The OSU Queer Archives hosted a booth at OSU’s June 1st Pride event in the MU Quad! It was a beautiful late spring day, with over 20 organizations sharing information with the hundreds of event attendees. Drag Queen Poison Waters hosted a meet-and-greet as well as a fabulous main stage show.

OSQA Booth

We had 85 people stop by our booth! We featured copies of materials from a few of our collections including the Corvallis Lesbian Avengers Collection, the After 8 Records, and The Lavender Network Newsmagazine. We also included some materials pertaining to general information for archiving personal papers and some newsletters from the Society of American Archivists’ Archival Outlook newsletter that showcased how archives across the nation support traditionally marginalized communities.

As giveaways, we offered an assortment of Pride pins – those are always a big hit – and, as a new giveaway for this year, we offered a mini-zine about OSQA — we gave out 35 zines!

BONUS: This year our booth was in a special location, on the side of the MU Quad with a Queer History Exhibit.

Queer History Exhibit

Drag Show on the MU Quad Staircase