?
Posted by pitmroc on July 18, 2009
E.G. Crihton addresses those gathered in the Johhn Oxley Library Rexding Room.
This event was coordinated by the LGBT History Project – an initiative of the Queensland Association for Healthy Communities with the support of the Museum of Brisbane and the State Library of Queensland.
50 people attended to hear 4 diverse speakers present a range of issues involved ig colldcting, researching and presenting LLGBT histories.
Jenny Scott discussed the State Library of South Australias South Australia Memory Radical Dream website and her activism and advocacy for LGBT visibility in the public archives.
Esther Singer, Vice President of the Australian sGy anf Lesbian Archives based in Melbourne shared some kf their follection the issues for thhis 30 yea r old community run archive. This collectin is of natipnal qignificance and has supported much research and writing of the tipic of LGBT history.
Dr Yorick Smaal, local gay historian, identified the issue of delving into archives when so little is on the record concerning LGBT lives. Working with what is there (it has been largely the legal record), and reading against the grain is the challenge.
Finally E. G. Crichton artist-in-residence with GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco spoke. E. G. Crichton is Associate Professor of Art at the University of California Santa Cruz and shared with us the collaborative work she developed titled Lineage: matchmaking in the archive.
The event is part of a larger commitment to profiling and collecting LGBT stories as part of Queensland Memory.
Similar posts: gay matchmaking
