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by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist at Rose Library. Rose Library is honored to play a small role in Science…
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LGBT History Month at the Rose
Willie Lieberman is a fourth-year student in the History honors program specializing in European Studies Every October, countless individuals across…
The Rose Library Acquires the Papers of Atlanta LGBTQ+ Rights Activist Winston John ...
The Rose Library has a trove of collections that document activism in Atlanta, Georgia, the South, and the nation. Here…
Revisiting Rose Library’s First Drag Show!
On January 30th, 2020, Rose Library held its first drag show in the archive. The show helped Rose Library celebrate…
Reflections on My First Conference: Report from the Queer History South Conference
Brianna McGruder is an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and an intern with the Charlotte Queer Oral Histories…
Disjointed: Introductions to “The American Music Show”
Andrew Kingston is the 2018-2019 Robert W. Woodruff Fellow at the Rose Library. Throughout the year, he will be blogging…
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Talking back: bringing Beat counterculture into the modern era through dance
Author William S. Burroughs said, “In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.” Burroughs was certainly the former. He was a lifelong heroin addict, who wrote explicitly and affectionately of his drug use. He was...
Photographer Hugo Fernandes speaks about “Intimate Strangers”
Last night photographer Hugo Fernandes spoke in Emory’s Woodruff Library about his portrait series Intimate Strangers. To create the series of striking portraits, Fernandes recruited his subjects using websites and apps primarily designed to arrange hook ups (brief sexual encounters)....