Sex-Gender and Queer Studies

Gender and Queer Studies

• Carter, Raphael
  Androgyny RAQ
  Brothersister Raphael Carter Explains all rarely or never asked Questions. There might be a good reason for this: the whole point of androgyny is to ask questions about gender that are all too ralely asked. Or do you know the difference between e 'homovestite', a 'hermaphoroditus' and a 'scrat' ?

• Da Vinci Society
  A student organization that provides a network for discussion and support for students with lifestyles that: are alternative to heterosexuality; educates the campus community about diversity related issues and enhances communication about the negative consequences of prejudice and bigotry; provides opportunities for people who would like to know more about issues dealing with sexuality. Their members are straight, gay, bisexual and lesbian.

• France Queer Resources Directory
  A great directory organized in categories such as: documents, associations, services on the internet, culture, health and HIV information, news from France, ads online, gay homopages, and the Girl's place.

• Freedom.co.uk
  Search to find gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered web sites around the world. The search engine categorises entries by location and type of content, so you'll be able to find what you're looking for quickly and easily.
  
  
  

• Gaycanada.com
  The most comprehensive source for Canadian gay, lesbian and bisexual information.

• Gay & Lesbian Studies on the University of Amsterdam
  Includes some articles by Gert Hekma, chairman of Gay Studies Amsterdam. Editors: Gert Hekma and Norbert van Bemmel.

• Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Journals - Google Web Directory

• Gay New Zealand (QRA)
  A guide to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities in New Zealand. Hosted by Akiko International.

• GayLinc
  A comprehensive gay/lesbian agenda for the Netherlands. All you need to know when you are visiting Amsterdam and the rest of Holland.

• GaySearch
  A German search engine that finds almost anything related to gay and lesbian topics. It includes a directory organized by topic.
  
  
  

• GayWeb
  A guide to gay and lesbian business.

• GayZoo
  A Search Engine for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Internet Community. It is dedicated to making G/L/B/T related Internet content much easier to find.

• Gender (Yahoo)
  Books, Conferences, Educational Gender Equity, Intersexuality, Men, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Transgendered, Women.

• Gender Issues
  Blur your gender: "We create our own gender, through our own choices. Some people have changed gender by climbing over the walls that exist. Editor: Julie Waters.

• Gender Issues in Contempory Industrialisation: An Annotated Bibliography
  A bibliography with annotated references to the relationship between issues of gender and issues of industrial restructuring in the South and the North. The bibliography is available as a WinWord version 6 document. Editors: Diana Elson and Caroline Wright (Dep. of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK).

• Gender and Sexuality
  Part of the English Server at Carnegie Mellon University. A workspace for discussion on gender, sexuality, sexual identity and cultural practices. Provides access to local documents and links to Internet resources for Feminist, Gender and Women's Studies.

• GenderPac - Gender Public Advocacy Coalition
  An American organization that tries to guarantee every American's civil right to express their gender orientation free of stereotypes, discrimination and violence. The goal is gender, affectional and racial equality.

• GLAAD - Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
  GLAAD's primary focus is on the fight for fair and accurate portrayals of gays and lebians in the media and entertainment industries.

• Hekma, Ger [1997]
  How Liberal is the Netherlands? - Exploring Contemporary Dutch Sexual Cultures
  A paper written for the conference "Sexuality and the State in the Netherlands", Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard, April 25th, 1997.

• Homodok
  A gay and lesbian information centre and archive. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Homodok has its own catalogueing and indexing system. Its bibliographic database currently lists almost 80.000 records indexed with the help of the Homosaurus, an especially designed, controlled vocabulary of about 3000 gay and lesbian index terms (keywords). Using the Homosaurus, the database provides easy and highly detailed access to both Homodok's own holdings and the holdings of other institutions. Homodok also serves as a repository for the records of gay and lesbian organizations and groups. It stores the records of several Dutch gay and lesbian organizations and activists' groups as well as personal archives of gay men and lesbians.

