Digital Sexuality Archive
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Title
Digital Sexuality Archive
Description
The Digital Sexuality Archive is a gateway to a plethora of digital resources concerning the history of sex and sexuality. Use DIG Sex to locate digital archives and collections that contain primary sources for your research project. You can search by subject, place, time period, type of collection, and more. Scroll down through each item's content to find the URL that will take you to the digital archive or collection that contains materials relevant to your search.
Creator
The Digital Sexuality Archive has been compiled by Professor Carolyn Herbst Lewis and Helen Eckhard, with funding from the Digital Bridges for Humanistic Inquiry: A Grinnell/University of Iowa Partnership, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation <http://iowadigitalbridges.com/>.
Collection Items
The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education
A collection of sources related to the history of women in higher education. Sources consist largely of newspaper articles and photographs, though a number of letters and interviews are included as well. The site also hosts several online exhibits,…
Chicana por mi Raza
Posters, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera related to Chicana Feminist activism across the United States. The site also includes a timeline of Chicano rights movements, which integrates some archival sources. Video interviews with over fifty…
Chris Gonzalez GLBT Archives
A collection of over one hundred LGBT periodicals and gay magazines published between 1966 and 1991. Titles include "The Screamer," "The Works," and "The New Works" and highlight Indianapolis, Indiana and the surrounding Midwestern area.
Country Queers
Contains transcribed oral histories of LGBTQI-identifying individuals in rural areas across the United States. Photographs and audio recordings of participants are included, and further interviews are in the process of being added. Race, class, and…
The Dallas Voice Newspaper Collection
A collection containing over 1500 issues of the "Dallas Voice," a weekly Texas newspaper for LGBT audiences. Issues date back to 1984 and continue to the present. Paper are divided into sections for local, state, and national news related to LGBT…
DoHistory.org
An archive of primary sources related to the life of 18th/19th century midwife and healer Martha Ballard. Includes Ballard's handwritten diary of 10,000+ entries over twenty-seven years, with transcriptions. Ballard discusses daily life in the…
ACT UP Oral History Project
Collected oral histories of members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), New York. Men and women interviewed discuss their experiences with civil rights activism, sexuality, and health care during the AIDS epidemic. The archive provides…
AIDS Activist History Project
An archive containing interviews with Canadian activists during the AIDS epidemic, 1980s-1990s. Both full-text transcripts and video clips of oral histories are accessible. The archive also hosts a collection of photographs, magazine articles, and…
AIDS at 20
An archive of New York Times articles and images related to the AIDS epidemic and its milestones, 1981-2001. Articles are organized chronologically and chart changes in the public perception of HIV/AIDS during this period. A sidebar contains various…
AIDS Education Posters Collection
A collection of more than 8000 educational posters about the AIDS epidemic, published between 1982 and the present. Posters represent more than one hundred countries and sixty languages, and cover subjects such as awareness, prevention, and advocacy.