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The Lesbian Herstory Archives is hometo the world's largest collection ofmaterials by and about lesbians and

their communities.

Inspired by the courage of Lesbianswho lived, struggled, and loved in

more difficult times, the Archives isgoverned by a group of volunteercoordinators and sustained by the

collective work of volunteers and thepassions of women the world over.Today the Lesbian Herstory Archivesis the largest and longest-lived

Lesbian archive anywhere.

“Knowing this space exists gives mehope for the future.You have given

me a history and a community I neverexpected.I will always be grateful

for your work.”–Archives Visitor, 4/10/07

LHA welcomes all participants to the ALMS Conference. Pleasejoin us at the opening reception hosted at the Lesbian HerstoryArchives Thursday, May 8, 6-9 pm

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULEThursday, May 8

4:30-7:30 p Concourse Lobby Conference Registration

6 – 9 Lesbian Herstory Archives 484 14th St., Brooklyn Opening Reception & TourLesbian Herstory Archives hosts the GLBT ALMS 2008 Conference reception, tour, and open house at the home of the largest and longest-lived lesbian archive on the planet. F train from 34th St./B’way to 15th St. Brooklyn (30 minute ride, $2 each way)

7.30 - 9.30 C198 Drag Show Video VéritéAn archive-based video documentary essay that captures 35 plus years of the changing faces, places and fashions of male and female impersonation in New York City. From Rollerena to RuPaul, Jackie Curtis to Jackie Beat, the rare clips of over 60 some performers gathered here make Drag Show Video Vérité the ultimate New York City drag show... on videotape. JOE E. JEFFREYS, DRAG PERFOR-MANCE HISTORIAN/ARCHIVIST

Friday, May 9

8:45 a Concourse Lobby Conference Registration Continental Breakfast

9:15 Proshansky Auditorium WelcomeRemembering Allan Bérubé, Barbara Gittings, and Yolanda Retter.

9.30 - 10.45 Proshansky Auditorium 1st Keynote

Keeping Current: China’s LGBT Information Networks, Information to

Combat Ignorance and Fear

The Aibai Library/Archive is modest in size but in China where information of interest to the GLBT community is hard to come by and misinformation is plentiful, it has served as a conduit where reason and science flow in to fill the void and combat prejudice. Combining acquisi-tion, translation, and the creation of original material, the Aibai Library/Archive serves GLBT activists and scholars interested in GLBT issues in China. BING LAN, LGBT ARCHIVE FOUNDER, AIBAI CULTURE & EDUCATION CENTER, BEIJING; DAMIEN LU, ICCGL PRESIDENT, AIBAI CULTURE & EDUCATION CENTER, BEIJING

Friday, May 9

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The Ever-Evolving Gay Archives: Professional Activists or Archivists

What happens when a community archive functions as a professional organization? The President and an archi-vist/board member of the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles will discuss the challenges of changing a volunteer fiefdom-like culture into a wholly functioning LGBT archives while answering to an opinion-ated community. Another archivist will reflect how com-munity repositories often take on responsibilities other than their archival function. GREG WILLIAMS, ONE ARCHIVES BOARD MEMBER/ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS; JOY NOVAK, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS/UCLA PHD CANDI-DATE; JOSEPH HAWKINS, ONE NATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN ARCHIVES; MIKE OLIVIERA, ONE PROJECT ARCHIVIST, MODERATOR C 204-5

Building Queer Communities, Building Queer Websites: New Digital

Resources from CLAGS CLAGS is creating two electronic resources in sexuality and gender studies. The International Resource Network (IRN) is a dynamic international website that links teach-ers and researchers sharing knowledge about sexuality. OutHistory.org, is a wiki-style site on U.S. LGBTQ history from pre-colonial times to the present. Administrators will present these web-based projects and discuss the phi-losophies and concerns behind them. JONATHAN NED KATZ, OUTHISTORY.ORG; SARAH E. CHINN, CLAGS; LYNLEY WHEATON, CLAGS, OUTHISTORY.ORG; NOM-VUYO NOLUTSHUNGU, CLAGS/IRN C 197 Archival AbsencesResearcher Reflections on GLBT Archives and Trans Research. Where does a researcher looking to histo-ricize “trans-” go? Historical materials are sometimes mixed in and sometimes entirely separate from gay, lesbian, or bisexual materials. The Rupert Raj Collection at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives documents pre-internet transnational communication networks. The story of that collection points to challenges in collecting trans materials within primarily gay or lesbian archives. NICHOLAS MATTE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PHD CANDIDATE In Whose Report Will You Believe?: Reclaiming Sakia Gunn from History’s Limbo. Sakia Gunn’s May 2003 murder received little to no press. Given the “synthesis of oppressions” Sakia faced, her identities as an Afri-can-American, young, urban, queer person pushed her toward historical margins where neglected narratives re-side. This presentation challenges reliance on “primacy” narratives representing limited perspectives and specific

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agendas. Queer of Color/Black Queer Studies scholar-ship addresses the complexities of intersecting identities and oppressions. Experiences and voices often ignored in the construction of histories are, by extension, margin-alized in archives. ELISA NORRIS, SYRACUSE UNIVER-SITY PHD CANDIDATE C198 Film+talk: Nitrate KissesThis first feature by lesbian cinema pioneer Barbara Hammer explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. It weaves striking images of the sexual activities of four gay and lesbian couples with footage that unearths the forbidden and invisible history of a marginalized people. Archival foot-age from the first gay film made in the U.S., Lot in Sodom (1933), and footage from German documentary and nar-rative films of the 1930s are interwoven with more recent images of desire in this erotic and haunting documentary. BARBARA HAMMER, FILMMAKER

12.15 - 1.15 p Lunch on your ownGC cafeteria 8th floor

Tour New York Public Library,

5th Ave. bet. 40th & 42nd St., Trustees Room, 2nd Floor

Tour GLBT Collections of the New York Public Library Humanities & Social Sciences Manuscripts & Archives Division. Holdings include collections of the International Gay Information Center, ACTUP/New York, AIDS Activist Videotapes, and other glbt organizations, activists, writ-ers, and scholars. 1.30 - 2.45 Proshansky Auditorium 2nd Keynote

Memory in Action: Documenting Same-sex Experience in an African Context

Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action’s heritage project com-bines archival records with story-telling to produce film, exhibitions, comics, books, tours, and theater to educate the public about same-sex and transgender experience in South Africa since pre-colonial times. Presenters will discuss the specific challenges and successes of archives and public education activism in South Africa and the region. BUSI KHESWA , GAY & LESBIAN MEMORY IN ACTION, JOHANNESBURG; ANTHONY MANION, GAY & LESBIAN MEMORY IN ACTION, JOHANNESBURG

