LibGuides: Diversity: Sexual Orientation

Search terms: LCSH SUBJECT and key words

Gender identity, sexual identity, sex identity
Homosexuality, lesbianism
Bisexual, bisexuals, bisexuality,Transsexuality, transsexualism, transgender people, transgendered people

Heterosexuals, straights, straight persons
Gay men, gays, homosexuals, lesbians, gay women, sexual minorities
Gay couples, lesbian couples, same-sex couples, same-sex marriage, gay marriage, gay adoption
Sexual minorities, LGBT, LBGT
Homophobia, heterosexuals, heterosexism
Gay rights, gay liberation movement, gay and lesbian studies
Discrimination against gays, against lesbians, against homosexuals, against bisexuals
Gay conservatives, lesbian consumers, gay students
Mormon gays, gay Mormons; African American gays, gay African Americans

Books and videos

Databases and journals

LGBT life
Database contains full text for the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as monographs and books. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms.
Journal of homosexuality
Scholarly research on homosexuality, including sexual practices and gender roles and their historical, interpersonal and modern social contexts and provides a forum for both essentialist and social constructionist views of homosexuality.