One Institute’s Youth Ambassadors for Queer History — six high school student leaders from across Los Angeles County — have spent the last several months exploring their interests in queer and trans history through archival research, presentations, workshops, and field trips with LGBTQ+ scholars, activists, artists, and community leaders.
Using materials from the digital collections of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, each Youth Ambassador has developed a creative research project, which they will present and reflect on in this culminating celebration.
Their passionate Youth Ambassadors represent grades 9-12 and a diversity of L.A. neighborhoods from Santa Monica, Long Beach, North Hollywood, Pasadena, Boyle Heights, to South L.A. Their project topics range from funding of LGBTQ+ movements from the AIDS crisis to today, male impersonation in early 20th-century American theater, lesbian publications in the 1960s and 1970s, the impact of LGBTQ+ student organizations in colleges and high schools, community responses to the incarceration of Robert Rosenkrantz in the 1980s, and queer Latinx trailblazers in Los Angeles.
The exhibit will take place at One Gallery in West Hollywood on Saturday, January 27, 2024, from 3 to 5 PM. Parking is available at the West Hollywood Library and can be validated for two hours in the first floor office.
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