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Archives and Sources

Below are the archives and collections I consulted, as well as a list of people I interviewed for the project. 

Archives and Collections

Archives gaies du Québec, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Gay Line Fonds (AGQ-F0071)

Archives lesbiennes du Québec, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Lesbians Who Tech Sticker Collection

Canadian ArQuives, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Vertical Files (Hi-Tech Gays (13012); Canadian Web-based Women's Information Centre (13318); LGAES (9528); technodyke.com (22614); CyberQueer Lounge (13540); Gaycrawler.com (9508); Google (23608); Icomm (6409); CompuServe Canada (6571);  Gay and Lesbian Consumer Online Census (13260); CompuServe (8888); Digital Freedom Bulletin Board System (1997); Digital Queers (10891); Compuserve Inc (32519); Queers Online (6331); Online Partners (9997); Gay and Lesbian Internet Bank (19288); KSix.net (22874)

Fonds and Collections (Interlog Internet Services sponsorship, 1998 (F0146-03-60: 31719); Out*line: Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Online 'Zine (15208); AOL Canada sponsorship, 1997 (F0146-03-26: 31685); Web network [info on the internet], website, CLGRO in Cyberspace within Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario fonds (Box 2, F0044-01-060: 28971); PDQ: Publication of Digital Queers (2006-001: 20446); The Well: Internet Resources for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Parents and Children within LGBTQ Parenting Network fonds (Box 23, F0028-04-174: 48817); TAGL Internet policy (not completed) within Toronto Area Gays and Lesbians (TAGL) fonds (Box 3, F0101-01-34: 16159); Columbia Fun Maps: PNO - Planetout Guide to the Internet for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People (20477); PlanetOut Button.(8440); Alpha Girls within Richard Fung fonds (Box 12, F0134-15-086: 40537); Girl Connex (18750); High Tech Gays (HTG) Newsletter/Calendar (21298))

Barnard College Special Collections

(Non-Circulating) Zines A544t and Circulating Zine Collection in Barnard Library

Bishopsgate Institute, London, England 

Switchboard: the LGBT+ Helpline Archive Fonds (SB): (Information Group (SB 1/11/1,2,3); Computer and IT Working Groups (SB 1/16/1,2,3); Call Log Books (SB 5/1/45, 46-65); Subcyberia (FL Cap 37); 

Other materials: "Now there's an HIV website just for me" (LAGNA/EPH/455); MicroSyster (FL/GPH/B/611, 634, 667); Controversial poster for Lesbian & Gay online company (Queer Company) London 2000. (MMPA/1/40/2) within Maggie Murray Photographic Archive; Campaign Against Pornography within Feminist Library Collection (FL/CAP/37); Policing the Internet (FL/EPH/J/176); Aviva within Women's Free Internet Magazine (FL/EPH/J/375); Legal Advice, Internet Law within Spanner Case Archive(SCA/5/7); Women's World Wide Web (FL/EPH/T/332); Lesbian and Gay Pride 1995 Website (LAGNA/EPH/758); 'Buy yr hormones on the dark web' placard (MOT/587); We Are A Feminist Computer Collective Looking For A New Worker To Join Us (FL/EPH/B/601); Women's Computer Centre 1984 (FLP/F/9); Women and Computing Workshop (FL/EPH/N/35); Women's Computer Course Program (FL/EPH/N/42); NAC Computer Appeal (FL/EPH/C/393)

Chicago Art Institute Special Collections

Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection and Archives

Chicano Research Institute Library of UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

Tatiana de la Tierra Papers, 1980-2007 CSRC.0124 (Box 9, 28, 29, 31, 32)

CKUT Archives, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Digitized audio files of Dykes on Mykes

Gale Archives of Sexuality and Gender

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I and II

Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA

Faith Wilding Papers (2017.M.8, Box 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, li)

GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, California, USA

Digital Queers (2014-03)

Carol Rossi Papers (2000-30, Carton 2 Digital Queers)

The High Tech Gays records (2014-07)

Transsexual News Telegraph (2003-33)

Jean Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Elise Matthesen Papers 1981-2005, Collection 263

Tim Bonham Papers 1977-2013, #416

John J. Wilcox Jr. GLBT Archives of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Kiyoshi Kuromiya Papers (Coll.18), Series 3: Critical Path

Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Subject Files: Internet (07010); Technology (14250); Switchboard/ Helplines (14060), Periodical Collection

