[LGBTQ] Nine issues of Homophile Studies, published by ONE Institute of Homophile Studies, Los Angeles, 1959–1964, document early academic inquiry into homosexuality during the homophile movement prior to Stonewall. ONE, Inc., founded in 1952, became one of the earliest sustained LGBTQ publishing institutions in the United States. The journal reflects.....
[LGBTQ] Nine issues of The Ladder, widely recognized as the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States, documenting the evolution of American lesbian print culture during the homophile movement. Across these issues, The Ladder documents the evolution of lesbian self-understanding and community formation from the early 1960s through.....
Winsloe, Christa. Mädchen in Uniform (1931) stands among the earliest narrative films to portray romantic attachment between women and remains a foundational work in the history of LGBTQ cinema. Written by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan with production support from Carl Froelich, the German film centers on a......
[LGBTQ] The Village Voice. Newspaper reporting one of the earliest journalistic accounts of the Stonewall Uprising and the emergence of organized Gay Liberation activism in New York City. Published July 31, 1969, only weeks after the police raid on the Stonewall Inn sparked several days of street confrontations between LGBTQ.....
[LGBTQ] [Drag] [Film & Entertainment] Simon, Frank. The Queen. New York: Grove Press. 1968. The Queen is a raw portrayal of the life of drag queens partaking in competitive drag shows in New York during the 1960s. Archive of 8 silver gelatin photographs containing stills from the film. The documentary.....
Damron, Bob, Lindsy Van Gelder, Pamela Robin Brandt, Hanns Ebensten, and others, archive of seven travel publications and related materials dating from 1987 to 2003, documents the development of queer travel infrastructure and the circulation of information necessary for LGBTQ individuals to navigate public space safely in the late twentieth.....
Damron Publishing. Damron Address Book. Damron Road Atlas. Damron Accommodations. Damron Men’s Travel Guide. These late twentieth-century travel guides document the development of LGBTQ travel infrastructure and the circulation of information about safe and accessible spaces for gay and lesbian individuals across all states in the US during a period.....
Femme Mirror no. 7, TV Clip-Sheet nos. 1 and 16, and a 1974 to 1975 Queens Publications catalog or advertising booklet carry Chevalier and Queens Publications’ trans and cross-dressing print culture from early-1960s reader correspondence and press clippings into a later mail-order market for magazines, fiction, books, clothing, and body-form.....
Promotional nightlife ephemera produced in New York and New Jersey between the 1980s and early 2000s document the development of club culture within Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ communities during the final decades before digital event promotion transformed the industry. Distributed in street, venue, and community networks, these materials identify performers.....
Promotional nightlife ephemera produced in New York and New Jersey between 1996 and the early 2000s document club culture within Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ communities during a period when print distribution structured access to music, performance, and social space. These materials identify venues, DJs, and recurring events across house, disco.....
Promotional nightlife ephemera produced in New York City and New Jersey between 1995 and the early 2000s document the organization of club culture within Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ communities during a period when print media structured access to social and musical spaces. These materials identify venues, performers, and recurring events.....
Tangents Magazine issues published between 1966 and 1969 document the intellectual and organizational discourse of the homophile movement in the United States during the years immediately preceding gay liberation. Produced by members of the editorial community associated with ONE, Inc., one of the earliest American organizations devoted to the study.....
Four Transvestite Fiction Booklets containing reflections on gender, trans identity, self expression from 1982-1994, including story titles such as “Sissy in Satin,” “Living Doll,” “Jim into Jamie,” “Trapped in Panties,” and “My Husband Married Me To be a Woman.” A first-person passage states that a transvestite needs “feedback from others”.....
Gay travel guides published between 1978 and 2002 document the development of LGBTQ social spaces and travel networks during the late twentieth century. Printed guides of this kind served as practical tools for gay and lesbian travelers seeking safe environments and community venues in cities and tourist destinations. At a......
Eltinge, Julian. ephemera relating to early twentieth-century female impersonation documents one of the most prominent figures in American stage performance and the cultural negotiation of gender presentation in the 1910s. Active across vaudeville, Broadway, and early film, Eltinge achieved national recognition for highly stylized and convincing portrayals of women at.....
Aldrich, Robert (director). The Killing of Sister George, 1968, introduced one of the earliest explicitly lesbian-centered narratives into mainstream English-language cinema, expanding upon the 1966 stage play by Frank Marcus and advancing visibility of lesbian identity at a time when such representation remained heavily censored or coded. The film centers.....
Brophy, Brigid. In Transit documents gender fluidity, linguistic instability, and narrative experimentation within late 1960s literary modernism, published in 1969 amid expanding discourse on sexuality and identity preceding the Stonewall Riots. Written by Brigid Brophy, a British novelist and feminist intellectual, the work centers on a protagonist suspended within an.....
Mid-century lesbian pulp paperback collection, 1960–1967, documents the expansion of queer-themed narratives within mass-market publishing during a period when LGBTQ+ identities circulated primarily through coded, sensational, and commercially driven formats. These works were produced for wide distribution and often framed same-sex relationships through melodrama, conflict, and transgression, while nonetheless providing.....
Elliott, Stephan (director). The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 1994, documents drag performance, transgender identity, and queer mobility within late twentieth-century cinema, situating its narrative in the Australian Outback as three performers travel together and encounter varied social environments. The film follows characters portrayed by Guy Pearce, Hugo.....
[LGBTQ] [Gay Liberation and Activism] ONE, Inc. (publisher). ONE Confidential (1964 to 1965) documents internal communication within one of the earliest organized gay rights groups in the United States and provides direct evidence of homophile movement discourse prior to Stonewall Uprising. Issued as a members only supplement to ONE Magazine.....
Theatre programs and exhibition catalog, 1957 to 1988, document the development of LGBTQ+ performance culture across three decades and provide direct evidence of how queer artists created theatrical and artistic spaces outside mainstream institutions. Spanning mid century drag performance, post Stonewall experimental theatre, and AIDS era visual and performance art.....
Isherwood, Christopher. A Single Man, 1964, presents a sustained literary examination of gay male identity, grief, and daily life in the United States at a time when homosexuality remained socially stigmatized and legally marginalized. The novel follows George, a fifty eight year old English expatriate and college professor, in the.....
DiMassa, Diane. Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, 1993-1995 documents the consolidation of queer feminist expression within underground comics during a period of heightened LGBTQ activism and cultural response to gendered violence in the United States. Created and self-published by Diane DiMassa, the series centers a lesbian protagonist whose exaggerated acts.....
Damron Publishing. Damron Women’s Traveller. These late twentieth and early twenty-first century travel guides document the development of lesbian-specific travel infrastructure and the circulation of information necessary for safe mobility during a period shaped by persistent discrimination and uneven legal protections for LGBTQ individuals. Issued between 1994 and 2008, these.....
White, Edmund. States of Desire. Fodor’s. Gay Guide to San Francisco. Fodor’s. Gay Guide to New York City. Ferrari Guides. Gay Paris. Out & About. Gay Travel Guides USA Resorts and Warm Weather Vacation. Access. Gay USA. Damron Publishing. Damron Accommodations. These late twentieth-century travel guides and narrative accounts document.....
