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LGBTQ+ Activism and Culture Resources in Smith College Special Collections

Guide to materials in Smith College Special Collections related to LGBTQ+ activism, culture, and community.

LGBTQ+ Identities in the Mortimer Rare Book Collection

There are many titles in the Mortimer Rare Book Collection that feature stories by or about LGBTQ+ individuals or communities. Below are some examples, but not an exhaustive list:

Sally Taft Duplaix Collection 

Sally Taft Duplaix (Smith College class of 1958) donated her collection of lesbian pulp fiction, non-lesbian pulp fiction, nonfiction lesbiana, and small press books and journals to Smith College Special Collections in 2013. To learn more about Duplaix and lesbian pulp fiction, please see our guide, Lesbian Pulp Fiction Special Collections Resources.

Aché: A Journal for Black Lesbians 

Flat HQ76 .Z3

Apsara engine / Bishakh Som

PN6727.S566 A85 2020

Behind shut eyes: QTBIPOC dream anthology / edited by Coyote Park; designed by Rin Kim; illustrated by Mac Do; printed by Be Oakley.

PS508.S49 B44 2021

Ceremonies: prose and poetry / Essex Hemphill

PS3558.E47925 C47 1992

Deviant proposals: an anti-binary journal / compiled by Matthew Anderson

N7433.4.A534 D48 2019

Indigenous woman / Martine Gutierrez

Oversize N6537.G885 A4 2018

Living the spirit: a gay American Indian anthology / compiled by Gay American Indians; Will Roscoe, coordinating editor

PS509.H57 L58 1988

Narrow distances / Ka-Man Tse

Oversize N7433.4.T74 N37 2018

Sixty en español, português, y inglés

Oversize PS563 .S66 2021 no.4

The art of DJing / written by Sasha Tycko; featuring Morenxxx, Ariel Zetina, Miss Twink USA

Oversize PS563 .S66 2021 no.2

Unwieldy creatures / by Addie Tsai

PS3620.S25 U59 2022

Wrongly bodied: documenting transition from female to male / Clarissa Sligh.

N7433.4.S423 W76 2009