IHLIA LGBT Heritage, formerly known as the International Gay/Lesbian Information Center and Archive ( nl, Internationaal Homo/Lesbisch Informatiecentrum en Archief; IHLIA), is an international archive and documentation center on

homosexuality Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to pe ...

, bisexuality and

transgender A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through ...

. It collects, preserves and presents to the public all kinds of information in the field of

LGBT ' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term ...

. IHLIA curates the largest LGBT collection of Europe with over 100,000 titles on 1515 meters of shelf length – books, journals and magazines, films, documentaries, posters, photographs and objects such as T-shirts, buttons and condom packaging. IHLIA was founded in 1999 by merging the Homodok (documentation on homosexuality of the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

) and the Lesbian Archives of Amsterdam and Leeuwarden. Since 2007, IHLIA is located in the Public Library Amsterdam. IHLIA and the

George Mosse Fund The Foundation George Mosse Fund of the University of Amsterdam (Stichting George Mosse Fonds van de Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a Dutch foundation ( stichting) that aims to promote gay and lesbian studies. It was founded in 2001 at the Univ ...

organize the annual Mosse Lectures. Over 95% of their annual budget, about 800.000 euros, comes from the country's government. They are 14 employees, almost all part-time. The biggest part of their LGBT archives collection is in fact hosted at

International Institute of Social History The International Institute of Social History (IISH/IISG) is one of the largest archives of labor and social history in the world. Located in Amsterdam, its one million volumes and 2,300 archival collections include the papers of major figu ...

, in Amsterdam too. File:Amsterdam Public Library.JPG, alt=Entrance of the Amsterdam Public Library, where IHLIA resides., Entrance of the Amsterdam Public Library, where IHLIA resides File:RozeKast.jpg, alt=Special pink bookcase., Special pink bookcase File:Der Eigene - Ein Blatt für Alle und Keinen - 3 March 1896 - Adolf Brand's Verlag - Berlin-Wilhelmshagen - Collection IHLIA LGBT Heritage, Amsterdam.pdf, alt=Der Eigene. Ein Blatt für Alle und Keinen (Your own. A magazine for everyone and no one), 1896 Berlin-Wilhelmshagen. First homosexual magazine. Full text. Collection IHLIA LGBT Heritage, ''Der Eigene. Ein Blatt für Alle und Keinen'' (Your own. A magazine for everyone and no one), 1896 Berlin-Wilhelmshagen. First homosexual magazine. Full text. Collection IHLIA LGBT Heritage.

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