When using the internet to locate web pages as sources for your research, keep one thing in mind while conducting your searches.  Anyone can publish anything they want on the web whether or not the information is correct or not.  Here are a few tips on evaluating web pages:

• Can you easily identify the creator of the page?
• Is there a way to contact him or her?  Is there a phone number/e-mail address?
• Is the web page affiliated with an organization, company?
• Check the links from that page.  Do the links take you to well-known sites or other reputable web pages?
• Does the site have a lot of ads or pop-ups?  What are the ads trying to sell?
• How old is the information?  Is there a "last updated date" on the website?
• Does the author provide sources or a way to verify the information?

There are some useful sites that now evaluate web sites.  Take advantage of these sites.  They are the webs equivalent of a movie or book review.

Librarians Index to the Internet
Their motto: "Information You Can Trust." The Librarians' Index to the Internet (lii.org) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 12,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Every site entered in the lii.org database is reviewed at least twice, and an active weeding program keeps it current.

The Internet Scout Report
The Scout Report is one of the Internet's longest-running weekly publications, offering a selection of new and newly discovered online resources of interest to researchers, educators, and anyone else with an interest in high-quality online material. The Report is available both on the web site, and in e-mail form via mailing list subscriptions. Back issues of the Scout Report, as well as past issues of the discontinued subject-specific Reports, are available on its back issues pages. The Scout Report Archives are a searchable and browseable collection of over seven years' worth of critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites, mailing lists, and other online resources.

College and Research Library News Internet Resources Index
Each month C&RL News publishes a review of internet sites on a particular topic, ranging from Astronomy to Children’s Literature to Genealogy, Mathematics, Photojournalism, and World Religions. Each review includes several dozen (or more) sites, with annotations. The topic index dates back to 1998 and includes more than 70 topics.

For a complete discussion and guide on critical evaluation skills for web sites, CLICK HERE.

Estate Project for Artists with AIDS
The Alliance for the Arts established the Estate Project to document the impact of AIDS on the arts community. The Estate Project's provides access to historical archives of the visual arts, films, videos music, dance, and manuscripts relating to the arts community.

Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
The foundation was established in 1990 as a way to promote gay and lesbian art which is frequently denied access in mainstream venues. The work is done by gay and lesbian artists and includes such subject matter as; political, erotic, romantic, and social imagery. The website contains an index to some of the leading LGBT artists. You can also browse the onlin Museum of Queer Visual Arts or read full-text articles from their newletter, "The Archive".

Queer Arts Resource
In the past 10 years this organization has produced over 40 exhbitions of queer art and artists. Their website brings together these exhibits with steaming video clips, online art galleries as well as in-depth writing on such historical figures as Harvey Milk, Francis Bacon, Peter Berlin and numerous other artists spanning decades of queer artistic expression.

Queer Cultural Center
Based in San Francisco, this website profiles queer artists and their work in video, graphics, sound, text and photography. You can visit online exhibits and tour their galleries. An index of names and contact information is available for their featured artists.

Commercial Closet
This advocacy organization brings together resources aimed at promoting gay, lesbian bisexual and transgender awareness in corporate advertising. You can search for various LGBT themed advertising that has taken place over the decades, see upcoming corporate advertising, and read full-text articles and a variety of advertising issues.

Gay Financial Network
Created by a member of the New York Stock Exchange, this website is dedicated to addressing the financial needs of the LGBT community. Topics include; taxes, financial planning, investing, and real estate. Also included is a directory of LGBT friendly corporations.

1970's in the Castro
A great website for anyone who wants to study gay life in the 70's. This website is dedicated to preserving the rich and vibrant history of San Francisco's Castro District. The site is broken down into distinct categories such as, The Castro Social Scene, The Harvey Milk Pages and Gay Parades of the 1970's. Includes photographs, articles, and newspaper advertisements from the local gay papers of that time.

Bear Codes
The Bear code is a coding system much like that of the hanky and twink code (see links below) that has taken off in the bear culture. These codes are used to identify the variety of "bearish men" and is used heavily for online chatting and personal ads.

GLBTQ Information Site
Created by professors at the University of Calgary, this website has literally thousands of resources within several divisions. The first area consists of 21 subjects ranging from religion & spirituality, HIV & AIDS to queer history, identity formation, transgender, and male prostitution. Each of these 21 subject categories contain abstracts, bibliographies and full-text articles relating to the specific subject. The second area consists of the same type or resources (abstracts, bibliographies etc..) but for hundreds of countries around the world.

