Published April 19, 2021 at 10:34 AM PDT
+ The winners write the history books is the old expression. A clearer way to say it: the dominant culture decides what history is preserved.
That is loosening up over time, with the stories of people marginalized and oppressed seeing the light of day more and more. The
Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest has a quarter-century of its own history now, a time of working to retrieve, preserve, and otherwise document the history of sexual minorities in our corner of the country.
Sophie Straub and Eliot Feenstra talk about the mission and the process of carrying it out.