Coherent Digital

Every day, millions work for social change. They tweet, blog, podcast, and document injustice with videos, online magazines, photographs, and ephemera. They write extensive reports and create websites rich with art, music, and culture.

LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture captures and preserves these activist voices from the 1980s to today, with a special focus on content at risk of disappearing, especially in oppressive countries.

At a glance

100,000+

blogs, magazines, videos, podcasts, tweets, underground zines, and other new media.

1,000+

organizations from over 100 countries.

Preservation

LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture safeguards community histories and personal narratives by giving them a permanent home.

It indexes the full text of openly available and underground content from sources around the world, giving easy access to previously hidden material. The project creates copies (permissioned) to preserve items for future generations. With enhanced metadata, the materials are searchable in ways never before possible.

A new archive includes 200,000 pages from key advocacy organizations, including many that have become inactive or no longer exist.

Sample items from inactive organizations

A newsletter from the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Guyana.

Chinese-language periodical representing the LGBT Community in Hong Kong, published from 1993 to 1998.

Ephemera from SX News, a weekly gay and lesbian newspaper based in Sydney, Australia.

Understanding through diverse, authentic experiences

The collection is more current and globally inclusive than any other resource in the subject, presenting diverse viewpoints that mainstream media often overlook. Users see the contributions and challenges of LGBTQ+ people from all walks of life and around the world—for building understanding, recognition, and remembrance.