The Electronic Resources & Systems (ERS) department at Gleeson joins the USF community in celebrating Pride month with some offerings from our library databases with an LGBT focus.
LGBT Magazine Archive
This archive contains 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests, including The Advocate and Gay Times. Focused on LGBT history and culture, it’s a great resource for exploring the background of PRIDE and other LGBT topics.
For instance, Gay Times has a 1994 interview regarding the 1969 Stonewall Riots “Stonewall: The legend that gave birth to Pride” with playwright Doric Wilson: “there was no riot, people always call it a riot but it wasn’t a riot in any real sense of the word.” He goes on to give his first-hand at times sardonic account of what he witnessed that night at Stonewall and later wrote about in his play The Night We Buried Judy Garland.
The Advocate offers a review of the book Sex variant woman: the life of Jeannette Howard Foster by Joanne Passet about one librarian’s groundbreaking work ensuring the preservation and proliferation of lesbian lit.
Independent Voices: LGBT collection
This collection of 25 small press LGBT publications nicely supplements the glossier more mainstream LGBT Magazine Archive. Having more of a DIY appeal, these titles directly chronicle the birth of the Gay and Lesbian movements in the United States.
LGBT Studies in Video
This online collection of videos is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. There are documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and many other topics.
A random sampling:
Hollywood Gay Pride: Parades and Festivals From 1970 to 1978 “short home movies recording gay pride parades and festivals in Hollywood.”
Two to Tango: Gay Argentina “the Argentinean capital is leading the push in Latin America to bring equality to gays.”
A Conversation with Gender Non-Conforming, Gender Non-Binary Youth “a conversation that focuses not only on the challenges of living beyond the gender binary, but also the liberatory possibilities that exist there as well.”
Bayou Maharajah “explores the life, times and music of piano legend James Booker, who Dr. John described as ‘the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.’”
Kumu Hina “Hina Wong-Kalu, a native Hawaiian māhū, or transgender, teacher uses traditional culture to inspire a student to claim her place as leader of the school’s all-male hula troupe.”
And there’s also a lengthy filmed interview with Doric Wilson on Stonewall: Part 1 and Part 2, demonstrating how library databases often complement each other, enriching the research experience when used in combination.
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Featured image at top of post is of Gente Northern California’s Independent Third World Lesbian Softball Team on the cover of the July 1974 issue of The Tide.