| Title: |
Accessing Transgender // Desiring Queer(er?) Archival Logics |
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Author |
K.J. Rawson. |
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Archivaria, The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists, (2009) 68 (Fall), p. 123-140.
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While efficient and satisfactory access may be a common goal for most archives, it is rarely achieved in full. ln this article, the author cousiders specific access barriers for both transgender patrons and transgender materials within archives. ln particular, the author argues that environrment and language shape the ways in which patrons encounter archives and the materials contained therein. Rather than seeking satisfactory access, the author suggests that deferred or denied satisfaction might also produce productive encounters for archival researchers. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (special/sec) b
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| Title: |
Diversiteitswijzer : check je project op diversiteit |
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Author |
Annemarie van Hinsberg en Lou Repetur. |
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Utrecht : Movisie. 2008 - 18 p.
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Summary |
De diversiteitswijzer kan gebruikt worden als checklist om uit te voeren projecten te controleren op diversiteit, waarmee bedoeld wordt sociaaleconomische status, etniciteit, gender, religie, seksuele voorkeur, functiebeperking en leeftijd. |
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Homodok: cat. (hinsb/rep) g
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| Title: |
Embracing Our Erotic Intelligence |
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Author |
Paul Gabriel. |
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Museums and Social Issues, 3 (2008) 1 (Spring), p. 53-66.
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This article explores how museums must examine the prejudices that surround "queer" - what the author calls "queer junk" - before any effective changes in present institutional practice can occur. A summary of historic LGBT difficulties in defining queer prefaces a discussion of the author's experiences of "queer junk" when he was the only overtly queer-designated delegate at professional museum conferences. An exploration of a periodicals exhibition staged by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society of San Francisco (GLBTHS) helps illustrate how queer persons themselves grapple with overcoming this junk when attempting to publicly define queer and conduct queer exhibitions. To move beyond queer junk, the author promotes what he calls erotic intelligence, or the embracing of how human sexuality and the pursuit of pleasure underpins much of human activity, including free-choice learning. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (where/is) b
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| Title: |
Gay and Lesbian Visitors and Cultural Institutions : Do They Come? Do They Care? A Pilot Study |
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Author |
Joe E. Heimlich, Judy Koke. |
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Impressum |
Museums and Social Issues, 3 (2008) 1 (Spring), p. 93-104.
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Summary |
A pilot study of GLBTQ visitors to cultural institutions revealled that the gays and lesbians visit and attend in larger proportions than the greater populations, but that membership and donorship seem relatively low. Respondents feel less comfortable visiting or attending on their own, except for visits to parks and nature centers. Lesbian and gay families with children appear to reflect more consistently the visitation patterns in the larger population. Comfort in visiting and attending the institutions appears to be directly related to the appearance of heteronormative assumptions in the venues, presentations, and representations. These assumptions affect how welcome GLBTQ visitors feel and the relevance they sense to their lives, factors that tend to move people from the visitor category to member to donor. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (where/is) b
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| Title: |
Hard to Dismiss : The Archival Value of Gay Male Erotica and Pornography |
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Author |
Marcel Barriault. |
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Impressum |
Archivaria, The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists, (2009) 68 (Fall), p. 219-246.
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Summary |
In this article, the author argues that gay male erotica and pornography is a critically important part of the gay male documentary heritage. He suggests that in the absence of other queer records - which were either suppressed or destroyed - in some ways, these documents have gained an even greater value as the "surrogate records" of the twentieth-century gay male experience in North America. The author states that gay male erotica and pornography meets Schellenberg's definition of an archival record, aud throughout the article, he demonstrates how these materials do have an enduring value, which is at once evidential, informational, and research-based. He begins by presenting the historical context that led to the creation of queer archives in Canada, like the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) in Toronto, which have a mandate to preserve gay male erotica and pornography. Then, in his discussion of the evolution of the records themselves from the earliest American beefcake magazines to recent Web resources, he reveals examples of their evidential and informational nature. ln the last part of the article, which deals with North American efforts to censor these materials, he argues that the attempts to censor, mask, and otherwise alter the originals have added another level of informational and evidential value to the records, and he provides examples of the types of information embedded therein. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (special/sec) b
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| Title: |
Love and Lubrication in the Archives, or rukus! : A Black Queer Archive for the United Kingdom |
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Author |
Ajamu X, Topher Campbell, Mary Stevens. |
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Impressum |
Archivaria, The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists, (2009) 68 (Fall), p. 271-294.
