50 years of the Lesbian Herstory Archives
The Lesbian Herstory Archives (LHA) in New York are celebrating 50 years since their foundation in 1974. The institution is one of the oldest LGBTQIA+ archives in the country and even in the world. But they are more than an archive about the Lesbian community. They have become a global reference in the documentation of Lesbian women lives and experiences; a museum; and a center of activism and intersectional solidarity and sisterhood that gather women of different ages and origins but with the same objective: to recover and to be inspired by the lives of the women that love and desire other women. We can consider LHA as the first LGBTQIA+ archives with the explicit aim of documenting the reality of the community, especially from the past, but not exclusively. The initiative arises from the evidence of the passivity, if not negligence, of institutional archives when it comes to document and to preserve the memory of Lesbian women. It is the first time that an archive dedicated to th...