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

Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
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.

Select Sex and Gender Studies Journals

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

General Databases

Below are very large databases helpful for getting started on a topic. To search more specific topical databases, visit the Scholarly Sources page.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database, with more than 6,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,000 peer-reviewed journals.
In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,000 journals.
General OneFile This link opens in a new window
Gale's largest general-interest database with more than 8,000 titles.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a database of journals and primary sources that offers full-text to more than 2,300 journals.
Search and browse JSTOR citations from a mobile device.

To find out more about mobile apps, visit our Mobile Resources page.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
WorldCat provides complete bibliographic information on nearly all materials published in all subject areas in all languages. It draws its information from the library holdings of thousands of libraries around the world. Included in the database are books, periodicals (but not individual articles), sound and video recordings, electronic resources, dissertations and theses.

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LGBTQ+ Studies

Welcome to the CCNY LGBTQIA+ Research Guide

Online Encyclopedias and Reference

Select Sex and Gender Studies Journals

Print Encyclopedias and Reference

General Databases