UTK LGBT Virtual Resource Center
Welcome to the UTK LGBT Virtual Resource Center. Here you'll find information on how to get involved with UTK's LGBT community and how to help make our campus a better place to learn, work, and live. Through the links to the left, you'll find helpful information for allies as well as resource lists arranged individually for students, faculty, and staff. Below, we've provided a list of general resources available online or at Hodges Library.
GENERAL RESOURCES
GLBT History | Organizations
| Coming Out | Homophobia
| Journals | Films
HISTORY (October is National Gay and Lesbian History Month)
Available Online:
Background on October
being Gay and Lesbian History Month
United States Holocaust Museum Memorial: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals
Stonewall and Beyond: Lesbian and Gay Culture (Columbia University Libraries)
TRANScending Identities: A Bibliography of Resources on Transgender and Intersex Topics (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table of the American Library Association)
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Religious Archives Network
One Institute: Gay &
Lesbian Archives
Includes an interactive GLBT History timeline
Out Of The Past: 400
Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America
An interactive website by PBS
Available At Hodges Library:
Completely Queer : the Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia
Hodges Reference HQ75 .H63 1998 (includes historical timeline)
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
History in America
Hodges Reference HQ76.3 .U5 E53 2004
Who's who in contemporary gay and lesbian history : from
World War II to the present day
Hodges Reference HQ75.2 .W46 2001
Gay histories and cultures : an encyclopedia
Hodges Reference HQ75.13 .G37 2000
Lesbian histories and cultures : an encyclopedia
Hodges Reference HQ75.5 .L4395 2000
Cassell's encyclopedia of queer myth, symbol, and spirit
: gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender lore
Hodges Reference HQ75.15 .C66 1997
Encyclopedia of homosexuality
Hodges Reference HQ76.25 .E53 1990
Cassell's queer companion : a dictionary of lesbian and
gay life and culture
Hodges Reference HQ76.25 .S75 1995
Lonely hunters : an oral history of lesbian and gay southern
life, 1948-1968
Hodges Library HQ75.6.U52 S687 1997
Making trouble : essays on gay history, politics, and the
university
Hodges Library HQ76.8.U5 D447 1992
Ethnic and cultural diversity among lesbians and gay men
Hodges Library HQ76.25 .E82 1997
Making gay history : the half-century fight for lesbian
and gay equal rights
Hodges Library HQ76.8.U5 M36 2002
Come out fighting : a century of essential writing on gay
and lesbian liberation
Hodges Library HQ76.8.U5 C66 2001
Before Stonewall : activists for gay and lesbian rights
in historical context
Hodges Library HQ76.5 .B43 2002
Stonewall
Hodges Library HQ76.8.U5 D85 1993
Making history : the struggle for gay and lesbian equal
rights, 1945-1990
Hodges Library HQ76.8.U5 M36 1992
Freedom to differ: the shaping of the gay and lesbian struggle
for civil rights
Hodges Library HQ76.8.U5 M55 1998
Out for good : the struggle to build a gay rights movement
in America
Hodges Library HQ76.8.U5 C58 1999
Local:
Lambda Student Union at
UT
The Lambda Student Union was founded to provide a means of communication
between gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, questioning, and straight
students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. We serve the
area through various educational programs, social activities, and
political actions. Our weekly meetings serve as a way of organizing
and unifying our community to bring attention to issues which affect
each of us -- regardless of our sexualities.
Greater Knoxville Leadership
Council
A community network of LGBT groups and services in Knoxville, Tennessee
and the surrounding area.
National P-Flag (Parents and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays) [Knoxville
Chapter]
Parents, families and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered
persons, celebrate diversity and envision a society that embraces
everyone, including those of diverse sexual orientations and gender
identities.
Spectrum Cafe
Spectrum Cafe is a social gathering place for Knoxville area high
school youth who support the principles of diversity, tolerance,
and the worth and dignity of every human being. Teens who come to
Spectrum respect each others' ideas, religious views, race, sexual
orientations, abilities, and ethnic backgrounds.
