A Guide to LGBTQ Religious
Library and Archival Resources
With Descriptions of
Collections, When Available
Note: Collections are listed in alphabetical order; when affiliated with a university or college, the collection is listed under the name of the university or college. For example, the Human Sexuality Collection is listed under "Cornell University."
This list was compiled by contacting a large number of scholars in the fields of Religious Studies and LGBTQ studies. The scholars made recommendations as to which libraries should be included, and those libraries were contacted to provide descriptions. The descriptions were adapted for brevity and uniformity of style and are included below. Further submissions are welcome, particularly from libraries that have notable collections. This list was compiled with funding from the Gill Foundation.
To make further submissions, or with questions, please contact:
The Rev. Dr. Neil W. Gerdes
Library Director/Associate Professor
Chicago Theological Seminary
5757 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773-322-0247
ngerdes@ctschicago.edu
This list does not include general resources that do not refer to a specific collection. Two notable examples of these, are Bill Holden's list of resources in Religion and GLBTQ Studies at: web.library.emory.edu/r_guides/studies/LGBT/QueerReligion.html,
and the LGBT Religious Archives Network at www.lgbtran.org.
Appalachian State University Special Collections:
Appalachian State University's Special Collections primary focus is the documentation of Appalachian culture, stock car, and Appalachian State University's institutional history. In addition to a few collections related to LGBT Appalachian residents and ASU's various LGBT organizations, the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection owns one unprocessed manuscript collection which intersects religion and LGBT issues, the Boone Christ's Church United Records. It is currently unavailable to the public. It spans the 1990s and documents the church's early existence as a MCC congregation in Watauga County, North Carolina. Another available collection, the Lewis Green Papers, consists of the Asheville, North Carolina-based independent newspaper /The Independent Torch: A Journal for The Outraged and the Outrageous, /August 15, 1985 -March 18, 2001. Green, a member of Asheville's All Souls Episcopal Church, wrote regularly about its inclusion of lesbians and gays illustrating his negative beliefs about homosexuality.
Contact:
Kathy Staley
staleykl@appstate.edu
http://www.library.appstate.edu/appcoll/
Phone:
(828) 262-4041
Fax: (828) 262-2553
Boston
College
A Research Guide to LGBT Studies at Boston College, which incorporates different disciplines, including Religion, is available at: http://libguides.bc.edu/glbt. There is a subject heading under the Find Books tab for the relevant collections.
Contact:
Liesel Tyson
Reference and Instructional Services Department
tysonli@bc.edu
California
State University, Northridge
The Library's Bullough
Collection on Sex and Gender contains a growing number of materials on GLBT
subjects. They have a
sizeable collection of materials on cross dressing which includes the papers of
the Society for the Second Self (Tri-Ess) and newsclippings collected by Virginia Prince for Transvestia, the magazine she edited. They are currently adding the
library of the Homosexual Information Center to the Bullough
Collection. So far over 1,000
titles have been cataloged, roughly 30% of the HIC library. The staff suggests
searching online for more information and to see details of the
collection. There is an Title entry
for the Homosexual Information Center and a another one for the Vern and Bonnie
Bullough Collection on Sex and Gender.
The library catalog: http://suncat.csun.edu/
Vern and Bonnie Bullough Collection on Sex and Gender: http://library.csun.edu/Collections/SCA/SC/bullough.html
Contact:
Tony Gardner
Special Collections/ Archives
California State University, Northridge
tony.gardner@csun.edu
(818) 677-2597
Chicago
Theological Seminary
The Chicago Theological Seminary has had a long standing faculty interest in, and consequently collection goals of, obtaining materials related to Religious Studies and LGBTQ Studies and religion. Our collection development policy states this explicitly. Moreover faculty members who teach in the field make suggestions for purchases. Through other funding the seminary has established a Center for LGBTQ and Religious Studies, which regularly offers related courses and supports faculty research in the area. The library has for the past few decades collected such materials both in monographs and periodicals. CTS was instrumental in creating the LGBT Religious Archive Network (LGBT-RAN), an on line data base with hundreds of connecting links to sundry archives and resources. Currently the library has about 4000 related items in its collection. Although they are most interested in the progressive wing of Protestantism, they also collect in other religious traditions. Related to both the Association of Chicago Theological Schools (ACTS) and the University of Chicago, the CTS library is considered one of the primary holders of such materials in the Chicago area.
