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LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Resource Guide

To celebrate Pride Month, NYU Libraries has assembled this guide to research material, videos, digital and archival collections, and organizations.

Become a Better Researcher - Try Using Subject Headings

Subject headings are words and phrases which constitute a "controlled vocabulary" to categorize books by subject field.  Subject headings often indicate the contents of books in terms that their titles (or your keywords) do not use, which often may be very general.

Use general subject headings for searching a broad topic or more specific subject headings for a specific author, or historical period.  You will find (more) headings specific to the subject category within the left-hand facets in the library catalog.  If you want to see the subject headings for a specific title, click on the "details" link in the title record. 

Here are some examples of subject headings:

  • LGBTQ+ communities
  • Gay liberation movement
  • Gay people
  • Lesbians
  • Sexual minorities - Civil rights - United States
  • Bisexual people
  • Transgender people - United States - 21st century
  • LGBTQ+ youth
  • Gay activists - United States - Biography
  • LGBTQ+ activism

Encyclopedias

Books in the Collection