The Holiday Pride:
A Pittsburgh LGBT+ Community Museum

Talking about how Tom Wilson came to be interviewed by Al. His Oral History began to shape the Quiet Pittsburgh Oral History project.

A look into the events that led us to interviewing Tim Ziaukas, a professor at the Univerity of Pittsburgh and founder of Pittsburgh's Thursday Night Live.

Exciting news! The Holiday Pride has Zines coming soon!

A short recap of how our Pride month went! It was wonderful to meet folks!

A look into the process of the creation of a physical exhibit.

This is just a brief overview of how we make our podcast episodes!

A recap of the Holiday Pride's poster presentation at Duquesne University's Research Symposium.

Exciting news! The Holiday Pride will be presenting in DC this April!

In Search of Gay America by Niel Miller is a very fun and interesting read about the 'common gay' in America.

Voyant is a text-mining tool that is very useful for understanding large bodies of work. We take a look at it as a tool for history.

A little peek behind the curtain on how we came to interview Scott Noxon.

This is a short case study on AI and it's uses as a tool for education.

Making Gay History is a collection of oral histories from major players in the history of the queer movement in the US.

By Al Preston             Lesbians have often been hidden from the narrative of queer history in America. Many of the early movements...

By Al Preston             A huge theme of this project and of queer history in general is discovery of identity. Many queer historians...

By Al Preston Pittsburgh has a diverse and complicated history. That was a fact I was not fully aware of when I arrived for the first...