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Lesbian & Queer Women (Sophia Smith Collection)
Finding Aid - Lesbian and queer women
Identity categories provide another way of understanding the lives of women documented in our collections. Identities are assigned based on information available to the Smith College Special Collections, as declared by historical actors. Terms that people may have used to describe their own identities change over time.
LGBTQ History Projects & Collections
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History & Culture Since 1940 [Gale] This link opens in a new window
Primary source collections on social, political, health & legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities in the U.S. and internationally. Includes the collections Community and Identity in North America, International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture, LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 Parts I and II, and L'Enfer de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, a collection of French works from the 1800s that were considered to be contrary to the morals of the time.
Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony (Canada)
"The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony was founded in 2010. We digitize and make available online oral histories and testimony of same-sex and same-gender attracted women, inclusive of Two Spirit, queer, bisexual, and lesbian women, transmen, and others."
Documentary on Dyke TV - To provoke, Incite, and Organize
A first hound account from the founders and producers of DYKE TV, a community television program that lasted from1993-2005. The records of DYKE TV are available in Smith's Special Collections.
Jen Jack Gieseking's Public History Projects
Data visualizations, bibliographies, public archiving projects on queer and trans history.
LGBTQ Digital Collaboratory
The LGBTQ Oral History Digital "Collaboratory connects archives across Canada and the U.S. to produce a digital history hub for the research and study of gay, lesbian, queer, and trans* oral histories."
New York Public Library Digital Collections
See Diana Davies Photographs, or do a search for "lesbian" to see other digital collections
LGBTQ Films
Filmakers Library Online [Alexander Street] This link opens in a new window
Award-winning documentaries on race & gender studies, human rights, globalization, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, politics, history, psychology, education, arts, literature, etc.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Streaming educational & feature films across all disciplines, with films from the BBC, California Newsreel, Criterion, PBS & many others. Create a free Kanopy account on campus, then connect to a Kanopy app and watch on your mobile device or smart TV. See Kanopy Help.