Symposium : Bearing Witness, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Sunday, March 16, 2014
The keynote speech in this SFMOMA symposium was "Witnessing, Bystanding, Onlooking, Participating"
by Margaret Olin, Senior Research Scholar, Yale Univers
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Kate Clinton is a humorist who has entertained LGBT audiences for 30 years.
Sometimes at fundraisers when I’m talking with people about another string
Active Recollection: Marvin J. Taylor in conversation with Julie Ault
"...The question I’m fascinated with is, what is the relationship of the archive to the body? The archive as a stand-in for the absent body, because then you could talk about the fe
Read more…A recent research query on the extent of Australian photographic portraiture documenting HIV/AIDS during the 1980s and 1990s prompted me, as such specific queries often do, to explore the ALGA's collections in areas I was less familiar with. It also
Read more…The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives is in the process of testing out the online delivery of some of the many scrapbooks in our collection via Issuu. The first scrapbook to go online is the following scrapbook, compiled by John Lee on Sydney Gay L
Read more…Australia’s Homosexual Histories Conference 2014
Friday 14th and Saturday 15th November 2014
University of Technology, Sydney
The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and Pride History Group, in conjunction with the Australian Centre for Public Histor
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Professor Richard Ekins: Negotiated for archive to go to the University of Victoria in Canada, which paid for its transportation and inventory
Published: 18 July
The following article raises some interesting issues around ethics and appraisal which I thought may be of interest if you haven't seen it before:
"After an approach to Professor Ekins’ “first choice” library, the Hall-Carpenter Archive (HCA) at the L
Read more…Two of ALGAs Committee 'recently' attended the fourth LGBTI ALMS (Archives, Libraries, Museums and Special Collections) Conference in Amsterdam (2-3 August 2012), hosted by IHLIA (International Homo/Lesbisch Inermatiecentrum en Archief). The Conferen
Read more…Some of your may be aware of a new Facebook group, Lost Gay Sydney (LGS) that was established in June (http://www.facebook.com/groups/251339868304161/). In the space of around four weeks the LGS group has attracted ~3800 members, who have posted ~340
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I would be very interested in any ideas you may have to improve the exposure of LGBTIQ collections within Australian cultural institutions, particularly state and national archives and libraries. While there has been some great research publis
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