Leather Archives & Museum: 25 Years
The official catalog celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Leather Archives & Museum. The catalog features essays, collection photographs, and highlights over the LA&M's institutional life. The official catalog celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Leather Archives & Museum. The catalog features essays, collection photographs, and highlights over the LA&M's institutional life.
BDSM/leather/alternative sex communities as well as history and archival communities about the importance of identity and cultural formation connected to radical sexuality. LA&M collections will continue to uncover the relevance, interdisciplinary historical impact, enduring value, and significance of alternative sexuality within scholarship, academics, and alternative sex communities alike. Therefore, work with archival holdings at the LA&M means approaching every collection with respect and honor, recognizing the specific needs of those holdings on a micro level, and understanding the interrelatedness of these collections and their context on a macro level. rehousing to foldering, encapsulation, integrating materials into archival sleeves, metadata structures, catalog records, digitization, volunteer and intern management, completion of collectionsbased projects, exhibits, and processing— the archive at the LA&M is an active, meaningful, and crucial part of the LA&M’s mission and vision. Archival work at the LA&M is emotional, physical, and cerebral. The core values of archivists are access and use, accountability, advocacy, diversity, history and memory, preservation, professionalism, responsible custody, selection, service, and Sexuality collections are compelling many institutions to examine how certain histories have experienced archival silencing and/or erasure; the LA&M collections have furthered the conversations and reexamination of evidence, documentation, and value of historical materials. Community museums, libraries, and archives are pivotal in this shift. Digital access to these (formerly) hidden collections, including associated metadata and controlled vocabulary used to describe these materials, provide dialogue and clarity within 56
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