Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resources: Articles/Databases
LGBTQ databases
- LGBT Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowIncludes scholarly and popular publications, plus historically important primary sources, including books, magazines, and newspapers. Also has a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
- LGBT Studies in Video This link opens in a new windowLGBTQ+ political, cultural, and social movements in the 20th century to the present time through video.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new windowPrimary sources on social, political, health, & legal issues impacting LGBTQ+ communities around the world. Documents are sourced from Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives, GLBT Historical Society, Michigan State University, New York Public Library, Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation, etc.
- Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new windowCovers all aspects of gender identity and sexual orientation.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowarticles & more on the impact of gender on all areas of life.
- Women's Studies Archives This link opens in a new windowGlobal aspects of women's lives, roles, experiences, and achievements are covered in primary sources. Includes some pioneers of women's and transgender history, issues that have affected women and lesbians, and contributions made to society.
Other relevant Databases
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowIncludes LGBT issues. Click Choose Databases & select Communication Source, Social Sciences Full Text, & SocINDEX with Full Text
- Digital Scholar Lab This link opens in a new windowIncludes Archives of Sexuality and Gender, Women's Studies Archive, and historical collections from the 1500s -1920's.
Create an account to explore primary sources/historical texts and interpret via analysis and visualization. - Psycinfo This link opens in a new windowCovers all topics related to LGBTQIA+ psychology (individual human beings).
- Sinister WisdomJournal of lesbian art & literature: current issues are in print only. Sign in, then click "Request."
Covers are pictured at http://www.sinisterwisdom.org/issues
- Sinister Wisdom1987-1996 online at JSTOR
Search tips for finding articles
- use "quotation marks" around phrases
- truncate - shorten a word to its trunk or root to get alternate endings - with an asterisk * (shift 8), e.g., truncat* finds truncate, truncated, truncation
- apply Boolean connector AND to combine unlike ideas, e.g., lesbian AND disabilities
- apply Boolean connector OR to connect synonyms, e.g., gay OR lesbian
Information exposes the biases of their authors. Scholarly/academic work is often created by white, cis-gender males, and their viewpoints are revealed in the terminology/vocabulary:
- LGBT* or LGBTQ+, bisexual*, gay, homosexual*, lesbian*, queer, same-sex, "sexual minorities", "sexual orientation"
- transgender, "trans men"," trans women", "gender identity", "gender role", "gender dysphoria", transsexual*
- intersectional*
- "People of color", BIPOC, "Indigenous peoples", African American*, Black, Asian*, Asian American*, Latinx or Latina* or Latino* or Hispanic, "ethnic groups", ethnicity, minority, race
- "People with disabilities", disab* (disability or disabilities)
Put it all together:
- "people with disabilities" in one box
- AND (queer OR LGBT* OR gay OR lesbian* OR same-sex OR homosexual*) in the next box
- use parentheses in single-box searching - when you don't have another set of boxes, e.g.,:
- "people with disabilities" AND (queer OR LGBT* OR gay OR lesbian* OR same-sex OR homosexual*)
Use the left or right menus to narrow your results, e.g., by language, date, subject, etc.
Databases have a citation (information about an article such as the title, author, name of the journal or magazine, volume and issue (which correspond to the date), date, and pages) and sometimes they will also contain an abstract, or summary, of the article.
Databases also often cite multiple types of resources - books, essays or chapters, government documents, etc.
Some databases will also have the complete item (called the full text): you should see a link to an HTML or PDF document. Or click on - this will check the other library databases for the full text of the article.
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