LGBTQ+ Resources for Museums Professionals

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Museums are places where we can all come together to engage in discourse, raise awareness, communicate who we are, and belong as a community. Being so, it is essential that museums celebrate, recognize, support, and welcome people of every sexual orientation and gender identity, not only during June, but all year round. Inclusion muse be embedded in every aspect of museum work – from staffing and signage to exhibitions and educational programs.

In honor of Pride Month, WMA is highlighting and providing easier access to the amazing LGBTQ+ resources that are out there to help museum professionals advocate for and advance inclusion with specific respect to LGBTQ+ communities, within their own institutions.

Please note, these resources are subject to change and will be updated as new information becomes available.

If you have other resources to add, please share with us at communications@westmuse.org.

 

Resources for Museums

Glossary of Terms – Human Rights Campaign

Welcoming Guidelines for Museums, 2019 – AAM’s LGBTQ Alliance

Advocating for LGBTQ Equality in Your Workplace – Human Rights Campaign

Inclusion Tools & Publications for Museums – The Incluseum

Film: How Museums Can Expand Narratives With LGBTQ Interpretation – Museum Next

The Queer-Inclusive Museum – article written by Margaret Middleton

Inclusion Resources for Museums – The Incluseum

An Institution’s Guide to: Gender Transition and Transgender Inclusion in the Museum Field – AAM’s LGBTQ Alliance

How to Make Your Hiring Practices Accessible – BCMA

As Museums Move to Diversify, Newly Created Roles for Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging Take on New Significance – ArtNews

Queering the Museum Project – Queering the Museum

LGBTQIA History in Museums – Sustaining Places

10 Easy Ways Museums Can Be More LGBTQ-friendly – AAM

Research Guides – GLBT Historical Society

Center for Queer History – Goldsmith’s Center for Queer History

 

Resources for Museum Professionals

A Coworker’s Guide to: Gender Transition and Transgender Inclusion in the Museum Field – AAM’s LGBTQ Alliance

A Transitioning Professional’s Guide to: Gender Transition and Transgender Inclusion in the Museum Field – AAM’s LGBTQ Alliance

Coming Out at Work – Human Rights Campaign

List of LGBTQ Professional and Student Associations – Human Rights Campaign

Gender Equity in Museums Movement – GEMM

Out and Equal Workplace Summit – Out & Equal

The Incluseum

 

LGBTQ Museums + Libraries + Archives

The American LGBTQ+ Museum

ONE Archives Foundation

GLBT Historical Society

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Museum of Transgender History & Art

Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives

Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria

 

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