LGBTQ Support, Research, & Reading

When searching for LGBTQ resources, you will sometimes have better results if you spell out whole words rather than using acronyms. Here is a list of words and phrases that you might use while conducting research:

You can also combine many of the terms above with other topics such as:

• To force the search engine to look for two or more words in a particular order and with no other words in between, use the phrase search. Place the phrase in quotation marks: "gay marriage" "lesbian spirituality"
• If you are unsure of the form of a word (or the spelling!) use an asterisk as a wild card. For example: teen* will return results containing teen, teenager, teenagers, teens
• Use the "Boolean operator" AND to make sure that the search engine searches for all of your words or phrases. AND means you must give me results that contain the items on both sides of the operator, for example, adoption AND gay
• Use the "Boolean operator" OR to look for synonymous or closely related terms. For example, if I am wondering about the intersection of religion and homosexuality, I might type: religion AND (gay OR lesbian OR homosexual)