LGBTQ+ History: Home

A new generation of change-makers.

A collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.

Collecting, preserving and sharing the proud culture of lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and queer people of all stories, and their significant role in American society.

U.S. National Library of Medicine exhibition program.

Author and journalist Shon Faye talks with LGBTQ trailblazers who give you the language you need to grapple with “new” experiences by showing that you belong to a much broader history.

Because history has never been as straight as you think.

Recent guests include Laverne Cox, Pete Buttigieg, Roxane Gay, and Brandi Carlile. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partnership with GLAAD.

Intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history brought to you from rare archival interviews.

An LGBTQ serialized history podcast covering United States queer history before the Stonewall Riots.

The Leading Gay and Lesbian News and Entertainment Site

Discover books in the library, essays, articles and more.

NPR article and recording.

If you’re looking for texts by, for, or about people who transverse or transcend western gender norms, you’re in the right place! The world’s largest collection of free trans-focused literature.

Digitized photographs, manuscripts, documents, and other primary source materials from the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center.

Home to the world’s largest collection of materials by and about Lesbians and their communities.

Make the history, contemporary experience and humanity of the LGBTQ community an integral part of the greater social whole.

Sharing the story of the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change.