Both the National Park Service and the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office have awarded Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability with grants to expand its LGBTQ+ Historic Sites Project. Now, PBPS is calling on Portlanders to help with the project by sharing their own knowledge of LGBTQ+ spaces in the city.
Editor’s note: Josie Cohen-Rodriguez and Hannah Cohen, who were both interviewed for this article, are married. One-fifth of a percent. That is the percentage of LGBTQ-focused library materials in the WSU Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections. In total, there are about three linear miles of materials at WSU libraries, according to a 2023 estimate from.
Since Kansas City was established, drag in various forms has evolved from entertainment for power and control into a liberating art. Attempts to regulate the practice have also persisted.
Since Kansas City was established, drag in various forms has evolved from entertainment for power and control into a liberating art. Attempts to regulate the practice have also persisted.
The City of Vancouver Archives houses enough five-inch acid-free boxes of records to stretch eight kilometres if placed end to end. It's a long way from the archive's modest beginnings, when a mercurial figure known as Major James Skitt Matthews packed up the city's collection and took it to his house in "a fit of pique."