3 - 4.15 C201-2 The Catalog and YouBroader Term: Persons. A Historical Overview of Queer Terms in Library of Congress Subject Headings, 1914-2007. Study of 1914-2007 editions of the Library of Congress Subject Headings indicate that the evolution of queer subject headings has roughly paralleled the history of the legal and social treatment

of queerness. Analysis focuses on the evolution of terms including “Homosexual” “Sodomy” and “Transsexuals” against the backdrop of the legal and social treatment of queerness in the U.S. SARA TURKOVICH, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH JD CANDIDATE; PAT LAWTON, UNI-VERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, MLIS CANDIDATE

Pedagogical Implications of GLBT Cataloging Prac-tice. When teaching students to use library catalogs for research in queer studies courses, librarians quickly run up against the limits of traditional cataloging systems. This paper suggests pedagogical interventions to equip students with the skills necessary to navigate the hege-monic system that is the library catalog. These interven-tions position librarians to teach students more generally about the socially constructed nature of knowledge and, by extension, power and social reality. EMILY DRABIN-SKI, SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE C 204-5 Small Town, Conservative, and Rural: Documenting More of Queer AmericaBRENDA MARSTON, CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, MODERATOR

A Small but Persistent Voice: Recovering and Docu-menting the Queer History of Wyoming. The American Heritage Center has supported recovery of the missing record of queer life in Wyoming. This presentation covers the process of recovering that record and the challenges faced collecting LGBTQ material in Laramie. KEITH REYNOLDS, AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER

Queering the South Caroliniana Library: The LGBTQ Archive at the University of South Carolina. Out-lines initial efforts to actively document and preserve Columbia’s LGBTQ activist community history through collections acquisitions and oral history interviews. SANTI THOMPSON, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA LIBRARY

Rainbow: Oral Histories of GLBTIQ People in Kansas. Overview of the University of Kansas digital oral history project - its peaks, pitfalls, and future directions. TAMI ALBIN, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LIBRARIES; HOLLY MERCER, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LIBRARIES

C 203 Institutional HistoriesGLBT Task Force Year 1. In June 1970, Israel Fishman filed papers to create a new group within the American Library Association’s Social Responsibilities Round Table; the Task Force on Gay Liberation. In September of that year Barbara Gittings heard about it. She quickly got in-volved, leading to what was perhaps the most monumen-tal event for the group – the 1971 ALA conference in Dal-las – which featured the first book award, the famous ‘hug a homosexual’ booth and the ‘crowning’ of Gittings as the group’s coordinator. This presentation focus on events of that first year 1970-1971. ANNE L. MOORE, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST LIBRARY

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A Pleasure to Serve. San Francisco public libraries have been actively shaping and reflecting the city’s famous and fabulous glbt population for many years. This presen-tation concerns the evolution of the Harvey Milk Memori-al Branch and the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of San Francisco Public Library. KAREN SUNDHEIM, SFPL JAMES C. HORMEL GAY & LESBIAN CENTER

C197 A Queer Case for Queer SpaceExplores how an identity was established for the LGBT library at UCLA where it was unrecognized by its fellow academic libraries and misunderstood by its community. The panel will discuss how the library began at UCLA, how a student group reshaped the library, and how in-troducing an archive broadened the library’s image and relation to its community. WALTER BUTLER, UCLA MLIS CANDIDATE, MODERATOR; ANDREW LAU, UCLA MLIS CANDIDATE; JANINE LIEBERT, UCLA MLIS CANDIDATE

C198 Reclamation: The Politics of Collecting Black Queer CulturePreservers of black same-gender-loving histories will discuss the development of the Black Gay and Lesbian Archives project (BGLA); its potential impact on the black, LGBTQ, and general research communities; and the chal-lenges of saving endangered and under-documented cultures. Moore talks about hew own publishing projects, including reprints of In the Life and Brother to Brother, and ongoing video documentary sassy b. gonn: Searching for Black Lesbian Elders. McGruder presents “To Be Heard in Print: Black Gay Writers in 1980s New York,” and talks about his work with Gay Men of African Descent and Other Countries. STEVEN G. FULLWOOD, SCHOMBURG CENTER/BLACK GAY & LESBIAN ARCHIVE, MODERA-TOR; LISA C. MOORE, REDBONE PRESS; KEVIN MC-GRUDER, CUNY GRADUATE CENTER PHD CANDIDATE

4.30 - 5.45 C201-2 Queer Material cultureMOSEX. As a young institution, the Museum of Sex is actively building its permanent collection, compiled through donations and acquisitions. Surprise discoveries of hidden collections of GLBT materials are often found after the death of a loved one. As collections like these literally come out of the closet, the Museum is able to pre-serve the largely hidden history of GLBT imagery, as well as integrate more of these artifacts into upcoming exhibi-tions. SARAH JACOBS, MUSEUM OF SEX Graphic Response to A.I.D.S. and Trends in Dona-tion of L.G.B.T.Q. Material Culture. With the advent of A.I.D.S. in the 1980’s artists in the United States used printmaking as a tool for social change. Today, these im-ages are being donated, but to where? And why? AARON STEMPIEN, PRINTMAKER/ARCHIVIST, MODERATOR The History Project shares our LGBT history with the broader community through photo and web exhibits. Grassroots volunteers present their work in venues ranging from the State House, universities, and banks, to

community centers. Demonstration of “Above+Beyond: Our Community Responds to the HIV/AIDS” and “The Queer East” on powerpoint and online feed. PATRICIA A. GOZEMBA, THE HISTORY PROJECT BOSTON The Velvet Foundation aims to establish a museum of American LGBT history and culture in Washington, DC. The museum will become a forum for identification, study, and dissemination of social, historical, and cultural contributions of our community—and its relation within the larger society—through collections, exhibitions, research, and publications. The museum will be a place where all visitors—gay and not gay—can learn about our experiences through exhibitions of historically rich mate-rial culture and multimedia, and through social interac-tions and public programs. TIMOTHY SCOFIELD, THE VELVET FOUNDATION

