Sources helpful for a creative and informative presentation of your project.

LGBTQ Theatre

• Timeline of Queer Theatre
• The Non-Binary Monologues Project
• The New Conservatory Theatre Center
• The Theater Offensive (Boston)
• Ring Of Keys
• Theater OUT
• Transgender Artists Database

Images and Texts:

• LGBTQIA+ (sources in Museums/Archives/Historical Societies)
• ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990
• Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940
• Digital Transgender Archive
• Documented | Digital Collections of The History Project
• The Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary
• GLBT historical society
• Homophile Movement Papers Of Donald Stewart Lucas/1941-1976
• The Lesbian Herstory Archives
• NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
• ONE Archive (Largest repository of LGBTQ+ materials in the world.)
• Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis
• Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis
• Politics, Social Activism and Community Support: Selected Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters.
• Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)
• Wearing Gay History

Images

• the Playbill Vault.
• John Johnson Collection:  An Archive of Printed Ephemera (includes historical playbills)

• ARTStor
• Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia
• Library of Congress American Memory Project
• New York Public Library  digital collections

Streaming Videos

• Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford (Podcasts and Videos section)
• Asian film online (streaming videos of narrative features, documentaries, and shorts.)
• BroadwayHD
• Dance in Video
• Digital Theatre (live performance by leading British theatre companies)
• Films from Kanopy
• Filmmakers Library Online (Award-winning documentaries)
• Opera in video
• PBS Video Collection

• American Society for Theatre Research
• College Theatre Guide -- Association for Theatre in Higher Education
• The Worldwide Wide Web Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama

Evaluating Information

A good starting point for research on "Why is your topic important within the context of LGBTQ theatre and performance?"

I. JumboSearch for Books   

 Sample titles at Tisch Library:

• Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure
• The gay & lesbian theatrical legacy: a biographical dictionary of major figures in American stage history in the pre-Stonewall era
• Not in front of the audience: homosexuality on stage
• Stages of desire: gay theatre's hidden history
• Staging desire: queer readings of American theater history
• Staging gay lives: an anthology of contemporary gay theater
• The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Moment

more browsing options; note the keywords pattern:

• Gay actors
• Gay theatrical producers and directors
• Gay dramatists
• Gay theater
• Gays and the performing arts
• Gays in the performing arts
• Lesbian actresses
• Lesbian theater

Or, focusing on individual playwrights/plays/Theatrical Troupe/Company, e.g. :

• Christopher Durang
• The Five Lesbian Brothers by Five Lesbian Brothers Staff

Note: WorldCat (renamed to be Libraries Worldwide on the Tisch Library homepage) is still a better place to get a fuller picture of  books on a topic.

Important: We acknowledge that cataloging approaches were designed in a racist and white-centered system. Outdated cataloging language are discriminatory against the LGBQ+ community.

• Homosaurus Vocabulary
• LGBTQ+ Subject Headings

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II. Scholarly and Trade Journal Articles

A. Theater and Performing Arts

• Performing Arts Periodicals Database
  (for reception:
      -- "dramatic criticism" in Scholarly journals
      -- "theatre reviews" in popular press and trade publications.)
• JSTOR
• Project Muse

B. LGBQ+ and Related Subjects:

• In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
• Academic Search Premier
• America: History & Life
• Historical Abstracts (World history and culture)
• LGBTQ+ Source
• Women's Studies International

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III. Newspapers and Magazines

• AltPress Watch
• Bay Area Reporter Archives
• Ethnic News Watch
• GenderWatch
• Independent Voices
• Politics, Social Activism and Community Support: Selected Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters.

 

• Access World News
  (include college and university students' newspapers)
• Factiva (more international coverage of news)

 Historical:

• African American Periodicals  (1825-1995)
• American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)
• British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)
• New York Times Online Archive (1851 - three years before the current date)
• Times of London (1785 - 1985)
• More