Please consider sharing with us! Or joining us! Or both!
You make history every day.
It’s probably not first on the list of things you’re concerned about. Self-censorship in your daily life might lead you to devalue your experience as a member of a minority group. Plus you may not like to think of yourself as a historic artifact.
Still, if you have lived as an LGBTQ person — or an LGBTQ-friendly person — long enough to be reading this, you probably have some stories to tell. And, trust us, somebody would benefit by hearing them.
If you have scrapbooks, pictures, documents or reminiscences about LGBTQ life in the Pacific Northwest anytime in the last hundred years or so, GLAPN would like to hear from you. Perhaps you’d like to share your archives – or give them to us outright! Perhaps you could volunteer to be the subject of an oral history interview. We can talk about it.
GLAPN will benefit by growing a bigger, more comprehensive archive. You’ll feel good about doing something to combat the isolation and self-deprecation that all-too-frequently are part of LGBTQ life. Somebody out there will be glad to know they are part of a continuum, a community with a history, and they really weren’t the only one. Everybody is going to win.
Send us an email now, while you’re thinking about it!
The ways you can join us:
- Volunteer- Help us preserve our LGBTQ history!
- Contribute- Add your letters, photographs, stories and other materials to our collections!
- Donate- Your membership and/or cash donation helps us preserve and advertise our local history! GLAPN is a 501c3 non-profit organization and your donations are tax-deductible.
$15 student membership • $35 individual membership • $45 family membership
Send contributions to: GLAPN, PO Box 3646, Portland, OR 97208-3646