Every day, people push for change—posting, recording, reporting, creating. They speak through blogs and podcasts, capture injustice on video, and build online magazines filled with art, music, and lived experience. Many of their words appear briefly, then vanish.
LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture preserves these voices—especially the fragile, at-risk work created under hostile conditions—for now and for those looking back later.
At a glance
100,000+
blogs, magazines, videos, podcasts, tweets, underground zines, and other new media
1,000+
organizations from over 100 countries
Preservation—from the 1980s to today
LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture protects community histories and personal voices by giving them a stable, lasting home.
Openly available and hard-to-find materials from across the world together in one resource —blogs, zines, activist reports, digital ephemera, and underground publications
Made fully searchable
Preservation copies with added richer metadata
Scattered, at-risk content becomes more useful
Scholars can follow events across time
The archive includes more than 200,000 pages from influential advocacy organizations, including many that have gone quiet or disappeared, so that their work remains part of the historical record—not lost to time.
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 project strengthens understanding, recognition, and historical memory.
Voices and perspectives that rarely surface in traditional media
Global in scope and grounded in lived experience
A more current and inclusive picture of LGBTQ+ life than any other resource
Users can follow the work, struggles, and achievements of LGBTQ+ people across communities and continents
Diverse perspectives
Grrrl Zine Fair, Southend-On-Sea, England, UK
Black Trans Advocacy Coalition (BTAC), an American organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for Black transgender people
Blue Diamond Society, an LGBT rights organization in Nepal
Meet our editorial board
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