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Black Gay and Lesbian Archive documents history

Black Gay and Lesbian Archive documents history It's a little known fact that New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a part of the New York Public Library system, houses the Black Gay and Lesbian Archive, the largest collection of black "gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, same-gender loving, queer, questioning and in the life cultural archives." Steven Fullwood has been able to gather 30 linear feet of materials including issues of MOJA, a newspaper that published in 1978 and 1979, and works from Barbara Smith, pictured, a founder of the Kitchen Table Press, as well as the work of many others. Steven explains, "The BGLA was developed for the expressed purpose of documenting contributions to the arts and culture by black same-gender loving people.�
[Date: 10-Aug-05 ]