The National Consortium of Directors of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Resources in Higher Education was created out of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s Creating Change conference, and provides a forum for networking and strategizing GLBT Studies and related issues nationally. The site is located at www.glbtcampus.org.

The Lambda Literary Foundation is the only national nonprofit devoted to the promotion, preservation and publication of GLBT literature. Their mission is the promotion of GLBT literacy in “the widest possible sense.” Check it out at www.lambda-lit.org

A British professor and author named David Gauntlet, author of a book titled Media, Gender and Identity, runs a major website on everything to do with the world of theory, at www.theory.uk.org.

A GLBT Studies professor at the University of Kansas runs a helpful website that lists GLBT studies courses in North America, including overseas programs for interested students. Find the website at http://www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/.

The website Queer Theory, at www.queertheory.org, and its cousin, erraticimpact.com, offer a host of resources on GLBT issues and scholarship, with great links.

The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (Routledge Press) is a good place to get into the academic theories behind the GLBT experience. In it, you’ll find queer-theory heavyweights like Eve Sedgwick and Judith Butler. For scholarship on the cutting edge, check out Michael Warner’s The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics and the Ethics of Queer Life (Harvard, 2000), or Publics and Counterpublics (Zone Books, 2002).