All posts filed under: Lesbian History

All the Right Questions: Demography, Sense Memory, and the Many Narrators of the Pussy Palace Raid

March 23, 2021
by Andy Huynh
Lesbian History / Oral History / Pussy Palace Project

By Elio Colavito and Alisha Stranges The Pussy Palace Oral History Project, a collaboration between The ArQuives and the LGBTQ+ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, has finally reached the interviewing stage. We are collecting oral history interviews with patrons, event organizers, those involved in the police action, the subsequent legal case, and community activism related to the Toronto police raid of the September 14, 2000 Pussy Palace, an exclusive bathhouse event for queer women, trans, and […]

Call for Participants: Pussy Palace Oral History Project

March 1, 2021
by Andy Huynh
Collaboratory News / Lesbian History / Opportunities / Oral History / Pussy Palace Project / Trans History

The ArQuives and The University of Toronto’s LGBTQ+ Oral History Digital Collaboratory are conducting an oral history project about the 2000 “Pussy Palace” Raid, Canada’s last major bathhouse police raid. Whether you attended the event on the night of the raid or were involved with the police action, the legal case, or related activism, we’d love for you to share your story. Interested in participating? Contact us: oralhistories@arquives.ca For more information about the project, please visit […]

Bridging the Gap with the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony (ALOT)

November 4, 2016
by Elspeth Brown
Digitization / Lesbian History / Oral History

By Mary Corbett, ALOT Archivist The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony collects, digitizes, and makes available online oral testimonies from people who presently or at one time identified as lesbian, and is supported by the Simon Fraser University Library. As part of our recent SSHRC Insight Grant, we are undertaking a study entitled “Bridging the Gap,” which aims to explore methods that an institutionally-hosted online archives (like ALOT) can employ in order to better involve […]