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2012/08/23
Looking Back: Looking Forward
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Looking Back: Looking Forward London Metropolitan Archives: LGBT History and Archives Conference 2003-2012 Jan Pimblett, P...
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Richard Parkinson, British Museum, London, UK: A ‘Great Unrecorded History’: Presenting LGBT History in a Museum for the World
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Warren Cup At the LGBTI ALMS 2012 Conference, Richard Parkinson of the British Museum in London held a key note speach on day 3, in wh...
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2012/07/30
Emanuela Fiorletta, CLI, Rome, Italy: Lesbian Archives in Italy: The Archives of Collegamento Lesbiche Italiane
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"The main objective of Archivia is to let women know that we have a heritage, a history, and that we needn't always start from scra...
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2012/07/28
Gabriel Hoosain Khan, GALA, Johannesburg, South Africa: Archival Expansions
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"The archive itself becomes a space which actively moves away from the institution, and instead structures itself as an informal and en...
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Andy Sacher, Los Angeles, USA: The Lavender Effect
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"Can we retain a distinct 'queer identity' and ethos, while participating fully in society? The Museum and Cultural Center will...
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2012/07/26
Tamsin Bookey, Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive, London, UK: Strange bedfellows: improving the accessibility and preservation of LGBTQ archives through partnership
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"The importance of the facilities for permanent preservation offered by a potential host should not be underestimated or prioritised si...
2012/07/25
Graham Willett, Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne, Australia: How Small Collections Can Make a Big Difference Graham Willett, Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives
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"The work of community-based archives and other collections is of national significance, and we should celebrate what we do and be prou...
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Bryan Knicely, Stonewall National Museum & Archives, Fort Lauderdale, USA: Call for Cooperation
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"We are hoping that our colleagues from around the world will share these resources with us to post, so we can all help each other in t...
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Sean Curran, London, UK: The Museum Through Queer Eyes: Bringing the "Outsider" Narratives Inside
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" Museum collections and exhibitions should perhaps be interpreted under the assumption that everyone is, or has the potential to ident...
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Sara Rosa Espi, Utrecht, The Netherlands: Preserving Ephemeral texts: Queer Zines in the Archive
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"Zines are a form of self-publishing that preceded blogs by many decades, although personal zines cover some of the same content: intim...
2012/07/24
Angela Brinskele, Mazer Lesbian Archives, West Hollywood, USA: Using Social Media and Oral Histories to promote and gain support for your organization regardless of your budget.
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" Every oral history is digitally recorded but now video clips are recorded as well, which we then use to share and promote the pro...
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James Miller and David DeAngelis, Pride Library, London, Ontario, Canada: Too Hot to Handle: Accessibility Strategies for Culturally Sensitive Materials at the Pride Library, Western University, Canada
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"If such materials only came with clear warning labels like hazardous chemicals, we would have little difficulty detecting their danger...
2012/07/23
Brenda Marston, Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA: Coming full circle: Connecting communities with archival threads in the age of social media
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"I know I wouldn't have had as much fun with the American Historical Association conference this winter if it weren't for Faceb...
Jack van der Wel, IHLIA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The New Homosaurus: Building a Global More Bisexual & Transgender Inclusive LGBT Thesaurus
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"Existing classifications frequently don't fit in information of special concern to gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender p...
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2012/07/21
Ed Madden, Columbia, USA: The Irish Queer Archive: Institutionalization and Historical Narrative
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"If the stories of Ireland’s lesbian and gay communities and its queer cultures are now symbolically 'part of the national story,...
Lisa Vecoli, Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, Minneapolis, USA: The Power of a Community Advisory Board
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"With proper investment, Community Advisory Boards have the potential to be (...) a tool for engagement, for donor solicitation and for...
2012/07/20
Anna Borgos and Kriszta Pozsonyi, Labrisz Lesbian Association, Budapest, Hungary: Secret Years: Fragments of a Hungarian Lesbian Herstory
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"As suggested by the title of the project, the interviewees talk about the “secret years” of their lives as lesbians: about women, lov...
Kate Davison, Australia: Agents of Social Change? LGBT Voices in Australian Museums
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"It is time now for LGBT histories in Australia to take their due place not only out on the streets but also within the custodial power...
2012/07/11
Suzie Day, Australia: Subverting the system: Catering to the LGBTI community in your library when your boss says “no dough”
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"You are showing a young teenager that you won’t laugh at them for wanting to find out about safe sex. No matter what you do, you wil...
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2012/07/08
Tuula Juvonen, Tampere, Finland: Queering Archives and Museums – Raising consciousness about preserving LGBT History in Finland
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"In order to remedy the situation, an idea rose among some of the elderly LGBT activists. Why not create a lesbian and gay museum of ...
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2012/07/06
Jamie Ann Lee, Tucson, USA: Queer Imaginings of the Archive
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"For those of us committed to critically intervening in and opening up the traditional archival constructs while developing queer/ed ar...
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Phan Bigotte and Thomas Leduc, Académie Gay et Lesbienne, Paris, France: LGBT archives in France
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"They refuse to help us under the pretext that we have some documentation about certain controversial subjects like pornography, BDSM o...
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2012/07/03
Sabine Balke Estremadoyro, Spinnboden Lesbenarchiv und Bibliothek, Berlin, Germany: Spinnboden, the lesbian archive and library in Germany and i.d.a. the umbrella organisation of German-language lesbian/women’s libraries, archives and documentation centers
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"An important reason why the lesbian archives was founded in Berlin, was that at that time, history was seen only through men's e...
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2012/07/02
Don McLeod, Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives, Toronto, Canada: Serendipity and the Papers of Magnus Hirschfeld: The Case of Ernst Maass
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"I decided to try to solve the mystery of Ernst Maass." Ernst Maass, the only relative present at Magnus Hirschfeld's de...
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2012/06/29
Danielle Cooper, Toronto, Canada: “’Big Gay Library:’” An exploratory ethnography of the Pride Library at the University of Western Ontario”
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"I observed that the archives were not only valued by users for the information they housed, but also for providing a welcoming, social...
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2012/06/27
Joseph Hawkins, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, USA: From Community Collection to Professional Archiv, es: A Journey
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"History is written by those who save the records; our archival institutions must collect, protect and make available those records, be...
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2012/06/26
E.G. Crichton, GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, USA: Migrating Archives
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" What is absent is sometimes just as powerful as what can be found tangibly in the archive box or folder. " Photo of one of E....
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2012/06/20
Amir Hodžić, Croatia: The making of: “Oral History of Homosexuality in Croatia""
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"But, what was it like to live as lesbian, gay or bisexual in Croatia/Yugoslavia before the “revolutionary” 2000s, before the emerge...
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Ajamu X, Rukus! Black LGBT Archives, London, UK: Sharing Tongues: Black LGBT Oral Testimonies
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"In the few short years of the existence of the rukus! archive no more can our black communities ignore us, nor can the wider gay ...
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2012/06/18
Aletta - E-Quality, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: A women’s archive and transgender resources: collecting and indexing at Aletta E-Quality
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"We’d like to know from you how you define and index transgender resources and how you deal with dilemmas regarding visibility....
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