Hanky Code
Part of gay folk lore is the hanky code. The hanky or bandana is worn either in the left or right back pocket as a way for gay men to communicate their sexual interests or likes with each other. Some of the codes vary depending on were you are at, others like red are universal in meaning. It has been reported that the hanky code started with the San Francisco 49ers when mostly men attended dances. The men who wore the bandana were thought of as being the "girl".

History of Gay Bath Houses
One of the best online websites that I've found yet on the history of the gay baths. From the infamous St. Mark's Bath of New York City to the legendary 8709 Club of Los Angeles, this website not only tells the history but has a photo gallery of memorabilia and artwork along with a timeline of important dates in the history of the gay baths.

International Sex Workers Foundation for Art, Culture and Education
ISWFACE (pronounced "ice-face") is an organization run by sex workers [current and retired] primarily foruse by sex workers. But the information provided is also useful for students, academic researchers, the media, law enforcement agencies, and policy makers. 

Sex Workers Outreach Project
SWOP is an anti-violence campaign created and maintained by a network of sex workers and advocates.  The web site focuses on the violence that sex workers face because of their criminal status in society. The organization was established to help change policies and laws effecting the health and wellbeing of sex workers.

Sex Workers' International Media Watch

SWIMW was created by sex workers and sex worker advocates as a vehicle to observe and respond to media coverage regarding sex workers rights.  While this web site is still growing there is a lot of useful information regarding the lives of sex workers around the world.

Symbols of the LGBT Movement
The history of the LGBT movement has developed many symbols over the years. This website brings together the story and history of these symbols with color images.

Twink Code
The Twink code is another coding system that has become as popular as the hanky code, especially for online chatting and personal ads.

About Gay Movies
This website provides detailed information for more than 290 gay films. Browse the alphabetical titles list and click on the movie you're interested in. Each movie link contains information on directors, cast and crew, production information, plot synopsis, pictures, quotes and reviews.

Frameline
A LGBT film distributor and supporter of various cultural and artistic expressions in film, video and other media arts. Search LGBT films and videos alphabetically or by subject. A great source for anyone exploring LGBT cultural arts.

In the Life
A national television series that premiered in 1992 and now broadcasts on over 140 public television stations. Each episode is dedicated to LGBT issues in youth and education, HIV/AIDS, Arts and Culture and more.

Queer Theory - Film
By partnering with TLA Video, this website brings together a wealth of information on LGBT films. Browse categories such as the Top 50 films, favorite actor or director or search by genre.

Archives & Libraries

ACT Up Oral History Project
Based in New York this project was developed by the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival in an attempt to gather the stories of the surviving activists who worked for ACT UP New York. The website contains PDF versions of hundreds of transcripts of oral histories, along with streaming videos of some of the interviews.

Artifacts and Disclosures: Michigans LGBT Heritage
This online exhibit of Michigan's LGBT history is the combined effort of the Lavender Information and Library Association and the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan.  From this website you can explore the people who have made a difference in the LGBT Movement in the state as well as find links to dozens of Michigan LGBT resources.

Frank Kameny Project
You won't find this anywhere else, on-line or inside the government or in a library, because it has been residing in Frank Kameny's attic for 46 years now…..along with 25 boxes of documents, correspondence and memorabilia from the earliest days of the gay civil equality movement in America . Kameny, like Rosa Parks before him, and the Suffragists before her, dared to step forward into the public square to say “enough” to government-sanctioned discrimination, and to educate and expand freedom in America . This site is a sampler of the thousands of pages of documents that are in the archive of Frank Kameny, the leading gay civil rights advocate of his time.

GLBT Historical Society
Based in San Francisco the GLBT Historical Society collects rare material documenting the life, culture and experiences of GLBT individuals throughout history. You can search their archival holdings online. A large portion of their holdings have now been microfilmed and are available at Emory in the "Gay Rights Movement" collection, Series 8.

Gerber/Hart Library
The Gerber/Hart Library is the Midwest's largest LGBT circulating library. Based in Chicago the collection contains records of individuals, organizations and events that have had an impact on LGBT lives in America. Their holdings are not searchable remotely, however you can search WorldCat and limit your search to library location GFK to browse their collection.

James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center
The Gay & Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Public Library is devoted to collecting and preserving material relating to the LGBT experience; with a primary focus on Northern California and the Bay Area. You can search their holdings using their library's online catalog

Leather Archives & Museum
The Gay & Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Public Library is devoted to collecting and preserving material relating to the LGBT experience; with a primary focus on Northern California and the Bay Area. You can search their holdings using their library's online catalog.

ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
Based in Los Angeles, the ONE Archives contains the worlds largest research libary on LGBT history. From their website you can search the holdings, review the LGBT History timeline or locate materials from the Lesbian Legacy Collection or The Twiced Blessed Collection. You can also contact the Archives and depending on staffing, they will pull, copy and mail you items from their holdings. Please keep in mind that due to lack of funding they have very short hours, so make your requests early. Their online finding aids.

Paul Monette Archives
In conjuction with an exhibit of the life and works of Paul Monette, UCLA developed this website as a way to provide access to some of his works. The website contains actual images of many of his manuscripts and personal letters.

Queer Zine Archives Project
Qzap is a non-profit organization that is digitally preserving zines both published and non-published throughout history while a user name and password are required to view the zines, there is no cost associated with establishing an account. Not only is Qzap preserving these culturally important underground publications, they will also accept new zines from anyone and place them in the online archives. The website is currently available in English, French and Spanish.

Quentin Crisp Archives
This website is dedicated to perserving the works and history of Quentin Crisp. From this online archive you can read news articles and interviews, or view the Crisp photo gallery.

Walt Whitman Archives
This website is dedicated to perserving the work and history of Walt Whitman. This is one of the most extensive online archives of any individual and includes full-text images of many of his works and a rare 36 second recording of what is thought to be Whitman's voice reading from his poem, "America".

Bibliographies

Famous GLTB People
Probably one of the largest online compilations of the biographies of GLTB individuals throughout history. While the creators of the site specifically state that not everyone listed in this biography is or was GLTB identified, they are either believed to have been, or are considered important figures in GLTB history. The biographies are alphabetical and include a brief synopsis of the person's life and work.

GLBT Round-Table Bibliography
As part of the American Library Association, the GLBT Round-Table provides bibliographies of current and noteworthy titles in a variety of subject areas.

Gay and Lesbian History
Author and social historian, Rictor Norton created and maintains one of the most comprehensive online gay and lesbian bibliographies. From Ancient, European and American history, to literary, art and film history this website covers many of the disciplines that incorporate LGBT Studies.

HIC's Online Bibliography
The Homosexual Information Center (HIC) has created an online database to reconstruct a virtual library of the orginal ONE Library from 1968. The database contains over 2,200 titles searchable by title or subject, with links to reviews, abstracts or full-text versions.

Homosexuality and Catholicism
Paul Hasall of Fordham University has put together an annotated bibiliography concerning homosexuality, Catholicism and Christianity in general. Some of the areas covered include: religious history, biblical studies, theology and the catholic church.

LGBT Issues for Children and Teens

This bibliography was compiled for The American Library Associations GLBT Round-table.

LGBT Issues in Race and Diversity
This bibliography was compiled for The American Library Associations GLBT Round-table.

LGBT Issues in Religion
This bibliography was developed for the Religion and Sexuality sub-unit of Emory University's Strategic Initiative in Religion and the Human Spirit.

The Men's Bibliography
Currently in its 15th edition, this online bibliographic database has over 16,000 books and articles on men, masculinity, gender and sexuality. The database is indexed and sorted into 30 subject areas.

Religion and Gender
Victor Matthews, professor at Missouri State University has compiled numerous bibliographies on religion and gender. Resources here consist of both books and journal articles and covers such topics as Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Church History.

Same-Sex Marriage
This bibliography was compiled for The American Library Associations GLBT Round-table.

Census & Demographics

Gay Demographics Organization
The information from this website has been taken from the 2000 Census. The census information can be searched nationally or by state. Links to newspapers and documents covering LGBT census reporting is also available.

The Urban Institute
The Urban Institute is another organization who analyzes census information. One of their focus areas is in gay and lesbian communities. This website is easy to use and features links to research on the community and society of LGBT individuals.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Andrej Koymasky's Dictionary of Gay Slang
The owner and creator of the Dictionary of Gay Slang has brought together a useful resource of historical gay slang, that cannot be found in traditional English dictionaries.

GLBTQ: An Encyclopedia
This revised and expanded web version of the 1996 Lambda Award winning book entitled The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and their Works, can be search alphabetically or by subject and includes resources in the Arts, Literature and Social Sciences.

Androphile Gay History Project
The Gay History Project brings together ancient art, mythology and historical findings on the history of male-love. From the library section you can find information on folktales, history and myths. In the museum you can find images from Greco-Roman, Indian and eurpoean artists. The text of the website is available in 9 different languages.

