Queer Archive Fever Roundup - Jun 6, 2026

Hi Friends,

Back with our weekly roundup! It’s pride month y’all 🌈 I want to firstly acknowledge the current political landscape and how incredibly difficult it has been for the trans community. Now more than ever, we must stand with our trans siblings, support them, and speak out against the injustices our community continues to face!

I don’t think I need to remind you that Pride began as a response to the Stonewall uprising. It was born from a refusal to stay silent, from a demand to be seen, respected, and treated with dignity in a society that denied those things to queer and trans people. It was a form of resistance. The responsibility of carrying Pride forward belongs to us. Remembering its origins feels especially important right now.

While Pride should certainly be a time for celebration and joy, it must also be a time for action. A time to speak up, show up, and support the communities that need us most. My hope is that this month and the months ahead can brings us closer to the world we know is possible. One rooted in care and collective liberation.

I love trans people! Happy Pride my friends 🌈

In Community Always,

Queer Archivist

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1. Flyer promoting the first gay pride celebration in Washington, D.C. (1972)

2. Pablo Gasol at a Pride March in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015)

3. Photos of Legendary NYC Drag King, Mildred Gerestant aka Light Ning best known by the stage name Dred (1990s) by Efrain Gonzalez

   Check out these two videos:

   • Interview with Dred for One On One w/ QueerBlackCinema on youtube. One On One w/QBC was a “30 minute TV/web series featuring intimate conversation with some of the top leading *LGBTQ/LGBTQ friendly filmmakers, producers and curators in the industry telling their stories on the impact they made in Black LGBTQ theme cinema.”

   • StyleLIkeU’s Early Years: Closet interview with MILDRED GERESTANT on Youtube.

4. Poster for Assotto Saint's play "New Love Song" (1989)

5. Scene from the Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco (1978) by Elaine Gay Jarvis

I got a chance to swing by and see The Warehouse, the current exhibition at the Bedford Library in Brooklyn. They were filming something inside so I didn’t get to get photos inside. Even more reason to go see it in person if you’re in NYC. I did get some exterior shots, check them out below!

The Warehouse is a collaboration between writer and artist Vic Liu, abolitionist organizer Prisonculture, and Bedford Library in conjunction with Brooklyn Public Library’s Justice Initiatives.

Inspired by Liu’s book The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration (co-written with James Kilgore), the exhibition transforms Bedford Library with two dozen new paintings. These works examine survival within prison walls, the emotional distance between “inside” and “outside,” and imagine approaches to community safety without reliance on punishment and prison.

- The Warehouse, Brooklyn Public Library Website