The Pararchive Project

Lyndsey D’arcangelo reports on a new online LGBTQ archive which “is the largest searchable digital archive of LGBTQ history [that] brings together 1.5 million pages of rare and unique content covering social, political, health and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world”.

Pararchive has been very much focussed on understanding the relationships between large institutional archives and the personal artefacts of individuals; specifically what lies in the possibilities of creating neutral spaces between personal and institutional collections. Personal media collections are something I’ve been giving a great deal of thought to in recent years. As Assessment I’ve…