Compton's Cafeteria Riots
In 1966, a group of drag queens, gay street hustlers, and transgender individuals fought back against police oppression at a cafeteria in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco, three years prior to the Stonewall riots, this is one of the first known collective resistance by queers against institutional oppression.  This website is dedicated to preserving the history and memory of the riot.

Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England
From the 1694 trail of Richard Cornish to the 1791 memoirs of Antonina (the novel that portrayed Marie Antoinette as a Lesbian) this website traces homosexuality throughout the 18th Century in England. Many of the historical documents have been reproduced in their original form.

Frank Kameny Project
You won't find this anywhere else, on-line or inside the government or in a library, because it has been residing in Frank Kameny's attic for 46 years now…..along with 25 boxes of documents, correspondence and memorabilia from the earliest days of the gay civil equality movement in America . Kameny, like Rosa Parks before him, and the Suffragists before her, dared to step forward into the public square to say “enough” to government-sanctioned discrimination, and to educate and expand freedom in America . This site is a sampler of the thousands of pages of documents that are in the archive of Frank Kameny, the leading gay civil rights advocate of his time.

Human Rights Watch
HRW is an independent, non-governmental organization providing resources and information on protecting human rights from around the world. Their website contains links to recently published articles on human rights from around the world along with global issues in HIV/AIDS, refugees, and women's rights. You can also narrow your search by topical categories, issues or country.

National Transgender Advocacy Coalition
This searchable website has a wealth of information on transgender issues. Including; legal updates, existing and proposed laws, the Gender Rights Bill, research and statistics.

Public Agenda - Gay Rights
The Public Agenda website provides a variety of useful information and resources. Their Gay Rights Guide provides links to such topics as Bills and Proposals, public opinion polls and research studies relating to gay and lesbian rights.

Queer Theory - Politics
Brings together resources from HIV/AIDS and adoption to discrimination, marriage, and religion anything having to do with queer politics. The information can be searched by author, title or subject and incorporates both visual and textual resources.

Sodomy Laws
A comprehensive website covering sodomy laws throughout the United States and the world, legal cases and a state-by-state history of these laws.

Transgender Law and Policy Institute
TLPI is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing change to laws and policies to advance transgender equality. Their website contains information on hate crime laws, college and employment polices relating to transgender people and provides a variety of additional resources in litigation cases, and educational materials.

Blithe House Quarterly
This online literary magazine features short stories from new and established LGBT authors. It includes the current issue and archives back to 1997. A bibliography is also available based on the contributors to this journal.

J. Clark Media - GLBT Literature
The books are divided into seven categories and range from classics to current. A useful resource to some of the more important and popular GBLT books. Depending on copyright and public domain issues, some of the books have links to free, unabridged online copies.

Lambda Literary Foundation
This website presents a list of winners of the Lambda Literary Award, which was established to promote LGBT literature. The list of award winners is available online from 1988 to the present. Categories include; fiction, poetry, mysteries, science fiction biographies, memoirs, humor, religion, transgender and young adults. A great source for great queer reading and research.

Lodestar Quarterly
This online journal of LGBT literature features fiction, poetry and dramatic works. Full-text for the journal is available from 2002 to present.

Paul Monette Archives
In conjuction with an exhibit of the life and works of Paul Monette, UCLA developed this website as a way to provide access to some of his works. The website contains actual images of many of his manuscripts and personal letters.

Quentin Crisp Archives
This website is dedicated to perserving the works and history of Quentin Crisp. From this online archive you can read news articles and interviews, or view the Crisp photo gallery.

Saints and Sinners Literary Festival
This event was a new initiative designed as an innovative way to reach the community with information about HIV/AIDS, particularly disseminating prevention messages via the writers, thinkers and spokes-people of the GLBT community. It was also formed to bring the GLBT literary community together to celebrate the literary arts.

The “Saints and Sinners” LGBT literary festival presents panel discussions and master classes around literary topics to provide a forum for authors and editors to talk about their work for the benefit of emerging writers and the enjoyment of fans of LGBT literature. 

Seeking God's Wisdom About Christian Homosexuality NEW
The full text of the pamphlet written by Robert W. Alexander, 1993.

Steve Abbott
This website was created by Steve Abbott's daughter as a why to pay tribute to his life.  An English Ph.D student at Emory in the 1960, Steve later moved to San Francisco where he began to write poetry and soon befriended Allen Ginsberg.

