Library Guides: Lavender Line: Gay Rights

Articles

Advocate Hall of Fame: these heroes made the LGBT rights movement-and The Advocate itself--what it is today
Heroes that have contributed to the LGBT rights movement, as well as The Advocate, the leading source for LGBT news and politics.
Congressman John Lewis on LGBT equality, social justice
For more than six decades, Lewis has been on the front lines of the fight for social justice--whether it's racial equality, the women's movement or LGBT rights.
The LGBTQ health care bill of rights: New York City made an important step toward equality
In what appears to be a glimmer of hope in America's current political climate, New York City has made a progressive and revolutionary step toward improving quality health care by introducing the LBGTQ Health Care Bill of Rights.

American Civil Liberties Union LGBT Rights
The ACLU works to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people can live openly without discrimination and enjoy equal rights, personal autonomy, and freedom of expression and association.
National Center for Lesbian Rights
The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) has been advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education since it was founded in 1977.

LgbT Rights Around the World
Graeme Reid, Director of LGBT Rights Program, introduces this series of clips which highlight the great injustices and violence brought down upon members of the LGBT community in several countries.

Gay Is Good by Michael G. Long (Editor); Long (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780815610434
Publication Date: 2014-11-26
In Gay Is Good, Long collects Kameny's historically rich letters, revealing some of the early stirrings of today's politically powerful LGBT movement. These letters are lively and colorful because they are in Kameny's inimitable voice-a voice that was consistently loud, echoing through such places as the Oval Office, the Pentagon, and the British Parliament, and often shrill, piercing to the federal agency heads, military generals, and media personalities who received his countless letters.