Keeping the record queer with LGBTQ+ archives

Keeping the record queer with LGBTQ+ archives

Have you ever wondered what to do with the piles of Advocate or Out magazines you’ve collected through the years? Or swag you’ve collected at Pride events that you keep in storage boxes in closets? What about those ticket stubs to Melissa Etheridge concerts you kept religiously? LGBTQ+ archives throughout the country seek to create a home for those artifacts to help preserve queer history. Archives can help people understand that they aren’t alo…