Glbtq.com

glbtq.com project is an online encyclopedia that presents detailed biographies of notable gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. It is the most popular LGBT-inclusive information site on Alexa. It was dubbed "the Encyclopedia Brittaniqueer" by The Advocate and named one of the "Best Free Reference Web Sites" in 2005 by the American Library Association.

glbtq.com was launched in 2003 and is regularly updated. It houses the largest, most comprehensive encyclopedia of LGBT culture in the world. The encyclopedia contains more than 2.2 million words-including overviews and surveys-covering almost 2,000 entries. The entries are categorized into three departments: Arts, Literature, and History and Social Sciences. The site also includes a discussion board and a special features section that presents interviews, slideshows, and spotlights. glbtq.com also issues a Newsletter on the 1st and 15th of each month, calling attention to new entries and spotlighting a particular group of entries.

The publisher of glbtq.com is Andrew "Wik" Wickholm. The General Editor is Claude J. Summers.

All entries in the encyclopedia are signed and referenced. There are more than 350 contributors, whose biographies are included on the site. These include Tee Corinne (photographer and visual artist), Shaun Cole (curator at London's Victoria and Albert Museum), William Hood (professor of art at Oberlin College), Karla Jay (director of Women's Studies at Pace University), Stephen O. Murray (writer), and Jim Provenzano (writer).

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About the glbtq Project

The glbtq project was founded in 2000 by Publisher Wik Wikholm to create the world's largest encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture and history and to deliver it online. The contents of the encyclopedia were formed and overseen by General Editor Claude Summers, Copy Editor Ted-Larry Pebworth, and Assistant to the Editor Linda Rapp. After more than two years of work, the site launched in 2003.

The site grew to become the largest glbtq encyclopedia ever created thanks to the work of its editors and more than 350 contributors. The website also included a variety of essays, a few interviews with contemporary figures, and, during its last few years of operation, a blog written by Claude Summers. Claude Summers' blog is archived at the ONE Institute in Los Angeles.

The project also produced three books: The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts (2004); The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater (2004); and The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television (2005), all published by Cleis Press.

The website closed on August 1, 2015 because of the collapse of the online advertising business model that had supported it.