Reclaiming Queer Historical Space

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• Roanoke researchers lead digital preservation project for LGBTQ+ history archive March 29, 2023
• Roanoke’s LGBTQ+ women’s history being documented, shared thanks to history project March 29, 2023
• After a VA Queer Bar Shooting, LGBTQ Residents Decided They’d Had Enough January 18, 2023
• Roanoke Can Turn to LGBTQ Community Center for Queer Literature September 7, 2022
• Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts October 28, 2021
• Exhibit on Local Bisexual, Lesbian, Transgender Life in ’90s Debuts January 26, 2021
• Arts & Culture Provides LGBTQ+ Roanokers with a Safe Space for Self-Expression November 24, 2020
• Roanoke is Full of Queer Women—But Also a Deep History of Erasure August 13, 2020
• The LGBTQ Movement Has a White Supremacy Problem July 10, 2020
• Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project July 7, 2020
• Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project Calls for the Removal of All Confederate Monuments June 8, 2020
• 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
• Lasting Legacy: What Stonewall Means in the South June 25, 2019
• On Archiving and Honoring Virginia’s Long Gay Histories March 20, 2019
• The Lost Queer World of Roanoke, Virginia February 12, 2019
• Blue Ridge Free State – 4: MDC – Marcin Dishes Candidly January 7, 2019
• Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project July 10, 2018
• Roanoke Made Me Queer Again May 31, 2018
• Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project May 1, 2018
• 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
• Local Group Celebrates Anniversary of a Special Walking Tour September 25, 2017
• Queer Art, Queer History, and Queer Activism September 13, 2017