Reclaiming Our Stories: A Conversation With Organizers of LGBT Community-Based Oral History Projects

Oral History Association logoOral History Association Annual Meeting
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Report by Wesley Chenault and Ian Lekus

The Oral History Association held its 2010 annual meeting October 27-31, in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference theme, “Times of Crisis, Times of Change: Human Stories on the Edge of Transformation,” brought focus to practices of collecting and sharing human stories and to the ways in which oral histories help communities and societies make sense of turning points and critical shifts. It was a fitting theme for queer histories and stories. Continue reading