Primary Sources - U.S. History Digital Collections

A searchable archive of interviews with members of the activist organization ACT UP/New York offering firsthand insights into the AIDS crisis, direct-action tactics, and grassroots political organizing in the 1980s and 1990s.

Digitized issues of this LGBTQ newspaper from 1971 to 2005, documenting community news, activism, and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Photographs, manuscripts, records, and other primary source materials documenting the history and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals in the United States.

Materials documenting global transgender and gender non-conforming history, especially up to the year 2000.

Dull-text access to one of the oldest continuously published LGBT newspapers in the United States, documenting local and national news, activism, and community life from Rochester, New York, beginning in 1971.

Explore LGBTQ history through the International Gay Information Center’s digitized photographs, posters, and bar ephemera.

Photographs, periodicals, oral histories, organizational records, and curated sets with featured materials such as Marie Ueda and Elaine Gay Jarvis Pride photographs, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Records, and Finocchio’s Club ephemera.

Documents LGBTQ+ life and activism in the American South through digitized photographs, oral histories, and archival materials collected from community members and organizations.

Interviews from multiple LGBTQ oral history collections linked through the Hub and the Collaboratory’s projects, including bathhouse histories, trans activism, and the Pussy Palace raid.

Audio and transcript interviews with early leaders of LGBTQ religious movements, accompanied by biographical profiles and photographs.

Extensive print and nonprint holdings including books, periodicals, photographs, audio and video, special collections, and ephemera, with links to finding aids and digitized audiovisual materials.

A hub links to digitized photographs, periodicals, manuscripts, and ephemera from major collections such as the International Gay Information Center, Diana Davies, Robert Giard, Bettye Lane, and ACT UP.

Access to dozens of alternative press LGBTQ periodicals that document the movement’s history in the United States, spanning roughly the 1950s through the 1990s.

Primary sources from the U.S. federal government, including laws, court decisions, reports, and hearings, with a timeline and selected sources.

An interactive digital history project that maps LGBTQ spaces across the United States from the 1960s to 1980, allowing students to explore changes over time with filters for year, place, and venue type.

A public history website that presents evidence based LGBTQ history through searchable digital exhibits and primary sources with contributions from scholars and community historians.

Search and browse the Southern Voice newspaper from 1988 to 1995, an Atlanta based LGBTQ periodical documenting community news, activism, and the AIDS crisis.

Presents oral histories and personal narratives from LGBTQ+ veterans spanning World War II to the present, highlighting their service experiences and the challenges posed by exclusionary policies.

Gathers and shares oral histories from LGBTQ+ people across the United States, offering listenable stories and resources for recording new conversations.