LGBTQ+ History Resources

  • Out Down South Podcast 
    A podcast dedicated to sharing oral histories from LGBTQ southerners.  

    Making Gay History Podcast 
    The Making Gay History podcast mines Eric Marcus’s decades-old audio archive of rare interviews—conducted for his award-winning oral history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement—to create intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history. 

    History is Gay  
    Two queer nerds share their love for the past, hijinks, and all things gay, sharing stories of those of us in the unexplored corners of history who have always been there.    

    The Deviants World
    Dr. Eric Cervini, a Harvard and Cambridge-trained historian of LGBTQ+ culture and politics, explores the history of today’s deviant world. 

  • Invisible Histories Project
    The Invisible Histories Project locates, preserves, researches, and creates for local communities an accessible collection of the rich and diverse history of LGBTQ life in the US South. Currently, IHP collects in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. IHP acts as an intermediary between the Queer community and various institutions like universities, museums, archives, and libraries in order to preserve Southern LGBTQ histories.

    LGBTQ Institute
    Connecting academics and advocates to advance LGBTQ Equity through research and education focused on the American South.

  • GLBT Historical Society
    The GLBT Historical Society Museum, located in the heart of San Francisco’s Castro District, is the first stand-alone museum of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender history and culture in the United States.

    One Archives Foundation
    ONE Archives Foundation is the independent community partner that supports ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries, the largest repository of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) materials in the world.

    National LGBT Museum
    The Museum is dedicated to sharing the heritage of LGBT people, a story that unites millions of individuals but is rarely represented in mainstream museums. Developed and sustained by the Velvet Foundation, the Museum will be located in the city of New York, where the LGBT story can most effectively reach a national and international audience.

  • History UnErased
    History UnErased is an education nonprofit founded in 2015 by veteran classroom teachers to provide K-12 schools with the curriculum and training they need to teach LGBTQ-inclusive history as it intersects with race, gender, and nationality within the mainstream curriculum.

    Teaching LGBTQ History
    This site serves as a comprehensive reference hub for information regarding the FAIR Education Act, as well as for History Framework Lesson Plans and General LGBTQ Lesson Plans, and resources to support teachers as they work with the new content required by the FAIR Education Act.

FREE Black LGBTQ+ History Resources

  • Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology

    Available in online full as a PDF, 
this anthology is an incredible resource for anyone interested in a rigorous, thoughtful approach to the intersection of queer studies and black studies

    READ HERE.

  • Legacies Inherited: Miss Major and Tourmaline

    A cross-generational conversation about the experience of trans 
women of color during and since the Stonewall Riots, available on YouTube.

    WATCH HERE.


    The Watermelon Woman, 1996, dir. Cheryl Dunye

    Cheryl Dunye’s groundbreaking 1996 movie is a vivid exploration of how histories are made, told, and found. Watch it for free on archive.org

    WATCH HERE

  • Album: James Baldwin Reads James Baldwin

    Did you know James Baldwin is an artist on Spotify? Experience the work of this foundational writer and activist in his own voice, for free.

    LISTEN HERE.

  • Southern Fried Queer Pride (@sfqp) on instagram

    This Southern QTBIPOC led & centered org based out of Atlanta hosts parties, community events and more. Give their page a follow to support their work!

    FOLLOW HERE.

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