GayBarchives: Digital Hub Preserving LGBTQ+ History
Table of Contents
About GayBarchives
Website Features and Content
Video Interviews with Community
Importance of Archiving History
About GayBarchives
GayBarchives is a website created by Art Smith as a digital hub to preserve and share the history of LGBTQ+ spaces and culture. It goes beyond just selling throwback t-shirts to provide a multimedia archive. Amber LeMay has been interviewed by Art Smith about the bars that she has frequented over the years.
Website Features and Content
The GayBarchives website contains an extensive photo gallery of vintage gay venue images. It also has details on the history of various bars and clubs from the community's past.
Additionally, there are over 50 video interviews with people sharing firsthand stories about iconic LGBTQ+ spaces they frequented over the decades.
Video Interviews with Community
These video interviews allow individuals to recount their personal experiences and connections to beloved gay venues over the years. This oral history provides a unique human perspective.
By recording these stories, GayBarchives preserves these important memories and makes them available to the wider community.
Importance of Archiving History
GayBarchives functions as an immersive digital museum and archive where visitors can explore and learn about LGBTQ+ history.
By documenting this cultural heritage, the website ensures these stories and spaces are not forgotten but passed on.
GayBarchives goes beyond merchandise to comprehensively document the community's past through photos, interviews, and stories.
—This article was written, restructured, or adapted by Russell with information gathered from sources around the internet. Russell is the producer of Amber Live and is greatly overworked to pull it all together. If it’s on the internet, it must be true. (We’re kidding.) BUT, if you find any errors or omissions in the article, please let us know so that we may correct the issue. Thanks for your support!