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Southwest Louisiana LGBTQ+ Archive

 Collection
Identifier: UAAMC-COLL-0560

Scope and Contents

This collection is an LGBTQ resource and contains proclamations, event posters, t-shirts, artwork, zines, and other documents and artifacts.

Dates

  • Majority of material found within 2021 - 2024

Creator

Biographical / Historical

This collection was seeded from an American Library Association and National Endowment for the Humanities grant to expand the library’s holdings of LGBTQ+ historical materials. The Guilbeau Center for Public History collaborated with Special Collections and local LGBTQ+ communities to carry out oral history collection, exhibitions, memory workshops and other community engagement activities to help preserve these communities’ experiences. While digital items, books, and oral histories are held by the Guilbeau Center, original artifacts are housed in Special Collections of the University’s Dupre Library. Materials are collected on an ongoing basis.

Extent

1.5 Linear Feet (Flat box)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The items in this collection are on loan from the Guilbeau Center for Public History, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Related Materials

Related materials include the Mardi Gras Collection (COLL 80), Acadiana PRIDE Collection (COLL 542), Club My-O-My Collection (COLL 543), Acadiana CARES Collection (COLL 550), Take Me Out Playbill (MSS 303), Ellen DeGeneres (MSS 304), and Van Cliburn Photographs (MSS 305).

Title
Southwest Louisiana LGBTQ+ Archive
Status
In Progress
Author
Scott Jordan
Date
2024-09-06
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository

Contact:
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031