Some one-time (i.e., non-periodical) publications don't quite qualify as books. Pamphlets, chapbooks, offprints, scripts, and other such items are often small, sometimes unbound, and could easily get lost among a shelf of bigger volumes. The Archives handles such small items as a separate collection of monographs.
Though small, these works are hardly insignificant. Pamphlets are a time-honoured means of political expression, especially for movements with only minimal resources. Many texts influential in later gay, lesbian, and feminist activism first saw print as booklets of only a few dozen pages. Much of our heritage of fiction, poetry, theatre, and historical studies exists as chapbooks and other small works, many of them produced by gay men's and women's small presses.
The Archives has a database of its monographs. For more information, feel free to contact us.