Southern California LGBT History

This collection offers some compelling primary content on a subject area near and dear to my heart-LGBT (or GLBT, or LGBTQ, or GLBTQI..whatver) History. The project was created by the ONE Archive and the UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center for Community Patnerships and its primary objective is to offer quality queer content to older students at the end of their secondary school careers.

I found this collection interesting because it offers some of its content in the form of a timeline which can be examined by decades. Coverage includes the 1940s through to the 2000s and organizes into national, California, and Southern California categories. Most of the good (i.e. unduplicated) content is from SoCal and I think the site does an excellent job of filtering out and selecting worthwhile materials for students of this age.

The problems are with displaying options and accessibility issues. The fact that photograhic images are small and there are no further viewing options leaves some content less useful than it could be, while the use of all the animation will cause problems for users accessing the site with older computers or dial up connections. Its worth taking a look at though-check it out