Finding Information on Same-Sex Marriage

Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals

Local Sources

• LexisNexis (http://www.usfca.edu/library/databases/academicuniv.html) has the full text of many newspapers, including the SF Chronicle, SF Weekly and the SF Examiner (up until the Hearst Corporation sold it). In the "Guided News Search" you can limit to specific publications, like the SF Chronicle, or to California sources in general.
  
  
• San Francisco Bay Guardian (http://www.sfbg.com) An independent, locally owned and edited newspaper. Use the website's search engine to find articles in the newspaper's archives.
  
  
• SFGate.com Same-Sex Marriage Page (http://www.sfgate.com/samesexmarriage/)

National Sources

• InfoTrac OneFile (http://www.usfca.edu/library/databases/onefile.html) An index of articles from popular magazines, research journals and newspapers. Contains abstracts and citations, as well as many full-text articles.
  
  
• ProQuest Research Library (http://www.usfca.edu/library/databases/research.html) Another index of articles from magazines, journals and newspapers. Contains abstracts and citations, as well as many full-text articles.
  
  
• Opposing Viewpoints (http://www.usfca.edu/library/databases/viewpoints.html) This resource is particularly useful for finding pro/con essays on particular topics, as well as full-text newspaper and journal articles, statistical information, and recommended web sites.
  
  
• CQ Researcher (http://www.usfca.edu/library/databases/cq.html) Select "CQ Researcher" and then do a "Quick Search" using the phrase "gay marriage" to retrieve some detailed reports relating to this topic.

Alternative Perspectives

• Alternative Press Index (http://www.usfca.edu/library/databases/api.html) Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
  
  
• Alt-Press Watch (http://www.usfca.edu/library/databases/apw.html) Includes articles from 170 newspaper, magazine, and journal titles of the alternative and independent press. Contains the Advocate.
  
  
• ProQuest Religion (http://www.usfca.edu/library/databases/religious.html) Contains articles on religious affairs and religious thinking from the top 90 popular and scholarly periodicals in the study of religion and theology.
  
  
• ATLA Religion (http://www.usfca.edu/library/databases/atla.html) Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays covering all aspects of world religions; over 600 journal titles currently indexed.

Journal Finder

• Use Journal Finder to identify which journals are available in-print or online at USF, and how to find them (http://www.usfca.edu/library/journalfinder.html)
  
  
• If you're looking for the names of journals representing particular political or ideological perspectives, try the following guide, courtesy of Lewis D. Cannell Library at Clark College: http://www.csci.clark.edu/~library/PDF/liberal-conservative.pdf

Ignacio and LINK+

• Ignacio is the library's catalog for books and titles of journals available at USF. (http://ignacio.usfca.edu/)
  
  
• Subject Headings: look under specific topics like "same sex marriage" or "gay couples"
  
  
• Keywords: try combining different words to see results (for example "gay and marriage")
  
  
• Also, you can access LINK+ from Ignacio, which lets you borrow books from other libraries.

Some Useful Web Sites

Organizations Supporting Same-Sex Marriage

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Lesbian & Gay Rights http://www.aclu.org/LesbianGayRights/LesbianGayRightsmain.cfm
  
  
• Lambda Legal Marriage Project http://www.lambdalegal.org/cgi-bin/iowa/issues/record?record=9
  
  
• Marriage Equality California http://www.marriageequalityca.org/
  
  
• National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) Family Law Project http://www.nclrights.org/projects/familylaw.htm
  
  
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Marriage Center http://www.ngltf.org/marriagecenter/

Organizations Opposing Same-Sex Marriage

• Alliance Defense Fund http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/
  
  
• Christian Coalition of America http://www.cc.org/
  
  
• Marriage Watch.org http://www.marriagewatch.org/ a service of the Marriage Law Project, a legal research project affiliated with the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America
  
  
• ProtectMarriage.org http://www.protectmarriage.org/ sponsored by the Family Research Council
  
  
• The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/02/20040224-2.html statement by President George W. Bush calling for a constitutional amendment protecting marriage

Other Web Resources

• Census 2000 Married Couple and Unmarried Partner Households http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/censr-5.pdf
  
  
• Defense of Marriage Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d104:h.r.03396:
  
  
• GLBTQ http://www.glbtq.com/ an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture.
  
  
• House Joint Resolution 56 "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage" http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.j.res.00056:
  
  
• National Council of State Legislators http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cyf/samesex.htm contains useful maps!
  
  
• Same Sex Marriage: A Selective Bibliography of the Legal Literature http://law-library.rutgers.edu/SSM.html published by the Rutgers Law Library
  
  
• Stateline.org 50 State Rundown on Gay Marriage Laws http://www.stateline.org/stateline/?pa=story&sa=showStoryInfo&id=353058