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The SMA Guide to Movie Screening Fundraisers
Liberate our history while watching Queer movies and cinema with your community! Use this guide to host a screening fundraiser with a movie from the Sexual Minorities Archives’ multimedia collection. […]
Global Queer Palestinian/Jewish Solidarity & Love Resides at the SMA
ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women invited anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist Leslie Feinberg to speak at their historic Queer conference in occupied Palestine in 2007. Read […]
A GUIDE TO LGBTQIA+ SENIOR HOUSING OPTIONS
Check out this guide for LQGBQTIA+ Senior Housing Options from Memory Care here. From their website: “Seniors face various challenges as they age. Finding senior housing that provides safety, as […]
On Lesbian Fiction
When I started my internship at the Sexual Minorities Archives this year, one of the first tasks that I had to take over was cataloguing books that had been recently […]
Moments and Movements: Sharing Histories Through Community Archives
Time is not as strictly linear as is made to believe. While an archive appears to be about the past, it is often equally about the present and the future.
Event: SMA Queer Open Mic/Share, Thursday (Thanksgiving) 5PM
Connect with your community by joining the SMA for a virtual open mic/share on Thursday, November 26 (a.k.a. Thanksgiving) at 5PM. Either share something you created, or a queer piece […]
Moments and Movements: Sharing Histories Through Community Archives
Time is not as strictly linear as is made to believe. While an archive appears to be about the past, it is often equally about the present and the future. […]
Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter
The Sexual Minorities Archives and Sexual Minorities Education Foundation stand in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter protests within the Pioneer Valley and throughout the country following the murders of Iyanna Dior, Nina […]
Event: Stories of Our LGBTQ Ancestors: Dr. Amber Starbuck and Mabel Stevens
Forbes Library, Northampton MA The Sexual Minorities Archives (SMA) of Holyoke, MA brings to the community a series of history talks about pre-Stonewall era LGBTQ individuals who lived in the […]