American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU was founded by Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, Albert DeSilver and others in 1920. We are nonprofit and nonpartisan and have grown from a roomful of civil liberties activists to an organization of more than 500,000 members and supporters. We handle nearly 6,000 court cases annually from our offices in almost every state.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International believes that LGBT people are entitled to the full range of human rights protections afforded to anyone else, and that governments have an obligation to protect and promote the basic human rights of LGBT people. Amnesty International considers people imprisoned solely because of their sexual orientation or gender identity to be prisoners of conscience.
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
COLAGE is the only national organization in the world specifically supporting children, youth and adults with LGBT parent(s). Using our experiences and creativity, COLAGE offers a diverse array of support, education and advocacy by and for folks with LGBT parents.
Council of Religious AIDS Networks
The mission of the Council of Religious AIDS Networks is to be an open and respectful forum that empowers and mobilizes prophetic witness and ministries by faith communities in response to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
Founded in 1978, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) is New England's leading legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression. Providing litigation, advocacy, and educational work in all areas of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights and the rights of people living with HIV, GLAD has a full-time legal staff and a network of cooperating attorneys across New England.
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
GLBT National Hotline
The GLBT National Help Center is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization that is dedicated to meeting the needs of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community and those questioning their sexual orientation and gender identity. We are an outgrowth of the Gay & Lesbian National Hotline, which began in 1996 and now is a primary program of the GLBT National Help Center.
Gay & Lesbian Medical Assocation
GLMA works to ensure equality in health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals and health care professionals. GLMA achieves its goals by using medical expertise in professional education, public policy work, patient education and referrals, and the promotion of research.
Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
GenderPAC
The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition works to ensure that classrooms, communities, and workplaces are safe for everyone to learn, grow, and succeed - whether or not they meet expectations for masculinity and femininity.
Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against GLBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
The mission of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) is to secure the full enjoyment of the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation or expression, gender identity or expression, and/or HIV status. A US-based non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO), IGLHRC effects this mission through advocacy, documentation, coalition building, public education, and technical assistance.
Intersex Society of North America
Working to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries on intersex people.
Keshet Ga'avah: The World Congress of GLBT Jews
Our vision is an environment where Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Jews worldwide can enjoy free and fulfilling lives.
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund (LLDEF)
Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.
Lutherans Concerned
Freed by God's grace, the body of Christ on earth leads a joyous dance of transformation, integrating sexuality and spirituality, justice and mercy. Through continuous reformation, the Church embraces in holiness and into wholeness people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, strengthening us for authentic, visible, faithful lives. Dedicated to radical reconciliation, the Church falls into the heart of God's passionate intent, co-creating a world without outcasts, calling all to serve as guests and hosts at God's table of blessing and power.
National Center for Lesbian Rights
Each year, through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education, NCLR helps more than 5,000 LGBT people and their families nationwide. And our precedent-setting case victories literally re-write the law, changing the legal landscape for all LGBT people and families across the nation. For three decades we've led historic cases, and today we are still trailblazing in pursuit of justice, fairness, and legal protections for all LGBT people.
OutProud: The National Coalition for GLBT Youth
OutProud offers a variety of online resources for young LGBTQ people.
National Directory of Campus LGBT Resource Centers
The combined vision and mission on the Consortium is to achieve higher education environments in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni have equity in every respect.
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
The mission of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is to build the grassroots power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. We do this by training activists, equipping state and local organizations with the skills needed to organize broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, and building the organizational capacity of our movement. Our Policy Institute, the movement's premier think tank, provides research and policy analysis to support the struggle for complete equality and to counter right-wing lies.
National Lesbian and Gay Law Assocation
The NLGLA is an official affiliate of the American Bar Association and works closely with the ABA's Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities and its Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
National Transgender Advocacy Coalition
NTAC works for the advancement of understanding and the attainment of full civil rights for all transgender and gender variant people in every aspect of society and actively opposes discriminatory acts by all means legally available.
Old Lesbians Organizing for Change
We are a national network of old lesbians over age 60 working to confront agism in our communities and our country. We use education and public discourse as our primary tools.
