Collection Breakdown
The Walden University Library contains a large, diverse collection of books, journals, and other materials related to LGBTQ+ issues. Scroll down to view the collection, which has been broken down into subject areas and material types.
Note: The materials listed below are by no means an exhaustive representation of the LGBTQ+-related materials found in the Walden University Library. Presented below is a curated list of resources designed to highlight aspects of our collection that relate directly to LGBTQ+ issues.
Don't forget to check out our search tips for accessing materials within our collection!
LGBT database
The Walden University Library offers access to LGBT Life with Full Text, which is an impressive collection of both scholarly and popular publications related to LGBTQ+ issues. Check it out below!
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LGBTQ+ SourceContains abstracts and full text articles focused on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues. Includes over 120 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers and more than 150 monographs/books.
Thoreau: Multi-Database Search Tool
Thoreau is a great tool for performing a search across a large portion of our general collection. You can use Thoreau to explore and discover articles on a variety of LGBTQ+-related topics.
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Thoreau Multi-Database SearchThoreau is a tool that searches across many of the Library databases. It is not able to search every database, but it does search enough of our resources to be a useful tool for quick, simple searches.
Health & medicine
- Predicting breast cancer screening among African American lesbians and bisexual women
- Social demography of health seeking experiences among transgender African Americans
- Predictors of condom use among African American transgender young adults
- Depression and HIV risk among African American men who have sex with men
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health: Data and statistics including "Sexual Orientation and Health Among U.S. Adults," a special topic covered in the National Health Interview Survey.
- Medline Plus: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Health: News, statistics and research, clinical trials, and journal articles.
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM): The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People - Building a Better Foundation for Understanding: A 2011 report from the Institute of Medicine (now the Health and Medicine Division) assessing research gaps and opportunities involving LGBT health issues.
- National Institutes of Health (NIH), Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO): Focuses research on the health challenges of sexual and gender minorities, newly designated as a health disparity population by the NIH director in 2016. Research efforts outlined in “NIH 2016-2020 Strategic Plan to Advance Research on the Health and Well-being of Sexual and Gender Minorities.”
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Health & Well-being for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans: Reports on LGBT health including "Advancing LGBT Health and Well-being Annual Reports" and links to reports published by other federal government agencies.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP): Healthy People 2020: Science-based, 10-year national objectives for health promotion and disease prevention. Topics include data on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health.
Education
- U.S. Department of Education (ED), Office for Civil Rights (OCR: Policy guidance, OCR case resolutions, court filings (statements of interest and amicus curiae briefs), and links to other federal government resources involving LGBTQ students.
Policy & law
- Courts liberalism and rights: Gay law and politics in the United States and Canada
- Gaylaw: Challenging the apartheid of the closet
- Policy issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families
- Law, meaning and violence : Strangers to the law: Gay people on trial
- Transgender rights and politics: Groups, issue framing, and policy adoption
- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): Advancing LGBTI Inclusive Development: Includes research and reports such as “LGBT Vision for Action” and country reports on being LGBT in Asia, emerging economies/countries, and Europe/Eurasia
- U.S. Census: Same-Sex Couples: Characteristics tables, same-sex working papers, and same-sex publications.
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R): Reports, case studies, and data sets on fair housing and discrimination. Search same-sex, LGBT, or other search terms in the main search box or search individual topic areas using the main menu.
- U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), LGBT Working Group: Press releases, publications, enforcement documents, and other LGBT related-resources involving the civil right of LGBT individuals.
- U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP): A handful of current reports involving LGBT youth in the juvenile justice system. Click Search (top right menu), enter search terms in the Keyword search box (such as LGBT or transgender), and check all the Resources to the right of the search box.
- U.S. Department of Labor (DOL): LGBT Policy: Note: The DOL report Advancing LGBT Workplace Rights U.S. Department of Labor (2016) is no longer available on the DOL website; it can be accessed via Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR).
- U.S. Department of State: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Annual country reports (beginning in 2013) with a section on human rights abuses involving sexual orientation and gender identity.
Counseling, psychology, & social work
- Validation of the internalized sexual prejudice scale
- Using video and contact to change attitudes toward gay men and lesbians
- Correlates of satisfaction with life for people who identify as transgender and sexual minority
- The relationship between school type and mental health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning young adultsy
- Casebook for counseling lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons and their families
- Counseling students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or questioning -- Research starters education
- Handbook of counseling and psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients 2nd ed
- Intersectionality, sexuality and psychological therapies : Working with lesbian, gay and bisexual diversity
- Psychological perspectives on lesbian, gay, and bisexual experiences
- Teaching LGBTQ psychology: Queering innovative pedagogy and practice
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Behavioral Health Equity - Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender: Behavioral health resources and training for practitioners, national survey reports, and information on agency and federal initiatives.