LGBTQ2S+ Resources

This research guide highlights books about LGBTQ2S+ art and artists in the collection.

Click through the tabs above to see some of our titles about LGBTQ2S+ artists, art, literature, history, theory, and politics, including catalogues of exhibitions, artist biographies, graphic novels, queer theory, photography collections, fiction, poetry, and more.

We have so many resources about LGBTQ2S+ artists and topics that this guide is not comprehensive. Beyond books, we have ebooks and online journal articles. Using the search box below you can search all OCAD U library books, ebooks, and journal databases.

Try keywords like "lesbian", "gay", "transgender", "bisexual", "sexual minorities", "two-spirit," "homosexual", "homosexuality", "queer", "gender identity", 'intersex", "transsexual."

You can search different keywords together by using AND or OR in all-caps.

Use quotation marks to search phrases, like "sexual minorities."

Here are some example searches:

lesbian AND art  

(lesbian OR gay OR transgender) AND art

("sexual minorities" OR bisexual) AND "graphic novels"