LGBTQ Theatre: Home

Archives with LGBTQ Theatre Collections:

• Harry Ransom Center's Performing Arts Collections
  (James Baldwin, Radclyffe Hall, Langston Hughes,Oscar Wilde, and Tennessee Williams..)
• Harvard Theatre Collection
  The Cockettes and Tennessee Williams.
• The Ladder: A Lesbian Review
• LGBTQ+ Performing Arts Resources at the Library of Congress
• New York Public Library  digital collections
• Documented | Digital Collections of The History Project

General LGBTQIA Collections and Sites:

• AM Explorer

  (Select "Gender and Sexuality" in the "Themes" menu.)
• Digital Transgender Archive
• GLBT historical society
• LGBTQIA+
• The Lesbian Herstory Archives

Images:

• ARTStor
• Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia

Streaming Videos

• BroadwayHD
• Digital Theatre 
• Films from Kanopy
• **see also, Finding Videos

• 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 (rich U.S. regional news)

• Factiva (more international coverage)
• More

Our most frequently requested newspapers:

• New York Times. Please note that you can create your own personal account on the New York Times’ website using your Tufts email address.
• Boston Globe
• The Washington Post: Direct Publisher Access (Current | digital reproduction)
• The Washington Post on Factiva (Current | plain text)

Evaluating Information

I. 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:
• America: History & Life
• Historical Abstracts (World history and culture)
• LGBTQ+ Source
• Women's Studies International

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II. JumboSearch for Books   

Note: You may be looking at very current performances and issues, and academic publications in book format are yet to catch up with the language and everything else. Try this search: Transgender* and (theatr* or "performing arts")  for texts found in books and more. Some sample results: 

• Bodies of Text
• The Transgender Body in Wang Dulu’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Competing Cultures of Masculinity: When Thai Transgender Bodies Go Through Muay Thai
• The Dick Van Dyke Show: Queer Meanings
• Embodied Practices of Hope
• Jin Xing: China’s Transsexual Star of Dance
• Queer Spectrality
• Transgender and gay male cultures from the 1890s through the 1960s
• Transgender Masquerading in Huang Shuqin’s Human, Woman, Demon
• Trans Representation
• Transgenderities in Performance: gender disobedience and anticoloniality in the performing arts
• Un/queering the latently queer and transgender performance: the butterfly lover(s)

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: Worldwide Libraries (also known as WorldCat  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