LGBTQ: Primary Sources

Explore primary sources documenting LGBTQ+ lives and activism in Central Pennsylvania from the 20th century to the present. This resource includes oral history interviews, organization newsletters, event programs, activist group meeting notes, and photographs. This resource is hosted by the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections and is a work in progress; new material is added on a regular basis. Coverage: contains primary sources. Full text.

Access meeting minutes, administrative records, publications, private correspondence, photographs, internal United States government memoranda, international archival documents, and more to illuminate the experiences of LGBTQ individuals. Materials come from major international activist organizations as well as local, grassroots groups. This collection is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: contains primary sources. A portion of this purchase was a gift of the Mary Moser Memorial Library Fund.

Access material relating to the early homosexual civil rights movement and the San Francisco manifestation of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. This collection includes correspondence, meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws, newsletters, manuscripts, financial documents, reports, statistics, legal decisions, surveys, counseling records, and funding proposals. This collection is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: 1941-1976, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access magazines, journals, and newspapers of alternative press archives. Collections include Black American, Campus Underground, Feminist, GI Press, LGBT, Latino, Little (literary) Magazine, Native American and Right-Wing publications. Coverage: second half of 20th century, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access briefing books, hearing and meeting transcripts, reports, and press clippings that document the activities of the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). This collection is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: 1983-1994, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access an openly available archive of queer history which aims to tell the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. This website includes documents (testimony, letters, organizational publications, police reports), oral histories, visual collections, and timelines. Coverage: contains primary sources. Full text.

Access newsletters issued by gay and lesbian political and social activist organizations throughout the country, as well as periodicals devoted to gay and lesbian political and social activist agendas—the "public" face of gay and lesbian activism. This collection also includes serial literature on its "private" face. This collection is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: 1947-2004, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access documents from the many decades of Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin’s work for, and leadership of, the LGBT movement and the women’s rights movement both in San Francisco and nationally. This collection includes minutes, correspondence and notes related to their work with the ACLU, San Francisco Coalition for Human Rights, and other organizations. This collection is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: 1966-1984, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access documents by and about the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian rights organization in United States history, founded by Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin who created and helped shape the modern gay and feminist movements. This collection is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: 1955-1984, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access documents relating to the history of women in social movements in the United States. This collection covers topics including black women suffragists, gender bias reports, women and antislavery, commissions on the status of women, notable American women, and more. Coverage: 1600-2000, contains primary sources. Full text.