Pride: IHPSouth details fascinating stories from Alabama's LGBTQ+ history, including blues artist Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Auburn activists Auburn Plains Gay Liberation Front, and Pete Smith, a trans man who helped convict church bomber Robert Chambliss:
The challenge in documenting LGBTQ+ history in the South, said Maigen Sullivan, co-founder of the Invisible Histories Project, is that much of it has been purposely destroyed.
Sullivan said after the talk that she believes that looking towards LGBTQ+ history is important because much of what is happening now has happened in the past. She said that she thinks history is empowering. “But we want to focus on joy because if all we hear about ourselves is negative, then all we can be is negative,” she said.
By the early 1980s, the AIDS epidemic began and local governments were not acknowledging the events. She said Montgomery funeral homes were not taking bodies, and many people had to take bodies to Black funeral homes an hour away in their personal vehicles.
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