#queer libraries

(I tried to keep the scrolling slow so it hopefully doesn’t make anyone dizzy)

ID: a video scrolling through the @queerliblib library front page displaying numerous queer titles and audiobooks.

Y’all, @queerliblib just went live and their collection is already incredible.

There are so many queer books there that I couldn’t get my local library to host. Seriously, if you’re in the US, go to their website and get yourself a library card. It integrated perfectly with my libby account and now I’m about to listen to so many books while I work.

THE LIBRARY IS OPEN, DARLING.

Go check out gay books! If you don’t have a membership, sign up! It’s here it’s here it’s here!!!

See if you can find the shoutout to yours truly in this article!!

thank you so much!!!! <3

while there may not be something exactly like us there are some other queer library/library adjacent projects in the UK ex.

book 28: "a small LGBTIQ+ library based inside London's LGBTIQ+ community centre and homeless shelter, The Outside Project"

the Queer Zine Library: "a UK based dyi mobile library celebrating radical LGBTQIA+ self publishing"

UK LGBT Archive: began as the LGBT History Project before changing names, it’s an ever updating wiki with links to other resources

The Bishopsgate Institute: an independent special collections library/archive, holds collections relating to the social and cultural history of London. Apparently has recently developed to become Britain's largest LGBTQIA+ archive

It would be very cool to expand outside the US one day. There would just be a lot more legal and financial hoops to jump through, so one thing at a time! Gotta get the library funded and open first.

In the meantime allow us to share some existing (generally brick & mortar, not fully digital) queer Canadian libraries & archives!

Out on the Shelves (Vancouver, BC)

Bibliothèque à livres ouvert (the open book library - Montréal)

The ArQuives (Toronto, Ontario)

Archives Gaies du Québec (Montréal, Québec)

Pride Library (London, Ontario)

BIGGEST ON CAMPUS LGBT LIBRARY!!! 

Within the UCLA’s LGBT campus resource center is where the Rae Lee Siporin library is located. It is (one of) the biggest LGBT library located on a university campus, excluding the One Archives (which brings in the discourse on whether it would count as a library if it’s specifically an archive) at USC. 

With over 4,000′s works, (including book of short stories, nonfiction, fiction and some graphic-novels) the Rae Lee Siporin library is an amazing space to find queer works on campus. The library also has a checkout system that works on the honor system and requires no paper trail so the students can ensure their books aren’t in their school record.