• Hood-Williams, John [University of Greenwich, UK]
  Goodbye to Sex and Gender
  This paper refers specifically to the history of sex and to recent work in genetics in order to demonstrate that sex, like gender is a discursive construction. He argues that the sex/gender problematic is wrong to assume that biological differences are naturally given and that sex cannot operate as a natural basis in a theory of difference.

• International Homo/Lesbian informationcenter and Archives (IHLIA)
  

• Jokisch, Rodrigo [2001]
  Wie ist Geschlecht möglich? Zur Beobachtung von 'Sexualität' und 'Geschlecht'.

• Kearl, Michael
  Gender and Society: A matter of Nature or Nurture?

• Lee, Diana [2005]
  Androgyny becomming global?
  Addresses the current global trend of androgyny being embraced by the entertainment and fashion cultures and more recently by the metrosexuals and empowered women.

• Library Q: Queer Resources on the Internet
  Auraria Library (Colorado, USA).

• OutProud
  The National (American) Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth. You are invited to take advantage of the wide range of resources available for youth and educators.

• PlanetOut
  A worldwide online community of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual people, allowing you to discover more about yourself and others around you. A queer lens through which to view and explore the internet, linking you to thousands of gay, lesbian, bi, and trans-sites and people worldwide. You can use NetQueery's directory and powerful search engine to point you toward queer web sites, mailing lists, and more.

• Queer America
  A database published by !OutProud!, The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth.

• Queer in Amsterdam
  Resources on homo- and bisexuality in Amsterdam. Presented by Amsterdam by Bite

• Queer Frontiers
  An effort to provide a home and space for Queer Theory and Studies information on the Net. Edited by: John Waiblinger (University of Southern California Library, USA).

• Queer Resources Directory
  The QRD is an electronic library with news clippings, political contact information, newsletters, essays, images, and every other kind of information resource of interest to the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual community. Information is stored for the use of casual network users and serious researchers alike.

• QSTUDY-L
  A forum for academic discussions pertaining to queer theory, an umbrella term encompassing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual/transgender studies. It is also intended to promote networking and information sharing between teachers, researchers, librarians, and students --anyone involved or interested in the field of queer studies. Posting announcements about relevant conferences or publications, calls for papers, job opportunities, or anything else relevant to the topic of queer studies is encouraged, though only subscribers may post to the list. It will serve additionally as a repository for syllabi, bibliographies, and other items of interest relating to Queer Studies.

• Rainbow Query
  A very large collection of queer resources in a searchable and browsable database.

• Sexual Orientation Specific Resources - University of Maryland Diversity Database
  Information for students and professors of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer studies and to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer-identified people. The database contains a picture gallery, and collections of announcements, calls for papers, bibliographies, syllabi, etc. Database coordinator: Larisa Kofman.

• Sheaffer, Robert [1993]
  Deceptions of a 'Gender Equal Society'
  Eleanor Leacock's Depiction of the 17th-Century Montagnais-Naskapi. The late Eleanor Leacock was an anthropologist and feminist who published claims of societies that were supposedly "Egalitarian," in regard both to wealth, and to sex. Her writings display a strong Marxist bent. Leacock's essay "Women In Egalitarian Societies" was published as chapter one of Becoming Visible, a textbook used in Women's History classes (Bridenthal and Koonz, eds). One of her principal examples of a supposedly nonpatriarchal society (i.e., one where leadership does not rest primarily with the male) was the Montagnais-Naskapi Native Americans of the Labrador peninsula of Canada. Now, the Montagnais-Naskapi of today (on whom she had done field work) are clearly patriarchal, so she cites the 17th century accounts of Jesuit missionaries to make a claim that this society was once gender-equal, but was subsequently "completely transformed" by their contact with Western colonial powers.

