The Stories Project: Celebrating 40 Years of our Communities and The ArQuives 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of The ArQuives – now North America’s largest community-based archive. Built on the dedication of volunteers and donors –materials as well as financial – The ArQuives is an ever-increasingly valuable repository of our collective histories. The Stories Project will take the form of a publication containing visual and written materials documenting how we have worked together over the past 40 years as organized and mobilized communities or quietly alone as courageous individuals to fight battles in the arena of human rights, confronting homophobia and demanding equality. The Stories Project will look at 40 years of celebrating our diversity, our achievements, how we have lived, loved and played. As a result it will be a valuable document of remembrance, pride, education and a legacy for future generations. Of course, documenting history is an ambitious project and even this one cannot be comprehensive and exhaustive. The printed publication will be complemented by online exhibitions that will expand on the themes of the chapters. This means The Stories Project will remain a living, ongoing project; growing over the years as a rich resource for education, research, debate and recognition.
