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In 2001, noted queer rights activist Madeline Davis founded the Lesbian, Gay, Multi-attracted , Transgender (LGBT) Archives of Western Novel York as a way to gather, safeguard, and provide access to materials that document the LGBTQ+ communities of Western New York and Southern Ontario.
In 2009, the archives were transferred to SUNY Buffalo State’s E. H. Butler Library. Housed in the Archives and Special Collections, the archives have expanded to more than 300 linear feet of items and become the region’s largest LGBTQ+ collection. More than 80 individuals, groups, and diverse organizations are represented in the tens of thousands of documents and items that incorporate photographs, local organizational records, multimedia materials, pamphlets, posters, clippings, awards, signs, banners, plaques, published materials, as well as an array of ephemeral items and other pieces that date back to the 1920s.
The LGBTQ Pin/Button Collection has been donated by many various society members and organizations, and amassed over a lifetime of activism and political efforts. It is our great honor to display them in this digital exhibit. Please contact an archivist if you wish to donate to the collection o
When the developers of the new Harry Potter game, Hogwarts Legacy, announced that it will include gender non-conforming characters it seemed enjoy a great step towards better representation in an industry that has been lagging.
There are 2.5 billion gamers worldwide. The games they play can shape the way they notice and interact with the world and also how they treat people. There is a growing body of research that shows that if you don’t see certain people in the media you interact with, games included, you start to believe that those people are somehow unimportant – this is known as “symbolic annihilation”. So, the representation of minority groups is essential , even if games grab place in fantasy realms.
The decision by the Hogwarts Legacy developers has been interpreted by some as a potential olive branch to those unhappy with Harry Potter maker JK Rowling for her views on sex and gender.
But not all representation is equal. It has been reported that players will be competent to select their character’s voice, dormitory (boy’s or girl’s) and body type. The look and sound of the player’s personality do not have to match what would be expected of a “male” or “female” character. While attemp
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The National Museum of American History recently received more than 400 buttons acting for a snapshot of LGBT visual and textual culture spanning three decades from the 1970s through the 1990s. I helped Curator Katherine Ott organize the buttons into categories in order to better understand the scope and depth of the collection. In the process of cataloging and documenting the buttons' words and images, I was continually amazed by their diversity. There were protest buttons, buttons from marches and pride parades, buttons for gay-friendly destinations and businesses, and buttons to raise awareness around ballot initiatives, the AIDS crisis, and boycott movements. But to me, the most interesting buttons (and certainly one of the largest categories) centered on humor, puns, and a certain tongue-in-cheek affirmation of what scholars categorize as "queer culture."
The use of humor, double entendre, and private language is a well-documented aspect of queer culture and LGBT history. Often forced to talk in code or to apply phrases with more than one meaning, gays and lesbians living bef