It’s useful having someone point the direction sometimes. These links form a collection of sites covering themes I have considered in my own research and writing, as well as a number of other physical and virtual sources/influences.
Links on LGBT Literature and Readers
- Every book is a lesbian book
1999 essay by Dorothy Allison on the Salon Books website. - Gay History & Literature
A substantial collection of essays by Rictor Norton. - Gay/Lesbian Fiction Book Reviews
Blog featuring book reviews from current and forthcoming books by leading gay and lesbian authors. - Good Lesbian Books
A guide to books about lesbians, and books by lesbians. - Lambda Literary Foundation
Celebrates LGBT literature and provides resources for writers, readers, publishers, booksellers and librarians. - lesbian meets book nyc
A lesbian books blog. - Lesbian Poetry Archive
The Lesbian Poetry Archive, curated by Julie R. Enszer, is committed to finding and preserving lesbian print culture for readers and researchers. Volunteers digitise and make freely available various objects of lesbian print culture. - Lesbian Pulp Fiction Collection
A bibliography of texts and sources compiled by Maureen McClarnon at the Sallie Bingham Centre for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University. - The Lesbrary
The humble quest to read everything lesbian: a lesbian book blog. - The mainstream, the sidestream and the irrigation ditch: British gay literature and the parched reader
Essay by Gregory Woods, published as chapter two in Queer Stories of Europe edited by Jānis Ozoliņš, Kārlis Vērdiņš (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016). Found online via Google Books. - Queer novelty: reading publics and canon formation in 20th century US fiction
Dissertation by Laura Knowles Wallace presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin (August 2016).
Links on LGBT Representation in Media and Popular Culture
- AdRespect
Advocates for advertising that expands understanding and awareness of LGBT communities and issues, for a more accepting society and better business results. - Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Television Characters
Compiled by David Wyatt, a list of television programmes that have included gay/lesbian/bisexual characters as a part of their regular (or semi-regular) casts. - “Give her a baseball mitt”. Defining lesbianism: popular advice to parents of the Baby Boom generation
Study by Annis H. Hopkins, undertaking a media analysis of a selection of popular family-oriented magazines that were in the homes of middle-American Baby Boomers during their formative years, 1930-1970. - Passion & Perfection
Home to a wide variety of f/f fan fiction, portraying love and friendship between women. - QueerAF
A not-for-profit publisher that supports queer creatives to help you understand the LGBTQIA+ world. - Queer British Television: policy and practice, 1997-2007
PhD thesis by Natalie Edwards submitted to the University of Nottingham in 2010, made available through the University of Nottingham ePrints service.
Links to other Lesbian-themed sites
- Diva
UK magazine for LGBTQIA women and non-binary people. - HER blog
There are interesting LGBTQIA+ resources on the HER site (more than a dating app), and the blog covers all things queer, with a particular emphasis on lesbian / sapphic content. - Lesbian Archive at Glasgow Women’s Library
The UK’s largest and most significant collection of materials about lesbian lives, activism and achievements. - Lesbian full text resources on the web
Listing provided by LILAC – the Lesbian Information, Library and Archives Centre in Wellington, New Zealand. - Lesbian Herstory Archives of New York City
The largest and oldest lesbian archive in the world. - LGBT History Month UK
LGBT History Month UK takes place in February each year. - LGBTQ Peer Review Journals
A selective list of peer-review specialist journals which focus entirely on empirical/archival LGBTQ research.
Nicki’s Mix of Links
- Bold Strokes Books
Bold Strokes Books offers a diverse collection of LesbianGayBiTransQueer general and genre fiction and holds an annual LGBT writing event in Nottingham, UK. - Depression Expression
The Facebook page of the Living with Depression Community of Interest in Nottinghamshire. - Magnetic Poetry
You’ve made poetry on your fridge door, now submit your poems to the official Magnetic Poetry site and play with new words on your computer screen! - Virtual World of Girls ebook
Website created by Ju Gosling about girl power, the 20th-century British genre of girls’ school stories and the future of reading in an electronic age. If you’ve read my Muted lesbian voice or Lesbian eXcursions essays, you’ll know why I picked this site.