Holding Our Stories: Queer Historical Preservation
Every queer person carries an archive — of survival, resistance, joy, and love. But who gets remembered? And who decides what counts as history?
This project explores how libraries and archives step into this sacred work: to record, protect, and make visible the histories of 2SLGBTQIA+ lives.
Here you’ll find stories of how queer communities built their own archives when institutions would not, and how libraries today can become guardians of queer pasts and futures. From grassroots collections to inclusive metadata practices, we trace the path from erasure to recognition.
Our goal is simple but bold: to make preservation feel like belonging — one that acknowledges the full diversity of queer experience and says, loudly and clearly, we were here.