Author: Julia Rosenzweig
Julia Rosenzweig is an MSLIS 2021 graduate with a concentration in archival studies. She interned at the Brooklyn Museum archives in the Fall of 2020 and has been involved with the Lesbian Herstory Archives since 2019. Her focus is on community archives, documentation of marginalized communities, and information accessibility.
In this presentation, Julia, Janis and Eirini present on 2 LGBT history archiving efforts. The first is digitization of “Lesbian Nation,” a broadcast radio program from 1972-1974 created by Martha Shelley during the early years following the Stonewall Riots. The second is Gay Morning America, an morning TV program broadcast on public television during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Both projects highlight challenges as well as opportunities to preserve and make accessible this broadcast content.