UW Resources and Archives
UW Library Proquest LGBT Studies Database
UW Library LGBT Studies in Video
Description: A cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. This first-of-its-kind collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics.
UW Library LGBT Studies in Thought and Culture
Description: Includes materials ranging from seminal texts, letters, periodicals, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights to memoirs, biographies, poetry, and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community. At completion, the database will contain 150,000 pages of rich content essential to students and scholars of cultural studies, history, women’s and gender studies, political science, American studies, social theory, sociology, and literature. Content partners include the Kinsey Institute Archive and Library, Windy City Media Group, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archive, and notable LGBT publishers Alyson Books, Cleis Press, and Firebrand Books as well as mainstream trade and university publishers.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender
Note: provides a robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas. This growing archival program offers rich research opportunities across a wide span of human history.
Books and Articles about Queering Research/Queer Methods
Browne, K. (2016). Queer quantification or queer(y)ing quantification: Creating lesbian, gay, bisexual or heterosexual citizens through governmental social research. In K. Browne & C. J. Nash (Eds.), Queer methods and methodologies: Intersecting queer theories and social science research (pp. 231–249). Ashgate Press.
Dahl, U. (2016). Femme on femme: Reflections on collaborative methods and queer femme-inist ethnography. In K. Browne & C. J. Nash (Eds.), Queer methods and methodologies: Intersecting queer theories and social science research (pp. 143–166). Ashgate Press.
DeVault, M., & Gross, G. (2014). Feminist qualitative interviewing: Experience, talk, and knowledge. In S. H. Biber (Ed.), Handbook of feminist research: Theory and praxis (Second ed., pp. 206–236). Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications.
Ghaziani, A., & Brim, M. (2019). Queer methods: Four provocations for an emerging field. In Imagining queer methods (pp. 3–27). NYU Press.
Nash, C. J., & Browne, K. (2016). Queer methods and methodologies: An introduction. In Queer methods and methodologies: Intersecting queer theories and social science research (pp. 1–24). Ashgate Press.
Pink, S. (2004). Visual methods. In G. Gobo, J. F. Gubrium, D. Silverman, & C. Seale (Eds.), Qualitative research practice (pp. 361–377). London, England: SAGE Publications.
Piontek, T. (2006). Queering gay and lesbian studies. University of Illinois Press.
Brim, M., & Ghaziani, A. (2016). Introduction: queer methods. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 44 (3/4), 14-27.
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