Internet-based resources on lesbian and gay issues, with special emphasis
on higher education
www.knittingcircle.org.uk
includes:
The rukus! Black LGBT Archive Project, London
www.rukus.co.uk/content/view/12/27/
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender History Month UK
has useful webpages on resources, etc.
www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk
The Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York
has a useful list of sources for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered history
www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/guideleaflets/lbg/links.htm
Stonewall have written a Timeline of Lesbian and Gay History
The Edward Carpenter Archive
is hosted by Simon Dawson, UK.
www.edwardcarpenter.net/index.html
Alan Turing (1912-1954)
- a website by his biographer, Andrew Hodges
www.turing.org.uk/turing
Lesley Hall's webpages on the History of Sexuality
Rob's A-Z of gay, lesbian and bisexual people
plus pages on films, television and music
gayinfo.tripod.com/
Archiv Der Kreis (on the web), Switzerland
Der Kreis was one of the earliest European gay magazines, it ran from 1932 to 1967.
www.der-kreis.ch
Archive for Sexology, Berlin, Germany
includes the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Archiv für Sexualwissenschaft
www.sexology.cjb.net
Bibliothèque du Centre Gai et Lesbien, Paris, France
www.cglparis.org
Il Centro di Documentazione Gay e Lesbico "Il Cassero", Bologna, Italy
www.cassero.it/doc/
Fonds Suzan Daniel Homo/Lesbisch Archief en Documentatiecentrum, Gent, Belgium
www.fondssuzandaniel.be
Fondazione Sandra Penna, Torino, Italy
(Foundation for historial and cultural studies about homosexuality)
www.arpnet.it/fsp/
International Homo/Lesbian Informationcenter and Archives (IHLIA), Amsterdam and Leeuwarden, Netherlands
includes the Homodok-Lesbian Archive and the Anna Blaman Huis
www.homodok.nl
Irish Queer Archive, Dublin, Ireland
www.irishqueerarchive.com
Lesbisch Archief, Nijmegen, Netherlands
www.lesbischarchief.nl
Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
Forschungsstelle zur Geschichte der Sexualwissenschaft
(Centre for Research on the History of Sexual Science)
www.hirschfeld.in-berlin.de
OLA Archiwum / Polish Lesbian Archives, Warszawa, Poland
ola-archiwum.webpark.pl/ola/indfuria.html
RFSL Förbundsbiblioteket, Stockholm, Sweden
(Library of RFSL, the organisation for Swedish sexual liberation)
www.rfsl.se
Schwulenarchiv Schweiz, Zürich, Switzerland
Archives Gaies Suisse
Archivio gay svizzero
(Swiss Gay Archives)
www.schwulenarchiv.ch
Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
www.schwulesmuseum.de
"Le séminaire gai", a gay studies website (in French only).
http://semgai.free.fr/
Das Spinnboden-Lesbenarchiv, Berlin, Germany
www.spinnboden.de
The ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, USA
The world's largest research library on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered heritage and concerns
www.oneinstitute.org
LGBT Religious Archives Network, (international) based in Chicago, USA
www.lgbtran.org
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender Historical Society, San Francisco, USA
has professionally-staffed archives and a reading room
www.glbthistory.org
National Museum of LGBT History, New York, USA
housed in The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
www.gaycenter.org/resources/museum
The link to a proposed International Museum of Gay and Lesbian History
http://www.gaymuseum.org does not work (2007)
University LGBT/Queer Programs (in the USA and Canada)
[also includes details of archives]
www.duke.edu/web/jyounger/lgbprogs.html
www.glbtq.com
a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer encyclopedia
produced in Chicago, USA
www.glbtq.com
Queery.org.uk - the community-driven directory for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans life in the UK.
GingerBeer: "London's leading website for lesbians and bisexual women. Packed full of information about bars, clubs, cafes, events, shops, social and community groups."
Gay Times Magazine - the UK's leading gay life and style magazine, with the latest news, book and film reviews, plus a comprehensive guide to the national scene.
Diva Magazine - whether you are just coming out or just want to keep up-to-date, try DIVA to find the latest news, reviews and scene information for women.
List compiled by Oliver Merrington.
Updated November 2007.
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