Media Contact: Hayley Richards

(334) 353-1881 or hayley.richards@archives.alabama.gov

Montgomery, AL (06/01/2023) –  The Alabama Department of Archives & History (ADAH) will continue its 2023 Food For Thought lunchtime lecture series on Thursday, June 15, at 12 p.m. CT. Maigen Sullivan will present Invisible No More: Alabama’s LGBTQ+ History. The program will be held in the ADAH’s Joseph M. Farley Alabama Power Auditorium in Montgomery. It will also be livestreamed through the ADAH’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Admission is FREE.

In this presentation, Dr. Maigen Sullivan of the Invisible Histories Project (IHP) will discuss Alabama’s LGBTQ+ history, focusing on lesser-known individuals, locations, and occurrences that have played a significant role in shaping the cultural landscape of our state. 

Dr. Sullivan is the co-founder and director of Research & Development for IHP, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to locate, preserve, research, and make accessible materials that document the rich and diverse history of LGBTQ+ life in the South. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in women’s studies from the University of Alabama, and a doctorate in educational studies of diverse populations from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Sullivan was named the 2020 Society of American Archivists Innovator of the Year and a 2020 National Association of Multicultural Education Emerging Scholar. 

 

IHP serves as an intermediary between the queer community and universities, museums, archives, and libraries to preserve collections that document the lives of LGBTQ+ southerners. The ADAH is one of three IHP repository partners in Alabama and has acquired several donations to its permanent collections through the collaboration.

 

For additional information, contact Alex Colvin at archives.alabama.gov or (334) 353-4689. A complete schedule of our 2023 lunchtime lecture series is available at archives.alabama.gov. Food for Thought 2023 is sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Friends of the Alabama Archives. 

The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the state’s government-records repository, a special-collections library and research facility, and home to the Museum of Alabama, the state history museum. It is located in downtown Montgomery, directly across Washington Avenue from the State Capitol. The Museum of Alabama is open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 to 4:30. The EBSCO Research Room is open Tuesday through Saturday from 8:30 to 4:30. To learn more, visit www.archives.alabama.gov or call (334) 242-4364. 

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