Reviewed Academic Resources

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• Louie Crew's Electronic Directory of Lesbigay Scholars
  
  THE Indispensible site for Lebigay Scholars!
  found at: http://newark.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/lbg_edir.html Louie's E-Directory of Lesbigay scholars has a long and wonderfully useful history and existance. Dr. Crew began this resource long before development of the Web, the site having started as a moderated listserve, and it continues with that "flavor" of presentation in its current development into an Web "presentation".
  The resource is Louie's work at providing a comprehensive directory of scholars and academics working in the area of Gay and Lesbian Studies (and the normal range of programatic/departmental names associated with the field). The "public" directory currently lists 293 scholars providing name, institutional affiliation, e-mail/snail mail/phone and each individual's own description of their current research interests, activities, and publications. Every listed scholar indicates whether they wish to be listed publically or to maintain a "private" entry available only to subscribers to this service. It is interesting to note that the full directory of subscribers is 682 -- interesting to reflect on why less than 1/2 of us are willing to be publically listed....
  In addition to this very well maintained listing of scholars, Louie also distributes a bi-weekly email of announcements, calls for papers, conference information, etc. These are archived on the Web page as well, so that you may choose to not subscribe to the mailing list, but still be able to browse the archival copies on the Web page.
  I strongly urge all LGBT/Queer scholars to be sure they contact Louie for inclusion in the directory. I have devoted considerable space to this annotation, since I have great admiration and respect for the work Louie has done over the years. His resource was one of my own first inklings into the large number and variety of scholars working in this area -- this provided great inspiration and courage. I have found the list indispensible in the 3 or 4 years I have been using it.
  The mailing list provides no single scholarly focus or even "tight" restriction on what would be considered and "academic or scholarly" announcement. It does however provide, in my opinion, the most convenient and comprehensive way to keep a pulse/sense of all the different activities and work being done in the field. I use this resource to keep myself generally informed about all the different activities/conferences/studies and work occuring in our field (and how much it is really growing). Scanning Louie's bi-weekly "ANNOUNCEMENTS" message (it is not edited, but simply a compilation of all the messages sent by individuals to Louie for inclusion), makes me feel conversent about "what's going on with GLBT Studies".

  I strongly recommend exploration of this resource and subscription to the list. I will use this opportunity to again express my respect and appreciation to Louie for sharing with us all the commitment of time and energy that providing such a consistent and reliable service requires.

  • .....Evaluated as a GLBT site...Comments? make them here
    
  

• Jim Sear's Home Page--Southern Gay History
  found at: http://www.conterra.com/jsears/ Jim Sears is a Professor of Curriculum and Higher Education in the doctoral program of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies at the University of South Carolina and has created this resource to provide access to some of his scholarly work in the area of LGBT Studies. The site provides a bibliography of Dr. Sear's publications, with table of contents information for each of his books. He also has provided selected excerpts and the full text of the introductions to a number of his books. Dr. Sears has researched, written about, and of course experienced gay and lesbian history and culture of the American South. The site provides selective, and very useful, links of WWW resources focused on Lesbian and Gay Regional History. The site is current and visibily maintained and promises to grow in its contents and depth.

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• The Lesbian History Project:
  Links to Lesbian History by Yolanda Retter found at http://www-lib.usc.edu/~retter/main.html has been created to provide access to lesbian history on the Internet. To support efforts to gather, record, publicize and preserve work on lesbian history in any time period or geographic area, with an emphasis on the history of lesbians of color and southern california lesbians. It is focused on assisting researchers to locate primary source materials; it proposes to create dialogues between academic scholars and community scholars through sharing of resources and knowledge.

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• John Younger's [Duke University]
  Programs in Gender and Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies at Universities in the USA and Canada
  found at http://www.duke.edu/web/jyounger/lgbprogs.html This is the Website I reference when asked about formal academic programs available in LGBT Studies programs. Younger makes no claim that his list is authorative or complete, but it is current, and reasonable effort is made to verify the accuracy of the information provided. The page is well organized and does provide many links to the actual programs referenced. Dr. Younger has also provided links to Duke's own LGBT studies undergraduate program, in the Program in the Study of Sexualities of which he is the Director. Links to various papers, syllabi, etc. that Younger has provided on the Web are accessible and linked from this page.

  I have focused specifically on this specific aspect of his site because it addresses a very often asked query, and I have frequently referred individuals to this resource. I have not yet had the opportunity to review the rest of his site.

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• Bibliography: "Campus Climate" Reports
  Compiled by Robin Miller, (cmplxgal@nwlink.com) it is a section in the University of Chicago's LGBT Campus Resource Directors page, which will receive it's own review
  found at http://www.uic.edu/orgs/lgbt/campus_climate.html This valuable (probably not available anywhere in print) resouce is a 9 screens bibliography providing citations for the reports of different university GLBT Task Forces, campus organizations, and "commissions" assessing the campus or institutional environment experienced by LGBT students; the reports are generally addressed to the president or other top level academic administrators. An additional useful component of the bibliography is its provision of information on how to obtain the majority of the cited reports. Considerable care has been taken to insure the currency and accuracy of the information and the page is regularly updated, with the date of last revision clearly indicated; "NEW" icons make new entries easy to locate.

  This is a very important resource for committees engaged in similiar works at other institutions.

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• Further Reviews underway

Editors Academic Web Projects:

• Queer CyberCenter a grant funded project to investigate/evaluate glbt use of the internet via creation of a public access internet facility; the full grant proposal is available here.
• International Gay & Lesbian Review an electronic journal reviewing recently published materials.

Sites Identified for Annotation and Inclusion

These are sites that I have marked for study and review. They appear at a quick look to be appropriate for inclusion in this bibliography, but I have NOT YET had the opportunity to fully explore the site and write an annonation. Listing here does not necessarily mean these sites will be included in the ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Sites awaiting review:

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• http://web.syr.edu/~bones Disturbing Alliances: the Organized Right on Campus
• http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/events/sw25 Stonewall and beyond - Lesbian and Gay Culture
• http://www.virtualcity.com/youthsuicide Gay and Bisexual Male Youth Suicide Studies
• http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/gender.html Voice of the Shuttle (UC Santa Barbara's Humanities Server): Gender Studies Section maintained by Alan Liu.

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