Documenting Rebellions: a Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times

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Year of Publication
2022
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272 pp.
Publisher
Litwin Books
City
Sacremento, CA
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9781634000918
Abstract

Documenting Rebellions is a study of four archives that were constituted with a common desire to preserve the memory and evidence of lesbian and gay people. They are The Lesbian Herstory Archives (New York), The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (Los Angeles), the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives (West Hollywood), and the ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives (Toronto). Using a narrative approach that draws from first-person accounts and archival research, each chapter tells a story about how these organizations came to exist, who has supported them over time, and how they have survived for more than forty years.

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Contents: 

  • Introduction
  • Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times
  • The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives
  • The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
  • The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives
  • The Lesbian Herstory Archives
  • Luck is Not a Sustainability Strategy
  • Flocking Together
  • From Radical Archiving to Special Collections
  • Conclusion: Putting the Q in Lesbian and Gay Archives 

Received the 2022 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award presented by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association every third year to recognize the best book written in English in the field.