Category: LGBTQ

“What do we need to know as gays and lesbians? What should we keep up with?”: Network Q and Building Queer Information Ecosystems Before the Internet

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Travis L. Wagner is a 2025-2026 recipient of Rose Library’s LGBTQ Collections Fellowship, which supports research in Rose Library’s LGBTQ related papers and archives that document the history, culture, politics, and public health initiatives.  My name is Travis Wagner (they/them) and I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University Read More …

“For All The Grief We Know and Meet With”: Finding June Jordan in the Alice Walker Archive

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Isaiah Frost Rivera (He/They) is a PhD candidate in the African and African Diaspora Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include queer and trans Afrodiasporic expressive cultures, with a focus on grief and horror. Isaiah is a 2025-2026 recipient of Rose Library’s African American history and culture short term Read More …

Archives preserve Atlanta through Rebecca Ranson’s plays, writings

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale1 Comment

Oli Turner received her bachelor’s degree in English & Creative Writing from Emory University in May 2025. She was awarded Highest Honors for her undergraduate honors thesis ‘I Begin Again’: Witnessing Rebecca Ranson’s Atlanta, which relied primarily on the Rose Library’s Rebecca Ranson Papers. She currently works as a podcast intern at WABE 90.1 FM. Read More …

Marlon Riggs & The Contexts of Twentieth-Century Black Queer Cultural Production

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Sam King-Shaw is a PhD Candidate at the University of Buffalo in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies. Sam’s research explores questions of relationality, desire, (freedom) dreams, and genealogy in twentieth-century Black queer cultural production. They are the 2024 recipient of Rose Library’s LGBTQ Collections Fellowship.  In the spring of 2025, I had Read More …

Brion Gysin Out of Time

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Claude Mohr is an art history Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia studying the histories of modern and contemporary art. Currently, he is interested in the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, focusing in particular on the relationship between transgender studies and Surrealism. Claude was a recipient of a 2024 Rose Read More …

The American Music Show: Atlanta Public Access Television & LGBTQ+ Communities

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale2 Comments

By Joseph DeLeon, a 2023 LGBTQ Collections Fellow. I came to the Rose Library this Summer to watch television. I devoted my time to the world’s longest-running public access cable show, The American Music Show, which aired on Atlanta’s People TV cable channel from 1981 to 2005. Dick Richards and his friends produced the program Read More …

Arts & Activism in the Archives – Rose Library & Science Gallery Atlanta

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist at Rose Library.   Rose Library is honored to play a small role in Science Gallery Atlanta’s newest exhibition, “JUSTICE”, where we will offer finding aids to some of our related collections. In their words, “This exhibition season invites researchers, artists, and audiences to contemplate and reimagine some of the Read More …

The Rose Library Acquires the Papers of Atlanta LGBTQ+ Rights Activist Winston Johnson

Posted onAuthorLolita Rowe1 Comment

The Rose Library has a trove of collections that document activism in Atlanta, Georgia, the South, and the nation. Here is some information about a new collection. The Rose Library has acquired the papers of Atlanta LGBTQ+ and human rights activist Winston Johnson. The collection includes correspondence, printed material, and photographs that document Johnson’s work Read More …

Revisiting Rose Library’s First Drag Show!

Posted onAuthorLolita Rowe

On January 30th, 2020, Rose Library held its first drag show in the archive. The show helped Rose Library celebrate our LGBTQ collections. And thanks to Brook Hewitt of Rose Riot Photography, we have a way to share this amazing event! On behalf of Randy Gue, Curator of the Political, Cultural and Social Movements Collections Read More …

Reflections on My First Conference: Report from the Queer History South Conference

Posted onAuthorCourtney E. Chartier

Brianna McGruder is an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and an intern with the Charlotte Queer Oral Histories Project. Briana was the 2019 recipient of a Rose Library scholarship to attend the Queer History South Conference, organized by the Invisible Histories Project. The conference was held March 28-29, 2019 in Birmingham, AL. The Read More …