Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resources: LGBTQ in MI
LGBTQ+ information
Archival history sources
- LGBTQ : people's history of Grand Rapids project : the history, the story byPublication Date: 2011DVD: An oral and visual history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer community in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with over 60 interviews of those in the community and their straight allies. Interviews conducted by Jeff Smith.
- Milton Ford filesHistory of the LGBT Resource Center in the Lemmen Library and Archives. File numbers: GV100-04.
- Grand Rapids Lesbian & Gay Organizations Project CollectionThis collection relates to the local and Western Michigan gay and lesbian community since the 1980s and includes a series of 10 oral history interviews. At Grand Rapids Public Library; Grand Rapids History & Special Collections; Oral Histories
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- Come Out! In DetroitComic book tells the story of Michigan’s First LGBTQ+ Pride activities.
- Michigan Framily ReunionWomyn's music festival (next is 7/31/25); also has camping weekends.
- We Want the Land CoalitionMichigan Nonprofit organization whose mission is to sustain and administer 650 acres of undeveloped land in Walkerville for the use and benefit of women and girls (former location of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival)
Celebrating the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, issue 103 of Sinister Wisdom by Call Number: Mary Idema Pew ASRS - Periodicals PS508.W7 S54 no.103Publication Date: 2017Request Issue 103.- From the Liminal to the Land: Building Amazon Culture at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival byPublication Date: 2006PhD dissertation, Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
5-year ethnographic study of the cultural community womyn built at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival.
Archival Newsletters and Magazines
- Network Newsnewsletter from the Lesbian and Gay Community Network of Western Michigan (Grand Rapids). 1988-2014
- Other views byPublication Date: 1978-1989Lesbian newsletter from Grand Rapids, Michigan
via: Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I - Third Coast Magazine byCall Number: Seidman House Regional Historical HQ75 .T48Publication Date: 1996-1999The travel, entertainment, and information magazine for gay, lesbian & bisexual communities in West Michigan and beyond.
- W.E.B. newsletter : a survival network for wimmin byPublication Date: 1981-1984Eco-feminist newsletter from Aradia, Grand Rapids, Michigan
via: Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I - Lavender morningPublication Date: 1980-2006Lesbian newsletter from Kalamazoo, Michigan
via: Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I
- Michigan LGBTQ RememberDocuments the diverse lives of LGBTQ Michiganders and their allies who are no longer with us. Curated by Tim Retzloff.
Michigan State & University of Michigan
- LGBTQ History and Culture: Resources in Special Collections: Archival collectionsMichigan State University
- Labadie CollectionUniversity of Michigan has one of the largest collections on transgender issues in the world.
Subjects: LGBT Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Last Updated: Apr 14, 2025 10:34 AM
- URL: https://libguides.gvsu.edu/lgbt
