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LGBTQIA+ community at Stanford University: Photos

After using this guide, Stanford Libraries users will be able to identify and access primary and secondary sources about the history of the LGBTQIA+ community at Stanford University.

Stanford Photos and other online exhibits

The Archives maintains several online exhibits that enable users to search across hundreds of our photograph collections. The most extensive of these is the Stanford Photos Spotlight exhibit.

Additional exhibits with content related to the history of the LGBTQIA+ community at Stanford include:

Gay People's Union conference and Gay Pride Week, Stanford University, Queer Student Resources, Records, 1972-2016

Stanford University, Queer Student Resources, Records, 1972-2016

Stanford University, Queer Student Resources, Records, 1972-2016

Collection consists of the records of the Queer Student Resources and its predecessors GLAS (Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Stanford) and the Gay People's Union. Included are correspondence, memoranda, office files, reference files on service organizations in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, log books, notebooks, questionnaires, tape recordings, videos, photographs, posters, and ephemera pertaining to the gay, lesbian, and transgender community at Stanford and the surrounding communities.

Stanford News Service records

Stanford News Service records, circa 1891-2013

Records include subject files compiled by the News Service in the course of its work, news releases prepared by the News Service, proof sheets of photographs produced by the News Service photographers, taped interviews, office files of the Director of News and Publications Service and of the directors of the individual units, news clippings, and miscellaneous photographic and printed material. Collection materials can be searched in the Online Archive of California.

Content related to the LGBTQIA+ community includes clipping files related to the gay and lesbian community and the old fire house.