Enduring value: Framing the specter of queerness in the archives.

摘要

This paper traces research conducted at, and collaborative projects initiated with, ONE National LGBT Archives over the course of two years while I was a graduate student at University of Southern California (USC). Through a descriptive account of my cumulative findings I hope to provide an entry point for readers into the curatorial project and explorative art exhibition, My Taste in Men, which was held at The Gayle and Ed Roski Master of Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, March 21-25, 2011. The project was shaped through the lens of taste, my position as a lesbian feminist and curatorial author, and the conditions of representation in the holdings of ONE Archives. As such I propose that queerness is a shadow in the predominantly gay white male narrative of recorded LGBT histories.