Contact:
The Rev. Dr. Neil W. Gerdes
Library Director/Associate Professor
Chicago Theological Seminary
5757 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773-322-0247
ngerdes@ctschicago.edu
Colorado
Historical Society
The Colorado Historical Society holds some materials related to LGBTQ issues, as well as records and materials relating to church organizations and religion in Colorado. A brief web search shows collections related to a Gay United Methodist organization, and a Jewish congregation dealing with LGBT issues. The Society also collects a variety of LGBTQ newspapers and magazines related to Colorado.
Contact:
Rebecca Lintz
Director, Stephen H. Hart Library
Colorado Historical Society
(303) 866-4600
rebecca.lintz@chs.state.co.us
http://www.coloradohistory.org
Cornell
University Library, including the Human Sexuality Collection:
The Cornell Library has been expanding its collections in this area over the last ten years. Significant collections include the papers of Brian McNaught (http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMM07590.html), a portrait of early gay rights leaders including Rev. Troy Perry (http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMM07602.html), and the records of NGLTF, including files from the Shower of Stoles Project and Witness our Welcome (http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMM07301.html.)
Search the guides to manuscript collections at: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/guides.html.
Contact:
Brenda Marston
bjm4@cornell.edu
(607) 255-9557
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/HSC/
Depaul University
The DePaul University Libraries support both the LGBTQ Studies program and the Religious Studies department through cooperative collection of academic monographs and audiovisual material in this area. Faculty members who teach in these fields as well as students and staff affiliated with the Office of LGBTQA Student Services make suggestions for purchases. Currently the library has several hundred related items in its collection. These items focus on Catholic Christianity as well as world religions, primarily in the U.S.
Contact:
Paula R. Dempsey, PhD, MLS
Document Delivery Coordinator
DePaul University Libraries
(773) 325-7834
pdempsey@depaul.edu
Drew
University Methodist Center
The Drew University Methodist Center houses the combined collections of the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church (GCAH) and the Drew University Methodist Library. Besides collecting general church level records of the United Methodist Church, GCAH and Drew also collect personal papers of national figures as well as auxiliary organizations.
In an attempt to present a robust historical picture of the denomination's struggle over the homosexuality issue, collections within the repository attempt to document as many sides of the issue as possible. Homosexual issues can currently be found in a range of records, including those of the Council of Bishops, Kansas Episcopal Area, Women's Division of the General Board of Global Ministries, Committee to Study Homosexuality, the General Board of Church and Society, Affirmation (the United Methodist organization for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns, 9 cubic feet), the Methodist Federation for Social Action, and the personal papers of Paul Abels and Velma Jeanne Barnett, both activists for glbtq rights within the United Methodist Church.
Contact:
Mark Shenise
Associate Archivist
mshenise@gcah.org
(973)408-3194
Emory
University
In order to support the mission of the Candler School of Theology and that of the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University, the Pitts Theology Library focuses its collection development activities on those materials that relate to the development of Christian history and thought, especially for the western and Protestant churches. Secondarily, some materials are acquired in contiguous areas that are related to the history of religion, the interpretation of Scripture, the study of the history of Christianity, the development of Christian theology, and the practice of Christian life and ministry. The Pitts Library regularly acquires materials related to LGBTQ issues, as well as broader topics of human sexuality in the Christian tradition. In addition to holding hundreds of print monographs on LGBTQ history, theology, and religious life, the library licenses several databases for the study of religion that provide a wealth of relevant online articles and essays. The library also holds the archives of the Radical Faeries, a global LGBTQ society, as well as the personal papers of Dr. Thomas E. Frank, which include a series that documents modern issues of homosexuality within the United Methodist Church. Emory Library's former LGBT Librarian, Bill Holden, compiled and made available a Queer Religion Bibliography at http://web.library.emory.edu/r_guides/studies/LGBT/QueerReligion.html.
