“There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.”
—Tammy Baldwin, first openly gay U.S. Senator, from speech "Never Doubt," delivered at the Millennium March for Equality on the National Mall at Washington D.C., April 30, 2000
The librarians and faculty who collaborated on this guide intend for it to provide resources to those interested in learning and thinking critically about the experiences of various LGBTQIA+ groups, including:
Since many of the terms currently in use to describe the queer community are relatively recent, you will want to first figure out what terms were being employed during your era of research. This is a stage of research - coming up with keyword search terms - where Wikipedia is useful.