Organizational Files: Asian Lesbians of the East Coast, NY, ORG FIL 139, Bronx,  Lesbians United in Sisterhood/ Hermanas Lesbianas Unidades del Bronx (BLUS/ BLUeS), ORG FIL 214, Dyke TV, ORG FIL 374, Las Buenas Amigas ORG FIL 747, Lavender Bytes ORG FIL 0752, and Salsa Soul Sisters ORG FIL 1348

GALE digitized folders

Library of Congress

LGBTQ+ Internet Guidebooks

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distinctive Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Ruth Perry Personal Archives, MC-0768

MIT Office of the Dean for Student Affairs, Records, 1945-1993, AC 19

MIT Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs. Residence and 

Campus Activities, Records 1948-1989, AC 371

MIT Office of the President, Records, 1972-1990, AC 180


New York University Special Collections, New York, New York, USA

Judith Braun Papers: Hi-Tech (MSS.530), Box 1

Mr. Lady Archive (MSS.362), Box 6

Exit Art Archive (MSS.343), Box 245, 320

Shu Lea Cheang Papers, Mix 94 Cyber Queer (MSS. 381), Box 18

ACT UP New York Archived Websites (MSS.619)


ONE Archives, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, Queer CyberCenter Records, (Coll2013-045)

Patricia Nell Warren papers (Coll2013-071), Box 10, 11, 17, 21, 57

ONE Subject Files Collection (Coll2012.001), Internet

Cyber Center, Long Beach Incorporated records (Coll2012.172), Box 7  

Lesbian Scientists and Tech Profs of NOGLSTP (Coll2014.112)

Sebesta (Ed) Papers 1964-1995 (Coll2014.019)


Pembroke Archives, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA 

Faith Wilding papers (Ms. 2019.007)

Eisenstein (Zillah) papers (Ms.2011.022, Series 3. Subseries 9. Gender and Cyberspace)

Malana Krongelb zine collection (MS.2017.007, Box 2, 7, 8, 10)


San José State University, San José, California, USA 

High Tech Gay Records (MSS.2018.10.08)

Billy DeFrank LGBT Silicon Valley Community Center Records(MSS-2004-06-07)

Lesbian Feminist Publications Collection (MSS.2014.07.09)

Sahl (Ted) Archives: A Collection of San José Gay and Lesbian History 1964-2010 (MSS.2001.01.01)


Schlesinger Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Dyke TV materials within Ana Maria Simo Papers (MC 1056); Bunch Papers (MC 708); Kelly Cogswell Papers (MC 1036) 


Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA

Dyke TV Records (Lesbians on the Internet (Box 51); Internet Lesbian (Box 41); Administrative Records (Boxes 71-76)

Sophia Smith Collection zines collection, SSC-MS-00434 (Box 10, 11, 14, 19)


Stanford University Special Collections, Stanford, California, USA

Silicon Valley Ephemera Collection (M0443)

Kathleen Hennessey Papers (M2261), Box 5, 56, 133, 134, 172

Liza Loop Papers (M1141), Box 2

Denise Caruso papers (M1727), Box 10


Studio XX (formerly AdaX) Archives, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Matricules (digitized)


UCLA Special Collections, Charles E. Young Library, Los Angeles, California, USA

Margriet Kiers and Kenna Hicks Papers (LSC.1985), Box 7, 8, 9

Jane Clewe Papers (2190) Box 1, 4, 5


Oral History Interviews and/or Personal Email Correspondence Conducted with:

Elizabeth Birch of Apple and HRC

AJ Alfieri-Crispin of High Tech Gays

Matt Bamberger of GLEAM

Gregg Blachford of Switchboard UK and Gay Line Montreal

Ann Mei Chang of Lavender Vision

Linda Chapman of Dyke TV

Stacey Copeland, digitizer of Dykes on Mykes audio files

Barabara Grant of GLEAM

Mary Gray of GLEAM

Kim Harris of HP-GLEN

Mél Hogan of Dykes on Mykes

Bennet Marks of Apple Lambda and Gayglers

Dayna McLeod of Dykes on Mykes

Trish Millines Dziko of GLEAM and BAM

Jenni Olson of PlanetOut and PopcornQ

Mary Patierno of Dyke TV

Tom Rielly of Digital Queers

Sally Sasso of Dyke TV

Edward H. Sebesta of LGAES

Tash Walker of Switchboard UK and the Log Books

Karen Wickre of Digital Queers

Adam Zmith of the Log Books