Contact:
Ida T. Martinez
Educational Studies and Psychology Librarian
LGBT Liaison
Emory University
Research and Information Services
Robert W. Woodruff Library
540 Asbury Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322
404.712.2833 (Phone)
404.727.0805 (Fax)
Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgener Historical Society
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society focuses its collections on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer life in the wider San Francisco Bay area and Northern California. Our collections document the tremendous diversity of GLBT life, its sexual, social, political, economic, cultural, religious and spiritual dimensions. It documents not only the lives of GLBT leaders, but ordinary people, organizations, and informal groups. Examples of our holdings include personal papers, organizational records, photographs, t-shirts, buttons, art, erotica, ephemera and an extensive GLBT periodicals collection, one of the largest in the world.
Contact:
Rebekah Kim
Managing Archivist
GLBT Historical Society
657 Mission Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone (415) 777-5455 ext.3
Fax (415) 777-5576
rebekah@glbthistory.org
www.glbthistory.org
Gerber
Hart Library
Gerber/Hart Library was founded in 1981 to be a depository for the records of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) individuals and organizations, and for other resources bearing upon their lives and experiences in American society. Gerber/Hart Library has since grown into being the Midwest's largest LGBT circulating library with over 14,000 volumes, 800 periodical titles, and 100 archival collections.
A description of holdings related to religion was not available as of press time.
Contact:
Gerber/Hart Library
1127 W. Granville Ave.
Chicago, IL 60660
(773) 381-8030
info@gerberhart.org
GLBT
Center of Colorado
The Terry Mangan Memorial Library has been housed within the GLBT Community Center of Colorado since 1976. The library includes several hundred volumes on religious issues.
Contact:
Rahn Anderson
Volunteer and Administrative Coordinator for the GLBT Center
303 733-7743, ext. 109
randerson2@lgbtcolorado.org
Harvard
University: Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study, Arthur and Elizabeth
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
The mission of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is to document women of the past and present for the future. The library's collections and services encourage research and promote knowledge of history in all its dimensions, and foster the Radcliffe Institute's continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society. The library collects in a wide variety of subject areas including LGBTQ and religion and has acquisition initiatives to enhance its holdings on both religious diversity and LGBTQ communities.
Regarding religion, the library is particularly strong in documenting the individual religious and spiritual meditations of 19th century middle- to upper-class white Protestant women and girls, primarily in the Northeast; their participation in benevolent societies and their work as missionaries, extending into the 20th century; female Protestant clergy and the issue of ordination from the mid-19th through the 20th century, as well as an examination of patriarchy, exclusion of women, and sexist language in Protestantism and, to a smaller extent, Judaism and Catholicism.
Jewish women and their papers have been an integral part of the library's collections since its beginning. The manuscript collections chronicle the lives and accomplishments of specific Jewish women and organizations, while the work of countless more Jewish women is reflected in the records of the dozens of settlement houses, activist groups, social service organizations, philanthropies, and feminist, peace, and other social reform groups to which they devoted their energy.
Contact Information:
Online Catalog: holliscatalog.harvard.edu
Reference Staff: 617 495-8540
slref@radcliffe.edu
The
History Project: Documenting LGBT History in Boston
The History Project: Documenting LGBT Boston Archives collecting focus includes the documentation of Boston's LGBT religious communities. The History Project holds the records for the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry, the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, Robert Wheatley (the first "out" ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister), Rabbi Howard Berman and the UU Office of Gay Concerns. Relevant records also include the Boston chapters of Dignity and Interfaith Pride.
Contact Info:
Elizabeth Bouvier
libbyarchives@yahoo.com
29 Stanhope Street, Boston MA 02116
(617)266.7733
info@historyproject.org
Iliff School of Theology
The Iliff School of Theology
Library supports our institutional aim of honoring our constituents' diverse
identities and experiences and of providing education about diversity issues in
academia, religious communities, and society. As part of this commitment, the Iliff Library supports coursework as well as faculty and
student research in topics related to GLBTQ issues in religion, particularly as
these relate to progressive Protestant Christianity. They maintain thorough holdings in
theology, biblical interpretation, and ministry studies arising from and
relating to GLBTQ perspectives.
Their commitment to this area is described in their collection
development policy, and is further developed through purchase recommendations
from faculty and students.
Contact:
Debbie Creamer, M.Div., Ph.D.
