Sunday, June 7, 2015 4:00pm – 6:00pm / The ArQuives / 34 Isabella Street, Toronto
Refreshments and cash bar
Using oral history, this collection features stories of eight women who identified as gay women or lesbians in the 1940s through to the 1970s. The interviews record how lesbians survived prior to and since the 60s wave of feminism and explore their private and public struggles.
Speakers include: Maureen FitzGerald, Amy Gottlieb, Didi Khayatt, Eve Zaremba, and Elspeth Brown
This event marks the first contribution to the larger multi-project LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI), a SSHRC-funded research project. The Lesbians Making History digitizing project is a collaboration between The ArQuives and the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony (Elise Chenier, Director)