C 204-5 Coming to Terms: LGBTIQ Thesauri, Folksonomies, and TaxonomiesPanelists discuss the following: What are taxonomies, the-sauri, and folksonomies, and why should I be interested? LGBTIQ taxonomies: the good, the bad, and the ugly; What’s Out There? a comparison of LGBTIQ thesauri and general thesauri; Queer as Folksonomies: a discussion of folksonomies and tagging, their use in social networking sites, and potential for LGBTIQ use; and finally ... Out on the Horizon: the CLAGS IRN Thesaurus. K.R. ROBERTO, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER LIBRARY; ELLEN GREENB-LATT, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT DENVER AURA-RIA LIBRARY; MICHAEL WALDMAN, BARUCH COL-LEGE LIBRARY; ANALISA ORNELAS C 197 Archiving and the Politics of IdentityAs gatekeepers of information, we play a primary role in representing queer lives, explaining the contexts for queer experiences, and framing how LGBT people will be catalogued for centuries to come. This panel proposes a dialogue on how we as (queer) archivists, librarians, and researchers record queer identities and politics. In our own work, we have encountered questions ranging from how to archive intersections between anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and queer radical activism, to how a gay man might adequately archive a lesbian or transgender life. Through presentation and workshop-style discus-sion, we aim to discuss how we can address the politics of identity within our archives. EMILY HOBSON, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PHD CANDI-DATE; SHAWNTA SMITH, CUNY QUEENS COLLEGE MLS CANDIDATE/LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES C198 Film+talk: Cobbling Together

a History of HIV PreventionThis presentation will explore the use and preservation

of queer video archives in the construction of a history of safer sex and HIV prevention. What are the unexpected

range of materials that archive the emotion and feelings around these topics? How can we keep these materials in dialogue with present-day HIV prevention efforts? JEAN

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Friday, May 9 6 - 7.30 p National Archive of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History, The LGBT Community Center

208 W. 13th St. bet 7th/8th, New York CityEnjoy an evening in NYC’s historic LGBT Community Center, located in the heart of Greenwich Village. Visit with friends and colleagues while enjoying a true LGBT community space, food, drinks, and preview the exhibit commemorating the Center’s 25th anniversary. We hope to see you there! 1, 2, 3 to 14th St or A, C or E to 14th Street

6 – 8 Skylight Room, 9th floor IRN Launch PartySee a demo and enjoy beverage and a chat upstairs with the IRN project celebrants! Sponsored by the IRN. 8 - 9.30 Elebash Auditorium The 82 Club: A Multi-media TalkIncorporating hundreds of photos as well as rare film and audio clips, Joe E. Jeffrey’s presentation explores the colorful history and archeology of the 82 Club, a Village nightclub that offered lavish drag shows for over twenty years beginning in the early 1950s before becoming a rock and roll club and today’s male cruising ground. JOE E. JEFFREYS, DRAG PERFORMANCE HISTORIAN/AR-CHIVIST

Saturday, May 10

10.15 – 11.30 a C 201-2 Collections SharingGAGEN: A Gay Archives Gopher & Exchange Net-work. This proposes creation of an online network for coordinating the transfer of materials from collectors of GLBT periodicals, ‘gophers’, to LGBT archives interested in adding to their holdings. This cyber- and social net-work would involve ‘couriers’, researchers looking for sources, and archives looking to exchange materials. Notification alerts, blogs, and other social networking forums would allow the network to be most functional for voluntary cooperation and resource sharing. BILL HILL, LIBRARY FOR SOCIAL & TECHNOLOGICAL ALTERNA-TIVES

GLBT Library Cooperative. Sharing agreements, including interlibrary loan (ILL) programs, are a usual practice among public and academic libraries. However, community-based gay and lesbian libraries do not have access to these cooperative and ILL programs. Instituting a cooperative program would facilitate exchange of infor-mation, interlibrary loan, and exchange of excess materi-als among GLBT libraries as well as increase access to GLBT materials, which are often not widely available in public or academic libraries. SANDY SWAN, PHIL JOHN-SON HISTORIC ARCHIVES & RESEARCH LIBRARY

Prospects for Cooperative Primary-Source Research in LGBT History. Many scholars of LGBTQ history amass original databases while researching their projects, with only a small fraction of that work actually appearing in their publications. This proposal, currently under consid-eration by OutHistory.org, proposes a new relationship between researchers and archives, combining methods employed by H-Net and Wikipedia, to make better use of these databases and cooperatively create reliable infor-mation resources that fall between archival collections and scholarly monographs. CHARLES UPCHURCH, HIS-TORY, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

C 204-5Less Process/Less Privacy:

Implications of Minimal Processing for GLBT Collections

Dennis Meissner and Mark Greene’s landmark 2005 article, “More Product, Less Process: Revamping Tradi-tional Archival Processing” calls for streamlining archival measures to reduce detailed arrangement and descrip-tion while facilitating collection use. Panelists, including a processing archivist, a researcher, and a donor/creator of these collections will explore the application and impli-cations of “Meissner-Greene” for GLBT collections. A cu-rator of these collections will provide a framework based on her role as liaison among archivist, researcher and donor/creator.JODI BERKOWITZ, SALLIE BINGHAM CENTER FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY & CULTURE; LAURA MICHAM, SALLIE BINGHAM CENTER FOR WOMENS’ HISTORY & CULTURE; HEATHER MURRAY, HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA; MINNIE BRUCE PRATT, WRITER C 197 Archives as PlaceServing GLBT Elders--The Public Library’s Responsi-bility. Using the Guidelines for Library Service to Older Adults of the American Library Association as a basis, the speaker has adapted these guidelines so that they can be used by libraries to serve the elderly GLBT community better. Models of library service to GLBT elders will be explored. ALLAN KLEIMAN, OLD BRIDGE (N.J.) PUBLIC LIBRARY

Structuring Transgender: Situating the ‘T’ in LGBT Archives. Transgender archiving is often rhetorically designed and mediated, orchestrating complex interac-tions between contributors to and users of LGBT archives. I ask the basic question: how are transgender archives designed in ways that are specific to transgender lives? Unraveling an answer for this question will spotlight the institutional structures that govern transgender archiving and facilitate rhetorical interactions between archives and those who are invested and represented in them. KELLY RAWSON, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PHD CANDIDATE C 198 Community-Based Archives: What Now?Community-based archives continue to serve an im-portant role within the LGBT communities -- both the larger ones in our major cities and the smaller more local repositories around the country. We are easier of access, despite our sometimes shorter hours, and freer

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in our ability to display all aspects of our diverse com-munities. Most importantly, we can better reach out to all of the LGBT community, regardless of age, academic background, or other factors which tend to marginalize some of us within the wider community. We stand as a sign of contradiction to those institutions which under the guise of financial restraints, security, or other concerns continue to deny access to many within our communities who do not fit their criteria of “serious researchers.” DEB EDEL, LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES; RICH WANDEL, NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF LGBT HISTORY, MODERATOR; MARK MEINKE, RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT

11.45 - 1 p 3rd KeynoteProshansky Auditorium

Archival Knowledges: Practical, Political, and Theoretical Observations

on Making Queer HistoryThis talk features the institutional history of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco to explore sexual/ gender identity politics since the 1980s and to situate this history within recent theoretical concerns with “the archive.” SUSAN STRYKER, GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETY SAN FRANCISCO/WOMEN’S STUDIES, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

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(un)intentional community: queer zines in an institutional context

