Oral History Portals
- Oral History Online This link opens in a new windowIndexes more than 2,700 collections of oral history in English from around the world. Provides keyword searching of full-text transcripts when available, plus links to audio and video files.
- UCLA Center for Oral History Research (COHR) This link opens in a new windowCOHR conducts in-depth, multi-session oral history interviews with individuals who have been a part of the history of Los Angeles and its many communities. Over 2000 interviews document a wide range of areas related to Southern California history, including the histories of Black, indigenous, people of color and immigrant communities, the arts, political activism, politics and government, and UCLA history. Transcripts available in Library Special Collections (YRL).
- Historical VoicesA searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind.
- Calisphere This link opens in a new windowOver one million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more from the collections digitized and contributed by all ten campuses of the University of California and other important libraries, archives, and museums throughout the state.
Oral Histories on Gender and Sexuality
- ACT-UP Oral History ProjectEstablished in 2002 by scholars and activists, the ACT-UP Oral History Project documents the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP).
- ArtifactsArtifacts houses over 40 years of archival footage, featuring rare, firsthand accounts from pioneers such as Marsha P. Johnson, John Cale, Quentin Crisp, Betsey Johnson, and many others. Series include Silver Factory (Andy Warhol's Factory), Gender Benders, and Underground Press.
- Caro De Roberts CollectionIn this collection of oral histories, acclaimed author Caro De Robertis turns to queer and trans people of color, who share their memories, accomplishments, and ways of being.
- Historical Society of Long Beach CollectionsA collection from the Long Beach Historical Society documenting the LGBTQ+ community including photographs and photo albums, event programs, flyers, matchbooks, bumper stickers, clothing, Long Beach Pride souvenirs, pins/buttons, banners, posters, magazines, travel and guidebooks, newsletters, newspapers, art pieces and portfolios, tickets, advertisements, business cards, oral histories, videos, correspondence, and manuscripts.
- Lavender Phoenix Dragon Fruit Project Oral History CollectionThe Dragon Fruit Project oral history project collection consists of interviews collected during the Dragon Fruit Project with LGBTQ Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the San Francisco Bay Area. These intergenerational and diverse oral histories provide first-hand accounts of life, love, diaspora, and resistance from the 1960s through the 2010s.
- LGBTQ Digital Collaboratory: Oral History HubProvides links to 30+ major LGBTQ digital oral history projects.
- LGBTQ Religious Archives NetworkIncludes oral histories of leaders, scholars, and activists from a variety of international religious movements.
- Los Angeles Gay Asian Pacific Community Oral History ProjectIn this collection is a series of interviews with gay men from within the Asian Pacific Community.
- Mazer Lesbian ArchivesThe June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives is one of the largest archives in the world dedicated to collecting, protecting, and preserving lesbian and feminist history and culture. By creating a safe place for women to explore the richness of lesbian history, perhaps adding to it themselves, we are paving the way for future generations to understand more fully their own identity and history and help maintain this vital link to their own past.
- ONE InstituteThroughout the collections of one Institute there are Oral histories documenting the experiences of local members of the LGBTQ+ community.
- A People's History of the Inland Empire LGBTQ+ Oral History CollectionA digital, community-based archive. focused on stories of working people, communities of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals whose experiences have often been under-represented in traditional institutions.
- Queer Asian American Collection (University of Illinois Chicago)The Queer Asian American Collection documents the rich and vibrant stories of the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, intersex, and gender non-conforming Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and South Asian communities in Chicago.
- Transgender Oral History ProjectA community-driven effort to collect and share a diverse range of stories from within the transgender and gender variant communities.
- The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project (TTOHP)Based at the University of Minnesota, the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project is committed to collecting, preserving, and making available oral histories of gender transgression, broadly understood through a trans framework.