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Matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts

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Author

E.G. Crichton (Ed.)

Publisher URL

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/matchmaking-in-the-archive/9781978823136/

Though today’s LGBTQ people owe a lot to the generations who came before
them, their historical inheritances are not always obvious.
Working with the archives of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical
Society, artist E.G. Crichton decided to do something to bridge this generation
gap. She selected 19 innovative LGBTQ artists, writers, and musicians, then
paired each of them with a deceased person whose personal artifacts are part of
the archive.
Including 25 pages of vivid images, Matchmaking in the Archive documents this
monumental creative project and adds essays by Jonathan D. Katz, Michelle
Tea, and Chris Vargas, who describe their own unique encounters with the
ghosts of LGBTQ history. Together, they make the archive come alive in
remarkably intimate ways.