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Archives of Sexuality and Gender     A digital collection of historical primary source publications on LGBTQ issues. All Campuses Remote Access Available Bookmark
Material Type : Books / Theses / Newspapers / Biographies / Images, Videos / Primary Sources, Archives
Subject : Social Sciences / Sociology
Part I: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940
Part I includes approximately 1.5 million pages of primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world.

Part II: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part II
Part II focuses on various ethnic, religious, racial, and other minority groups. It includes periodicals, personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and a variety of other content types.

Part III: Sex and Sexuality from 16th through 20th Centuries
Part III covers a wide range of previously taboo topics and content such as British Library's banned books collection and the sexology publications from Kinsey Institute.

Part IV: International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture
Part IV deals with the areas of the world previously underrepresented in prevailing scholarship on sexuality and gender, focusing especially on southern Africa and Australia.
The main feature of the module is the collections from Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action, or GALA, which is established in Johannesburg, South Africa. GALA is the only organization in Africa that collects and preserves materials related to sexual minorities.

Part V: L'Enfer de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Part V includes the digitized edition of L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France which is one of the most famous private case collections in the world. L’Enter, literally meaning ‘hell’ in English, was created in 1830s. Since then it had been kept in a locked section of the library because of the erotic or pornographic character of the works as well as their rarity and value.

This database is available via Gale Primary Sources also. Put check marks on the databases of your choice to perform a cross-search on the same platform.