Walt Whitman Archives
This website is dedicated to perserving the work and history of Walt Whitman. This is one of the most extensive online archives of any individual and includes full-text images of many of his works and a rare 36 second recording of what is thought to be Whitman's voice reading from his poem, "America".

What the Bible Says About Homosexuality NEW
The full text of the pamphlet written by Eloise May, 1997.

White Crane Journal
White Crane is the oldest gay spirituality magazine spanning 15 years. While the magazine can still be purchased in bookstores and through subscriptions, they now have many ful-text articles available online from past issues.

With Downcast Gays: Aspects of Homosexual Self-Oppression
The original text printed in 1974 by Andrew Hodges and David Hutter was one of the first publications to come out of the

gay liberation movement in Britain.  Here is that text in its entirety as it was originally published.

LGBT Health Channel

LGBThealthchannel.com is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health information website. It serves as an online resource for LGBT community members, allies, and health care providers who want to learn about LGBT health issues, discuss issues in our online forum, or locate LGBT-friendly providers. The health education content was developed by Fenway Community Health, a nationally recognized leader in medical and mental health care for the Boston LGBT community. The website is managed by Healthcommunities.com, a company committed to providing reliable physician-monitored online education via its consumer websites and via websites managed for doctors all over the U.S.

The National Coalition for LGBT Health
This website brings together the organizations focus of LGBT health programs through advocacy and public education programs. The website has additional links for current news relating to LGBT health and provides additional online and print resources.

Trans-Health
This online magazine offers health and fitness information for transsexual and transgender people. The articles are divided into 14 different catagories some of which include: Body Modification, Hormones, Nutrition and Sexuality. There is also an online referral database to help individuals locate GLBT friendly physicians and health care professionals.

Gay Tunes Studio
Gay Tunes is owned and operated by GLINN a non-profit organization serving the gay and lesbian community.  This website sells and promotes albums and song of "out" gay or lesbian artists.  You can listen to samples, read biographies of artists or get the latest news and music information.

Michael Callen
This website documents the writings and music of Michael Callen an AIDS activist who was first diagnosed with AIDS in 1982.  Read excepts from what is thought to be the first Safe Sex Guide written and published by Michael in 1982.  You can listen to his music and read other pieces of his works.

Queer Music Heritage
Beginning as a radio show in Houston, Texas; Queer Music Heritage brings together the culture and diversity of the history of queer music. The website makes available audio files of past radio shows and has a great collection of photographs and historical information on the music, and people that shaped the queer music scene.

Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association
This international organization provides useful resources on the teachings of Lord Caitanya and the importance of all-inclusiveness with respect to the "third-gender". From this website you can review spiritual and thrid-gender publications and read full-text articles.

RFD Magazine NEW
In the early 1970s, groups of gay liberationists began to leave the cities to set up self-sustaining rural enclaves.  The expression of this movement was the national journal RFD, which has been published continuously since 1974. RFD combined practical advice and political commentary with stories, poems, drawings, and photography. RFD is not only one of the longest running queer publications in the country, it is also one of the few with truly national distribution over more than three decades.

Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Since 1961 the Religious Action Center (RAC) has played an important role in shaping the political and social climate in the United States. From their website you can locate resources regarding internation peace religious liberty and civil rights. Of particular importance is their work on the rights of LGBT individuals.

Religious Archives Network
The LGBT Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN) is a "virtual" archives and repository for the preservation and historical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) religious movements from the 1950's forward. Within this archive individuals can listen to actual oral histories, view photographs, tour online exhibits or locate primary sources on gay religious movements in the United States.

Seeking God's Wisdom About Christian Homosexuality NEW
The full text of the pamphlet written by Robert W. Alexander, 1993.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence NEW
The Sisters are a global network of autonomous Orders or Houses with the San Francisco Motherhouse anchoring much of the activities as being the largest, biggest fundraiser and arguably the most active. They have members in at least thirteen US states as well as eight countries on five continents and rely on the Internet to communicate. Most of the Orders are based in gay meccas and directly assess and address the needs of their communities, and thus are highly responsive to issues pertaining the LGBT and alternative communities which they serve.  The organization was started in 1979 in San Francisco, California, and has more than six hundred nuns worldwide[8] with new members joining regularly and new houses being established. Originally, the organization included only gay male nuns, but it now includes people of all genders and orientations including intersex, homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, and transgendered.

What the Bible Says About Homosexuality NEW
The full text of the pamphlet written by Eloise May, 1997.