• Stets, Jan E. / Burke, Peter J. -Dep. of Sociology, Washington State University, USA
  Gender, Control, and Interaction
  An examination of gender as status and gender and control as identities by analyzing the behavior of married couples whose task is to resolve disagreements in their marriage. They hypothize that husbands will be more likely than wives to use negative behavior in conversation, and that those with a more masculine and more dominant control identity will be more likely to use negative behavior in interactions. These predictions are tested on a representative sample of newly married couples using videotaped conversations.

• Tongzhi, Queers, Gays and Lesbians in Taiwan
  Articles on the history of the gays and lesbians in Taiwan after 1986; Aids and HIV in Taiwan; Early studies about Chinese homosexuality and more. English and German version. Editor: Jens Damm (Free University Berlin, Germany).

• West Hollywood
  A community based on the gay, lesbian and transgendered lifestyle.

Gay

• GayCrawler
  A search engine and directory for the gay and lesbian community worldwide (GLBT). Thousand links about gay parenting, gay travel, gay friendly hotels, gay dating, gay games, gay sports, gay magazine ...

• Gay Guide to Amsterdam
  A small representation of Gay Venues in Amsterdam. Information on hotels, bars, discos & clubs, coffee shops & restaurants, gay gyms & saunas.

• Gay Medieval History
  A bibliography from the University of Maryland Diversity Database.

• GaySite.nl
  

• Hein Verkerk's Gay EU
  "It Ain't Much Without the Dutch".

• Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (SPSMM)
  Discussion list dedicated to promoting the critical study of how gender shapes and constricts men's lives. Provides membership information, a newsletter, archives and a nice compact collection of links.

• Sociology in Australia - Exploring Gau Australian Experiences
  Dedicated tot the sociological exploration of the experiences of gay men in Australia. It also coverse some basics of the discipline. Editor: Andrew Lavin (Melbourne).

• World of Gays - Schwule im Internet
  A German site on the gay side of the world. Editor: Armando.

Lesbian

• Deaf Queer Resource Center
  A place where deaf quewea peouslt make their home in cyberspace. Editor: Barky Burdick.

• A Dyke's World
  A work of passion, done for free spirits, woven by Indina Beuche (Germany). The sites is dedicated to celebrate lesbian visibility and diversity It starts with a little innocent saying. "Heterosexuality is not normal, just common."

• International Lesbian Information Service (ILIS)
  An international network of lesbians working towards lesbian rights. "The five basic ILIS demands are: We have the unconditional right to control our own bodies; We have a right to education that is not sexist or heterosexist and which includes positive information about lesbian lifestyle; We need the right to self-organisation; All governments must repeal legislation which criminalizes us or discriminates against us; Therefore, all governments must pass human rights legislation to protect individuals against discrimination based on color, class, creed, sex and sexual preference."

• Lesbian Archive Amsterdam (LAA)
  Pink pages on the Internet, composed by the Lesbian Archive Amsterdam. They are specialized in audio-visual material on lesbian women and their culture. They want to make the lesbian women and their culture visible by meains of puclications and cultural activitiets.

• Lesbian History Project
  Links to lesbian history. Includes links to notable lesbians of all color, archives and oral history collections, dissertations and theses on lesbian history, bibliographies, citations and syllabi.

• Lesbian.org
  Promoting lesbian visibility on the internet. The oldest and largest collection of lesbian-specific information on the internet. Editor: Amy Goodloe.

• Lesbian Visibility
  Lesbian.org and WWWoman have combined efforts in order to provide lesbians with the most comprehensive, up-to-date and searchable database of lesbian links on the internet. You'll find almost anything (in the U.S.A.). Categories: Activism and Advocacy; Arts, Entertainment and Music; Lesbian-owned Business, Products and Services; Lesbian Hotlinks and Collections; Publications and Literary Links; Health and Sexuality; Meeting Places and Discussion Groups for Lesbians; Misc. Links; Web Pages by Lesbians.

