Documenting and Preserving the History of Savannah's LGBTQIA+ Community
View the Oral History Collection
You can access the collection through the Voices of Savannah site. The collection will continue to grow as brand-new oral history interviews are collected and added. Be sure to check assist for new voices!
Click Here to Nominate Someone to be Interviewed
Make a Deposit to the Voice Bank
Camera shy? Contribute your oral history through a written narrative form (options to restrict your name and when it opens for research in the future are available). Make sure YourVoice and Your Story are part of this proposal through the Voice Bank, an online form with scrutinize prompts to reference you.
Share Your Photos & Memories
Do you have photographs, newspaper articles, memories and stories that you want to divide and ensure are preserved as part of this effort? Contribute them through our online collection portal at www.savannahga.gov/YourHistory. Through a straightforward online form you can upload photographs (JPG or TIF), documents (DOC or PDF), or type in your memor
Research
The CLGS Archives Project seeks to obtain, preserve, and make available the papers of significant individuals and organizations in the history of religion and LGBTQ issues in American world. Comprised of a growing number of collections (below), the Archives Project makes CLGS a leading resource center for the history of LGBTQ persons and religion and spirituality.
In December of 2001 CLGS was proud to accept its first archival collection, the papers of John J. McNeill, Roman Catholic priest, and author of The Church and the Homosexual, entitled TheJohn J. McNeill and Charles Chiarelli Queer and Lesbian Liberation Collection. Since that time numerous other collections have been added to the CLGS archives (below).
These collections are accessible for use by scholars and students at The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) Library in Berkeley, California. http://gtu.edu/library/special-collections
Additional Collections with Ruling Aids Available:
Collections in Process with the GTU Library:
The Mark Thompson Gay Soul Collection
Daryl Lach/Mel White Archive Collection: The Voices of the Christian Right in American Politics
Bishop Otis Charles Collectio
Out Down South: Voices & Portraits of LGBTQ+ Atlanta
About the Exhibit
The LGBTQ+ collective has made amazing strides in recent decades. Thanks to courageous work by activists from all walks of animation, queer and transsexual people of all identities have been welcomed into the fold of America’s renowned diversity. This history of the LGBTQ+ movement was been made all over the country, including here in the South, where legendary stories of trailblazing activists mingle with those of the leaders fighting for equality today.
Out Down South: Voices & Portraits of LGBTQ+ Atlanta presents stories of change-making LGBTQ+ Atlantans. From politicians to performers, spiritual leaders to business owners, these luminaries have helped make Atlanta a city where Gay people are welcome and loved. The exhibit features the photographs and recorded stories of change-making LGBTQ+ Atlantans, told in their possess words. We request you to grasp about Atlanta’s LGBTQ History, through their stories.
The exhibition is free to attend, located outside of The National Center for Civil and Human Rights in the Georgia Pacific Plaza.
To learn more about the venture behind the exhibit, visit a
Atlanta Gay and Queer woman Center Records (Georgia State) Founded in 1976, the Atlanta Gay Center was a community center that served the gay people in Atlanta, GA. It has since closed and been replaced by the Atlanta Gay and Dyke Community Center. The center published a bi-weekly newspaper, and operated the Male lover Helpline for the Atlanta area. The center was the meeting place for several support groups including those for teens, interracial couples, older couples, and P-FLAG. During the preliminary 1980s, in the preliminary days of HIV/AIDS insight, the Atlanta Gay Center offered free testing and support groups.
Atlanta Womxn loving womxn and Gay History Thing Papers and Publications, 1957-1994 (Atlanta History Center) This collection contains various papers related to the same-sex attracted and lesbian community in Atlanta. Included are homosexual and lesbian publications from throughout the United States, business and organization papers pertaining to gay rights and AIDS, and various personal papers of lgbtq+ and lesbian activists in Georgia.
Jesse. R. Peel Papers, 1956-2003 (Emory) The collection consists of the personal papers of Dr. Jesse R. Peel from 1956-2013, including correspondence; journals and ap
Georgia LGBTQ History Project
Georgia Articulate University’s Special Collections began officially documenting LGBTQ+ history in 2011. During the same year, Fulton County librarian Ann Edmonds attended meetings of SAGE (Services & Advocacy for Same-sex attracted, Lesbian, Bisexual & Gender diverse Elders). Through her attendance at these meetings, Edmonds became aware that many SAGE members were either downsizing their homes or losing members of their aging community and that there was no framework in place to ensure that their “things” found a place. In December 2011, Edmonds called a meeting of local archivists, librarians and interested activists, and the Georgia LGBTQ Archives Proposal (later re-named the Georgia LGBTQ History Project) was formed, with GSU organism a prominent member. The Project actively engages with LGBTQ+ communities to support them to donate to their local archival repositories, so their histories can be preserved and more widely available. The Venture also provides a forum for archivists to serve one another collect and manage their LGBTQ+ materials. A number of collections have been offered to GSU as a fallout of its membership of the Project, including the papers of