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The rukus! archive project was launched in London in June 2005 by photographer Ajamu X, and filmmaker and theatre director Topher Campbell. The archive's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit, and otherwise make available for the first time to the public historical, cultural, and artistic materials related to the Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities in the United Kingdom through a variety of activities and events (exhibitions, film-screenings, oral history work, presentations, etc.). The purpose of this article is to introduce thc work of rukus! to an international audience, and to highlight its specificities, such as its artist-led nature, its negotiation of the politics of loss and mourning, its intellectual origins in the work of Stuart Hall, and British Cultural Studies more generally, and the critical dialogue it establishes with both mainstream heritage practices and dominant Black and queer identity discourses. The article takes the form of the edited transcript of an interview that took place between the two co-founders of the archive and Mary Stevens, a researcher at University College London. This unusual format was chosen in order to allow Ajamu and Topher to present their work in their own words and on their own terms. The choice of format also seeks to reflect the idea of the archive as an intensely social practice, part of the process of fostering a shared memory that emurges only through dialogue. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (special/sec) b
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| Title: |
M or F? : Gender, Identity, and the Transformative Research Paradigm |
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Author |
Donna Mertens, John Fraser, Joe E. Heimlich. |
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Impressum |
Museums and Social Issues, 3 (2008) 1 (Spring), p. 81-92.
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Summary |
Analyzing museum research data on the basis of a male or female distinction has the potential to create misleading findings about the subject being researched, can perpetuate bias against individuals who do not conform to heterosexual orthodoxy and, most importantly, reveals an institutional homophobia that discriminates against LGBTQ participants in the research. This paper considers the power and privilege of the researcher and choices of specific paradigms that can be engaged when creating museum audience research to limit the ongoing marginalization of the LGBTQ community. It does so through the application of the philosophical assumptions associated with a transformative paradigm that recognizes that realities are socially constructed through the experience of political, cultural, economic, and identity values. The transformative paradigm provides a mechanism for addressing the complexities of LGBTQ identity in cultural institutions. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (where/is) b
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| Title: |
Police/Archives |
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Author |
Steven Maynard. |
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Impressum |
Archivaria, The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists, (2009) 68 (Fall), p. 159-182.
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Summary |
The author develops the notion of "police/archives" based on his experience of trying to conduct research at the Toronto Police Museum. Drawing on Foucault, the author explores the reciprocal relationship between the police as archives and, especially, the archives as police. Another goal is to disentangle Foucault from discussions of "the Archive" as metaphor in both the archival literature and in queer theory. The author makes the case for a less metaphorical, more historical-materialist understanding of Foucault in and on archives. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (special/sec) b
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| Title: |
Queer Collections Appear : Oregon's Wedding Album |
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Author |
Anne W. Clark, Geoffrey B. Wexler. |
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Impressum |
Museums and Social Issues, 3 (2008) 1 (Spring), p. 115-124.
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Summary |
Changes in archival collecting strategies by historical museums and libraries began in the 1970s, with emphasis on the shift from "old families" and "great white men" to broader documentation of communities and issues. The Oregon Historical Society began collecting personal records of same-sex marriages after Multnomah County, Oregon began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2004. The "Wedding Album Project" consists of letters, photos, news articles, and other documents related to these couples' experiences. Same-sex marriage has become one of the central controversies of our era. The fact that the marriages were later nullified further enhances the collection as an important document. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (where/is) b
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| Title: |
Queer in the Archive. |
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Impressum |
CLGBTH Newsletter, 23 (2009) 2 (Fall), p. 4-6.
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Summary |
Series of short reports on small, new, community-based, and less known archives that have strong LGBT/queer holdings: - Black Gay and Lesbian Archive (BGLA), New York - Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago - Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles - Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action, Johannesburg, South Africa - Stonewall Library & Archives, Fort Lauderdale |
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Homodok: ts.
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| Title: |
Resisted Access? : National Security, the Access to Information Act, and Queer(ing) Archives |
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Author |
Patrizia Gentile. |
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Archivaria, The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists, (2009) 68 (Fall), p. 141-158.
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The anti-homosexual security purges organized by the Security Panel and enforced by the RCMP, represent a sad chapter in Canadian Cold War history. This essay offers some of the author's experiences as she negotiated the "maze" of classified documents, archives, and historical records held at government departments while researching her book "The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation", co-authored with Gary Kinsman. The author contends that the national security state can deploy the "Access to lnformation Act (ATI)" to create challenges and obstacles for queer historians in their effort to find queers in - or to queer - the archives. The essay also speculates that in the context of the "war on terror," the "Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA)" will reinforce the negative impact of ATl and thus have detrimental implications for the writing of queer history. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (special/sec) b
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| Title: |
Special Section on Queer Archives |
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Author |
Guest Editors Rebecka Sheffield and Marcel Barriault. |
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Impressum |
Archivaria, The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists, (2009) 68 (Fall), p. 119-338.
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Contents: - Accessing Transgender // Desiring Queer(er?) Archival Logics / K.J. Rawson. - Resisted Access? National Security, the Access to Information Act, and Queer(ing) Archives / Patrizia Gentile. - Police/Archives / Steven Maynard. - The 1942 Same-sex Trials in Edmonton: On the States Repression of Sexual Minorities, Archives, and Human Rights in Canada / Lyle Dick. - Hard to Dismiss: The Archival Value of Gay Male Erotica and Pornography / Marcel Barriault. - Hidden from Historians: Preserving Lesbian Oral History in Canada / Elise Chenier. - Love and Lubrication in the Archives, or rukus!: A Black Queer Archive for the United Kingdom / Ajamu X, Topher Campbell, Mary Stevens. - Du placard à linstitution : lhistoire des Archives gaies du Québec (AGQ) / Jacques Prince. - Youth Outreach Initiatives at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives / Kate Zieman. |
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Homodok: cat. (special/sec) b
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| Title: |
The Gay Ohio History Initiative as a Model for Collecting Institutions |
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Author |
Stacia Kuceyeski. |
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Impressum |
Museums and Social Issues, 3 (2008) 1 (Spring), p. 125-132.