Out & Equal Workplace Advocates
Out & Equal™ Workplace Advocates champions safe and equitable workplaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. We advocate building and strengthening successful organizations that value all employees, customers and communities.
Point Foundation
The Point Foundation seeks the partnership of philanthropic individuals, corporations and foundations to supply financial support, professional guidance and a network of contacts for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students who are underprivileged and/or have been socially marginalized — principally by reason of sexual orientation, gender expression or gender identity.
Service Members Legal Defense Network (SLDN)
SLDN is a national, non-profit legal services, watchdog and policy organization dedicated to ending discrimination against and harassment of military personnel affected by "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and related forms of intolerance.
Soulforce
The mission of Soulforce is to cut off homophobia at its source -- religious bigotry. Soulforce uses a dynamic "take it to the streets" style of activism to connect the dots between anti-gay religious dogma and the resulting attacks on the lives and civil liberties of LGBT Americans. We apply the creative direct action principles taught by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. to peacefully resist injustice and demand full equality for LGBT citizens and same-gender families.
Straight Spouse Network
It is estimated that up to two million gay, lesbian, or bisexual individuals have ever married or will marry. Some come out after a long struggle of trying to make a go of the heterosexual marriage that society prefers. Others have yet to disclose. Still others may stay closeted. When they come out, attention focuses on them. Their heterosexual spouses are largely forgotten. Family members and friends minimize the straight spouses' concerns. Few therapists understand their unique issues of sexual rejection, betrayal, and identity crisis. So, spouses cope alone, their anger and pain escalating. Once they find peer support in SSN, they resolve their profound issues constructively.
Transgender Law and Policy Institute
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to engaging in effective advocacy for transgender people in our society. The TLPI brings experts and advocates together to work on law and policy initiatives designed to advance transgender equality.
Youth Resource
YouthResource is a website by and for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning young people, takes a holistic approach to sexual health and exploring issues of concern to GLBTQ youth.
L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Transgender Job Placement Program
We are dedicated to helping other trans women and men secure steady and rewarding jobs by helping transgender men and women learn essential work skills, develop their resumes, prepare for job interviews and learn about places of employment that are trans-friendly.
COMING OUT
Resource
Guide to Coming Out (National Coming Out Day is October 11)
A National project promoted by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation
that promotes honesty and openness about being gay, lesbian, bisexual
or transgender on campus, in the workplace and in the community.
History
of NCOD
Answers to your
Questions about Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality
Statements from the American Psychological Association on sexual
orientation, coming out, discrimination.
National
Youth Advocacy Coalition
A national organization focused solely on improving the lives of
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth
through advocacy, education, and information. Contains a large list
of resources including support hotlines, health resources, and other
youth oriented GLBT organizations.
Coming
Out to Your Parents- What to Expect
Written and published by P-FLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians
and Gays)
Parents
of GLBT Children - Can We Understand?
Written and published by P-FLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians
and Gays)
Be
Yourself - Questions and Answers for GLBT Youth
Written and published by P-FLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians
and Gays)
Coming out in college : the struggle for a queer identity
Hodges Library / Stacks: HQ76.3.U5 R48 1994
Coming out of shame : transforming gay and lesbian lives
Hodges Library / Stacks: HQ75.25 .K38 1996
Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender college
students:a handbook for faculty and administrators
Hodges Library / Stacks: LC192.6 .W67 1998
From a secret place: America's families cope with the coming
out process of gay and lesbian youth
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: HQ76.25 .F76 1993
Children of Horizons : how gay and lesbian teens are leading
a
new way out of the closet
Hodges Library / Stacks: HQ76.2.U5 H47 1993
National Consortium of Directors
of LGBT Resources in Higher Education
Lists universities that have Safe
Space programs along with many other resources geared toward
higher education.
