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This weekend is a busy one in Charlotte as the Invisible Histories Project is bringing its annual Queer History South conference to the Queen City.
Queer History South started as a way to connect archivists, oral historians and those interested in LGBTQ+ history preservation, and at first, only a couple hundred people signed up. This year’s conference, however, is expected to be the biggest one yet with over 700 people currently registered to attend.
The two-day-long event begins on February 23 at the Dubois Center in Uptown Charlotte and will feature a series of panel discussions, workshops and more about queer history in the South.
You can read more about the history of the conference below.
Queer History South comes to Charlotte for its third conference
The year is 2014: Josh Burford was working to co-curate an exhibit at the Levine Museum of the New South in Uptown Charlotte. The exhibit focused on LGBTQ+ perspectives on equality, and while working on setting it up, Burford, along with other archivists came up with an idea […]
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