Wisconsin Pride Resources

BOOKS

Kalvaitis Jenny and Kristen Whitson. 2021. We Will Always Be Here : A Guide to Exploring and Understanding the History of LGBTQ+ Activism in Wisconsin. Madison WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press.

Wagner R. Richard. 2020. Coming Out Moving Forward : Wisconsin’s Recent Gay History. Madison WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press.

Wagner R. Richard. 2019. We’ve Been Here All along : Wisconsin’s Early Gay History. Madison Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society Press.


LGBTQ+ DEFINITIONS & LEARNING RESOURCES

PFLAG Essentials
PFLAG ​is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them. Their “Essentials” guide, among other things, helps loved ones and allies of LGBTQ+ people learn to use important, inclusive language and vocabulary, and intersectional strategies of support.

PBS LearningMedia LGBTQ+ Materials
A comprehensive set of materials from PBS LearningMedia for educators and caregivers to teach and learn about the history and present of LGBTQ+ people, and to foster safe supportive spaces for LGBTQ+ learners.


ORGANIZATIONS

Diverse & Resilient
Milwaukee based Diverse & Resilient envisions a future in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in Wisconsin thrive, living healthy, satisfying lives in safe, supportive communities.

GSAFE
GSAFE creates just schools for LGBTQ+ youth in Wisconsin by developing the leadership of LGBTQ+ youth, supporting Gay-Straight Alliances, training educators, advancing educational justice, and deepening racial, gender, trans, and social justice.

Travel Wisconsin Pride Event Listing 2023
Travel Wisconsin maintains a list of statewide events welcoming you to join LGBTQ+ and ally communities across the state during June’s Pride month and beyond!

University of Wisconsin-Madison Public History Project 
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Public History Project is a multi-year effort to uncover and give voice to those who experienced, challenged and overcame prejudice on campus. Among important landmark events in Wisconsin LGBTQ+ history, Public History Project staff have written comprehensive, archival and research-based articles on protesting military homophobia at UW-Madison and the 1962 UW-Madison “Gay Purge.”

RESEARCH ARCHIVES

Wisconsin State Historical Society (WHS)
The state archive and manuscript repository and groundbreaking partner in the production of PBS Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Pride, its ongoing commitment to LGBTQ+ history is significant across its archives, outreach activities and publishing arm, the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.

Madison LGBTQ Archive at UW-Madison
Part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives, formed beginning in 2007 from a desire to create a stable, permanent home for Madison’s and Dane County’s LGBTQ+ past.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Golda Meier Library LGBTQ+ Archive and Special Collections
Explore this UW-M based, publicly accessible home for primary source material documenting the lives of the Milwaukee queer communities.

Wisconsin LGBT History Project
A remarkable example of a grassroots, community-based LGBTQ+ archive that preserves Milwaukee’s collective queer past/

Queer Zine Archive Project
Based in Milwaukee and launched in November 2003. QZAP’s published mission is “to establish a ‘living history’ archive of past and present queer zines and to encourage current and emerging zine publishers to continue to create.”

RESOURCE COMPENDIUMS

University of Wisconsin System LGBTQ+ Resources
UW-System lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) resources serves to provide resources for and act as a liaison to campus centers and the staff and faculty that serve LGBTQ+ students at UW System universities and colleges. Access this comprehensive directory of campus-based and other LGBTQ+ resources.

Wisconsin Department of Children and Families LGBTQIA2S+ Resource Hub
The Department of Children and Families (DCF) plays an integral role in ensuring the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and other identified LGBTQ+ youth in the state of Wisconsin, particularly those who are involved in or at risk of involvement in the child welfare system via child protective services and youth justice.