This guide is intended as a starting point for an archival, group-based research project about identity- and gender-oriented activism and movement politics from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Image: Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Marsha P. Johnson hands out flyers for support of gay students at N.Y.U." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1970. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-57b0-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Encyclopedias and other reference resources are excellent places to start contextualizing primary sources.
Subject encyclopedias, handbooks and overviews are scholarly, tertiary works written by experts on a variety of topics. The articles are typically longer and more detailed than those found in general encyclopedias. Subject encyclopedias can help guide you with:
Start with these subject encyclopedias and branch out as needed.
Print encyclopedias and dictionaries are located on the first floor of Collins Library.
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America by 
LGBTQ Events: Great Events from History by 
The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History by 
The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies by 
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies by 
Gender Studies: Interdisciplinary Research Primer by 
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender by 
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society by 
Encyclopedia of AIDS: a social, political, cultural, and scientific record of the HIV epidemic by 
Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements by 
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture by 
Dictionary of American History by 
Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice by 
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History by 