Zines usually originate in subcultures that are poorly doc-umented in the larger culture. They represent an unmedi-ated rendition of people’s experiences. In a time when writing communities are increasingly digital, the print culture of the zine world is unique in its sociology. Within lgbt archives the theme of building community is an im-portant one. However, the traditional method of catalog-ing and housing zines does little to preserve the context out of which the documents were created. This panel considers queer zine collecting in academic as well as non-traditional archives and libraries. We will discuss the ways the diy zine communities overlap into these collec-tions, and the ways parent institutions shape community involvement. LAURA WYNHOLDS, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON MLIS CANDIDATE/QUEER ZINE ARCHIVE PROJECT; CHRISTOPHER WILDE, QUEER ZINE ARCHIVE PROJECT; KELLY SHORTANDQUEER, DENVER ZINE LIBRARY; JENNA FREEDMAN, BARNARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

C 204-5Improving User Access to Decentralized LGBTQ Collections: The Yale Experience

As one of America’s oldest and largest research institu-tions, Yale University Library holds and continues to ac-quire significant materials relevant to LGBTQ scholarship. Various factors, however, complicate user ease of discov-ery of this material, which is scattered throughout Yale’s decentralized system and includes many legacy collec-tions. This panel of Yale librarians and archivists will dis-

cuss strategies devised to increase access, the implemen-tation of selected strategies, and the impact on discovery and use of LGBTQ-related material. TOM BOLZE, YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, MODERATOR; MARY CALDERA, YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY; KELLY BARRICK, YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

C 197 Archives and Queer Visibility: The Challenge of Representing Sexuality The Ethics of Context: Representing Queer Literary Holdings at the Harry Ransom Center. What is the practical and ethical role of the archivist in representing and contextualizing queer content? Using the George Cecil Ives Papers and the Robert M. Wren Africa Papers, among other holdings, the challenge of describing sexu-ality and its artifacts as part of the larger context of an author’s work, life, and identity is examined. GABRIELA REDWINE, HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER

Archives and Queer Visibility: The Challenge of Rep-resenting Sexuality. When an archivist comes across material in a collection that is sensitive to gay and les-bian issues (i.e. “outing” themselves or others), how do they deal with this when there is no institutional policy addressing such issues nor are there restrictions in the deed of gift? We will look at varied examples with dif-fering results. LESLIE REYMAN, WILSON PROCESSING PROJECT, NYPL C198 Film+talk:

Re-Archive: instituting an imaginaryUnidentified Vietnam No. 18

In 1975, after the fall of Saigon, the Library of Congress acquired a collection of over 1000 documents from the South Vietnam Embassy. After six years of negotiating these materials, Lin + Lam produced a 16mm film and mixed media installation. They will screen their film and discuss their working process, raising questions about the role of the archive in modern history, and their role as researchers in response to it. LIN+LAM, FILMMAKERS

3.45 - 5 C 201-2Oral History How To

This session will serve as a practicum in developing oral history projects, both locally-based and national in scope. Presenters will describe the mission and documentation strategies of their projects, discuss the content findings and the political/ historiographical implications, and speak to the particular challenges and successes of this documentation method. KELLY ANDERSON, SOPHIA SMITH COLLECTION, SMITH COLLEGE, MODERATOR; DONNA BRAQUET, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE LI-BRARIES; ROGER WEAVER, UNIVERSITY OF TENNES-SEE LIBRARIES; HEATHER MITCHELL, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

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Sex in the Archive How the Dutch Do It. IHLIA-Homodok’s sexually explicit material constitutes an important segment of the col-lection, and the archive collects several types of “por-nographic” material. Topics of discussion include the collection, terms of access, and the nature of use, as well as the value of these materials to researchers.JACK VAN DER WEL, IHLIA-HOMODOK, AMSTERDAM

Hard To Archive: Preserving Gay Male Erotica and Pornography in Canada. This paper focuses specifically on the preservation of a gay male erotica and pornogra-phy collection at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) in Toronto. It explores the historical and theoreti-cal framework for the creation of this Canadian collection; it examines the archival value of these records, par-ticularly as they relate to the construction of sexual and queer identity; and it charts the efforts to suppress and to censor these valuable records. MARCEL BARRIAULT, LIBRARY & ARCHIVES CANADA, OTTAWA C197 Queer archiving from the ground up‘Where I Come From’: How a local queer archive engages students in community histories. Queer archives struggle with a lack of funding to collect and process collections that reflect all queer history. Students suffer from a lack of knowledge about their own queer history. Christa discusses a collaborative project between college students and a local queer archive that works toward filling these resource gaps, and that is a model for preserving our community histories from the ground up. CHRISTA ORTH, GAY & LESBIAN ARCHIVES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Learning from resistance: Developing collaborative archival practices with queer cultures. Drawing on her experiences with the New Orleans Drag King Collection Project, Alana considers why performers were reluctant participants in the project, and what we can learn from their resistance. She argues that archivists engaging in such projects must be aware of the assumptions, desires, and expectations motivating our work, and should be open to collaboratively developing projects with par-ticipants. ALANA KUMBIER, WELLESLEY COLLEGE LIBRARY C198

FILM+TALK: ART, DOCUMENTATION, AND THE LESBIAN REVOLUTION SELECT-ED FILMS & VIDEOS FROM THE LESBIAN

HERSTORY ARCHIVES (NYC) AND THE BILDWECHSEL ARCHIVE (HAMBURG,

GERMANY). These two women’s archives serve as important reposito-ries of lesbian history via film, video, books, photographs and ephemera. This screening will examine the overlap-ping of lesbian political activist documentation & experi-mental media art. After the screening we will discuss the

value that these archives hold as resources for artists, curators and queer political historians. Presented by Kate Huh, Co-Director Mix NYC. Co-curated with archivists Claude Förster & Christina Schäfer, Bildwechsel Archive. KATE HUH, MIX NYC 5:15 - 7 Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division,

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library,

Schomburg Center/ Black Gay & Lesbian Archive, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Harlem

Join your colleagues for the closing reception at the Schomburg Center’s Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for a special look at the Black Gay & Les-bian Archives. On display will be unique treasures from the only archive solely devoted to the preservation of black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender artifacts in North America. STEVEN G. FULLWOOD, project direc-tor and founder of the Black Gay and Lesbian Archive, will host the event.

This conference is a tribute to the contributions of

Allan Bérubé, Barbara Gittings, and Yolanda Retter.