HOMOPHOBIA
Losing Matt Shepard : life and politics in the aftermath
of anti-gay murder
Hodges Library / Stacks: HV6250.4.H66 L63 2000
Homophobia : how we all pay the price
Hodges Library / Stacks: HQ76.3.U5 H642 1992
School experiences of gay and lesbian youth : the invisible
minority
Hodges Library / Stacks: LC2575 .S36 1997
Sexually stigmatized communities : reducing heterosexism
and homophobia : an awareness training manual
Hodges Library / Stacks: HQ76.3.U5 S757 1999
Homophobia : a history
Hodges Library / Stacks: HQ76.25 .F7 2000
Hate Crimes Pathfinder (GLBTRT of the American Library Association)
Local/Regional:
Out And About (Nashville,
Chattanooga)
Southern Voice
National:
The Advocate
Also in print: Hodges Library / Stacks: HQ76.8.U5A63
Scholarly/Academic:
GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies*
Journal
of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association*
1997-2002 (publication ceased)
Gay
& Lesbian Review Worldwide *
2000 - present
Studies
in Gender and Sexuality *
2001 - (most recent year unavailable)
Journal
of Homosexuality *
Also in print: Hodges Library / Stacks: HQ75.J68
Off
Our Backs
Lambda
Book Report
Gender
Issues *
* Peer Reviewed/Refereed
Documentaries:
Before Stonewall: the making of a gay and lesbian community
Hodges Media Center HQ76.5 .B44 2000z
Traces the social, political and cultural history of homosexuality
in America from the 1920s to 1969; the beginning of the Gay Liberation
Movement after a police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New
York City; and the three-day riot that followed.
After Stonewall: from the riots to the millennium
Hodges Media Center / DVD: HQ76.8 .U5 A384 2005
In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York
City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting
by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage
and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun. Chronicles the
history of lesbian and gay life from the riots at Stonewall to the
end of the century. Captures the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats
and exciting victories experienced since then. It explores how AIDS
literally changed the direction of the movement.
Being gay: coming out in the 21st century
Hodges Media Center HQ76.25 .B44 2005
This program presents the accounts and stories of people who have
recently taken the step of coming out. Interviewees and experts
discuss the benefits of this important transition by examining the
six stages of coming to terms with one's sexual identity.
It's elementary: talking about gay issues in school
Hodges Media Center LC192.6 .I87 1996
An exploration of what happens when experienced teachers talk to
their students about lesbians and gay men. Students are asked to
consider issues related to homosexuality at six elementary and middle
schools. Presents footage of classroom activities and discussions
with students exploring questions and issues presented to them by
teachers and guest lecturers who come into their classes. Discusses
school-wide presentations, activity-days, and how these events affect
The celluloid closet
Hodges Media Center PN1995.9.H55 R82 1996
Assembles footage from over 120 films showing the changing face
of cinema homosexuality from cruel stereotypes to covert love to
the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Many actors, writers and commentators
provide anecdotes regarding the history of the role of gay men and
lesbians on the silver screen.
Off the straight & narrow: lesbians, gays, bisexuals
& television
Hodges Media Center PN1992.8.H64 O33 1998
Off the Straight & Narrow casts a critical eye over the growth
of gay images on TV. Leading media scholars provide the historical
and cultural context for exploring the social implications of these
new representations. Off the Straight & Narrow challenges viewers
to consider the value and limits of available gay images: who is
represented, what they get to say, and how people respond to them
Reconciling homosexuality and Christianity
Hodges Media Center BR115.H6 W45 1999
Mel White speaks to an audience at the University of Tennessee on
April 22, 1999.
Paragraph 175
Hodges Media Center D804.5.G38 P37 2000
Historian Klaus MÃuller interviews survivors of the Nazi
persecution of homosexuals, many of whom were interred in concentration
camps during World War II because of the German Penal Code of 1871,
Paragraph 175, which states: An unnatural sex act committed between
persons of the male sex or by humans with animals is punishable
by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights may also be imposed.
Daddy & papa
Hodges Media Center PN1997 .C46434 2002
A documentary exploring the personal, cultural, and political impact
of gay men who are making a decision that is at once traditional
and revolutionary: to raise children themselves. Taking us inside
four gay male families, this documentary traces the critical issues
that inevitably intersect their private lives, the ambiguous place
of interracial families in America, the wonder and precariousness
of surrogacy and adoption, the complexities of marriage and divorce
within the gay community, and the legality of their own parenthood.
