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Contents:
- PRIDE AT THE FOWLER: ARCHIVG GAY HISTORY
- ON ARCHIVG AND HONORG VIRGIA'S LONG GAY HISTORI
- GAY EROTI
- GAY-PORN
PRIDE AT THE FOWLER: ARCHIVG GAY HISTORY
There's a way to burst through the shame gay men are ma to feel about homosexualy. * archiving gay *
Recent celebrated projects by Barte and Skge feature archival ntent about the liv of two gay, Black men who actively fought agast polil opprsn and for the safety of their muny at the height of the AIDS crisis the early ’90s. Joan Jett Blakk, and Black Panther Party member Rodney Barte, who tablished the first Black-owned gay bar San Francis. Gbadamosi overse the year-round artistic visn for the anizatn’s many programs, cludg the Outft UCLA Legacy Project, the only program the world exclively dited to prervg lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr movg imag at risk of beg lost due to terratn and neglect.
She overse the exhibns and programs at one of the largt reposori of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer materials the world.
Gregg worked closely wh the Gay and Lbian Task Force of the Amerin Library Associatn and librarians and archivists om around the globe velopg The Internatnal Ths of Gay and Lbian Inx Terms that would tablish bt practic for the scriptn of LGBTQ materials llectns.
ON ARCHIVG AND HONORG VIRGIA'S LONG GAY HISTORI
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgenr, Genrqueer, Queer, Qutng, Intersex, Agenr, Asexual, Ally, and other queer-intifyg muny rerds Please note: Although some of the rerds have been digized and ma available onle, there are many rerds that are only available paper or microfilm format at Natnal Archiv and Rerds Admistratn * archiving gay *
Durg this time, the Canadian Gay Archiv (now the Arquiv) published a manual for velopg llectns tled Organizg an Archiv: The Canadian Gay Archiv Experience. Gerber/Hart’s October of 1985 Newsletter announced the formatn of the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Archiv and Librari (IALGAL) formed at the Internatnal Gay and Lbian History Conference at the Universy of Toronto earlier that year.
GAY EROTI
The ONE LGBTQ Rearch Fellowship supported a trip to the wt ast that allowed me to vis the extensive llectns of ONE Archiv at the USC Librari, and to ordate the trip wh the Commtee on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr History’s first Queer History Conference and a rearch vis to the GLBT Historil Society San Francis.
The llectns of the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Archiv, and the Amerin Library Associatn Task Force and Social Rponsibili Round Table Collectns helped to fill the gaps om Gregg’s papers, but the IALGAL remaed an elive topic.
Bette as, “The Gay Archival Impulse: The Foundg of the Gerber/Hart Library and Archiv Chigo, ” Vol. Top image: A map showg the lotn of the members of the Internatnal Associatn of Lbian and Gay Archiv and Librari (IALGAL) 1987.
GAY-PORN
Recent celebrated projects by Barte and Skge feature archival ntent about the liv of two gay Black activists—the 1992 printial ndidate Terence Alan Smh, aka Joan Jett Blakk, and Black Panther Party member Rodney Barte, who tablished the first Black-owned gay bar San Francis—who fought agast polil opprsn and advoted for the safety of their muny at the height of the AIDS crisis the early 90s. As the only out young gay kid at my school, I took the advancement of my sexual experienc to my own hands and I did what we all do: I bought a fake ID and h the gay clubs. While I knew wouldn’t be like a gay llege eroti I’d read on (gay non, really), I rather naively wasn’t expectg the fall out.
I realize I fell to that old gay adage of placg my feelgs on a person who, for whatever reason, was never gog to vt them back me. Worst of all, though, the shame attached to the memori of those first tim marred how I would approach sex for was listeng to Years & Years’ new song “Sanctify, ” and seeg the band’s out gay sger Olly Alexanr talk about how the song was spired his sexual trysts wh straight men, that I realized that the feelgs are way more mon than people let on. Sure, I know all about gay guys havg sex wh straight guys, but felt reassurg to see him scribe the “sat and sner role” he embodied durg those experienc, and to hear the uncertaty and melancholy weaved to the than anythg though, was the repeated lyril mantra of “I won’t be ashamed.
PRIDE at the Fowler The Fowler is ntug s history of supportg social jtice by jog the worldwi celebratn of Pri Month, which promot the digny, equaly, self-affirmatn, and creased visibily of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgenr, Genrqueer, Queer, Qutng, Intersex, Agenr, Asexual, Ally, and other queer-intifyg muny rerds. On other walks hosted by the project, Kdley said prenters clud lotns, long sce repurposed or molished, that had once served as key gatherg s for Norfolk's lbian, gay, bisexual and trans muni.