With material spanning from the s to the present day, the collection holds some really significant archives and artefacts of UK and International LGBT History. It was funded by the Greater London Council supporting the wages of one full time and two part time workers to develop and sustain a collection of UK Lesbian History and culture. In the early years the archive collection mainly comprised of lesbian books including literature, pulp fiction and a significant amount of lesbian and gay as well as feminist non-fiction. The collection ranges from organisational records and personal archives to journals and ephemera. Like many of its sister organisations, the archive went through turbulent periods in its history.
This banner text can have markup. Search the history of over billion web pages on the Internet. Books by Language Additional Collections. The Pacifica Radio Archives is host to an extensive collection of programs that have dealt with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender LGBT issues, including what we believe to be the first radio program to explicitly address the topic from Leonard Matlovich, the first active military member to declare his homosexuality in Notice for copyright claimants: The Pacifica Radio Archives will honor all takedown requests in compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable intellectual copyright laws. Please send all copyright inquiries to info pacificaradioarchives.
The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives collection is the biggest repository of historical materials about lesbian and gay experience in Australia. Our collection policy pdf tells you more about what we collect. Indexes to some of our periodicals are available for reference at the Archives: see our list of indexed titles pdf. Tapes dating back to mid s, radio broadcasts, conferences, speeches at public meetings and demonstrations, interviews on all types of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues … if it has been said and recorded, there is a chance we might have it. Titles include:.
Then afterwards we had a discussion with the archives director Elise Chenier and our archivist Meghan Walley of the clips and our take on the question what does the word lesbian mean? Arrive early for refreshments! Spotting a lesbian in the past is not difficult. Signs abound in the photographs of historical figures such as Radclyffe Hall, a writer now widely associated with lesbianism. For contemporary viewers assigning labels—say, butch lesbian—feels almost second nature.