The UNT Libraries recently received a collection of materials from Resource Center Dallas tracing more than 60 years of the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements in the North Texas region.

The Resource Center Dallas LGBT Collection of the UNT Libraries, includes approximately 400 boxes of newspapers, periodicals, press clippings, audio files, videotapes of gay pride parades and other events, music CDs, and movies focusing on LGBT and HIV/AIDS topics. The archive will be a strong foundation for the libraries' goals of collecting LGBT archival material from the South and Southwest and an important resource for the study of LGBT history.

Resource Center Dallas, one of the largest LGBT community centers in the U.S., has had a long connection to UNT through a partnership with UNT's Center for Psychosocial Health Research, in which researchers study social support and coping strategies for people living with chronic disease and medical conditions, including HIV infection and AIDS.