LibGuides: LGBTQ+ Studies: Getting Started

Welcome to the CCNY LGBTQIA+ Research Guide

Use this guide to locate archives, databases, journals, libraries, museums, and periodicals about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer topics.

Online Encyclopedias and Reference

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Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. In addition to the full text biographies, Biography Reference Bank contains millions of magazine citations. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.

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Print Encyclopedias and Reference

Completely Queer by Steve Hogan; Lee Hudson
Call Number: HQ 75 .H63 1999
ISBN: 9780805060317
Publication Date: 1999-06-15
This remarkably informative and entertaining guide explores - in amazing depth - more facets of today's gay and lesbian subculture than any other one-volume reference work. With quotes, facts, reading lists, and useful tables covering everything from famous pseudonyms to gay detective novels, this is the first guide to include both lesbian and gay male points of view, offering information on their common concerns as well as their different histories and interests.
LGBTQ+ (1923-2017) v.1-2 by Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.
Call Number: HQ76.8 .U55 L43 2018 (Reference Desk)
ISBN: 9781682172872
Publication Date: 2018
International Encyclopedia of Sexuality by Robert T. Francoeur (Editor); Raymond J. Noonan (Editor)
Call Number: Cohen Reference, 2nd floor (CREF0) ; HQ21 .I68 1997
ISBN: 9780826408419
Publication Date: 1997