Part I, LGBT History and Culture Since 1940 includes materials related to the gay rights movement, activism, HIV/AIDS and other issues affecting LGBT communities. Part II contains periodicals, newsletters, manuscripts, government records, organizational papers, correspondence, providing coverage of underrepresented communities including often-excluded groups even within the LGBTQ community. Part III, Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century, explores topics including prostitution, religion, fertility, and the rise of sexology. Part IV, International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture, focuses on Africa and Australia with inclusion of materials from Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) and Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives-periodical collection. Part VI, Community and Identity in North America, covers activism and social justice issues, highlights disabilities in Queer society, offers information around alternative sexualities, documents interactions between sexuality and religion, and represents diverse ethnic communities across North America.

This resource contains literature and essays related to feminism by black women writers from the United States, Caribbean, and over 20 African countries.

Full text collection of journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings and governmental n-g-o and special reports devoted to women's, gender and GLBT issues. Contains materials dating back to 1970. Incorporates the publication Women "R".

This resource has rolled into ProQuest One Women’s Studies and is no longer a separate collection.

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The collection was begun by Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen in the late 1800s. This resource delivers images on the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights as they appeared in the original printed works.  It includes monographs, periodicals and pamphlets in fifteen languages.

This collection chronicles the transformative decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s through the lens of independent alternative presses. Among the broad interest groups covered are American youth. Feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals and the New Left, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinos, and members of the LGBT communities.

The archives of 26 leading LGBT magazines dating back to the 1950s. Included are the entire backfile of The Advocate and the UK’s Gay News and Gay Times.

LGBTQ+ Source contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for more than 140 of the most important and historically significant LGBTQ+ journals, magazines and regional newspapers, plus full text for 150 monographs/books. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBTQ+ Thesaurus containing over 10,000 terms.

ProQuest One Women’s Studies is really a gender studies database. It includes primary sources, scholarly journals (including the materials from GenderWatch), and multimedia content found in databases such as The Gerritsen Women’s History Collection, Margaret Sanger Papers, National Woman’s Party Papers, and Women’s Studies Manuscript Collections from Schlesinger Library, along with over 450 historical periodicals like Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, & Seventeen.

Books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities, organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. 

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Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive consists of the digitized backfiles of magazines originally published for a pre-teen and teen audience. Most titles are from the U.K., but a smaller number are from the United States and Canada. Titles include Teen, Fabulous 208, Clarity, FLiP, and Petticoat. It also includes the archive of the rock music magazine Circus.