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Film Dictionaries and Encyclopedia

CapU Library Resource

Online Glossary of Gender Terms

Qmunity's Queer Terminology Guide
Glossary of Gender and Transgender Terms
From Fenway Health, a non-profit provider of health care services in Boston, MA

Online Encyclopedia

Media Queer
The goal of the Queer Media Database Canada-Québec Project is to maintain a dynamic online catalogue of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) Canadian film, video and digital works, their makers, and related institutions.
GLBTQ Archives
Contains 2,000 signed articles on literature, the arts, and the social sciences written by academics and other experts.

Print Resources

Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies by Diane Richardson (Editor); Steven Seidman (Editor)
Call Number: HQ75.15.H36 2002
The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity by Vanessa Baird
Call Number: HQ76.25.B35 2007

Credo Reference Topic Page - LGBTQ

Credo Reference has created a topic page for LGBT. On this topic page, you'll find a collection of articles and entries from their reference texts as well as searches in the Library catalogue and relevant databases.

LGBTQ Topic Page

Browse the Shelves

Film related materials are shelved in the PN classification sections. Some specific areas are:

PN 1993 - PN 1999
Motion Pictures

PN 2101 - PN 3307
History of the Film & Motion Picture Production

Queer titles are located in many different sections, including:

HQ 73-78 Bisexualism, Homosexualism, Lesbianism, Transsexualism

RC558 Psychiatry