• Let's talk about sex
  A link collection on lesbian sex. The moral is simple, but not unsympathetic: "We're special - and sex is a gift of love - so let's enjoy it." And these lesbians do it this way, that way, and most of all their way. And yes, this site informes your on safesex for lesbians, acts as a guide to the Internet sex, and a safe space for Black Lesbian Erotica.

• Love & Respect: Links for Dykes
  A structured list of pointers by and for lesbians. Editor: Indina Beuche. They advize you on where to buy your lesbian books, and keeps you informed with the 'Lesbian News' (avoice for lesbian issues with separatist point of view).

• Sapphic Ink
  A lesbian literary journal. Published by Lesbian.org. The articles are full-text.

• Wild-list
  A forum for information and discussions about lesbian studies from a European perspective. It's a closed list and for women only.

• Zij aan Zij
  A Dutch magazine for women who (also) love women.

Bisexuality

• Anything That Moves
  A magazine for the inner bisexual. It offers fiction, nonfiction, editorials, subscription information, and much more.

• Australian Bisexual Network
  Provides information on bisexuality, the history of the bi movement, and a lot of links to gender and (bi)sexuality sites all over the world.

• bi.org
  Its goal is to serve the worldwide bisexual community by providing a free Internet presence for bisexual individuals, groups and non-profit organisations. There is a large set of bi-sexual resources, email addresses and mailing lists, which is especially strong in the UK.

• Bi Planet
  For people who are bisexual, bi-friendly or b-positive this is a planet to explore.

• Bisexual Options - Fritz Klein (San Diego, USA) presents Bi resources, Bi pages city by city, bi-ographies of people to meet, BiWorld international news, and excerpts of his book The Bisexual Option.

• Bisexual Resource Center (BRC)
  The BRC (Cambridge, MA, USA) publishes a Bisexual Resource Guide, a listing of more than 1500 bi and les-bi-gay groups in 20 countries.

Transgender Transsexualism, transvestism, cross dressing, gender blending, intersex

• Abiguous Genitalia and Intersexuality from Pediatrics/Urology
  A discussion of the types and causes of intersexuality, by Joel Hutcheson (Wake Forest University Medical Center, USA) and Howard M. Snyder III (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA).

• Female to Male (FTM)
  FTM International is a peer support group for female-to-male transvestites and transsexuals. They offer information and networking for women who are exploring their gender identity issues, or who need a safe "place" to explore their male personae, as well as for men who are in the process of transition, or who have completed the change. They also provide educational services to the general public on transgender issues.

• International Journal of Transgenderism (IJT)
  The first scientific journal on transgenderism. The journal is peer reviewed and its editorial board consists of many leading scientists from all over the world. It publishes fulltext contributions on all aspects of gender identification, gender blending, and gender migration -- including medical, legal, and psychological studies. It's a peer-reviewed electronic journal, and it is expected to be published quarterly.

• Intersex - Yahoo! Discussion Group

• Intersex-Forum - Yahoo!
  A list for discussing intersexuality, transsexuality and transgender issues, with emphasis on intergender issues.

• Intersexed_Society - Yahoo!
  A discussion/support groep for intersex individuals, and their allies.

• NewsNet Discussion Groups
  • alt.support.intergendered
  • alt.support.crossdressing
  • alt.support.srs
  • alt.transgendered
  • soc.support.transgendered

• Transgendered Network International (TGNI)
  Portal for all people deling with issues of transsexuality and crossdressing.

• Transgender Forum
  An excellent resource for information about transgendered people and transgender rights. Everything you always wanted to know about crossdressers, transvestites and transsexuals.

• Transitions
  A T-friendly site that offers help, advice & support as well as TG Friends. The official website of TransWirral, an education, advocacy, campaigning and support organisation for all transsexual & intersex people who reside in NW England and North Wales.

• Transsexual Women's Resources
  Resources for transsexual women (male-to-female). Consumer-oriented information about sex-reassignment surgery, hormone therapy, and commentary on medical and surgical topics. Editor: Anne Lawrence.

