Feedback - round 1

Your page is clearly already well-researched and thought out—a real wealth of information even at this early stage.

I hope to see your section on outreach and activism beef up over the next couple of weeks. You've made it clear that there is a strong political and social justice component to LGBTQ archives and provide general examples of activism activities, but I think more detail would strengthen your page. What are some specific recent achievements, campaigns, or initiatives? Your example of GALA in South Africa responding to criminalization of homophobia is a good example and gives us the 'what' of outreach. But I'm curious to know the 'how'. Another thing I'm curious about is if there is sufficient research out there for you to create a section on private collections of note. Have LGBTQ archives and documentary strategies developed far enough to house records of prominent figures in the LGBTQ community? If so, where are they and whose fonds? Are there fonds or parts of collections that are not part of a specifically LGBTQ archive or sub-collection? Much like there are writers' archives, is there a 'Harvey Milk fonds' or a 'Dan Savage fonds' somewhere? (Fictional examples I'm sure but you get the idea).

Hi Amy,

Thanks for your comments. I will be adding examples of outreach and activist activities, so you will begin to see those over the next week or so. There is very little research on private collections, as most of these have grown into community-based archives. Prominent LGBTQ peoples' papers may be acquired by LGBTQ archives and I will be mentioning a few examples of these in my case studies, but their papers can also be acquired by a variety of archives as with any individual's personal records. I feel that LGBTQ materials in non-LGBTQ archives is beyond the scope of my topic, the list would be exhaustive. I am writing a case study for the Transgender Archives at UVic Special Collections, so that is an example of a sub-collection in a non-LGBTQ archive. Thanks for your input, Hannah