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Special thanks to CLAGS office staff: Nazia Kazi, Megan Jenkins, Alyssa Nitchun, Eduardo Tirado

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GLBT ALMS Conference 2008 Organizing Committee: Polly Thistlethwaite, Amy Beth, Mary Caldera, Steven G. Fullwood, Marcia M. Gallo, Michael Waldman

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Conference Co-Sponsors:• EBSCO • Lesbian Herstory Archives • The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation • Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library • The New York Public Library• The James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center • Barnard Center for Research on Women • Bibiliogay Publications • Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies at Yale • Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library • Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture • The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College • Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities • The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Community

Center• Impact Stories, California - LGBT Oral Histories • The Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University

Library • Lambda Literary Foundation • Gerber/Hart Library • The Institute for Tongzhi Studies• International Resource Network • Third World Newsreel • OutHistory

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TAMI ALBIN is the Undergraduate Instruction and Outreach Librarian at the University of Kansas. She is presently conducting an oral history project entitled Under the Rainbow: Oral Histories of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer Kansans. The final product will be the first digital oral history collection available via KU ScholarWorks.

KELLY ANDERSON is a teacher and oral historian in the fields of women’s and LGBT history. Currently, she is an oral historian with the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, which documents the persistence and diversity of organizing for women in the U.S.

MARCEL BARRIAULT is currently acting manager of the Political Archives Section at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. He has presented papers on Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and on GLBT archives at various conferences. He is currently working on two articles that explore queer readings of archives.

KELLY BARRICK is Coordinator of Reference and Instruction at the Social Sciences Library and Information Services as well as the librarian for gay and lesbian studies and women’s studies at Yale University. Professionally, she has been most active with the ACRL Women’s Studies Section, most recently serving as Chair.

JODI BERKOWITZ, Technical Services Archivist, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke, supervises collections processing and cataloging while participating in outreach and donor relations. Jodi received her B.A. in Women’s Studies from Barnard College and her MSLS from the UNC School of Information and Library Science.

AMY BETH is the Director of Libraries and Acade-mic Computing for World Learning’s SIT Graduate Institute and SIT Study Abroad, as well as a long-term Coordinator for The Lesbian Herstory Archives. An Activist, a Mom, a Dyke and a Jew are amongst her titles. She is delighted to support the continuation of the ALMS international conference and welcomes all of our visitors.

BING LAN (aka “Alex,” aka “Jiang Hui”) is the founder of the Aibai library/archive in Beijing where he gave up a secure job to become a full-time volunteer. He single-handedly collected hundreds of hard-to-find books, sometimes by begging for friends’ help to bring one or two when traveling to China. He had the vision to preserve original material reflecting the struggle of the fledging Chinese GLBT movement from the late 80’s.

DONNA BRAQUET is Assistant Professor and Life Sciences Librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has published several articles on LGBTQ issues in the LIS profession. She has held leadership positions on the University Libraries’ Diversity Committee and is Vice Co-Chair of the Chancellor’s Commission for LGBT People.

TOM BOLZE joined Yale in 2004 as a cataloger for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. He received his MLS in 2003 from the University at Buffalo, SUNY, where in 1994 he also completed his PhD in American history. Before entering librarianship he taught history and worked in museums.

WALTER BUTLER is a second year MLIS Candidate at UCLA. He is Co-president of Library and Archive OUTreach, and President of the Society of American Archivists Student Chapter at UCLA. He is an editorial board member for Chapters and Loose Papers, the SAA student chapter national newsletter.

CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOSMARY CALDERA received her BA and MLS from Texas Woman’s University. She is an archivist in Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, where her duties include arrangement and description, collection development, and reference and outreach. She is currently involved in developing and promoting Yale University Library’s LGBT collections.

SARAH E. CHINN is the Executive Director for CLAGS at CUNY’s Graduate Center. She is also an Associate Professor in the English Department at Hunter College. She is the author of Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence (2000), and New Americans, New Identities: The Children of Immigrants and the Invention of Modern Adolescence, 1885-1930 (forthcoming, Rutgers University Press).

JEAN CARLOMUSTO has created numerous videotapes about HIV/AIDS over the past 20 years. She founded the Media Production Unit at Gay Men’s Health Crisis and was a member of the Testing the Limits AIDS Video Collective and DIVA TV. She co-curated AIDS: A Living Archive (2001) at the Museum of the City of New York. Her documentaries are unorthodox investigative reports on subjects that have been erased from history. She is a professor of Media Arts at Long Island University.

EMILY DRABINSKI is a reference and instruction librarian at Sarah Lawrence College. Her research interests include the intersections of critical pedagogy and library science and critical studies of the library as place. Her work appears regularly in Out Magazine, and she sits on the board of Radical Teacher, a journal of radical pedagogy.

DEBORAH EDEL is a cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and member of the coordinating committee. The Archives is an all volunteer run organization. She is also a mental health professional and school administrator. She will be joined in the workshop at the conference by a number of the women of the LHA Coordinating Committee whose energy and dedication help keep the Archives running and growing true to its original vision.

CLAUDE FÖRSTER is a member of Bildwechsel and a queer activist. She works as a graphic designer for queer feminist and cultural projects. Claude is also working as a curator and is involved making zines like the e-zine qunst.mag.

JENNA FREEDMAN is a zine librarian and librarian zinester. She is the Coordinator of Reference Services at Barnard College in NYC and a member of Radical Reference, a collective of library workers that meets the research needs of activists and independent journalists.

STEVEN G. FULLWOOD is an archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City. He founded the Black Gay and Lesbian Archive (BGLA) in 1999 to aid in the preservation of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, same-gender-loving, queer, questioning and in the life history and culture. Fullwood is also editor and publisher of Vintage Entity Press, a New York-based house featuring innovative work by an assortment of poets, fiction writers, academics and essayists. His writings have appeared in Lambda Book Report, Library Journal, and Vibe.com, among other publications.

MARCIA M. GALLO is a social justice activist and author of Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement (2006). Currently teaching at CUNY Lehman

College, she will join the History faculty at University of Nevada, Las Vegas in fall 2008.

PATRICIA A. GOZEMBA, founding member of The History Project: Documenting LGBT Boston in 1980 (www.historyproject.org), professor of English and Women’s Studies, and author of Courting Equality: A Documentary History of the First Legal Same-Sex Marriages (Beacon Press, 2007).

ELLEN GREENBLATT is Associate University Librarian at Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver. Active in LGBTIQ librarianship for almost 25 years, she co-edited the book Gay and Lesbian Library Service, compiled several thesauri, and teaches a graduate course on LGBTIQ library resources and issues at San Jose State University.

BARBARA HAMMER is a pioneer of queer cinema. She has made over 80 works in a career that spans 30 years. Her experimental films of the 1970’s featured taboo subjects such as menstruation, female orgasm and lesbian sexuality. In the 80’s she used optical printing to explore perception and the fragility of 16mm film life itself. Optic Nerve (1985) and Endangered (1988) were selected for the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennials (‘85,’89). Her documentaries are often essay films that are multi-leveled and engage audiences viscerally and intellectually with the goal of activating them to make social change. Nitrate Kisses (1992) was chosen for the 1993 Whitney Biennial.

