After a VA Queer Bar Shooting, LGBTQ Residents Decided They’d Had Enough
Check out this article that features Roanoke’s queer history:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/04/backstreet-cafe-roanoke-lgbtq-elections/
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- Making Roanoke More Inclusive One Step at a Time February 12, 2020
- Once Hidden, Black LGBT Community in Southwest Virginia Finds Its Voice October 2, 2019
- Public Historian Gregory Samantha Rosenthal on Lesbian Cat Fiction and a Collected Past in the Roanoke LGBT Memorial Library August 29, 2019
- Partnership and Publicly Engaged Humanities Work August 5, 2019
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- The Lost Queer World of Roanoke, Virginia February 12, 2019
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- Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project July 10, 2018
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- How Communities Pathologized Sex Workers April 19, 2018
- Deploying Digital Technology to “Make Roanoke Queer Again” March 13, 2018
- Double Edged Sword: Queer Activism in the Internet Age January 15, 2018
- Roanoke LGBT Library Finds Home as Research Collection in Roanoke Diversity Center January 12, 2018
- Old Southwest Gayborhood Walking Tour Sheds Light on Roanoke’s LGBTQ History November 1, 2017
- Intersectional Activism & Early Gay Liberation in Southwest Virginia October 20, 2017
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