LGBTQ+: Websites + Podcasts

Created by the founder of International Pronouns Day, Shige Sakurai, the site covers topics like what personal pronouns are and why they matter, inclusive language, sharing personal pronouns, and other resources.

Reports from Human Rights Watch.

The Movement Advancement Project's quick facts about Michigan's LGBT population and LGBT policy tally.

Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan "facttank," conducts "public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis, and other empirical social science research." To see reports, search the site for LGBT.

Polls from Gallup.

Information on same sex couples from the U.S. Census.

From the National Center for Transgender Equality.

Founded in 1973, the collection holds books, archival papers, artifacts, photographs, and art. Some collections have been digitized.

Based at Northeastern University, a collaboration of more than 60 colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections.

Entries on the arts, literature, social sciences and history, as well well as essays and interviews.

Links to digital collections of libraries, archives, and historical societies.

"World's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities."

Select captures going back to 2000.

From the Library of Congress.

From the Library of Congress.

From the Library of Congress. "History, culture, and scholarship from the U.S. and around the world."

Dedicated to ensuring the preservation and accessibility of the voices and experiences of LGBT religious leaders and groups.

"Online exhibit based on a physical exhibit that took place at the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library in 1999."

Digital archive of one of the first gay magazines in the United States. Dates back to early 1950s and runs through late 1960s. Available through JSTOR's open access collection.

"A digital archive of historical LGBT t-shirts" from collections across the country, including from the Midwest. Goals of the collection include combating the "bicoastal bias" of queer history and showing the "distinctness and interconnectedness of queer identities across geographic lines."

Scroll down to see the Tate digital exhibits "A Queer Walk Through British Art," LGBTQ+ Icons at Tate Britain," "Ladies and Gentlemen" - the people who posed for Andy Warhol, and an online guide to queer artists and art.

Culture focused podcast from the New York Times' critic at large and a writer for the New York Times Magazine.

Conversations with "champions, heroes, and witnesses" to LGBT history.

From the New York Public Library Library Talks podcast.