JOSEPH R. HAWKINS, PhD, President of the ONE Archives and lecturer at the University of Southern California, will focus on the long term relationship between the LGBT community and the ONE Archives, in a paper entitled We’re Queer, We’re Here, but What is the Future of Our Queer Past?

BILL HILL collects LGBT periodicals for his Library for Social and Technological Alternatives. He developed a ‘People Index’, ‘Community Computerist’s Directory’ and ‘1980 Radical Faerie Directory’. His interest in cybernetic messaging feedback in cooperative organizations helped with organizing and operating the nonprofits CraftGuild of Pasadena and the California Lichen Society.

EMILY KATHERINE HOBSON is a PhD Candidate in American Studies & Ethnicity (ASE) at the University of Southern California. She holds a BA in History & Literature from Harvard College. Prior to graduate school, Emily was an organizer and researcher with the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO), the Women & Organizing Documentation Project, and Californians for Justice (CFJ). In her graduate work at USC, Emily studies the history of race, gender, and sexuality in the 20th century U.S., exploring how race, gender and sexuality have been constructed in and through radical social movements, immigration and citizenship, and transnational relations of power.

KATE HUH is an artist, activist, and curator. She has exhibited her work in the USA and Europe since 1982. Her work is published in Time Capsule, a Concise Encyclopedia of Women Artists (Creative Time, 1995). Her films include; Rebel Fux! (2000), Market This (2001), Punk Ass Kid (2003) and War Dreams (2007). Kate is currently Co-director of MIX NYC, The NY Queer Experimental Film Festival.

SARAH JACOBS is the Curator of the Museum of Sex. During her tenure she has worked on eight exhibitions, and has been featured in documentaries, publications, and periodicals such as The New York Times, El Diario, ID, and Indie Sex on IFC. Sarah received a BA and MA in Anthropology, with a focus on gender issues in Latin America.


The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies is proud to present OutHistory.org, a new approach to LGBTQ histories by and for the people. Coming this fall!

• Browse curated “exhibits” by experts in various historical fields and an archive of primary and scholarly materials

• Post scholarly work, archival material, images, even sound files on LGBTQ histories

• Discuss content with other users via discussion boards

• Use OutHistory in the classroom to teach students the specifics of historical research, fact-checking, and writing for Web publication

The International Resource Network links researchers and teachers in areas related to diverse sexualities and genders. Debuting in May 2008, irnweb.org is an international, non-hierarchical, participatory, and multi-language website in four languages--Chinese, English, French, and Spanish. The IRN is housed at the City University of New York and funded by the Ford Foundation.

Participate in the International Resource Network

• As a browser: Browse through the IRN pages or search the database of resources, announcement, institutions, groups, e-journals, forums, and individuals’ public profile pages.

• As a registered user: Registered users can upload information on institutions, conferences and events, and resources including articles, syllabi, announcements, and reports.

• As a leader of or participant in a group, forum, or e-journal: Users may lead and/or participate in a number of ways: an on-line course, a discussion group around a particular issue, a collaborative research group.

• As a member of a regional editorial board: Editorial boards create and manage content and activities on regional pages. Regions include: Africa, Asia/ Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Caribbean, Middle East, US/Canada.

For further information please email [email protected]

JOE E. JEFFREYS teaches theatre history, dramatic literature and gay and lesbian performance studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and SUNY Stony Brook. A drag historian, he has published on the subject in encyclopedias, book anthologies, academic journals including The Drama Review, Theatre History Studies, and The Journal of New York Folklore, and the popular press including Time Out New York and The Village Voice. An all new edition of his archive-based video documentary essay, Drag Show Video Vérité, will premiere this June at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

JONATHAN NED KATZ is the initiator and director of OutHistory.org. A well known historian and author on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual American history, Katz’s works include Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (2001) and The Invention of Heterosexuality (1995), Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (1976) and The Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary (1994).

BUSI KHESWA has been with Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action for the past six years. She has worked on a number of oral history projects as an interviewer, transcriber, and translator. She is currentlyworking on two documentary film projects for GALA. She has also been involved in the development of exhibitions for GALA.

ALLAN M. KLEIMAN, MLS, is the Assistant Library Director at the Old Bridge (NJ) Public Library. Currently he is the President of the Special Populations Section of the New Jersey Library Association; Chair of INFOLINK’s (Eastern NJ Regional Library Cooperative) Diversity Committee; and Past-chair of the American Library Association’s Library Service to an Aging Population Committee. In 2006 he was the recipient of the Margaret Monroe Award from the American Library Association for his longtime advocacy of library services to older adults. Allan holds a BA Degree in

History from Brooklyn College and a Master’s Degree in Library Science from St. John’s University.

ALANA KUMBIER is a Research and Instruction Librarian at Wellesley College. She is currently finishing her dissertation, Ephemeral Material: Developing a Critical Archival Practice, in the PhD program in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University.

ANDREW J. LAU is a second year MLIS student with a specialization in archival studies. Currently, he is writing his thesis on identity formation and notions of the subject in the archive. His interests include community-based archives, semiotics, and visual culture. He also really likes to knit.

PAT LAWTON earned her MLS from Indiana University in 1985 and spent a number of years working in public libraries. She is currently assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh where she teaches classes in Organizing Information and Cataloging and Classification. She is grateful to be working with Sara Turkovich on this project.

JANINE LIEBERT is a second-year MLIS student at UCLA where her research has centered on community-based archives. She was recently awarded a GSR archival position from the UCLA Center for the Study of Women to process and digitize several lesbian and feminist collections of the West Hollywood-based Mazer Lesbian Archives.

For the past seven years, ‘LIN + LAM’ (Lin plus Lam) has produced interdisciplinary projects that examine the ramifications of the past for the current socio-political moment. The collaboration has made films, installations, and publication projects about immigration, sites of residual trauma, national identity, and historical memory. H. LAN THAO LAM is an artist based in New York and Toronto. She received her MFA from CalArts, and has taught at Middle State Tennessee University and Goddard College. Currently

faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts, LANA LIN has taught at City College (CUNY) and holds an MFA from Bard College.

A Chinese-American living in Los Angeles, DAMIEN LU is of the original contributors to the Aibai web page. He hosts an advice column read by Chinese-speaking GLBT people worldwide. He lectures in China on a wide range of GLBT issues concerning self-identity, physical, and psychological health and the development of a GLBT culture.

ANTHONY MANION is the archives coordinator for Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action. He is a co-editor of the publications Pride: Protest and Celebration(2006) and Tying the Knot: The Making of Same-Sex Marriage Legislation in South Africa (2008). He has also been involved in the development of exhibitions for GALA.

