The following resources focus on gay and lesbian studies.

Locating Books through Web Pals

For infomation on gays and lesbians try a KEYWORD SEARCH in WebPals

For example:

KEYWORD: gays AND lesbians

KEYWORD: homosexual# AND history

KEYWORD: lesbian writers

KEYWORD: gay life

KEYWORD: gay rights

Selected Print Resources

The following list is a selection of print resources in which contain information on gays and lesbians. All of these sources are located either in the REFERENCE AREA on the main floor of the Library and in the CIRCULATING COLLECTION .

ALMANACS, DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS

• Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender lore. Washington, DC: Cassell, 1998.
  Queer symbol and myth from A to Z.
  REF 291.13 C763c 1998

• Cassell's Queer Companion: a dictionary of lesbian and gay life and culture. New York: Cassell, 1995.
  Queer terms from A to Z.
  REF 306.766 St49c 1995

• Deviant Behavior. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1997.
  An unbiased, unexpected article "Male and Female Homosexuality" appears in this volume with its misleading title.
  REF 302.542 G613d5 1997

• Encyclopedia of American Social History. New York: Scribne, 1993.
  See Volume 3 under "homosexuality."
  REF 301.0973 En19c 1993

• Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. New York: Garland Pub., 1990.
  Two volume work on a variety of topics.
  REF 306.766 En19h 1990

• Encyclopedia of Modern American Social Issues Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO,1997.
  See pp. 145-149.
  REF 306.766 En19h 1990

• Gay/lesbian Almanac. New York: Harper & Row,1983.
  A seminal, still viable, work. by Jonathan Katz
  REF 306.7660973 K159g1 1983

• Human Sexuality: an encyclopedia. New York: Garland Pub., 1994.
  See "Homophobia," "Homosexuality," "Homosexuality and Lesbianism: Cross-Cultural Perspectives."
  REF 306.703 H88b 1994

• The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality. New York: Continuum, 1997.
  See index in Volume 3 under "homoerotic behavior," "homosexual behavior and relationships," and "homosexual parents."
  REF 306.703 In8f 1997

BIOGRAPHIES OF GAYS AND LESBIANS

• Gay & Lesbian Biography. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997.
  Focus nobable gay and lesbian personalities of the 20th century.
  REF 306.766 G25t 1997

• Gay lives: homosexual autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999
  Includes: The man of letters and the Don: The memoirs of John Addington Symonds; the autobiography of G. Lowes Dickinson; Auden & Co: Lions and shadows, World within world, Christopher and his kind; the detective and the comedian: My father and myself, The naked civil servant; three French novelists: Si le grain ne meurt, Journal du voleur, Jeunes annees; two American diarists: Jeb and Dash, A gay diary; the closet and its discontents: The best little boy in the world, Cures, Becoming a man.
  REF 306.766 G25t 1997

HISTORY

• Becoming Visible: a reader in gay & lesbian history for high school & college student. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1994.
  Readings in gay and lesbian history.
  305.9 B389j 1994

• Becoming Visible: an illustrated history of lesbian and gay life in twentieth-century America. New York: Penguin Studio,1998.
  Current historical study.
  306.766 M177b 1998

• The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987.
  Detailed history of the movement.
  306.7 Ad13r 1987

HOMOPHOBIA

• The Encyclopedia of Propaganda. New York: M.E. Sharpe,1998. .
  See Volume 1, pp. 330-332 for a discussion of homophobia.
  REF 306.766 K136h 1998

• Homophobia : description, development, and dynamics of gay bashing. Westport, CN. : Praeger, 1998.
  Includes the following: topics: General characteristics of homophobia, how all homophobes are alike, homophobia as a manifestation of sexophobia, models of homosexuality such as the homophobic medical model of homosexuality homomophobia in gays and lesbians, negative effects of homophobia on gays and lesbians; the syndromes such as paranoid homophobes, mood(affective) disorder homophobes, phobic/avoidant homophobes, obsessive-compulsive homophobes, personality disorder homophobeshomophobes, hysterical (Histrionic) personality homophobes: passive-aggressive personality disorder homophobes, treatment of homophobes,, how gays and lesbians can deal with homophobes.
  REF 810.99287 Am35

• The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998.
  See pp. 259-260 for a discussion of homophobia.
  REF 305.40973 R227m 1998

Magazine/Journal/Newspaper Indexes

• Alternative Press Index
  Complement your search in WebPals and on the Internet for information on gays and lesbians by using this comprehensive print index to alternative press materials. A print version of Alternative Press Index is also available The print index is located on the INDEX TABLE on the main floor of the Library. The Library may not own a number all of the periodicals indexes in Alternative Press Index. If the Library does not own the item request it through MINITEX service. Ask the Reference Librarian for more information. Before requesting an article, refer to printed list of peridicals to see if the Library owns a particular title.

Web Work

There are hundreds of sites on the World Wide Web that contain information on gays and lesbians. The following list is a starting point. These links are periodically checked for accessibility as it is common for WWW pages to move, crash, or disappear without notice. Consult the following web sites as appropriate or construct your own search in one the search engines available through the COLLEGE LIBRARY HOME PAGE:

Click on the following web sites as appropriate:

• Gayscape
  <http://www.jwpublishing.com/gayscape/classic.html>
  Limits listings to sites of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual interest. A specialized search tool to 56,253 indexed sites.

• Overview of Queer History
  <http://www.jtsears.com/histovr.htm>
  Includes a chronology of the Lesbian/Gay Movement in the United States, Gay History Heroes, Myths, and Legends, Historical Lesbian Couples, Homosexuality in History, Bibliography by Paul Halsall, Lesbian Herstory Timeline, OutLoud: Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Recordings, PBS Out of the Past, People with a History, Pioneer Writers on Homosexuality, Queer Icons and Symbols Queers in History,QueerHistory Photo Gallery and Reclaiming History.

• Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
  <http:..www.glma.org/>
  Gay friendly medical site.

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