Director, Ira J. Taylor Library
Iliff School of Theology
2233 S. University Blvd
Denver, CO 80210
(303) 765-3178 (phone)
(303) 777-0164 (fax)
dcreamer@iliff.edu
Indianapolis
LGBT Library: The Chris Gonzalez Library and Archives
The GLBT library in Indianapolis has a collection of over 5700 titles; approximately 400 of these are cataloged in the Religion Section. Due to the donations received, the collection slants towards issues in Catholicism, but most major religious traditions are represented.
Contact:
Michael Bohr
Director
mabohr@earthlink.net
http://www.indyprideinc.org/about/library.htm
Marquette
University: Department of Special Collections and Archives
Marquette University's Department of Special Collections and University Archives has long sought to document the involvement of Catholic organizations, movements, and individuals in promoting social change in the United States, including change within the Catholic Church. Within this context, the Marquette Archives acquired the records of New Ways Ministry, founded by Sr. Jeannine Gramick and Fr. Robert Nugent in 1977, and the related papers of Fr. Nugent, concerning his subsequent ministry to gay and lesbian Catholics and the Vatican investigation to which he and Sr. Gramick were subjected. The initial acquisition of the NWM Records came largely as a result of Sr. Gramick's involvement in the National Coalition of American Nuns and her friendship with it's founder, Sr. Margaret Ellen Traxler, who had previously donated her papers and the records of NCAN to Marquette.
Phil Runkel
Archivist
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Raynor Memorial Libraries
Marquette University
1355 W. Wisconsin Ave, PO Box 3141
Milwaukee, WI 53201-3141
(414)288-5903
Michigan State University
Libraries
The
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) collections at Michigan State
University include cross-disciplinary materials representing diverse and
opposing viewpoints on the construction and development of gender and sexual
identities, homosexuality, bisexuality, etc. The collections also include
resources specific to the cultural and political experiences of diverse and
marginalized groups of people of various sexual identities.
In
response to recent faculty requests, the MSU Libraries have worked to acquire
increasing numbers of audiovisual materials focusing on the experiences of LGBT
people of color. The Special Collections unit of the Michigan State University
Libraries has a rich and extensive collection of materials specific to LGBT
social change movements, pulp fiction, and comic art.
Contact:
Sharon Ladenson
Subject Specialist for Gay and Lesbian Studies
ladenson@mail.lib.msu.edu
New York City LGBT Community Center:
Pat Parker/ Vito Russo Library
The Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library at the NYC Community Center is a circulating library open to the public. It has several hundred volumes in the religion section. One can search the catologue on-line at www.gaycenter.org/library.
Contact:
The Pat Parker/Vito Russo Center Library
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011
(212)620-7310
ppvrlib@gaycenter.org
New
York Public Library
A starting point to access the relevant collections of the New York Public Library is the Gay and Lesbian Studies Research Guide, available at: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/gay/index.html.
The Manuscripts Division also includes the records of the Old Catholic Church, which contains correspondence of figures influential in gay liturgical/Catholic ministries, including Michael Clement, George Hyde, and Mikhael Itkin.
Contact:
Thomas Lannon
New York Public Library Manuscripts & Archives Division
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/mss.html
mssref@nypl.org
Northwestern
University
Northwestern University Library has a significant collection
of LGBTQ material housed in the Charles Deering
McCormick Library of Special Collections. These holdings have a particularly
strong focus on lesbian materials and have been gathered in conjunction with an
outstanding collection of Second Wave Feminist materials. Included in these materials are a number
of rare and difficult to find LGBTQ publications related directly to
religion. Additionally,
Northwestern University Archives holds several sources that may aid researchers
investigating the interrelationship between LGBTQ issues and religion in an
academic setting. Northwestern
University Library also holds numerous works related to LGBTQ studies and
religion in its general collection.
Contact:
Geoffrey
Morse
Reference Librarian
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 467-1866, fax: 847-491-5678
gmorse@northwestern.edu
ONE
Archives, Gallery and Museum
The scope of the collections of ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is international, with a special focus on the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender history of Los Angeles. Lists of records are available on the ONE website at www.onearchives.org. Religion-related materials include the Berman Collection on Gay Jews, the Twice Blessed Collection, Dignity USA records, and Metropolitan Community Church Records.
