Our Crowdfunding Groups
The Arizona Queer Archives, Arizona's first LGBTQI archives, seeks funding to support our storytelling initiative and the important work to make forty hours of oral history interviews already collected accessible in the AQA Digital Repository (www.azqueerarchives.org). Funding raised will help hire someone to digitize and preserve audio and video oral histories collected from 1) LGBTQI Veterans, 2) the feminists who have been a part of the Southwest Feminists Reunite Group since the early 1970s, and 3) other audiovisual materials donated by Odyssey Storytelling and Feminists in the Media. Help ensure these voices and histories are preserved and made accessible for community and academic researchers.
Our goal is to secure funding of $7,500 by 30 June 2019. Can we count on you to make a gift today?
The Arizona Queer Archives of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona works in collaboration with the heterogeneous lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI), gender non-conforming, and Two Spirit communities throughout Arizona to identify, preserve and make available records, papers and ephemera of enduring (and endearing) value that document the distinct histories of these communities.
Our mission, which was collaboratively developed at a community forum in 2013, is twofold:
to collect and maintain individual stories, papers, photos, videos, oral histories, home movies, artwork, apparel, leathers, mapping/geographies and other distinct multi-dimensional records that highlight lived insights and knowledge. Areas of collecting interest are specified in a separate Collection Development Policy.
to collect and maintain records and geographies of enduring value from organizations, community groups, safe spaces, and identified organizational efforts to support LGBTQI lives throughout Arizona. The Arizona Queer Archives recognizes that the LGBTQI communities are diverse and heterogeneous and hold complicated, contradictory, as well as complementary histories that can all come together here as valid everyday knowledge and truths. The Arizona Queer Archives works to engage with communities to creatively collect, preserve and share these many histories and memories.
Please support this important work by making a gift today and sharing our campaign with your friends and family!
Help us take our first step in making our oral histories accessible!
Make one of our histories digital and available to our communities!
Make two of our histories digital and available to our communities!
Demonstrate your commitment to building our histories together.
Commemorate the start of Arizona’s LGBTQI Storytelling and Archiving in 2008.
