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Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
http://www.clga.ca/
For over 25 years, CLGA has collected and maintained information related to gay and lesbian life in Canada, including material on people, organizations, issues and events.

Gender and Sexuality
http://eserver.org/gender/
Texts which address gender studies and queer studies, with a particular focus on discussions of sex, gender, sexual identity, and sexuality in cultural practices.

Guide to Gay and LEsbian REsources: A Classified Bibliography Based Upon the Collections of the University of Chicago Library
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/gaylesb/glguide.html
This online bibliography "identifies and classifies over 4500 monographs and serials in the University of Chicago Library collections that deal primarily with gay and lesbian themes."

James C.

Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center
http://sfpl4.sfpl.org/webroot/librarylocations/main/glc.htm
"The Gay and Lesbian Center is a research center devoted to the documentation of lesbian and gay history and culture by collecting, preserving and providing access to material on all aspects of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered experience." The center is a part of the San Francisco Public Library.

Lesbian Herstory Archives
http://www.datalounge.net/network/pages/lha/welc.htm
The Lesbian Herstory Archives of New York City, the largest and oldest Lesbian archive in the world, began in 1973.

Arts, Literature, and Culture

Gay History and Literature
http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/gayhist.htm
Essays by Rictor Norton which cover The Queer Canon, The Homosexual Pastoral Tradition, Queer Culture, The Great Queens of History, A History of Homoerotica, and A History of Homophobia.

gltbq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian.

Heavily annotated. JFD 92-5606. Leap Year. Although the subject entries in the Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries, 1911-1971, employ terms that appear today to be abstruse or arcane, the very presence of these works, some quite rare, attests to the Library's interest in acquiring in this field. New York: Harper and Row, 1978.

Homosexuality Bibliography: Supplement, 1970-1975. JFE 91- 8892. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1993. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. New York: Popular Library, 1971. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1948. Mother Clap's Molly House: the Gay Subculture in England, 1700-1830.

A resolution to the conflict between gay assimilationists and gay militants over legitimacy versus liberation is nowhere in sight. JFE 91-7491.

Foster, David William. JFD 91-4314.

Rechy, John. NCW.

Hemphill, Essex.

gays and lesbians

In 3000 BCE, on the fertile lands of what is now known as the Czech Republic, a Corded Ware culture flourished. Selective list of 459 English-language items excluding historical and primary sources. New York: Knopf, 1993. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.