LGBTQ+ communities of the Former Soviet Union & Eastern Europe web archive / collected by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.

New York : Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation

1 online resource : illustrations

Began in August 2022.

Most included websites are in English and Russian; with some contents in other Eastern European languages such as Polish, Serbo-croatian, Ukrainian, Albanian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Slovenian, etc.

Unrestricted online access.

"The LGBTQ+ Communities of the Former Soviet Union & Eastern Europe Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and the University of Chicago, in partnership (as the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation) with New York University, the New York Public Library, and Library of University of California Berkeley. The collection archives a broad range of websites maintained by and for the benefit of LGBTQ+ communities in the independent countries of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. These websites document news, events, and issues within these diverse communities, and often provide helpful information about where to seek health, legal, and other assistance in their countries of origin. The collection provides a crucial gathering point for archiving such resources, for the benefit of researchers present and future, and of course for the communities themselves both in the homelands and the diaspora. The curators for this collection are: Anna Arays (Yale), Megan Browndorf (University of Chicago), Robert H. Davis Jr. (Columbia/Cornell), John C. DeSantis (Dartmouth), Bogdan Horbal (NYPL), Thomas Keenan (Princeton), Margarita Nafpaktitis (Stanford), Liladhar Pendse (University of California Berkeley), Anna Rakityanskaya (Harvard), Alla Roylance (NYU), and Erik Zitser (Duke)."

English; Russian; Albanian; Bosnian; Croatian; Hungarian; Macedonian; Polish; Slovenian; Ukrainian; Miscellaneous languages

September 16, 2022