LGBTQ+ History and Collections brochure
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Date
2018-06-26
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Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, TAMU
Abstract
The brochure includes both collections and a chart of the LGBTQ historical events at Texas A&M University. The timeline was developed by Dr. Hillary A. Anderson as she processed the LGBTQ Archives in Cushing. The timeline is an ongoing work in progress. Recent updates are due to the extensive research of graduate student Josh Howell. The front cover represents some select collections housed in Cushing Memorial Library & Archives. The collections include extensive correspondence, letters, memos, photographs, newspapers, books, journals, serials, manuscripts, documents, and a chronology of TAMU’s LGBTQ history. All of these resources can be accessed in Cushing's Reading Room.
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The importance of the LGBTQ collections at Cushing includes the current GLBT Center’s history, and how these collections have been strategic in pushing for a more inclusive campus. This history was put into the national spotlight with Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University’s Supreme Court decision to not hear the case and the approval of the GSSO in 1985. There is still work to be done, but we can be proud of our progress. The story of LGBTQ collecting at TAMU is the story of how a university with a reputation for being unfriendly to the LGBT community, ranked 11th on the Princeton Review’s 2014 list of most LGBT unfriendly schools in the nation, has now, and hopefully forever left that list!
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Lesbian, Gay Studies, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Queer Studies, non-gender binary, books, serials, manuscripts, letters
Citation
Created by: Jennifer Reibenspies, Rebecca Hankins, Dr. Francesca Marini, Gregory Bailey, Michael Jackson, and Hillary Anderson, and Josh Howell