The main challenge that archives face when dealing with LGBTQ+ materials is balancing the needs of researchers with the privacy concerns of those who contributed to them. While it is important for...
Archives are repositories for recorded documents, artifacts, and memories that provide valuable insight into human history and culture.
Due to historical erasure and ongoing marginalization of...
Archivists have an important role to play in ensuring that the history and culture of marginalized communities are preserved for future generations. In recent years, there has been growing interest...
Curation is an essential part of preserving historical records. It involves selecting, organizing, describing, and presenting documents and artifacts that are relevant to a particular topic or...
Archival Gaps Influence Collective Memory
The preservation of written, visual, audio, and digital records is essential for understanding the past. Archival gaps refer to missing documents that...
The lack of certain narratives in queer archives may reflect historical oppression because it could indicate that those stories were suppressed or censored due to their LGBTQ+ themes.
It could...
Historiography
Historiography is the study of historical writing and its development. It includes the methods used to collect, analyze, interpret, present, preserve, and transmit history. In the...
LGBTQ+ people have faced discrimination throughout history due to their sexual orientation and gender identity. This has led to the destruction or suppression of many important documents and stories...
The curation of queer archival materials is an important process that involves the selection, arrangement, preservation, interpretation, and presentation of historical artifacts related to LGBTQ+...
Many archives have been created specifically to document and preserve materials related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) history. These archives can serve several functions...