The Edge of each other's battles: the vision of Audre Lorde
Hodges Media Center PS3562 .O75 Z667 2000
This video by Jennifer Abod is about poet Audre Lorde's broad
social vision and the translation of that vision into an historic
transnational conference, which used her work, while celebrating
her life.
That's a family!
Hodges Media Center HQ744 .T53 2000
Designed for children in elementary school, this film shows the
many different shapes that families take today. Children describe
their own families and explain concepts like "birth mom",
"mixed race", "gay and lesbian", and "stepdad."
Tongues Untied
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: E185.625 .T66 1989
Derogatory accusations, judgments, and jokes in our culture
are met head-on by this video about black, male, and gay identity.
Poetry, personal testimony, and drama unite to oppose the homophobia
and racism that attempt to split a person into opposing loyalties.
Pink Triangles
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: HQ75.5 .P56 1982
Takes a look at the nature of discrimination against lesbians and
gay men and challenges some of society's attitudes toward
homosexuality. Also examines historical and contemporary patterns
of racial, religious, political, and sexual persecution.
It takes a team!: making sports safe for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender athletes and coaches.
Hodges Media Center GV708.8 .I88 2004
An education kit for athletes, coaches, and athletic directors.
Accompanying discussion and resource guide, stickers, and poster
available for free download from homophobiainsports.com.
Laramie inside out
Hodges Media Center HV6250.4 .H66 L37 2004
Filmmaker Beverly Seckinger, a native of Laramie, Wyoming, returns
to talk with students, teachers, parents, and clergy about the impact
Matthew Shepard's murder has had on their community.
Feature Films:
Brokeback Mountain
Hodges Media Center PN1997.2 .B758 2006
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life
was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and
sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del
Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are
hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming.
Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together
alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other
through their proximity, loneliness and through a shared lack of
tenderness and emotion in their lives and are emotionally, physically
and psychically bonded to each other almost from the start.
Angels in America
Hodges Media Center PN1997.2 .A64 2004
Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one
fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy,
delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague.
Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed,
he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he
helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior
Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying
lover, Louis. Louis moves on to a relationship with Joe Pitt, a
Mormon lawyer whose closeted homosexuality drives his wife to delusions
and brings his mother to New York.
The Laramie project
Hodges Media Center PN1997.L336 2002
In October 1998, 21 year-old Matthew Shepard was found savagely
beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming. This
film is a dramatization of a town forced to confront itself in the
reflective glare of the national spotlight, responding with love,
anger, sympathy, support, and defiance.
Children's hour
Hodges Media Center PN1997.C46434 2002
When a vindictive little girl is disciplined in an exclusive girl's
school, the child twists an overheard comment into slander. She
accuses her teachers of lesbianism and her gullible grandmother
spreads the gossip. Outraged, Karen and Martha fight back in court,
but a child's lie is hard to disprove.
Before night falls
Hodges Media Center PQ7390.A72 Z463132 2001
A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to
his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him
in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison
before leaving for the United States.
The adventures of Priscilla, queen of the desert
Hodges Media Center PN1997 .A2774 2000
With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian
desert, Tick, Adam, and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting
to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered pink tour
bus "Priscilla," the trio heads for the outback and into
crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.
Chutney popcorn
Hodges Media Center PN1997 .C4896 1999
Lisa and Reena are in love, but when Reena agrees to become a surrogate
mother for her childless sister, the cultural divide between Reena's
Indian family and their lesbian lifestyle hits home. A heartfelt
comedy about the cultural struggles between immigrant parents and
their Americanized children and the strength of family ties.
Latin boys go to hell
Hodges Media Center PN1997 .L349 1998
A film about gay Latino men, including drag queens, in love, their
various affairs, how their being gay squares with their Catholicism,
their families, etc.
Contact the UT Commission for LGBT People
c/o Dr. George Hoemann
208 Conference Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-4126
Phone: (865) 974-5126
Fax: (865) 974-7914
Email: hoemann [at] utk.edu
or lgbtcom [at] utk.edu
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