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Summary |
This article explores how an institution might work with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) populations in collecting artifacts and narratives and interpreting history. The article discusses the Gay Ohio History Initiative (GOHI), part of the New Face of Ohio multicultural collecting initiative at the Ohio Historical Society (OHS) in Columbus, Ohio. Discussion includes a brief history of GOHI, challenges in collecting gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) materials, further research, and recommendations for collecting initiatives that focus on underrepresented groups. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (where/is) b
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| Title: |
The Museum's Silent Sexual Performance |
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Author |
James H. Sanders. |
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Impressum |
Museums and Social Issues, 3 (2008) 1 (Spring), p. 15-28.
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Summary |
Museum curators, educators, and policy makers may have not considered their role(s) in the maintenance of heteronormativity or analyzed the ways that museum history, theory, and practice have constructed sexual norms. Recognizing queer subjects in the museum is an often difficult and uncomfortable task that requires grappling with multiple definitions of queer intelligibility, sustaining a relentless self-reflexivity, and a willingness to engage viewers in questioning assumptions, and contemplating the standpoints of innumerable imaginary others. This article discusses these issues and imagines the museum as an ethical, sexual, and sacred experience, where the creation of equitable distributions of power and authority can build a more democratic, compassionate, just, and equitable institution. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (where/is) b
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| Title: |
Theorizing the Queer Museum |
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Author |
Robert Mills. |
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Museums and Social Issues, 3 (2008) 1 (Spring), p. 41-52.
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One response to the marginalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) perspectives in museums has been to make a bid for increased inclusivity. Such a gesture potentially foregrounds universalist notions of LGBT identity and desire. Queer theory, however, understands gender and sexuality as relational constructs, subject to historical and cultural variation. Against this backdrop, what would it mean to theorize the queer museum? This article engages with this question on a number of levels: it draws attention to the distorting effects that certain models drawn from contemporary identity politics generate in museums, especially in exhibitions with a historical focus, and it examines the role played by concepts of "public opinion" on representations of gender and sexuality in museum spaces. It also considers the challenge that queerness presents to the idea of the museum as a normalizing, meaning-making entity, and asks how these concerns are already being addressed in museum practice. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (where/is) b
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| Title: |
Where is Queer? |
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Author |
Guest Editors John Fraser and Joe E. Heimlich |
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Impressum |
Museums and Social Issues, 3 (2008) 1 (Spring), p. 1-144.
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Table of Contents - Editor's Note / Kris Morrisey. - Where Are We? / John Fraser and Joe E. Heimlich. - The Museum's Silent Sexual Performance / James H. Sanders. - Secret Museums: Hidden Histories of Sex and Sexuality / Stuart Frost. - Theorizing the Queer Museum / Robert Mills. - Embracing Our Erotic Intelligence / Paul Gabriel. - So, Where Is Queer? A Critical Geography of Queer Exhibitions in Australia / Andrew Gorman-Murray. - M or F? Gender, Identity and the Transformative Research Paradigm / Donna M. Mertens, John Fraser, and Joe E. Heimlich. - Gay and Lesbian Visitors and Cultural Institutions: Do They Come? Do They Care? A Pilot Study / Joe E. Heimlich and Judy Koke. - Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: The Curator's View / Edward J. Phillips. - Queer Collections Appear / Anne W. Clark and Geoffrey B. Wexler. - Gay Ohio History Initiative as a Model for Collecting Institutions / Stacia Kuceyeski. Reviews - The National Museum of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History / Kathleen Condon. - Experiencing the Work of Jeff Wall / lore m. dickey. - National Constitution Center / Jenny Sayre Ramberg. - Resources for Where is Queer? / Emily Meyer. |
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Homodok: cat. (where/is) b
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| Title: |
Youth Outreach Initiatives at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives |
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Author |
Kate Zieman. |
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Impressum |
Archivaria, The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists, (2009) 68 (Fall), p. 311-317.
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Summary |
Founded in 1973, the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives has grown to become the second-largest LGBT repository in the world. The organization recently movel to a spacious new facility in the heart of Toronto's gay village, and this has occasioned a new emphasis on public outreach and programming. Concomitantly, the publication of the Government of Ontario's Safe Schools Report has prompted many of the province's public schools to develop anti-homophobia educational programs. Given that many teachers may not be familiar or comfortable with LGBT issues, the CLGA is well-positioned to become a valuable educational resource. The CLGA's Community Engagement Committee has taken on the task of creating and delivering presentations about LGBT history in Canada. While these presentations have been quite successful, a semi-permanent exhibition housed at the CLGA's new location may prove to be a more efficient alternative. |
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Homodok: cat. art. (special/sec) b
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