• Transtudies
  An online course project at Brown University.

• Directories and Guides
  • dmoz - Open Directory Project
  • Yahoo!

Sexuality

• AIDS and HIV (SocioSite)
  A collection of resources on the most dangerous sexually transmitted infections.

• Alen Guttmacher Institute (AGI)
  Information to guide and shape the public debate on reproductive rights. The mission of AGI (New York, USA) is to protect the reproductive choices of all women and men. It support their ability to obtain the information and services needed to achieve full human rights, safeguard their health and exercise their individual responsibilities in regard to sexual behavior, reproduction and family formation.

• All About Condoms
  All you want to know about condoms. Resources on safe sex, sexual health and related issues.

• alt.sex FAQ
  A newsgroup dealing in human sexuality. Written in the early part of 1994. They reflect the best wisdom and knowledge of all participants on the committee at that time.

• Archiv für Sexualwissenschaft
  A German archive for sexology. The mission of the Robert Koch Institute is to promote, protect, and preserve sexual health through original research and by collecting, analyzing and disseminating scientific information from other sources.

• The Art of Oral Sex
  Oral sex is as old as the road to Rome. People have been using their mouths to stimulate each other sexually for about as long as there have been people. Sexuality.org presents a special page on the art of oral sex. Both for women and men. Only in the beginning it is just kissing.

• Coalition for Positive Sexuality (CPS)
  We do have the right to complete and honest sex education. CPS has created a quick and easy online tour through the most important topics for teens who are sexually active now or just thinking about having sex. It's called "Just Say Yes" because we're tired of people telling us what we can and can't do. There's no preaching. No moralizing. Just the facts. And some answers on questions like: Should I have sex? What's Safe Sex? What about Birth Control? What if I'm gay? What about Pregnancy? What if I get a disease ("STDs")?

• Dr Ruth Online
  Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America's foremost sex therapist, has dedicated her website to the honest, informative, and entertaining promotion of sexual literacy. Special Features Premature ejaculation? The G spot? Avoiding sex during pregnancy? Dr. Ruth has the answers to your most frequently asked sex questions.

• Gender and Sexuality
  Texts which address gender studies and queer studies, with a particular focus upon discussions of sex, gender, sexual identity and sexuality in cultural practices. Presented by the English Server.

• Go Ask Alice: Sexual Health and Relationships
  Pages with questions and answers on sexuality, sexual health and relationships. You can find sexual health information by subject via a search in a large questions and answers database. A service presented by the Columbia University Health Service, USA.

• Haavio-Mannila, Elina / Kontula, Osmo
  The Sexual Habits and Partnets of the Finns
  An extract from a book "Sexual Pleasures". They hope that it will reveal something new or at least confirm your thoughts about the Finns' sexual habits and fantasies.

• Institute of Sexuality Culture and Society (IASSCS)
  It intends to bring together anthropologists, multi-disciplinary scholars, and students committed to the study of sexuality & gender across time and space.

• International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
  A wordwide pioneer movement providing reproductive health and family planning services in over 150 countries. The IPPF and its member Associciations are committed to promoting the right of women and men to decide freely on the number and spacing of their children and the right to the highest possible level of sexual and reproductive health.

• International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)
  Defines sexual health and informs about equality in sexual relations.

• Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
  Promoting interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction.

• Mysexlifeonline.com
  A website made by people working to bring more sexual health, sexual pleasure, and sexual rights into the world. It brings you information on safer sex, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sex toys, sexual pleasure, sex radical activism, sex and sexuality news stories, sexual etiquette, whether you're straight, gay, or anywhere in between.

• Nerve Magazin
  Quite different people present their opinions on and experiences with sexuality, body and our 'verocious' 'natural' thrives. A very sophistocated design, and very instructive/amusing. But you have to understand German.