Contact:
909 West
Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213) 741-0094
askone@onearchives.org
Pacific
School of Religion: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Archives
The CLGS Archives Project seeks to obtain, preserve, and
make available the papers of significant individuals and organizations in the
history of religion and LGBT issues in American society. Together with the
resources available through the LGBT Religious Archives Network, the CLGS
Archives Project is quickly becoming the leading online resource for
LGBT-related materials in religion.
In December of 2001 CLGS was proud to accept its first archival collection, the
papers of John J. McNeill, Roman Catholic priest, and author of The Church and
the Homosexual. This archival collection, entitled The John J. McNeill and
Charles Chiarelli Gay and Lesbian Liberation
Collection, is available for use by scholars and students at The Graduate Theological
Union (GTU) Library in Berkeley, California. Please see: http://www.clgs.org/archive/mcneill-chiarelli-collection
Recent additions to the CLGS Archives include the Rev.
Chris Glaser Archives, the Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
Archives, the Janie Spahr Archives, and the That All
May Freely Serve Archives. CLGS is
also honored to archive and make accessible the Open Hands Collection of
articles from the journal, Open Hands. Many of these seminal articles on LGBT
issues in religion and ministry are now publicly available online through this
website; the whole collection will be available soon (see the Open Hands Issue
Index at: http://www.clgs.org/open-hands-index).
Contact:
Bernard Schlager, PhD
Deputy Director
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS)
Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709-1323
bschlager@clgs.org
# (510) 849-8278
www.clgs.org
Quebec Gay Archives
The Quebec Gay Archives was founded in 1983. Their mandate is to collect all materials (printed matter, photos, recordings, posters, flyers etc etc) which document the history and existence of the gay and lesbian communities of Québec. As such, much although not all of their material is in French and the largest parts are from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. In particular, they maintain collections of papers derived from community organizations and community activists. Another evident focus is of course AIDS and the mobilization against it dominated community affairs in the 1980s and 90s. They also have archival collections which document the activities of some gay religious organizations, such as Dignity, Integrity and some smaller Jewish community groups.
Contact:
Iain Blair
President
Archives gaies du Québec
iainblair@sympatico.ca
Rutgers
University Special Collections and Archives
Among
several collections relevant to the LGBTQ Community, Rutgers houses the
records, 1974-2004, of More Light Presbyterians (formerly known as
Presbyterians for Lesbian & Gay Concerns) which was organized in 1974. The records primarily consist of files
relating to by-laws and the board of directors; files of certain organizational
leaders and officers; financial records; files pertaining to regional chapters
of the organization and to affiliated groups; membership information (which is
restricted); the newsletter More Light Update, formerly known as More Light
News, and publications such as resource packets and a chapter handbook;
background materials (clippings, press releases, pamphlets, submitted copy)
used in preparing More Light Update, as well as newsletters issued by various
Presbyterian Church organizations and other Christian denominations; additional
reference materials, especially selected Presbyterian Church (USA) General
Assembly documents; and correspondence of the organization's Communications
Secretary (which is restricted).
Contact:
Erika Gorder
Associate University Archivist
Special Collections and University Archives
Rutgers University Libraries
732.932.7006 ext. 367
gorder@rci.rutgers.edu
San
Francisco Public Library, James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center
The James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center is the gateway to collections documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered history and culture, with a special emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to books, periodical and archival collections, the Center sponsors changing exhibitions and public programs. Religion is covered when it intersects with their goals of collecting LGBTQ nonfiction works and local history.
Contact:
Karen Sundheim
Project Manager
James C. Hornel Gay and Lesbian Center
San Francisco Public Library
(415) 557-4566
http://sfpl4.sfpl.org/librarylocations/main/glc/glc.htm
Smith
College: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's Archives
Smith College established the Sophia Smith Collection of
Women's Archives in 1942 to document the history of women in the United States
and beyond. In 2002 the SSC
launched the Voices of Feminism Archival Development Project to broaden the
Collection's scope by expanding its collections of women who are typically
under-represented in archives because of their race or ethnicity, social class,
or sexual orientation. The results have been encouraging. Among some 20 new collections of lesbian
women and their organizations are several that document the activities of
religious activists. Strengths are
in radical and more mainstream Roman Catholic reformers and theologians,
including former
nuns; the movement for women's and gay ordination in the Episcopal Church and
the papers of lesbian priests and a heterosexual woman priest opposed to gay
ordination. They have commitments
to place from Jewish lesbian theologians, academics, and their organizations
along with a sprinkling of lesbians engaged in New Age spirituality. They also hold in-depth video oral
histories with lesbians who discuss their religious lives and more than 1,000
periodical titles, some of which contain content on lesbian religious beliefs,
practices and spirituality.
