LGBTQ+: Online Resources

The American Civil Liberties Union's site for the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, addressing rights, discrimination, and realted news.

The terms and definitions here are always evolving, changing and often mean different things to different people. They are provided as a starting point for discussion and understanding. This Glossary has been collectively built and created by the staff members of the LGBTQIA Resource Center since the early 2000s.

LGBTQ Nation is an online news magazine, reporting on issues relevant to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer community. We have a pro-LGBTQ+ point of view, but we don’t shy away from keeping a critical eye on the movement itself.

The National LGBTQ Task Force is dedicated to achieving freedom and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer people, and their families through proactive, targeted, change-inducing initiatives.

The Quatrefoil Library is the fulfillment of a dream for the late David Irwin. In the mid-1970s both he and Dick Hewetson started collecting gay-themed books, housing their collections in a linen closet. As David continued to buy more books, the collection soon outgrew the “closet.”

David and Dick’s long-time idea of starting a lending library was realized when Matthew Stark, Executive Director of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, invited the Quatrefoil Library to be a tenant in MCLU’s new building on West Broadway in North Minneapolis. The library opened there on February 4, 1986.

The first year was one of unprecedented growth, so much so that the demand and use of the library soon outgrew the facilities. The library reopened at the renovated Richards Gordon School on June 6, 1987, with more than 4,000 volumes and over 300 periodicals. The collection continues to grow, now consisting of over 23,000 items, from books and DVDs to various periodicals and sound recordings. Likewise, our membership grows, and we invite you to join the unique community that is the Q Library.

LGBTQ+ young people are four times more likely to attempt suicide, and suicide remains the second leading cause of death among all young people in the U.S. Their mission is to end suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning young people.