CLP History Day Recap
By Al Preston
On November 1st, we were very honored to be invited to the Carnegie Library Local History Day!
While our biggest thanks goes out to the Carnegie Library for permitting us the space and time to share our passions, we equally must thank the Pittsburgh Equality Center and the Wendi Miller Legacy Project. Both allowed us the tremendous honor of allowing us to borrow several artifacts for this event. Respectively, the pride banners and proclamation for Wendi Miller day were prominently displayed.
We were happy to share our zines and the research we’ve been doing into Pittsburgh’s LGBT+ history. As you can see in the pictures, we also displayed a sculpture from Donny’s that our archivist Silas has been restoring. While we have few physical artifacts, we took great joy in displaying what we do have.
It was a pleasure to display these and everything else we’ve done thus far and to showcase future projects on the horizon! We were very proud of it and it is more than likely that much of the display will make a reappearance during pride next year.
It was such a lovely event, if not a bit light. The absolute pleasure and fun we had chatting with other local historians made this event deserving of all the attention and more from the community. The opportunity to connect with other local historians proves the real draw and shine the light on the important work we all do! It was great to see the oral histories that the Music archive were transcribing, the specific projects from the Carrie Blast furnace, and the vast variety of things hiding with the University of Pittsburgh archives. These projects and more show the importance of making these materials available to all!
We hope to attending the history day again next year, and show more progress with our oral histories! Many thanks to the Carnegie Library staff for being so lovely and helpful. Everyone was amazing and we really appreciate the invitation!
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