LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 Archive’ trial until 30 June

8 June 2016

The trial for ‘LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 Archive’ is now accessible from the Databases by Subject: Trial databases page until 30.06.2016 at http://guides.lib.monash.edu/subject-databases/trials

Please remember to send us your comments by filling in a web-based evaluation form.With material drawn from hundreds of institutions and organizations, including both major international activist organizations and local, grassroots groups, the documents in the Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940; present important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. The archive illuminates the experiences not just of the LGBTQ community as a whole, but of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations that constitute this community.

Four of the twenty included collections are sourced from the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the largest lesbian-focused archives in the world; and two are sourced from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. Others are sourced from the New York Public Library; the London School of Economics; and from the National Institutes of Health. Three collections document governmental and medical responses to the AIDS epidemic.

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