• NISSO - Nederlands Instituut voor Sociaal Sexuologisch Onderzoek
  Library and Documentation Centre of NISSO: The Netherlands Institute for Social Sexological Research. Search the literature on human sexuality and relationships. A large database with information on sexological subjects. Also a wide coverage of the literature on the epidemiological, social and psychosocial aspects of HIV and AIDS.

• Planned Parenthood
  This is the site of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. It provides information on women's health, birth control, abortion, sexually transmitted infections, pro-choice advocacy. The site includes guides for parents, teen issues, and a structured list of links.

• The Position
  In-depth coverage of sex.

• Rutgers Stichting
  The Dutch Rutgers Foundation has been an expert in sexual and reproductive health for decades. It is one of the founding members of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPPF). It offers a broad range of services, varying from medical and psycho-sexual services to training programmes and (sexual and reproductive) health promotion activities.

• Safer Sex
  In the age of AIDS, everyone should know about safer sex. HIV can infect anyone, regardless of sexual orientation, sex, age, race, or economic class. On these pages you can learn how to protect yourself and your partner.

• Seksverslaving
  Dutch national buro for prevention and information on sex addiction.

• Sexual Abuse Treatment
  An extensive amount of information on sexual offenders and abuse. It includes referral list to specialized therapists, paraphilias, theories, newsletter, victimology, and information on the new workbook. Editor: Matthew Rosenberg.

• Sexual Harrassment (SocioSite)

• Sexual Health infoCenter
  A very comprehensive source of sexual health information on the Internet. Each week a fresh article on a special aspect of sexuality, and a sex tip of the week. But the main course are dozen categories of information you can click on. Categories such as a "Guide to Better Sex" (sexual positions, anal sex, oral sex, vaginal sex, love and toys), "Sex and Aging" (natural changes in women and men, overcoming harmful attitudes, and tips for better sex in later life), "Guide to Safer Sex" (condoms, abstinence, unwanted pregnancy, etc.), and "Sexual Problems" (loss of desire, impotence, premature and delayed ejaculation, painful intercourse).

• Sexual Health Network
  Provides access to sexuality information, and other sexuality resources for people with diability, illness, or other health related problems. The Network also provides education and training for health professionals.

• Sexual Health Resource Centre - USA
  A confidential, non-judgemental information and referral service dealing in all areas of safer sex, birth control, pregnancy options including abortion referral, and general sexual health information.

• Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS)
  An international organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about sexuality. It is the oldest organization of professionals interested in the study of sexuality in the United States. SSSS brings together an interdisciplinary group of professionals who believe in the importance of both the production of quality research and the clinical, educational, and social applications of research related to all aspects of sexuality.

• Society for Human Sexuality
  A social and educational organization whose purpose is to promote understanding and appreciation for the many forms of adult intimate relationships and consensual sexual expression. It's a "pro pleasure" organization: "we find sexual pleasure to be enjoyable and legitimate in its own right, and support all sex education efforts that we consider to be both pleasure-positive and honest. Thje site contains guides and reviews (on books and resources, sex toiys and erotica, video rentals and matchmaking services), a chance to learn more on topics such as safer sex, erotic massage, fliting, G-Spot Play, vibrators, penetration and 'putting it all together', a mailing list and search facilities.

• Triveonline
  Sexuality | Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  Thriveonline tries to empower us to make healthy, responsible sexual choices. Learn more about male and female sexuality, desire differences adn homosexuality, libido and menopause. Triveonline also informs on the real risks are of getting an STD from sex. You get information about ten sexually transmitted diseases, what researchers know regarding the risks of transmission of each through oral sex on men and women. They support us in making our own discisions.

• Vatasyayana
  The Church of Trantra - Kama Sutra
  In the love teachings of Kama Sutra you can learn almost everything you always wanted to know about positions (lying down, sitting, standing, rear-entry), oral pleasures (fellatio and cunnilingus), role reversal, love potions and sex aids.

• Directories and Guides
  • dmoz - Open Directory
  • Yahoo!

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