BRENDA MARSTON has worked for the past 19 years to build Cornell University’s Human Sexuality Collection and facilitate access to it and LGBT historical sources more broadly. She helped start the Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable (LAGAR) of SAA, served as an Associate Editor for Scribner’s Lgbt, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, and contributed Archivists, Activists, and Scholars: Creating a Queer History to Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay Library History.

NICHOLAS MATTE is finishing his PhD in History at the University of Toronto, where he also teaches in the Sexual Diversity Studies Program and co-ordinates its Sexual Representations Collection. His dissertation is on transnational publications and communication networks between people changing sex from 1960 to 1990.

KEVIN MCGRUDER received a BA in Economics from Harvard University. In 1990, drawing on his interest in Harlem history, McGruder opened Home to Harlem, a gift shop on Harlem’s 125th Street. In 1997 he became Executive Director of Gay Men of African Descent

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LGBT Studies at Yale www.yale.edu/lesbiangay

Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities www.yale.edu/yrihs

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(GMAD). McGruder left GMAD in 2001 and entered a doctoral program in American History at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His articles have been featured in variety of publications including Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS, Fighting Words: Personal Essays by Black Gay Men, and Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora.

MARK MEINKE is founder and chair of Washington, DC’s LGBTQ community archives and historical research group, Rainbow History Project. Resident in Washington, DC for 17 years, Meinke has focused Rainbow History on the social history of LGBTQ Washington while building reference materials online for researchers in community history.

HOLLY MERCER is the Coordinator for Scholar Services at the University of Kansas, a program providing expertise and tools to facilitate digital scholarship to enhance research, teaching, and learning at the University of Kansas. She is a consultant on metadata, digitization, digital project management, and scholarly communication issues for the KU campus, and administrator of the KU ScholarWorks research repository. She is active in the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association.

LAURA MICHAM, Director, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture and curator of gender and sexuality history collections at Duke, acquires and promotes collections of published and unpublished material. One of Laura’s recent projects involved organizing the Center’s third biennial symposium, Neither Model Nor Muse: Women and Artistic Expression.

HEATHER A. MITCHELL works as program coordinator in the office of Faculty & TA Development,

a teaching and learning center at The Ohio State University. She also is the founding member and primary contact for Our Stories: A Developing Record of Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Alliance at The Ohio State University.

ANNE L. MOORE is Coordinator for Access Services at UMass Amherst Libraries. She has been involved in the GLBT Round Table (previously known as the Gay and Lesbian Task Force) of the American Library Association since 1997. She has served as a member and chair on the Book Award Committee as well as Co-Chair of the group. Currently she is serving as Nomination Chair and will become External Relations Committee Chair in July 2008. Anne holds an MA in history (U of Guelph, 1992) and an MLIS (U of Western Ontario, 1993).

LISA C. MOORE is the founder and editor of RedBone Press, which publishes work that celebrates the culture of black lesbians and gay men and further promotes understanding between black gays and lesbians and the black mainstream. Moore has two bachelor’s degrees, in accounting (Louisiana State University) and journalism (Georgia State University). Moore is currently in production for sassy b. gonn: Searching for Black Lesbian Elders, a video documentary stemming from her master’s research in anthropology (University of Texas, 2000). Moore was the editor of Lambda Book Report from 2002 to 2005; she is board president of Fire & Ink, an advocacy organization for LGBT writers of African descent.

HEATHER MURRAY, Lecturer, University of Ottawa in the Department of History, holds a PhD in history from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Heather recently received a grant from the Bingham Center to

support research on her project, Not in this family: Gays and the Family of Origin in North America.

JOY NOVAK, UCLA Information Studies PhD candidate will draw upon her experience working at the June L. Mazer Archive, the ONE Archives, the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

ELISA MARIE NORRIS, ABD, is completing her graduate work in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program at Syracuse University. Her scholarly interests include Black queer studies, Black feminist theory, and African-American rhetorical traditions. Her dissertation project takes theories from these fields of study and develops an intersectional analytical framework from which to examine Sakia Gunn’s murder and the public discourses that happened in and around that case.

NOMVUYO NOLUTSHUNGU is the Project Coordinator for IRN. She is also a graduate student at the CUNY Graduate Center pursuing a PhD in political science. Her interests include human rights and international norms, contemporary political theory, and globalization studies.

MICHAEL C. OLIVEIRA graduated with a Master of Library and Information Science with an Archival Studies focus in 2005 and subsequently was employed by the University of Pittsburgh. In September 2006, he relocated to Los Angeles for an archival position at ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives. ONE has provided Oliveira with an opportunity to process a variety of collections while fostering a greater understanding of our community’s diversity and history.

ANALISA ORNELAS recently received her MLIS but she’s been doing the work of a librarian all her life. Irregardless if requested, she’s been keeping friends/

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MINNIE BRUCE PRATT is Professor of Women’s Studies and Writing at Syracuse University, where she also serves as faculty for a developing lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies program. Minnie Bruce is an award-winning poet and essayist and a renowned multi-issue activist whose papers are held by the Sallie Bingham Center at Duke.

CHRISTA ORTH is a teacher, gender performer, and queer archivist from Portland State University and the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest. She is the chief organizer of the Drag King Oral History Project and is writing a book about the history of transformative queer workplace experiences in the U.S.

GABRIELA REDWINE is an archivist and electronic records specialist at the Harry Ransom Center. She earned her MSIS from the University of Texas and is completing a second master’s in Women’s and Gender Studies. She is a Managing Editor for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

KELLY RAWSON is a PhD candidate in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric at Syracuse University. Hir dissertation concerns the specific rhetorical practices of transgender archiving, particularly as it is situated within LGBT archiving. Rawson is co-editor of a forthcoming publication, Rhetorica in Motion: Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies.

LESLIE REYMAN is an archivist at New York Public Library’s Wilson Processing Project. She earned her MLS from Pratt Institute. Reyman is also the Chair of the Archives and History Commission of the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.

KEITH REYNOLDS, researcher, activist, and archivist. As a graduate student he was active in Spectrum, the University of Wyoming’s queer student organization. He is currently on the faculty of the American Heritage Center and is a member of the WyoAIDS Walk board.

K.R. ROBERTO is the Serials/Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of Denver. He is currently co-chair of the American Library Association’s GLBT Round Table and recently edited an anthology called RadicalCataloging: Essays at the Front.

CHRISTINA SCHÄFER is an artist, activist and has been a member of Bildwechsel for 11 years. She is a filmmaker, photographer and media educator. Her main focus is on gender, sex work, and migration issues.

