Making History:  The Aging with Pride Legacy Project

Robin, Marty, Laurie at Pat at CAM

The Aging with Pride Legacy Project continues to gather historical records of the  LGBTQ+ community in Erie.  To date, a collection of artifacts: newspaper articles, photographs, posters, flyers, buttons and even a journal have been catalogued in a collaborative effort to create a formal LGBTQ+ archive at a local university.  Such an archive provides a record of community evolution, strengths, challenges, successes and identity.   

Personal interviews provide an important dimension within an archive. The LGBTQ+ Erie community history, is after all, the sum of these individual experiences. Because personal accounts, experiences and perspectives provide the human element in archival collections, several Legacy Project members completed training in audio/visual recording/film at a local studio. We are pleased to announce the Project team has begun to record interviews with LGBTQ+ members and allies to be included in the archive.