Contact:
Sherrill Redmon
Director, Sophia Smith Collection
413-585-2978
sredmon@email.smith.edu
Tulane
University
Preserving the papers and records of New Orleans' gay and lesbian community is a special mission of the Tulane University Manuscripts Department. Some of their holdings reflect the intersection of religious life with the local New Orleans LGBTQ community. These holdings span the 1970's through today, and reflect both Christian and Jewish faiths. Collections include ephemera from the Metropolitan Community Church, the Lamda Chai Jewish Congregation, and Louisiana's statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization. (The latter's newsletters include "Sunday Invitations" listing of gay churches and other religious organizations.) The Department also includes the Otto Stierle Collection, which preserves the history of gay Carnival krewes in New Orleans.
Contact:
Eira Tansey
Manuscripts Processor
Special Collections, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Tulane University
(504) 865-5603
United
Theological Seminary
The Spencer Library of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities contains a significant collection of materials exploring the intersections of LGBTQ issues, religion and theology. Over 575 individual titles in a variety of formats – including a number of LGBTQ newsletters published by various Christian denominational groups – form the basis of our growing collection of LGBTQ resources, and support both the curricular commitments of the seminary and the larger academic and theological communities of the upper Midwest. They have also collected for over 30 years general resources in human sexuality, many of which contain GLBT content. United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities' historical commitment to issues of human sexuality and religion is reflected in the Spencer Library Archive's holdings from the Human Sexuality Workshop taught for a number of years in conjunction with the University of Minnesota. They are also the repository for a large collection of the James B. Nelson papers. Dr. Nelson has long been an active and respected theological voice in the areas of human sexuality and LGBTQ issues within the United Church of Christ and beyond.
Contact:
Susan Ebbers
Director of the Library &
Professor of Theological Bibliography
(651) 255-6143
sebbers@unitedseminary.edu
University of California San Francisco Archives
and Special Collections
Relevant collections at the University of California include the Shanti Project, the Interfaith Conference on AIDS Proceedings (1987), and the Interfaith Coalition on AIDS, and the records of other community-based AIDS support groups. Online finding aids available at www.oac.cdlib.org.
Contact:
Lisa Mix
Manager, Archives and Special Collections
Library and Center for Knowledge Management
University of California San Francisco
(415)514-3706
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/about
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
The UCLA Library, as well as other collections and archives on the UCLA campus, house several sources of interest to researchers studying the intersection of LGBTQ Studies and Religious Studies. While this is not an area of intensive research interest and collection development on campus, the library does collect monographs and journals in multiple languages that cover the topic, as well as subject specific article databases on gender, sexuality, religion, and world cultures. The bulk of materials on LGBTQ topics and religion are held at the Charles E. Young Research Library, including collections of interest in the Department of Special Collections and the Center for Oral History Research. Additionally, the LGBT Campus Resource Center Library contains several thousand books and other materials that are listed in the UCLA Library Catalog. This collection contains some popular and advocacy publications that are not always held in the Research Library. Finally, the Chicano Studies Research Center Library and Special Collections houses several LGBTQ Studies collections, including the Queer Nation Archive, the Rigoberto Gonzalez Papers, and other materials collected by Yolanda Retter-Vargas.
Also see: http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=UCLA_LGBT&deepsearch=religion, for UCLA's LGBT Resource office.
