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 Writing
- 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 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
Links on Sexuality, 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 - LGBTQ Peer Review Journals
Links to a selective list of peer-review specialist journals which focus entirely on empirical/archival LGBTQ research - Passion & Perfection
Home to a wide variety of f/f fan fiction, portraying love and friendship between women - 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
Monthly UK lesbian magazine - 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 - PinkNews.co.uk
News, reviews and comment from Europe’s largest gay news service
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