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Sexual Minorities Archives
The Sexual Minorities Archives is one of the longest continually operating archives of LGBT material in the United States,[1][disputed – discuss] which holds the Leslie Feinberg Library,[2] a collection of the late writer's personal research materials. The physical archive is located in a large converted Victorian home in Holyoke, Massachusetts, as of 2017.[3] It was located in the home of curator Ben Power in Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1979 to 2017. It was founded in Chicago in 1974 by a lesbian-feminist organization known as the New Alexandria Lesbian Library.[4] CollectionThe archive includes three types of materials related to literature, history, and art. The Literature collection "spans more than a century and includes LGBTQI books (fiction and non-fiction), pulp paperbacks, reference books, over 1,000 periodical titles with 17,000 individual issues, and more."[5] The History collection "ranges from the mid-19th century and ... includes subject files, multimedia, personal papers, organizational collections, speeches, correspondence, ephemera, political and sociocultural buttons, and more."[5] The Art collection "includes original LGBTQI paintings and drawings, posters, banners, photography, sculpture, textiles, and music."[5] As of 2017, collection materials can be freely searched and viewed online through the Digital Transgender Archive, the largest digital archive of transgender materials in the world.[6] References
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