Indexes to Gay/Lesbian Periodical Articles
Articles about lesbian and gay issues can be found in nearly every popular and academic periodical. Most literature, social science, history, and some science periodical indexes - including the MLA Bibliography, Sociofile, PsycLit, ERIC, America: History & Life, PAIS, Ethnic Newswatch, and Women's Studies Abstracts - will include articles about gays and lesbians from the academic, mainstream, or ethnic community presses. Many indexes and abstracts do not index the lesbian and gay press, however, and many current and historically significant lesbian and gay titles remain unindexed (e.g. Curve, Genre, Girlfriends, OutWeek, Journal of Lesbian Studies.) These periodical indexes, available in various electronic and/or print formats, cover articles from some lesbian & gay press titles and other journals:- Sexual Diversity Studies: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual &Transgender Abstracts - NISC
The only index dedicated to extensive indexing of the Gay and Lesbian press and Web sites, 1997 to the present. Unfortunately, Sexual Diversity Studies (formerly The Gay and Lesbian Abstracts) lacks coverage of important popular and academic publications containing sexual subject matter. NISC also markets the Women's Studies Database and the Men's Studies Database in files sold separately. Go figure. - Periodical Abstracts - UMI
There are several versions of this product. The most expansive version (Research II) includes indexing for 10 Percent (1993-95), The Advocate (1989-present), Differences (1991- present), Feminist Studies (1989-present), Frontiers (1992-present), Gay Community News (1991-present), Genders (1992-present), Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy (1993-present), Journal of Homosexuality (1992-present), Lambda Book Report (1992-present; fulltext 1994-present), Out/Look (1988-1992), Sage (1990-present), SIECUS Reports (1991-present), Signs (1988-present). - UnCover
The UnCover Corporation offers this free, searchable database. The company will fax full articles that you pay for by credit card. Some institutions, including CSU, subsidize Uncover document delivery. Queer titles indexed and available at least in part include: Lesbian Ethics, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Journal of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity, The Australian Gay and Lesbian Law Journal, Sinister Wisdom, Hypatia, Out, Connexions, Differences, Spare Rib, Trouble and Strife, Hot Wire, Visibilities, Out/Look, Lambda Book Report, The Journal of Homosexuality, and The Advocate. - Contemporary Women's Issues
Covers feminist and academic titles: The Journal of Gender Studies, The Journal of Homosexuality, Lesbian Review of Books, SIECUS Reports, Sojourner, off our backs. - Northern Light
A web-based commercial provider offering on-line fulltext to anybody able to pay $1.00-$4.00 per article, with a no-questions-asked money-back guarantee. Publications with significant queer-relevant content include: The Advocate, Connexions, Critical Matrix, Cultural Diversity Quarterly, Differences, Feminist Studies, Gay Community News, Genders, Lambda Book Report, Lesbian Review of Books, SIECUS Report, Sojourner, Village Voice, WIN News. - Alternative Press Index/Alternative Press Center
Since 1969, API has covered several gay and lesbian periodicals along with other underindexed feminist and radical publications. Titles currently covered include The Advocate, BLK, Gay Community News, Lambda Book Report, Lesbian Contradiction, Out/Look, RFD, Rites. - EBSCO
EBSCO has many products packaged with varying title content. EBSCO products include: The Advocate (1995-present, fulltext 1996-present), Differences (1996-present), The Journal of Gender Studies (fulltext 1991-present), The Journal of Homosexuality (1993-present), The Journal of Sex Research (fulltext 1990-present), The Lesbian News (1995-present; fulltext 1996-present), Signs (1990-present), The Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy (1998-present). - Book Review Index Plus
In 1991 BRI began covering book reviews from The Advocate, Christopher Street, Lambda Book Report, and Out/Look. Titles added since then include the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Journal of Homosexuality, and off our backs.
Two print sources index articles exclusively from the lesbian press. Both index periodicals now out of print, but remain essential for historical research.
The Ladder 1956 - 1972. New York: Arno, 1975.
The Daughters of Bilitis' news magazine, the first nationally distributed lesbian periodical, reprinted and indexed in nine volumes.
HQ76 .L4 1975
Potter, Clare. The Lesbian Periodicals Index. Tallahassee: Naiad, 1986.
One paperback volume indexes 42 lesbian periodicals now defunct, covering 1947 - 1975.
HQ75.6 .U5 .P68 1986