TIM SCOFIELD is the Founder and CEO of the Velvet Foundation. He has spent the last year planning and executing a strategy for making a museum of American LGBT history and culture in our nation’s capital a reality. Prior to the Velvet Foundation, Mr. Scofield spent 6 years working for the Smithsonian National Postal Museum as an educator, museum specialist, and project manager for Arago, the museum’s award-winning online collections database and research center.

KELLY SHORTANDQUEER is co-founder of the Denver Zine Library (denverzinelibrary.org), an all-volunteer-run community space with a lending library of over 8,000 different zines. During the day, he acts as the Director of Victim Services at the Colorado Anti-Violence Program (coavp.org), a statewide organization that works to eliminate violence within and against LGBTQ community. In his free time, Kelly co-organizes The Tranny Roadshow (trannyroadshow.org), a multimedia performance art extravaganza, comprised of an all self-identified transgender cast.

After co-founding Sister Outsider (2000-2005) in Brooklyn, NY, SHAWNTA SMITH received her BS in Queer Women’s Studies from CUNY. She is an MLS student of Queens College and interns with the Lesbian Herstory Archives and Brooklyn Public Library. She is a 2008 ULC scholar and recipient of the Donna Hoke Scholarship (2007) of the NY Black Librarians’ Caucus.

AARON STEMPIEN graduated from The Tyler School of Art where he studied printmaking and art history. Since then has held positions in both The Gerber/Hart Gay and Lesbian Library and The Brooklyn Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. He lives in Philadelphia.

SUSAN STRYKER currently holds the Ruth Wynn Woodward Professorship in Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. In 2008-09 she will be visiting faculty in Women/Gender/Sexuality at Harvard University, and in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her current long-term projects are a book, “Sex Change City: Theorizing Urban (Trans)Formation in San Francisco,” about the emergence of transgender communities over the course of the 20th century, and an experimental film, “Christine in the Cutting Room,” about the relationship between cinema and embodiment in the career of 1950s transsexual celebrity Christine Jorgensen.

KAREN SUNDHEIM is the Program Manager of the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of San Francisco Public Library. From 1999-2008 she was the Manager of the Harvey Milk Memorial Branch of San Francisco Public Library, where she developed and maintained a Special Collection of LGBT books, periodicals and audiovisual materials. Since 1999 she has also been responsible for a large number of library exhibits and programs of LGBT Interest.


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POLLY THISTLETHWAITE is Associate Librarian for Public Services at the CUNY Graduate Center Library, and since 2004 she has served on the CLAGS board. She worked with the Lesbian Herstory Archives 1986-1997, and continues to be obsesed with queer archives and archival practice. As the lead organizer of GLBT ALMS 2008, she is honored to welcome you all to the Conference.

SANTI THOMPSON recently completed his third and final year at the University of South Carolina’s dual degree Archival Studies program (MA Public History/ MLIS) and is one of the co-founders of the LGBTQ Archive at the South Caroliniana Library. Santi researches the history of homosexuality in the South and is also interested in the impact of queer archives on the construction of LGBTQ history. He received the 2008 Student Project Award from the National Council on Public History for his work on the LGBTQ Archive.

SARA TURKOVICH earned her MLIS in 2007. She is now in law school. Her goal is to take part in the fight to legalize same-sex marriage. Sara has enjoyed this project immensely and would like to thank Pat Lawton for her kindness and support.

CHARLES UPCHURCH, Assistant Professor of British History at Florida State University, is the author of

Class Acts: Understandings of Sex Between Men in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of California Press, Spring 2009). His work has appeared in Gender and History, The Journal of British Studies, Victorian Studies, and other journals.

MICHAEL WALDMAN is the Head of Collection Management at Baruch College in New York City. Active in trans and queer groups, he has been researching ways of making the way we organize information on a particular population reflect the way that population sees and describes itself.

RICH WANDEL is a former President of the Gay Activists Alliance, New York and the founder and current archivist of the LGBT Community Center National History Archive. He received his MA in History and Archival Management from NYU in 1992 and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of New York State, published by Syracuse University Press and is the Associate Archivist of the New York Philharmonic.

ROGER WEAVER is a Library Trainer at the University Libraries of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a second year Masters student at the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences. He serves on the Library Diversity Committee as well as the University Commission for LGBT People.

LYNLEY WHEATON is the Project Coordinator for OutHistory.org as well as a student in Library and Information Science at Pratt Institute. She holds a master’s degree from New York University where she concentrated in Queer Theory and Gender Politics.

CHRISTOPHER WILDE is the Co-founder of The Queer Zine Archive Project, writes the QZines column for Queer Life Newspaper, is a DJ, and a community building activist. He holds a BA in History from Grinnell College in Iowa and has worked in the fields of experimental performing arts, advertising, and Macintosh technical support in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and currently resides in Milwaukee.

GREG WILLIAMS, ONE Archives Board of Directors Secretary as well as Director of Archives and Special Collections at California State University, Dominguez Hills, has been an archivist for 27 years. His talk will focus on his experience supervising ONE’s NHPRC archival project and his attempts to prioritize work on ONE’s collections.

JACK VAN DER WEL is director of IHLIA-Homodok. He studied political science at the University of Amsterdam. In 1978, with other students, he founded Homodok, which grew into one of the largest GLBT archives in Europe. In 2000 Homodok merged with the Lesbian Archives Amsterdam and Anna Blaman Huis Leeuwarden to form IHLIA, the International Homo/Lesbian Informationcenter and Archives, with Homodok in Amsterdam and Anna Blaman Huis in Leeuwarden (Frisia). In July 2007 IHLIA-Homodok moved to the new Amsterdam Public Library.

LAURA WYNHOLDS is a queer zinester and library school student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has been working with the Queer Zine Archive Project since 2005.


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SARAH E. CHINNExecutive DirectorAssociate Professor of EnglishHunter College, CUNY

MARTIN DUBERMANFounderDistinguished Professor of HistoryLehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Board of Directors

KIMBERLY CHRISTENSENAssociate Professor of Economics and Women’s Studies, Purchase College, SUNY

CARLOS ULISES DECENAAssistant Professor, Depts. of Women’s and Gender Studies and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University

RAFAEL DE LA DEHESAAssistant Professor of SociologyCollege of Staten Island, CUNY

JACK DRESCHER, M.D.Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, New York Medical College Adjunct Assistant Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psycho-therapy and Psychoanalysis

THOMAS GLAVEAssociate Professor of English, SUNY Binghamton

YUKIKO HANAWALecturer, Dept. of East Asian StudiesNew York University

RICHARD KIMLecturer, Skidmore College

ROSAMUND KINGAssistant Professor of EnglishLong Island University-Brooklyn Campus

DON KULICKProfessor of Anthropology, New York UniversityDirector, Center for Study of Gender and SexualityNew York University

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