Contact:
Diana King
Film, Television and Theater Librarian
Women's Studies and LGBT Studies Librarian
UCLA Arts Library
1400 Public Affairs Building
Box 951392
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1392
Telephone: 310-206-4823
Fax: 310-825-1303
diking@library.ucla.edu
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago Library has a large and comprehensive collection of monographs and serials to support research into gay and lesbian topics. They prepared a comprehensive guide to their monographic holdings, last revised in 2002. The portion of the guide dedicated to religious materials is available at: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/gaylesb/glgtoc.html#relig. Additional materials have been added since the writing of the Guide. The library also subscribes to the LGBT Life with Full Text database.
Contact:
Frank Conaway
Social Sciences Bibliographer
febc@midway.uchicago.edu
(773)702-8454
University
of Minnesota: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter
Collection in LGBT Studies
The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies* houses over 30,000 items in a
wide variety of media. The collection is international in scope and has
materials in approximately 58 languages. It covers all time periods, from a
4,000-year-old phallic statuette from Egypt, up to current editions of GLBT
periodicals. Although books are the core of the collection, substantial sections
include textiles, glassware, film, music, art works, and three-dimensional
objects such as event buttons and furniture. The collection includes
unpublished manuscripts, vertical files, and periodicals from all over the
world. Among the significant archival holdings are the Jim Chalgren
Collection, the personal papers of Professor Toni McNaron,
Patrick Scully, Dallas S. Drake, Stuart Ferguson, and Tobias Schneebaum. The archives of the National Education
Association GLBT Caucus, the Lesbian Review of Books Archive, Gay/Lesbian
Postal Employees Network (PEN) Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Paper Eagles--the
employee group of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Ramsey County GLBT
Employees Network, and the archives of the Twin Cities-GLBT Pride Committee.
The book collection is available through the online catalog (http://www.lib.umn.edu/) and much of the
archival material is available through the Finding Aid database (http://discover.lib.umn.edu/findaid/). Information about specifically religious
materials was unavailable as of press time.
Contact:
Tim Johnson
Special Collections
(612)624-3552
Johns976@umn.edu
University
of Texas, San Antonio
The Archives for Research on Women and Gender (ARWG) project specializes in acquiring, preserving, arranging, describing, and providing access to primary source materials that document the lives of women, constructions of gender, and expressions of sexual identity in South Texas. Materials are collected from activists, politicians, educators, authors, business people, and other individuals, as well as organizations, businesses, and foundations. The collections that comprise the ARWG project include primary sources such as: letters, speeches, reports, minutes, programs, brochures, newsletters, posters, photographs, and other kinds of personal and organizational documents. It is the intent of the ARWG project for its collections to represent the diverse populations in South Texas.
Web access: http://lib.utsa.edu/Archives/Manuscripts/FAbysubject.php
Contact:
Mark Shelstad
Head of Archives & Special Collections
The University of Texas at San Antonio
801 S. Bowie Street
San Antonio, TX 78205
210-458-2385
mark.shelstad@utsa.edu
University of Washington Libraries
While the University of Washington Libraries have a mandate to continuing to expand their collections in gay and lesbian studies, they do not specifically focus on religious issues. A complete guide to their collection, as of 2007, is available at: http://faculty.washington.edu/alvin/gaycat.htm.
Contact:
Cassandra Hartnett
Gay & Lesbian Studies Librarian
Government Publications
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA 98195-2900 USA
cass@u.washington.edu
Telephone: 206-685-3130
fax=206-685-8049
University of Wisconsin
The University of Wisconsin Madison reports that they do not have particular collections in LGBTQ Studies and Religion, but there is an online guide to LGBTQ Research on their campus at: http://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/content.php?pid=33052&sid=242160. The Archives Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) Libraries actively acquires manuscript collections to document the history of Milwaukee's gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. Collection strengths include the gay liberation movement, HIV/AIDS, social activism, and print media. Development of this collecting area is generously supported by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Johnson and Pabst LGBT Humanity Fund. The Archives Department exists primarily to support the research and instructional needs of UWM faculty, students, and staff. The general public is welcome to use its collections and services. No special permission or letters of introduction are required. The primary collection that may be interesting to scholars of religion and LGBTQ Studies is that of Plymouth UCC.
Contact:
Michael Doylen, Ph.D.
Archives Dept. Head
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
UWM Libraries / Archives Department
P.O. Box 604
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0604
doylenm@uwm.edu
414-229-6980 (business)
414-229-3605 (fax)
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