ALMS Conference


The Archives, Libraries, Museums and Special Collections Conference is an international event focussed on the work by public, private, academic, and grassroots organisations which are collecting, capture and preserving archives of LGBTQ+ experiences, to ensure their histories continue to be documented and share
The first GLBT ALMS Conference was held in Minnesota in 2006, co-hosted by the [Jean-Nickolaus Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies|Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies|Tretter Collection] and the Quatrefoil Library. The London conference in 2016 focused on exploring margins, borders, barriers and intersections of LGBTQ+ historical research and collecting, while the 2019 conference in Berlin focused on exploring the potential of generating audiences for queer archives, libraries, museums and special collections, with a special emphasis on the arts and artistic interventions.

History

The first GLBT ALMS Conference was held on May 18–21, 2006, and presented by the Quatrefoil Library, the University of Minnesota Libraries and the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies.
The mission of the conference:
Keynote speakers included Barbara Gittings and Frank Kameny.

Past Conferences

2006 GLBT ALMS Conference
2008 GLBT ALMS Conference
2011 LGBT ALMS Conference
2012 LGBTI ALMS Conference: "The Future of LGBTI Histories"
2016 LGBTQ+ ALMS Conference: "Without Borders"
2019 LGBTQ+ ALMS Conference: "Queering memory"
  • Berlin, 27–29 June
  • Hosted by Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft, Feministisches Archiv, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt
  • Sponsored by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin, and Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld